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Foreign Hands in American Agriculture (Livestream)
Episode 103
On July 8th, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that the administration is determined to reclaim farmland owned by what it calls "fo…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lewellings: Legacies Secured (Part 6)
Episode 102
What became of the Lewellings - the visionary brothers who transformed the American West one orchard at a time?
In the final episode of our six-part s…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lewellings: Icon of Napa Valley (Part 5)
Episode 101
What happens when your orchards begin to rot, your industry collapses, and California starts beating you at your own game? If you're Seth Lewelling, …
11 months ago
The Lewellings: California Calling and Free Love (Part 4)
Episode 100
California, 1853. Henderson Lewelling sets off to sell apples and ends up sparking a revolution.
In this fourth episode of our multi-part series, John…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Lewellings: Planting Pacific Roots (Part 3)
Episode 99
It’s 1848, and amid the towering firs and scorched stumps of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, a revolution in American agriculture quietly takes root. In …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lewellings: On The Oregon Trail (Part 2)
Episode 98
What kind of person looks at the treacherous Oregon Trail and says, “You know what would make this even harder? Let’s drag 700 fruit trees with us”?
I…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lewellings: Nurserymen Abolitionists (Part 1)
Episode 97
How did a quiet Quaker family from North Carolina - devout, disciplined, and disinclined to dance - go on to revolutionize the fruit industry of the …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Sullivan Expedition: Genocide and War on Native Crops
Episode 96
In the shadow of revolution, a campaign of quiet devastation unfolded. While Washington’s Continental Army fought British redcoats along the eastern …
1 year ago
The Fascist Origins of Organics
Episode 95
The rise of the organic movement is often remembered as a peaceful revolution - a return to the earth, to purity, to harmony with nature. But its tru…
1 year ago
Fruitful Flags (Livestream)
Episode 94
From the sun-soaked pineapple fields of Puerto Rico to the grapevines that shaped Puritan Connecticut, from Madrid’s legendary El Oso y el Madroño to…
1 year ago