Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnimal welfare is good for everyone—including farmers
Adam Mason is Senior Manager of Farm Animal Welfare and Environmental Policy at the ASPCA, the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Anima…
1 year, 3 months ago
1000 Farms Initiative: A new paradigm of science in service of farmers
Entomologist, agroecologist, farmer, rancher, and beekeeper Dr. Jonathan Lundgren was a scientist with USDA Agricultural Research Service for 11 year…
1 year, 4 months ago
Virtual fencing—new technology that benefits both ranching and land conservation
Virtual fencing is a new technology that employs GPS collars to keep animals in "virtual" pastures—so instead of using physical fences, the fence lin…
1 year, 5 months ago
Regenerating a desert wetland oasis
Don Boyd spent a year on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, photographing, living, and finding a deep connection…
1 year, 5 months ago
The awe-inspiring beauty hidden in our food
Artist and science educator Robert Dash creates art from micro- and macroscopic photographs of food crops. His new book, Food Planet Future: The Art…
1 year, 5 months ago
Painterland Sisters Yogurt: Regeneration at every step from farmer to consumer
Hayley and Stephanie Painter grew up on a fourth-generation dairy farm in northern Pennsylvania, and while it was an idyllic childhood, the instabili…
1 year, 6 months ago
Agave, mesquite, and a carbon drawdown game-changer
André Leu is co-founder and International Director of Regeneration International, an organization that promotes food, farming, and land use systems …
1 year, 6 months ago
Commerce, the destruction of nature, and the uphill path to sustainability
Environmental historian Sara Dant's book Losing Eden traces the history of the American West from the time of elephants and camels to the near destru…
1 year, 7 months ago
Colorado peaches: delicious for the eaters, fair for the workers
Gwen Cameron grew up on Rancho Durazno, her family's peach farm. She was pursuing a career in journalism when her father asked her if she wanted to c…
1 year, 7 months ago
Black farmers regenerating land in the face of historical and current racism
P. Wade Ross's great grandfather was a runaway slave who bought land in Texas. His descendants founded Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Community Bas…
1 year, 8 months ago