Ear to the Ground Podcast

What happens when you bring a group of food service folks out to see how vegetables are actually grown?

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Blue Dasher Farm's Jonathan Lundgren talks about bugs, biodiversity and, of course, cow pies.

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An ag economist talks about the negative impacts the "get big or get out" attitude has had on farming and rural communities.

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LSP staffer Elizabeth Makarewicz talks to participants in the 2019 Queer Farmer Convergence at Humble Hands Harvest in Iowa about connecting queerness, farming, and community.

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How farmers Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz are building soil carbon and bolstering financial resiliency.

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Farm advocates provide tips on dealing with the ag crisis, and how we can fight for a brighter future.

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How the Tallgrass Prairie Center in Iowa is introducing a little wildness into a domesticated landscape.

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How one land grant experiment station is helping farmers integrate livestock and crops in a way that creates resilient soils...and a resilient food system.

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Excessive erosion on her farm prompted Jeannie Hill to have a hard conversation with her renter. But first, she did some homework.

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Farmer and caver Martin Larsen describes the connections between land use on the surface and water quality problems he sees underground.

For more on ways to build soil health profitably, see LSP's So…

Robin Moore talks about how LSP is using soil health to forge stewardship partnerships between non-operating landowners and the farmers who rent from them.

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A farmer and a researcher discuss the potential agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits of a commercially-viable perennial grain.

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During a tallgrass prairie "BioBlitz," farmers, a wildlife expert, and an LSP organizer discuss how livestock can benefit natural habitat and the community at large.

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When a CAFO threatened a rural neighborhood, residents looked to a beginning farmer for a different vision of the future.

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This is the third and final episode in a series titled, "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native…

This is the second in a three-part series titled, "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native land …

This is the first in a three-part series titled "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native justice…

LSP co-founder Ron Kroese talks about the National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive, which features interviews he did with pioneers in the movement to develop policy that supports regener…

Renter Mark Erickson shows landowners the benefits of converting cropland to pasture.

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Farmer Bob Mierau describes how his drive to do "organic no-till" depends on boosting and supporting his soil's bug life.

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