The Biden administration has made a great commitment to building sustainable and healthy food systems. But how to get that money to folks on the land who aren’t skilled bureaucrats? Dave Carter is part of the solution.
Joe and Jenn Wheeling talk about how to avoid the pitfalls of a family ranch business––ego, speechifying, wasted time––and arrive at consensus decisions with the full support of each family member.
When wool processing suddenly moved overseas, Jeanne Carver and her family were left without a market for their products. Through determination and creativity, she turned a setback into a regenerative success story.
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.
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.
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.
Shellfish biologist Rick Karney and oyster farmer Alex Friedman talk about the realities of oyster farming and habitat restoration on the East coast.
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.
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.
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?