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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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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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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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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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Innovative approaches to regeneration on a California ranch

Innovative approaches to regeneration on a California ranch

by radiocafe | Jan 17, 2023 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Science & health

TomKat Ranch manager Mark Biaggi talks about dealing with winter floods, summer droughts, and degraded landscapes––and the process of continual experimentation that leads to dramatic regeneration of damaged land.

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Sustainable development, climate mitigation, and biochar

Sustainable development, climate mitigation, and biochar

by radiocafe | Nov 30, 2022 | Activism, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health

For decades Brando Crespi has been working in communities damaged by extractive industries. He makes the case that biochar can and should be part of a global strategy do reverse climate change and grow more food with less water.

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Bringing dead land back to life: a filmmaker’s perspective

Bringing dead land back to life: a filmmaker’s perspective

by radiocafe | Nov 15, 2022 | Activism, Arts & films, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Science & health

In 1995 John Liu began documenting the Loess Plateau in China, a landscape ruined by poor agriculture practices. Over decades he documented its return to vibrant life, and filmed many other restoration projects worldwide.

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Desert wisdom: sustaining Southwest agriculture using old ways––and new

Desert wisdom: sustaining Southwest agriculture using old ways––and new

by radiocafe | Nov 1, 2022 | Books, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health

Gary Paul Nabhan, know as the “father of the local food movement,” knows how to grow food that’s healthy and profitable––even during times of drought and climate disruption.

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A vibrant pecan oasis in the desert

A vibrant pecan oasis in the desert

by radiocafe | Oct 18, 2022 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico, Science & health

Coley Burgess didn’t intend to do regenerative agriculture, but a series of happy accidents led him down a path toward healthier trees, a herd of animals, virtually no chemical or tractor use––and a more enjoyable life for himself and his family.

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