Nutrient Density and Harvest Timing Decides Food Taste? | Chuck Schembre Talks About Food Quality
Why do so many tomatoes taste disappointing, even when they look perfect? Chuck Schembre breaks down the overlooked farm-to-table timing, ripeness, and storage choices that can make the difference between a bland tomato and the kind you eat straight off the vine.
Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/bnXj2VR9Cnc
You'll hear how buyer relationships shape adoption, why the first one or two meetings are usually the hardest, and what has made certain growers - especially apple growers in Michigan using a heavy fungicide program - more open to change than many people assume.
If you're interested in regenerative farming, grower adoption, or how real supply chain change actually happens, this conversation gets to the heart of the challenge: not just what to change, but how to get people willing to change in the first place.
Chuck Schembre is owner of High Desert Harvest Farm, a small diversified regenerative farm in Washoe Valley of Northern Nevada, and owner and founder of EcoSoil Solutions a soil health and regenerative agronomy consulting company.
He's also a Certified Professional Soil Scientist and agronomist with two decades of experience farming organically and regeneratively, while interpreting soil and plant health metrics and linking them directly to practical farm management. His expertise bridges advanced soil and crop science with practical hands-on farming – from managing small-scale organic vegetable systems to large orchard and vineyard operations. He holds a B.S degree in Earth and Soil Science from Cal Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo.
Find Chuck online: https://ecosoilsolutions.com
