Water in the Desert: Gary Paul Nabhan’s Life in Wild Places
Author, scientist, and artist Gary Paul Nabhan talks about his fascinating and wide-ranging memoir, Water in the Desert.
A food forest on an eighth of an acre
Roxanne Swentzell turned a small piece of bare, dry earth into a garden/forest that produced enough food and wood to maintain a family of four. She founded the Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, which teaches how to understand and live on the land and allow it to flourish.
Weathering climate emotions: Stories of loss and resilience
Land stewards from all over the US speak about what they’ve lost to climate change—and how they’re building emotional and ecological resilience in the face of these losses.
Welcome to Cowgirl Camp!
Beth Robinette grew up on a ranch but didn’t expect to stay there. But then she got so interested in food system and regenerative practices that now she’s ranching, developing new business models, and teaching the ropes to the next generation of ranchers.
Riding Toward a Better Food System: A National Listening Journey
Six college students are riding from Washington State to Washington, DC, and asking people along the way, What is the future of Food? We talk to two of them as they embark on their journey.
Agriculture as if people mattered: A values-based perspective on the food system
Andrew Flachs‘s new book explores the food system through the lens of values like soil health, human health, biodiversity, and rural communities—not just profits and yields.
Saving the bees that feed us: Cultivating pollinator-friendly agriculture
Bees live at the foundation of our food system—but they are imperiled by industrial agriculture. Sarah Red-Laird is helping to revive farm and ranch lands by cultivating healthy and diverse bee habitats.
Return to the savanna: How grazing restores the land and reawakens our human roots
Livestock grazer Nate Chisholm explores the ways that the savanna ecosystem has made humans who we are — from the food we eat to our deepest psychological needs and instincts.
Chasing Cheese: One man’s trek to learn from pastoral producers across the planet
Trevor Warmedahl‘s new book Cheese Trekking documents natural cheesemaking practices in traditional communities — and their depth of ecological knowledge.
ReciproCity — Caring for urban land and water
Steve Glass previews the annual Land and Water Summit, where people gather to talk about making cities into the best possible water stewards, for the benefit of people and wildlife alike.