Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCultivating community in urban food forests
Orion Kriegman and his friends started clearing a trashed vacant lot in Boston to create green space and grow food. City hall was not on their side a…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Women ranchers finding their power
Montana rancher Amber Smith didn't grow up in agriculture, but ranching became her life's work.
As a young adult Kristen Kipp left the family ranch i…
10 months, 1 week ago
Women ranchers in their power
Montana rancher Amber Smith didn't grow up in agriculture, but ranching became her life's work.
As a young adult Kristen Kipp left the family ranch i…
10 months, 1 week ago
Making the transition to local, sustainable living
The Transition Movement is a worldwide network of people working locally to move away from fossil fuel-base infrastructure toward locally-based syste…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
From backyard veggie garden to profitable livestock ranch
Eileen Napier and Stan Hayes of Ramstead Ranch teamed up around their common interests in organic gardening, permaculture, and healthy living. They s…
11 months, 1 week ago
Fair Trade: Good for farmers, the land, consumers—and business
Paul Rice started out as an anti-capitalist labor organizer, working with coffee farmers in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Over time he saw that what grower…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Federal fiasco for farmers
Since the new administration took office, programs benefitting farmers have been slashed, frozen, paused, and canceled––and the effect is leaving agr…
1 year ago
Let it Flow: Restoring balance to parched and flooded landscapes
Minni Jain and Philip Franses are co-founders of The Flow Partnership, and they are co-authors of the new book, The Language of Water: Ancient Techni…
1 year ago
Landscape restoration: letting nature do the work
Bill Zeedyk restores landscapes—streams, wetlands, even rural roads—by using simple, low-tech tools and letting nature do most of the work. The resul…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ducks, cows, and resilience: Benefiting farmlands by protecting waterfowl habitat
Since the 1930s, Ducks Unlimited has been protecting habitat for ducks and other migrating waterfowl, and has conserved over 18 million acres of wetl…
1 year, 3 months ago