Kelowna will soon host farmers and other food providers from around the country on how the food industry can reduce its climate impact.

The first Canadian Summit on Climate Action in Food Systems was announced this week by Sustainable Grain, a Canadian company that works to modernize food production.

The summit will bring guest speakers to crowds of farmers and other actors in the food world. One of the main talking points will be regenerative farming 91裸聊视频� a fast-growing movement that focuses on strengthening the health of the soil.

Brenda Tjaden, founder and CEO of Sustainable Grains, explained that climate action in this context is less about reducing the emissions humans put into the atmosphere and more about letting soil do the work.

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Soil that91裸聊视频檚 free of fertilizers and over-tilling can do wonders for the environment, says Tjaden, who has spent the last three years researching regenerative farming.

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The conference will feature a talk from a celebrity chef, a locally renowned chef Jeremy Luypen, Gillian Preston, author of forward-looking agriculture book The New Farm, and Emma Weston, CEO and co-founder of AgriDigital, one of Australia91裸聊视频檚 top emerging agriculture-tech companies.

Born from a passion about , organizers Brenda & Tamara decided that Kelowna was the perfect destination to bring together food growers, producers, and consumers to work together to bring about change to our food system.

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Tamara McLellan, the co-chair of the conference, echoed Tjaden91裸聊视频檚 hopes that the world can return to old agricultural practices that have been left behind in the era of pesticides and large-scale farms.

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She expects that roughly one-third of the conference will be made up of farmers, and the rest will comprise other branches of the food industry that could stand to make improvements.

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The summit will kick off with an opening reception at Summerhill Pyramid Winery followed by two days at Delta Grand Okanagan this coming October. More information is available at .