Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGrowing pecans in the desert?
In today's podcast we look at the synergistic collaboration between a soil scientist and a pecan farmer.
Southern New Mexico is not an ideal landscape for pecans, which grow best in warm, wet climate…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
Got goat? The Vanguard Ranch does, and it's ready to eat
Renard Turner and his wife Chinette founded the Vanguard Ranch Natural Gourmet in Gordonsville, Virginia, 25 years ago, and through creative entrepreneurship and wise land management and animal husba…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
Tribal food renaissance
Latashia Redhouse is director of the American Indian Foods program at the Intertribal Agriculture Council, where she supports food producers across the country to get their food to consumers in the U…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
From despair to care: a high mountain view of the earth
William deBuys is a prolific author of books documenting people's relationship to the earth—which is too often destructive. In his new book, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of L…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Stepping back from the abyss: James Rebanks' return from industrial to traditional farming
James Rebanks is the author of the newly-released book Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey, which recently won the 2021 Wainwright prize for UK Nature writing, and best-seller The Shepherd's Life: Mode…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Restoring the global water cycle
Sandra Postel has devoted her life to studying the world's freshwater systems, and they're not looking so great right now. Through a combination of over-allocation, over-engineering, over-use, and cl…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
How—and why—to be good to your microbes
Many of us were taught that microbes—and bacteria in particular—were dangerous pathogens, and the safest thing human beings could do was create a sterile, bacteria-free environment. But in fact micro…
Published on 4 years ago