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Landscape restoration: letting nature do the work

Landscape restoration: letting nature do the work

by radiocafe | Jan 21, 2025 | Arts & films, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

Bill Zeedyk restores landscapes—streams, wetlands, even rural roads—by using simple, low-tech tools and letting nature do most of the work. The result is healthy, lush desert ecosystems. He’s the subject of a new documentary, Thinking Like Water.

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Empowering women in agriculture

Empowering women in agriculture

by radiocafe | Jul 23, 2024 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Politics

Women farmers and ranchers have historically been at a disadvantage in many ways––equipment designed for male bodies, lack of access to credit and capital, and just not being taken seriously. We talk to Jules Salinas of Women, Food & Agriculture Network

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The wild adventures of a New Mexico hemp farmer

The wild adventures of a New Mexico hemp farmer

by radiocafe | Jul 7, 2024 | Arts & films, Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

Journalist-filmmaker-farmer-comedian Doug Fine left the New York suburbs to settle in New Mexico, where he cultivates hemp as well as goats, chickens, and produce. He’s an advocate for regenerative farming and rural living.

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Sarah Wentzel-Fisher on working lands, community, science, and more

Sarah Wentzel-Fisher on working lands, community, science, and more

by radiocafe | Jun 26, 2024 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

Quivira Coalition’s executive director Sarah Wentzel-Fisher began as an artist and creative writer, and got interested in communities and food systems. Her path led to a life of both non-profit leadership and farming.

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Pueblo values + engineering expertise = resilient landscapes

Pueblo values + engineering expertise = resilient landscapes

by radiocafe | Jun 12, 2024 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, New Mexico

Phoebe Suina draws on advanced studies in engineering and management and deeply held cultural values and knowledge of the land to lead a native- and woman-owned environmental restoration company.

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The six-legged livestock: Bees

The six-legged livestock: Bees

by radiocafe | Jan 9, 2024 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

For beekeeper Melanie Kirby , honey is only one part of her business. Bee breeding and pollination service are essential to keeping the food system thriving.

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From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration

From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration

by radiocafe | Aug 22, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Science & health

How do you restore an entire forest, or mountain, or watershed? Landscape planner Jan-Willem Jansens has been doing it for decades, and the key is…collaboration.

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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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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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