Amar La Tierra

We head to Sustainable fashion Boutique Agora in todays New Moon episode to hear about Sky Diamonds and a new collection launched by activist, author, actor and podcaster, Lily Cole. She explains how the lab grown gems are created through carbon dioxide collected from the atmosphere and gives us her thoughts on how the fashion industry needs tighter regulation. Next we hear from Belgian journalist...

The Balearics are once again heading towards the time of year when endless Wildfires break out. 2023 will forever be etched in firefighters memories as the year Ibiza and Formentera were attacked by raging forest blazes.  By December last year, 27 forest fires had engulfed our Paradise Islands and it makes you begin to wonder just how much work is being done to prevent them. Journalist and sustain...

What does it take to give up your financial safety net and hand it all over to live your dream and become a farmer? DJ and musician Andy Cato, one half of Groove Armada joins us this month to tell us how he sold his publication rights to buy land in France and learn how to grow grains. It was a very dark, long, laborious and winding road to arrive at his current concept Wildfarmed, which exists to...

As summer draws offficially to a close we wanted to assess what state the under water ecosystems remain in after increased traffic and check in to see how the Balearic water quality its faring.  We start todays Episode in Palma in Mallorca in the offices of the Marilles Foundation to talk about the Balearic Blue Deal which aims to take 1% of public funding and reinvest it in our marine ecosystems....

In the second part of our LIVE Talks mini series, Farmers Footprint Zach Bush MD continues the lecture he gave at Tierra Iris Farm last month.  Zach is a physician specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognised educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.  In part two of his talk Zach explo...

In This very special Bonus Episode we unleash the talk Zach Bush gave at Tierra Iris Farm last month as he was visiting the island to raise awareness for Farmers Footprint.  Resident of the farm, Alex Serra, started the evening with a performance of two songs in Spanish.  The solo artist singer songwriter from Barcelona set the tone for what was an informative discussion about Glyphosate and why w...

In todays episode Jo Youle meets Zach Bush MD of Farmers Footprint to talk about the food systems of Ibiza and how Glyphosate has infiltrated our soil globally and what effect that is having on the food we eat and the way our bodies react. Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognised educator and thought leader o...

In Episode 03 of Amar La Tierra, journalist Jo Youle hosts 3 local farmers on Ibiza farm Can Cristofol in San Lorenzo at sunset, to discuss how and when the soil should be tilled.    It is a controversial topic for many.  Often we are told it is a local tradition and that the Balearic Red earth has been tilled for hundreds of years, but machines only came to be fifty years ago.    Before that many...

In May we met Designing Regenerative Cultures author Daniel Christian Wahl at a one day event, The RegenerateX Conference at the Tierra Iris  Farm on ibiza. Daniel lives on Mallorca and as well as discussing his book, he explained why he feels this statistic of only 4% of the food being consumed in Ibiza is grown here is not due to a a lack of production and gives us his ideas for how we can incre...

In today´s first episode journalist Jo Youle hears first from traditional Ibizenco farmer Vicent Palermet about how the land was abandoned after tourism arrived in the 1970´s.  Terravita´s Jason Watson Todd talks indigenous plants and how globalisation has brought in some of the island´s biggest & worst predators and we finish with a celebration of World localisation Day with author and film m...

Are you tired of climate doom talk & ready to hear stories that will inspire you to make change? In this podcast series we will chat to the Balearic change makers, activists, farmers, preservationists & protectors of land & sea to bring tales that lift you up. Join us for our podcast Launch Party and Farm to Table Feast June 23rd. Tickets: Here