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The risks and rewards facing young farmers

The risks and rewards facing young farmers

by radiocafe | Aug 11, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Politics, Race/class/gender

Vanessa García Polanco is from a farming family that emigrated to the US when she was a teenager. She explores the challenges that young and beginning farmers, and farmers of color, are dealing with–especially during the global pandemic.

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Bringing Buffalo back home

Bringing Buffalo back home

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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The Rodale Institute: Pioneers in regenerative/organic farming

The Rodale Institute: Pioneers in regenerative/organic farming

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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Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

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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Surviving and thriving in N.M.—during crisis times and beyond

Surviving and thriving in N.M.—during crisis times and beyond

by radiocafe | Jun 11, 2020 | Activism, Books, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health

How do you improve county infrastructures and systems so that they serve 100% of the people–especially during times of crisis? We talk to authors-activists Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello about places in New Mexico that are working out exactly this question.

American Zion: Religion and rebellion on Western public lands

American Zion: Religion and rebellion on Western public lands

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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Why the biggest reservoirs in the west are running low–and what to do about it

Why the biggest reservoirs in the west are running low–and what to do about it

by radiocafe | May 27, 2020 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture

Water expert Brian Richter walks us through the history of these great man-made lakes, and how we can ensure that they will continue to provide water through man-made crises like climate change.

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Food, farmers, and the virus–navigating the difficulties and disconnects

Food, farmers, and the virus–navigating the difficulties and disconnects

by radiocafe | May 12, 2020 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture

There’s plenty of food, but with Covid-19 it’s not getting where it needs to go, and everyone–especially farmers–is paying the price. Rachel Armstrong of Farm Commons walks us through the problems–and some solutions–to the many dilemmas facing the food system.

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Restoring public lands through grazing

Restoring public lands through grazing

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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Health, profit, and beauty on the farm in Minnesota

Health, profit, and beauty on the farm in Minnesota

by radiocafe | Apr 14, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture

Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz didn’t know they were cultivating soil health when they started doing Holistic Management. But as they learned to work with nature rather than fighting it their soil–and their farm–began to thrive in ways they’d never dreamed of.

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