by radiocafe | Feb 8, 2022 | Activism, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Zach Weiss has seen land so degraded that even weeds couldn’t grow…and helped transform it into healthy, living landscapes by changing the flow of water and letting nature do most of the work. The implications for agriculture, wildlife, and climate are huge.
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by radiocafe | Nov 30, 2021 | Activism, Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico
Tejinder and Juliana Ciano founded Reunity Resources on land in Santa Fe where a veteran had grown food for the hungry. Now they have a thriving compost, farming, educational, and community organizing operation—all founded on regenerative principles.
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by radiocafe | Nov 2, 2021 | Activism, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Race/class/gender
Renard Turner and his wife are agrarian entrepreneurs who produce local, sustainable, regenerative food at their Virginia goat farm–and they provide a model for future farmers and homesteaders.
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by radiocafe | Sep 21, 2021 | Activism, Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Farmer James Rebanks tells the story of a thousand-year old farming tradition—which was almost destroyed by “improvement”—and how he’s rebuilding long-term sustainability.
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by radiocafe | Sep 7, 2021 | Activism, Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
With the best of intentions and technological innovation, we have broken the world’s water cycle. Now, says water expert Sandra Postel, we need to work with nature in order to restore it—if we want to survive, thrive, and, well, eat.
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by radiocafe | Aug 9, 2021 | Activism, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico
Reese Baker has a vision for greening urban landscapes—and he wants to make Santa Fe an example of how to do it, by catching rainwater from roofs, streets, and parking lots, and channeling it into gardens, trees, and soil.
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by radiocafe | Nov 3, 2020 | Activism, Books, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous
For millennia local and indigenous farmers have been producing healthy food worldwide. In less than a century that food system has been decimated, We talk to Dr. Vandana Shiva about restoring health, democracy, species, and local knowledge.
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by radiocafe | Oct 20, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Science & health
Roberto Meza was an artist and MIT graduate student who took some time off to deal with health concerns—and found that fresh greens made such a difference in his life that he started growing them. Now he runs a thriving business and focuses on food sovereignty and equity.
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by radiocafe | Sep 16, 2020 | Activism, New Mexico, Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
Many of our “essential workers” pay into the unemployment system but get nothing back when they’re unemployed—because of their immigration status. We talk to organizer Marcela Diaz about the challenges—and opportunities—of the global pandemic.
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by radiocafe | Aug 11, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Politics, Race/class/gender
Vanessa García Polanco is from a farming family that emigrated to the US when she was a teenager. She explores the challenges that young and beginning farmers, and farmers of color, are dealing with–especially during the global pandemic.
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