Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast
Down to Earth is a podcast about hope. As climate change collides with our industrial food system, we focus not on doom but instead on people who are developing practical, innovative solutions. We invite you to meet farmers, ranchers, scientists, land managers, writers, and many others on a mission … read more
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Think like a chicken
December 11th, 2018
Reginaldo Haslett Marroquín of the Main Street Project in Northfield, Minnesota, talks about a new model for a healthy and regenerative poultry …
Bringing back the Texas Prairie
November 28th, 2018
This is the second in our series of interviews from the Regenerate 2018 conference in Albuquerque. We talk Jonathan and Kaylyn Cobb, co-owners Green Fields Farm in Rogers, Texas, who tell us the story of almost selling …
Bringing regenerative meat to the marketplace
November 13th, 2018
What does it take for a retail brand to make a commitment to sourcing meat from ranchers who are regenerating the land? We talk to Gina Asoudegan, vice president of mission and innovation at Applegate Natural and …
Money where your mouth is
October 23rd, 2018
Sallie Calhoun is president of the Globetrotter Foundation, owner of the Paicines Ranch, and founder of the #NoRegrets Initiative. She came to ranching from electrical engineering and high-tech entrepreneurship, and has …
Converting from industrial to regenerative agriculture
October 9th, 2018
Since the end of the civil war, White Oak Pastures has been in the Harris family, but their farming practices have ranged from 19th century …
Working at the "Radical Center”
September 25th, 2018
How do adversaries find common ground? How do they work together to find common goals an interests? Food from the Radical Center: Healing our Land …
Food, faith, and farming
September 11th, 2018
Dr. Hisham Moharram founded The Good Tree Farm and Good Tree Farm, Inc. as an expression of his Muslim faith. He explains how to keep a farm profitable, regenerate the land, feed communities that don’t have good access …
Pasturemap: High tech on the range
August 28th, 2018
Christine Su is CEO and co-founder of Pasturemap, a tool that helps ranchers increase productivity on their rangelands. We talk about the synergies …
Practicing regenerative agriculture
August 14th, 2018
Nicole Masters is an agroecologist who teaches, writes about, and consults on regenerative agriculture and soil regeneration. With projects in both …
Bill McDorman: Planting the seeds of a diverse, local agriculture
July 10th, 2018
Bill McDorman, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance in Ketchum, Idaho, and co-founder of the Seed School, has been saving seeds for …
Cattle grazing for ecosystem restoration
June 26th, 2018
Eating Wild Foods in the Industrial Age
June 12th, 2018
Jo Robinson is an investigative journalist whose book Eating on the Wild Side is all about the deep history of the human diet -- and how we can find …
Saving the Gunnison Sage Grouse
May 31st, 2018
In Gunnison, Colorado, there is an innovative collaboration to conserve the Gunnison Sage Grouse, a threatened--but not endangered--species native to …
Andrew deCoriolis on the poultry we eat
May 15th, 2018
Andrew deCoriolis is with Farm Forward, an organization dedicated to animal welfare for farm animals. We discuss the poultry industry, and the …
Faithlands: Agriculture meets religion
May 1st, 2018
Faithlands is an initiative of the Agrarian Trust that brings together religious traditions and regenerative agriculture. Today we talk to Severine …
Caroline Fraser on Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
April 24th, 2018
Caroline Fraser just won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for her new book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. For those who …
Tony Juniper
April 3rd, 2018
Author and sustainability ecologist Tony Juniper talks about his book, What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? How Money Really Does Grow on Trees. He …
Doug and Anna Jones Crabtree
March 20th, 2018
Doug Crabtree and Anna Jones Crabtree are the owners of Vilicus Farms in Havre, Montana. The 6800-acre organic farm is as far from industrial …
Nathan Sayre and the science of the range
February 28th, 2018
Professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley, Nathan Sayre is author of the book, The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland …
Judith Schwartz
February 13th, 2018
Judith Schwartz is author of the book Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth. We talk about ecosystems, and biodiversity, and soil, and climate change mitigation, and …
Chris Jagger
January 31st, 2018
Chris Jagger is a vegetable farmer in Oregon, and he's founder of the Living Soils Symposium, an annual gathering of farmers and people interested in …
Lesli Allison
January 17th, 2018
Lesli Allison, executive director of the Western Landowners Alliance, talks about the complex relationships among conservationists, ranchers, farmers, land managers--and wildlife, water, and earth. Challenges that have …
Christine Jones
January 2nd, 2018
Brad Lancaster on the cookbook, Eat Mesquite
December 12th, 2017
Brad Lancaster is co-founder of Desert Harvesters, in Tucson, Arizona. He's author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. His new book, produced with Desert Harvesters, is Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for …
Gabe and Paul Brown
November 28th, 2017
Gabe Brown and his family endured hail, drought, and near ruin before they changed their way of farming and ranching. Theirs is a story of creative …
Wes Jackson
November 14th, 2017
Sandra Postel
November 2nd, 2017
Sandra Postel‘s new book is Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. It’s about the world water cycle, and about real solutions to the …
Mike Callicrate
October 17th, 2017
Mike Callicrate left industrial feedlot agriculture to raise meat animals in a way that is healthier for everyone, including the animals and the …
Adam Danforth
October 3rd, 2017
Adam Danforth left behind a career in advertising and marketing in order to do something more grounded and meaningful with his life. He became a …
Calla Rose Ostrander
September 19th, 2017
Calla Rose Ostrander is an expert on climate change policy and regenerative agriculture — and the place where those worlds meet. She offers a hopeful …
Allen Williams
September 5th, 2017
Allen Williams speaks of his travels across multiple continents practicing and teaching ecosystem-based ranching, and shares his vision of a world …
Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser
August 18th, 2017
Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser went into farming because it seemed like an earth-friendly way to make a living–and they brought a lot of knowledge and …
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