Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaking your tax dollars work after fires and floods
Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3), a native of Las Vegas, NM, deeply understands the challenges and strengths of rural people in northern…
3 years, 8 months ago
Place, Power, And Purpose: Pollinators On Western Landscapes
Bees date back over 10,000 years on the American continent and are vital to the health of almost every bite of food we eat, but today they face threa…
3 years, 8 months ago
What's good for the farm is good for the planet
During Carol Ekarius's early years in Colorado, the Buffalo Creek Fire burned just under 12,000 acres — and at the time was considered a huge, catast…
3 years, 9 months ago
What is Your Foodprint?
We all know the term carbon "footprint." Well, Foodprint takes this idea and broadens it to apply to our food system; they explore how the foods we e…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kiss the Ground: A project born of devotion to the earth
Ryland Engelhart came from a family of vegans and vegetarians and knew early on that he wanted to devote his life to the health of the planet. Once h…
3 years, 10 months ago
Food, forests, and farms: An introduction to agroforestry
Most of the American Midwest was once a vast savanna, an open grassland with abundant trees and wildlife. As the land was converted to agriculture ma…
3 years, 10 months ago
Western Wildfires: Facing a hotter and drier future
In New Mexico and across the West wildfires are burning through wildlands, farms, ranches, and communities. Lesli Allison, executive director of the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Land Core, Farm Bill, regenerative agriculture, healthy soil
Aria McLauchlan and Harley Cross, co-founders of Land Core, have been working for years on food and farming policy that promotes regenerative practic…
3 years, 11 months ago
Making the regenerative transition
Jessica Chiartas is a PhD soil bio-geochemist who's working to catalyze the transition from "conventional" to regenerative agriculture. She's a postd…
4 years ago
goats, goatscaping, Horned Locust
Amanita Thorp Berto is owner of Horned Locust Remediation, and she uses a flock of goats and sheep to do landscaping projects. In gardens, parks, pho…
4 years ago