The regenerative vineyard: Winemaking and wildness
Vintner Mimi Casteel grows wine grapes in a complex, wild, and regenerative landscape—which imparts flavor to the wine and robust health to the ecosystem.
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.
Knowing When to Shut Down the Farm
A special episode on Down to Earth: hear the other Quivira podcast, Regeneration Rising, with Kristina Britt talking Taylor Muglia about the decision to close a farm.
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.
Growing food year-round—in any climate
Charlie Shultz is back to update us on the thriving greenhouse programs in Santa Fe—and the explosion of interest around the world
Renewing farms with renewable energy
Iowa farmer Joe Heinrich leads a non-profit that is helping farmland owners to work with solar and wind developers—which can bring more income and opportunities for creative land use.
Putting soil science to work
Dr. Caitlin Youngquist uses her science training and agricultural experience to solve problems—everything from animal health to food insecurity to family dynamics in small businesses.