Ear to the Ground Podcast

New farmers talk about how Farm Beginnings helps them balance demand for their products with keeping their businesses, and lives, sustainable.

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NRCS staffers from Minnesota's top Conservation Stewardship Program county talk about how farmers implement CSP on working land.

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A brother-sister team uses Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson to help transition from being landowners to active farmers.

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Two Minnesota farmers experiment with multi-species cover cropping to improve soil health.

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How can we get more farms to integrate prairie into row-cropped fields?

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How farmers are improving trout streams with grazing.

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Farm Beginnings applies the brakes to a young couple's farming plans—in a good way.

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How 'Tribally Supported Agriculture' could help a Native American community attain food sovereignty.

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An innovative grass-based system makes a farm friendly to livestock, wildlife and the bottom line.

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LSP helps launch the Minnesota Farmworker Justice Campaign to put the spotlight on ag labor violations on industrial farms.

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An LSP member-farm helps spawn a CSA movement in China.

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LSP Farm Beginnings participants talk about "unfair advantages" as they launch an enterprise focusing on mushrooms and CSA vegetables.

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A government conservationist talks about treating soil as a complete ecosystem.

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Farmer Tony Schultz talks about how Community Supported Agriculture can revitalize our food system and rural communities.

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BFRDP: A discussion about a precedent-setting federal program for beginning farmers and ranchers.

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A beginning farmer talks about how it can be difficult to get access to land—even in the middle of farm country.

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An LSP workshop focuses on how rural townships in Minnesota can use interim ordinances and comprehensive planning to protect the community from unwanted developments.

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A key relationship developed through LSP's Farmer Network helps a beginning farmer launch his operation with the help of mentors.

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How farmers, scientists and conservationists have teamed up to revolutionize the relationship between ag and soil health.

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