Jun 28, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
My guest today grew up on a beautiful farm in the lush, fertile state of Massachusetts, USA. Dan Kittredge would work on the family’s organic farm, as a boy and then as a young man, simply not wishing…
Dan KittredgeGuestBevHostWhen I saw your talk, as inspiring as it was, I thought, well, there's a thing I had never heard.
consciously that even thought about the nutrient value of crops.
Although somewhere, and I'll come back to it somewhere in the back of my mind, it was ticking away as a thing.
So how did you get involved in this? What did you want to be when you were a little boy?
When I was a little boy, I was regularly, you know, asked what I wanted to be and never had an answer.
I got into all this because I, through college, university, into my 20s, I had had no, I basically managed my parents' farm.
I had grown up working on the farm and My mother kind of needed my help, and so I never really bothered to...
I was trying to figure out who I was and what the purpose of life was and what inspired me.
So I would work on the farm in the summer and then travel the world and do all kinds of interesting things in the winter.
I was working my parents' farm six months of the year, but that was not enough to make a living.
And So it was starting to understand how to cause my plants to flourish, which involved a lot of research and study and going to conferences and reading books and attending seminars and things like that.
It's been around for almost 200 years, and it's a very simple way of measuring relative plant health, which can tell you susceptibility to insects and disease, but also you can measure the part of the plant that you eat and it'll tell you relatively how nutritious it is.
When I saw your talk, as inspiring as it was, I thought, well, there's a thing I had never heard.
consciously that even thought about the nutrient value of crops.
Although somewhere, and I'll come back to it somewhere in the back of my mind, it was ticking away as a thing.
So how did you get involved in this? What did you want to be when you were a little boy?
When I was a little boy, I was regularly, you know, asked what I wanted to be and never had an answer.
I got into all this because I, through college, university, into my 20s, I had had no, I basically managed my parents' farm.
I had grown up working on the farm and My mother kind of needed my help, and so I never really bothered to...
I was trying to figure out who I was and what the purpose of life was and what inspired me.
So I would work on the farm in the summer and then travel the world and do all kinds of interesting things in the winter.
I was working my parents' farm six months of the year, but that was not enough to make a living.
And So it was starting to understand how to cause my plants to flourish, which involved a lot of research and study and going to conferences and reading books and attending seminars and things like that.
It's been around for almost 200 years, and it's a very simple way of measuring relative plant health, which can tell you susceptibility to insects and disease, but also you can measure the part of the plant that you eat and it'll tell you relatively how nutritious it is.
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