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Ear to the Ground 402: Enemy of Good
Episode 402
Jane Marynik’s pursuit of perfection ran into a brick wall called vegetable farming. LSP’s Farm Beginnings has helped her strike a more sustainable b…
4 months ago
Ear to the Ground 401: The Belly of Belief
Episode 401
Livestock producer Frances Kelliher admits to being a bit cynical and burnt-out on her first day in LSP’s Farm Beginnings course. But the program hel…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 400: Small Farms, Big Markets
Episode 400
Josh Bryceson sees The Good Acre food hub as a way to not only build markets for local vegetable producers, but to germinate the next generation of f…
5 months ago
Ear to the Ground 399: Asking Why
Episode 399
A decade ago, veggie and livestock farmers Josh Bryceson and Rama Hoffpauir realized sweat equity would only take them so far in their ag journey, so…
5 months ago
Ear to the Ground 398: Land Grant Guarantee
Episode 398
Over the past three decades, the rotating Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems has provided farmers and others a chance to build a more sustainable …
6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 397: Black Energy
Episode 397
In 1986, Joe Paddock co-authored a book called Soil and Survival. Its message: the relationship between farming and the land is in serious need of re…
7 months ago
Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag
Episode 396
These three crop producers see no reason why productive farming and clean water can’t co-exist. But first, we need to stop the greenwashing and get o…
8 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers
Episode 395
In the Corn Belt, water quality is not improving at a rate that is leading to meaningful landscape level change, and these poster boys for conservati…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 394: Canceling Commodities
Episode 394
As a farmer and entrepreneur, John Strohfus sees the production of food-grade crops as a key opportunity for regenerative farmers to forge links in a…
9 months ago
Ear to the Ground 393: Risk Reducers
Episode 393
Alan Jostock uses the kind of diversity that builds soil health as a kind of insurance policy for his farm. That means meshing his crop and livestock…
9 months ago