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.
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.
Saving the bees that feed us: Cultivating pollinator-friendly agriculture
Bees live at the foundation of our food system—but they are imperiled by industrial agriculture. Sarah Red-Laird is helping to revive farm and ranch lands by cultivating healthy and diverse bee habitats.
Return to the savanna: How grazing restores the land and reawakens our human roots
Livestock grazer Nate Chisholm explores the ways that the savanna ecosystem has made humans who we are — from the food we eat to our deepest psychological needs and instincts.
Chasing Cheese: One man’s trek to learn from pastoral producers across the planet
Trevor Warmedahl‘s new book Cheese Trekking documents natural cheesemaking practices in traditional communities — and their depth of ecological knowledge.
Putting soil science to work
Dr. Caitlin Youngquist uses her science training and agricultural experience to solve problems—everything from animal health to food insecurity to family dynamics in small businesses.
Meet Xochitl, Quivira’s new Executive Director
Xochitl Torres Small served as New Mexico congresswoman and as deputy director of the USDA. Now she’s leading Quivira Coaltion—and in this podcast talks about her visions and hopes.
An outdoor classroom for land stewardship—and life skills
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps gives young adults training in landscape conservation, and in the process they also learn how to be part of a greater community.
The Good Meat Movement
Farmer, educator, artist, and non-profit leader Michele Thorne explores the values associated with “good meat”––from transparency to ecosystem health to nutrition––and what that means for ranchers, butchers, chefs, eaters, and for the planet.
Navajo farming and entrepreneurship––for the next generation
Zach Ben founded Bidii Baby Foods not only to provide nutritious first foods, but also to help heal generational trauma and invest for the health and abundance over the coming decades and even centuries.