Johnny Rydge
Abstract
Originating from the edge of a lagoon that changes colour 4 times a day on Bora Bora, an island in French Polynesia. The regions’ population of 285,000 people are in a full-scale chronic disease emergency. Is there a reason a Pacific island paradise became one of the sickest populations on earth? Author Johnny Rydge argues it is the reliance on imported food found in every supermarket on every island where most meat comes from New Zealand and most dairy comes from France. As a father and natural farmer faced with a medical emergency requiring long term, high dose antibiotics he applied knowledge of the relationships between the garden microbiome and the human microbiome to intervene. “I call what I do a farmacy. A purposeful, medically informed growing system where we cultivate specific plants for specific microbes that perform specific healing work in the human body.”
