![]() ![]() Washington helped introduce the idea that “lands could be restored that you could have a regime of agriculture which was sustainable over time,” said Bradburn – notions that resonate with the modern organic and regenerative farming movement and climate activists. ![]() president “transformed Mount Vernon from a tobacco plantation into a wheat farm,” bringing in new crops and grains and experimenting with crop rotation to boost soil health, Bradburn said. ![]() Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.ĭouglas Bradburn, President and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and a well-known scholar of early American history, set the stage with opening remarks about Washington’s “deepest passion” – agriculture. On March 21, Pollan addressed a crowd of USC students, faculty and alumni – along with enthusiastic readers of his books – as part of the George Washington Leadership Lecture Series sponsored by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Fred W. Pollan, an author, journalist and professor at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, has famously argued that the ultra-processed corn- and soy-based products in most supermarkets and fast-food restaurants isn’t, in fact, food – and suggests that if his grandmother’s generation wouldn’t recognize it as food, you’re better off not eating it. ![]()
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