by radiocafe | Jul 12, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
New England is lush and green—and all kinds of creatures want to eat a farmer’s crops. Apple grower and cider maker Steve Wood talks about Integrated Pest Management and its challenges.
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by radiocafe | Jun 30, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Seaweed has always been used for food, fertilizer, and medicine. But now, off the coast of Maine, over-harvesting threatens rockweed and the many species that depend on it.
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by radiocafe | Jun 16, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Jesse Smith‘s work aims for the opposite of planned obsolescence—the goals at Jalama Canyon Ranch are resilience and perennial productivity, through restoration of ecosystems and a truly regenerative vision of agriculture.
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by radiocafe | Jun 1, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Getting certified for grassfed meat can be challenging–but the American Grassfed Association supports producers in regenerative practices that are good for the earth, the farmer, and the eater.
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by radiocafe | May 17, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Nicolette Hahn Niman was an environmental lawyer and vegetarian when she married a rancher—so she has a unique and broad-based perspective on agriculture. We discuss the new edition of her book, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat.
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by radiocafe | May 4, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health
Native Americans used fire and other methods to cultivate food on the prairie. In the 20th century it was plowed under for endless rows of monocrops. Omar de Kok-Mercado is part of a team that is working to make prairie land ecologically–and economically–sustainable.
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by radiocafe | Mar 16, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Kristina Long is a ship captain and an artisanal kelp farmer in British Columbia. We talk about kelp ecosystems, food, and keeping sustainable practices in a growing market.
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by radiocafe | Mar 1, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico
Mark Nelson and Starrlight Augustine talk about the lessons learned from the ambitious experiment of 30 years ago, in which eight people lived in a sealed space and grew all their own food–recycling water, air, and waste.
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by radiocafe | Jan 19, 2021 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Politics
Joe Maxwell is a farmer and policy leader, and he knows that consumer demand is not enough to make the shift toward a healthy food system. He lays out the problems–and some ways forward.
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by radiocafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, New Mexico
In her new book, Judith Schwartz takes us to five continents and tell us stories of people restoring devastated landscapes–and overcoming deep conflicts that stem from degraded ecosystems. The results are phenomenal.
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