Rye Rising: The Grain That Gives Back
Sarah Jones co-founded the Rye Resurgence Project in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, where water is scarce. Rye uses much less water than other crops and makes fabulous bread, beer, whiskey, and more.
Future Foods: The Science and Art of the Nopal Cactus
Artist and innovator Frances Whitehead is working with farmers and scientists to bring attention to a climate- and water-friendly cactus that provides food, fiber, artists pigments, and more.
The Sequestration Solution: Soil
Cooling the earth’s climate is not just about cutting emissions––it’s about removing masses of carbon from the air. Karl Thidemann of Soil4Climate makes the case that the secret of sequestration is in the soil––with win-win benefits for ecosystems, nutrition, profitability, and community.
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.