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Podcast: Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen
Episode: Podcast 1268: Prairie Prophecy: How Filmmaker Michael Johnson and Wes Jackson Are Rewriting the Future of Agriculture
Description: In this episode of Inside Personal Growth, Greg Voisen sits down with award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Johnson to explore his latest project, Prairie Prophecy. The film dives deep into the visionary work of Wes Jackson and the Land Institute’s groundbreaking approach to sustainable agriculture, reimagining how humanity grows food by learning from nature itself.
Michael shares his journey from producer to director, the unexpected inspiration behind the documentary, and the profound lessons learned while chronicling a story that connects environmental science, spirituality, and human responsibility. Together, they discuss the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture, the concept of perennial polyculture, and ho...