Ear to the Ground Podcast
Here you will find LSP's 15-year collection of podcasts featuring farmers, scientists, and others telling stories from the land. You can find LSP Ear to the Ground podcast episodes on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, and other podcast platforms.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 380
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Ear to the Ground 340: Entrepreneurial Equity
Beginning farmer Alondra Cano’s conversations with other Spanish-speaking agrarians have unearthed insights into the role emerging farmers can play in a regenerative food system, and what needs to be…
00:38:25 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Ear to the Ground 339: Urban Ag’s Moment
The USDA’s recent creation of urban ag service centers is a recognition that growing food in the city is more than a quirky news story. More Information • Kajsa Beatty Contact • USDA Office of Urban …
00:37:30 |
Wed 01 May 2024
Ear to the Ground 338: Microbial IRA
For Jerome Fulsaas, cover cropping and no-till are creating an individual retirement account based on a living soil bank, not dead dirt. More Information • LSP’s Bridge to Soil Health Web Page • LSP’…
00:23:04 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Ear to the Ground 337: ROI & Riding a Bike
Josh Nelson’s approach to farming means looking beyond the next corn crop and building the kind of soil that generates long-term return on investment. More Information • LSP’s Bridge to Soil Health …
00:24:55 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
Ear to the Ground 336: Biology Booster
Gary Zimmer says before a farm can be sustainable, it has to be regenerated — and that starts with the soil. More Information • LSP’s Bridge to Soil Health Web Page • LSP’s Microbiology & Soil Health…
00:19:00 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Ear to the Ground 335: Bumping Elbows
From raising produce and working in a restaurant to teaching food safety and managing a farmers’ market, Sara George has experienced “farm-to-fork” from just about every angle possible. This has give…
00:33:08 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ear to the Ground 334: Youth Movement
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 farmers utilize a values-based decision making strat…
00:19:49 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Ear to the Ground 333: 2 Kinds of Power
When LSP farmer-members like Paul Sobocinski took on Big Pork, it showed the long-term impact grassroots organizing can have. More Information • Making Change from the Ground Up: 40 Stories for 40 Ye…
00:28:51 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Ear to the Ground 332: Real Food, Real Impact
Beverly Dougherty’s Real Food Hub is out to prove that connecting local farmers and local eaters makes sense nutritionally and financially — and is just plain fun. More Information • Read Food Hub • …
00:27:40 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Ear to the Ground 331: Reality Check
Direct-marketing expert and farmer Ryan Pesch sees a lot of potential in the community/local food movement, but farmers hoping to enter that realm need to ask some key questions first. More Informati…
00:32:18 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Ear to the Ground 330: String Theory
Soil, cows, ecology, economics: to milk producer Derek Schmitz, they are all linked, and that feeds his optimism even as tough times cast a shadow over dairy farming. More Information • LSP’s Grazing…
00:35:58 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Ear to the Ground 329: Weather Whiplash
Climate change may impact a vegetable producer and a livestock farmer in different ways, but the result is the same: uncertainty, stress…and a deeper desire to connect with community. More Informatio…
00:46:28 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
Ear to the Ground No. 328: Urban Ag Oasis
Farm Beginnings grad Queen Frye just wants to raise food — even if she doesn’t resemble a famous Scottish farmer. More Information • Land Stewardship Letter Profile: The Fifth ‘R’ • R. Roots Garden •…
00:43:46 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Ear to the Ground No. 327: Side-by-Side Soil
A 30-farm study is comparing the impacts regenerative vs. conventional practices have on soil’s resiliency. Extreme drought has churned up some exciting results. More Information • Sand County Founda…
00:27:24 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Ear to the Ground 326: Rooting Out Nitrates
The Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program could serve as a holistic model for supporting practices that are good for the farmer, the land, and water quality. More Information …
00:24:58 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
Ear to the Ground 325: Return of the Fence
Matt and Seth Tentis of White Barn Acres are creating a soil-smart farm using a mix of livestock, continuous living cover, and experimentation — with a healthy dose of community support tossed in for…
00:32:09 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
Ear to the Ground 324: Good Grass Makes Good Neighbors
The landowners Jeremy and Jessica Holst rent from like to see a green landscape — no wonder the dairy farmers’ rotational grazing system is considered a neighborhood asset. More Information • LSP’s S…
00:15:33 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
Ear to the Ground 323: Rainy Day Fund
With their dairy farm at the epicenter of the worst drought in over a century, the Vergin family adapts through diversification, flexibility, and making deposits in the soil bank. More Information • …
00:22:58 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Ear to the Ground 322: Lunchroom Stewardship
Aimee Haag is proving that farm-to-school arrangements can benefit kids, communities, and farmers…one tomato at a time. More Information • MDA Farm-to-School & Early Care Grants • Minnesota Farm-to-S…
00:42:12 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Ear to the Ground 321: Buried Knowledge
A town lost to erosion offers a critical lesson as Sandy and Lonny Dietz strive to develop a viable no-till organic vegetable production system. More Information • Whitewater Gardens Farm • Sustainab…
00:33:37 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
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