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A food forest on an eighth of an acre

A food forest on an eighth of an acre

by radiocafe | Aug 8, 2023 | Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, New Mexico

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.

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From corporation to regeneration––a family’s journey

From corporation to regeneration––a family’s journey

by radiocafe | Jul 25, 2023 | Down to Earth, Education, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Science & health

Lorenzo Dominguez and his family left the lucrative but stressful world of New York business in order to get more connected to land, people, and food. Two years in, their New Mexico farm is already a center for production and learning.

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Healing the trauma of Black land loss through regenerative rice production

Healing the trauma of Black land loss through regenerative rice production

by radiocafe | Jul 11, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Race/class/gender

After the Civil War hundreds of thousands of Black farmers acquired farm land, but through violence, threats, racist policies, and outright theft, millions of acres have been lost. Konda Mason is working to empower black farmers to thrive and to heal historical wounds.

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Cultivating oysters for ocean health, human health, and economic development

Cultivating oysters for ocean health, human health, and economic development

by radiocafe | Jun 28, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Science & health

Shellfish biologist Rick Karney and oyster farmer Alex Friedman talk about the realities of oyster farming and habitat restoration on the East coast.

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From urban journalist to country farmer

From urban journalist to country farmer

by radiocafe | Jun 4, 2023 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture

Beth Hoffman was a college professor and agriculture journalist for years before she and her husband moved his family’s farm in Iowa. Her new book, Bet the Farm, is all about the joys, challenges, and economic realities of farming in the US today.

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Establishing an earth-friendly meat business

Establishing an earth-friendly meat business

by radiocafe | May 23, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture

Corporate meat producers tout their “efficiency” but actually wreak havoc on the environment, local communities, and the animals themselves. Cole Mannix is all about building resilient ecological and economic systems with the goal of long-term stability and prosperity.

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Taking it to the street––healthy food entrepreneurship

Taking it to the street––healthy food entrepreneurship

by radiocafe | May 9, 2023 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

Tina Garcia-Shams is teaching every aspect of food truck entrepreneurship at the Street Food Institute, and their graduates are thriving––and serving healthy, local fare.

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Herding animals for land––and human––health

Herding animals for land––and human––health

by radiocafe | Apr 25, 2023 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous

Traditional pastoral cultures have been living in harmony with animals and land for millennia––and they persist to this day, though with serious challenges. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson‘s new book shines a light on what they can teach us.

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Hydroponics, aquaponics, and sovereignty

Hydroponics, aquaponics, and sovereignty

by radiocafe | Apr 11, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Science & health

Charlie Shultz is teaching students how to grow fish and plants in in mutually beneficial systems, as well as healthy, nutrient-dense greenhouse crops––all year round. It’s all about sustainable, local, healthy, and economically thriving food systems.

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Systems thinking: Coordinating after, during, and before disasters

Systems thinking: Coordinating after, during, and before disasters

by radiocafe | Mar 28, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Science & health

Many entities, public and private, are working to help agrarians whose livelihoods are disrupted. But what do they do, how do they coordinate…and what are the sticky points?

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