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.
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.
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.
From the “Landed” podcast: We Need a Plan
What happens when the current generation of aging farmers and ranchers is no longer working? A new podcast explores the issue of succession planning.
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.
Regenerative v. degenerative agriculture
We talk to Kevin Watt from TomKat Ranch about the practice and benefits of regenerative agriculture, how to incentivize it, and the dire long-term consequences of the degenerative practices of industrial agriculture.
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.