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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by radiocafe | Aug 25, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
“What’s good for the bird is good for the herd”–that’s the basis of a win-win initiative to preserve bird habitat on ranches and grasslands. We speak with Audubon Society VP Marshall Johnson about grassland ecology and their successful conservation collaborations.
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by radiocafe | Jul 28, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous
The Eastern Shoshone people traditionally survived with the buffalo, and their way of life suffered when tens of millions of buffalo were killed by the US government. But now they’re returning to the land–and starting to renew a culture.
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by radiocafe | Jul 14, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Science & health
When the “green revolution” offered the promise of better agriculture through chemical-intensive farming, J.I. Rodale was skeptical. He started an organic farm and then an institute to study how farming could improve the land and human health. Now they’re doing great work from coast to coast.
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by radiocafe | Jun 23, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health
Hopi farmers must be doing something right: they have survived and grown their own food for hundreds of generations. We talk to Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson about their regenerative farming and cultural practices––and the challenges to maintaining them.
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by radiocafe | Jun 9, 2020 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Politics
Cliven Bundy is a rancher who’s refused for decades to pay his grazing fees for using public lands. But where did his ideas about public lands come from? We talk to author Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book.
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by radiocafe | Apr 28, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
Grazing on public lands is controversial–for good reason. But when it’s done right, adaptive grazing can greatly improve land health–from overgrazed land, to former oil fields, to bombing ranges. Gregory Horner tells the stories.
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