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Ear to the Ground 362: Regenerative Return
Episode 362
When Roy Pfaltzgraff returned to his family’s northeastern Colorado cropping operation in 2016, he was committed to making farming a fulltime endeavo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ear to the Ground 334: Youth Movement
Episode 334
Farm Beginnings grad Marcos Giossi started his food-raising career as a teenager tilling soil on an old soccer field. Now he’s helping young urban fa…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ear to the Ground 361: Additive Vs. Extractive
Episode 361
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• LSL Review of Grain By Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food, by Bob Quinn & Liz Carlisle
• Quinn Ins…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ear to the Ground 341: Seeds of Local Democracy
Episode 341
LSP’s political action partner, the Land Stewardship Action Fund, is working to show that vibrant rural communities require local people participatin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 342: Ignoring the Red Dress
Episode 342
Wholesome Family Farms is known for juggling enough enterprises to overwhelm even the most ambitious farmer. But Rachelle Meyer says a “three-legged …
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 343: Healthy Soil Vs. Plastic Worms
Episode 343
Clifford Johnson calls himself an “honest regenerative hypocrite,” which says a lot about his approach to building soil health on his family’s crop a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 344: Flerd is the Word
Episode 344
Poor soil, short growing seasons, and little infrastructure: beginning farmer George Heller is proving that a successful grazing operation doesn’t re…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 345: Grazing's Generational Jump
Episode 345
Rick Matt was flat on his back when it became evident how he and his son, Damien, could build an intergenerational farming operation based on soil he…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 346: Pasture Pixie Dust
Episode 346
The NRCS’s Jeff Duchene has set up grazing plans in 50 Minnesota counties, and has yet to find that proverbial “magic grass.” But he’s more convinced…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ear to the Ground 347: Bite-by-Bite
Episode 347
Mapping a rural region’s “community food assets” reveals isolated islands of opportunity in a sea of corn and soybeans. LSP’s Scott DeMuth says now i…
1 year, 6 months ago