Agriculture & Blockchain: Making Cents of the Future

At first glance, my interests appear confusing.

I received a biology and a religion degree in college. Sure, science demands proof and religion requires faith, but I wanted to discover where they met, and it turns out it is a pretty interesting place.

My modern interests involve regenerative agriculture - using methods of agriculture that grow soil, not just plants - and the blockchain - a relatively new disruptive technology that was birthed by Bitcoin, but absolutely capable of delivering humanity to a place beyond money.

In concept the realms of farming and technology are about as far apart as you can get, but I believe what they have in common will be central to the renaissance that brings abundance and a healthy human occupation of Earth.

So what do regenerative agriculture and blockchain have in common?

Both are righteous tools that can help us wrestle the power away from forces that value profit over people.

Both are methods that have the potential to empower the individual and develop greater sovereignty in our lives.

Both deliver value that trends towards the collective rather than the concentrated.

The list could go on..

What we have now in conventional agriculture and the traditional economy is “depructive”, or, operating in ways that undermine what we would want if we were asked.

We can and must do better.

Generally speaking, conventional agriculture is the largest polluter on the face of the Earth. When combined with the undeniable degeneration of the nutritional sanctity of the modern food supply, the damage that the status quo of agriculture is doing to us is obvious.

The economy is not doing much better. The United States is the richest nation in the history of the world, yet more than 13 million children live in households that don’t get enough nutritious food on a regular basis, and inequality is skyrocketing (even among the rich) with the top 1% owning almost 40% of private wealth.

Despite the extreme shortcomings of our agricultural and economic systems, the reality is that the centralized shareholder model of ownership that has delivered us to now can no longer support the type of civilization we are creating. We are at an impasse of history, and the time to change it is now.

Of course, this is the tricky part. The powers that be don’t like change, especially when it involves giving up market share. Read the story of Stewart Resnick and Wonderful Farms. We can only hope that reason wakes up before disaster, it may be a rocky road.

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I have worked in the field of progressive regenerative agriculture for over fifteen years, founding a retail hydroponic/organic garden center, an organic lawn care company, manufacturing a vortex-style compost tea brewer, formulating beyond organic gardening products, had a 14-acre market vegetable CSA farm, ran a commercial wheatgrass/microgreen business, a Food Lawns project teaching people to grow food not lawns, and more.

And now I am working on a new project called Be Agriculture. The premise being to help people develop “Personal Agriculture” through better buying, better eating, and better growing.

What better way to fight the coming apocalypse (kidding, sort of) than to help people learn how to grow their own food and medicine?

Bottom line, I see agriculture as the reason AND the solution to every issue facing modern humanity.

And then I discovered the blockchain.

Blockchain technology inspires people because it has the power to create an open-source decentralized society and develop proper incentive in human behavior. It is the way that you get large corporations to give up market share without losing the value they bring to the world.

It took me and my family weeks of talking about the blockchain out loud to wrap our heads around the concept and its significance, and we are still learning. I am considering starting a consulting platform to help people understand and get integrated. Let me know if I can help you.

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The most important thing we can do is run our mouths and spread the good word. Educate people on how broken our agricultural system is and how simple it is to fix it; and how powerful the blockchain is if only we can invest and hodl.

Just because it is simple doesn’t mean it will be easy. For anyone needing some inspiration and help finding gratitude check out the work of Matt Kahn. You’re welcome :)

It is time we value people over profit, and create a world beyond money. I know that we can create a positive revolution in the world, one garden(er) and token at a time.

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The future is open source and decentralized. Evan Folds pursues his passion of integrating the natural spiritual world with human centered technology by developing and sharing content shared across the digital landscape on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. He appreciates your UPVOTES and your support on Patreon.