On this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua sits down with philosopher and poet Bayo Akomolafe during a Regen Network retreat at Race Brook Lodge. Together they explore AI as trickster, the sacredness of incompleteness, and what it means to build tools for ecological governance in a world unraveling.

From Yoruba cosmology to Karen Barad’s agential realism, this conversation weaves themes of decoloniality, relationality, and the possibility of new rituals in the cracks of modernity.

Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) is an author, speaker, and founder of the Emergence Network. Trained as a clinical psychologist and rooted in Yoruba tradition, his work invites us to meet the world differently.

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070: Bayo Akomolafe | Rituals of Incompleteness in the Age of AI

In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians become successful farmers to whom retiring organic farmers can transmit their wisdom? How can we invest in the democratization of our land base? These questions drive Agrarian Trust, started by Greenhorns founder Severine v T Fleming, one of the most visionary leaders in the young farmers’ movement. 

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Next Gen Farmers: A Land-Loving Story | Severine v T Fleming

Diversifying your farm builds resilience for your land, business, and the environment. Just adding one crop into your rotation can help reduce input costs, and help reduce disease and pest pressures.

In this first of a two-part series, Bill Davison, Local Food Systems and Small Farms Educator with University of Illinois Extension, discusses the benefits and challenges of crop diversity.

Crop Diversity - Bill Davison (Part 1)

This month we are at the 10th annual Oxford Real Farming Conference. First up we hear the inspirational story of 5000+ women who are now practising natural agriculture, or no-cost agriculture, on farms and smallholdings across Southern Zambia. Back in the UK we get the lowdown on biofertilisers that provide food for microbes, and we hear the ups and downs of a regenerative farming journey from a young farmer in Somerset. Thanks to our supporters Rebel Kitchen, for making this episode possible!

42: No-cost agriculture in Zambia, Biofertilisers and a Regenerative farming journey

Small farmers around the world are building an agro-ecological revolution based on self-sufficiency, food security, and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. In this program, we hear from two visionary agroecology innovators. Miguel Altieri is an agroecologist and entomologist at UC Berkeley who’s showing how farmers who embrace agroecology are building a movement based on self-sufficiency, food security and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. Alex Eaton is the founder of “Sistema Bio”. This game-changing company helps farmers implement a simple technology that converts waste to energy, builds healthy soils, and holds the promise of massively reducing greenhouse gases and lifting people out of poverty.

Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution

Join Gregory Landua as he explores the movement to regenerate our relationship to planet earth and each other on The Planetary Regeneration Podcast. In wide ranging conversations, Gregory and his guests explore the cutting edge technology, philosophies, practices and models disrupting climate change and inspiring hope for a better tomorrow. 

Gregory is the CEO of Regen Network Development, Inc., a development company that builds software tools for Regen Network, a blockchain platform for originating ecological assets to fight climate change. He is co-founder of Terra Genesis International and the co-author of Regenerative Enterprise.

You can learn more at www.regen.network.

070: Bayo Akomolafe | Rituals of Incompleteness in the Age of AI

Planetary Regeneration Podcast with Gregory Landua