Land Stewardship Project's Ear to the Ground Podcast
Land Stewardship Project's Ear to the Ground podcast features in-the-field interviews related to the Land Stewardship Project's work on regenerative agriculture, local food systems, rural communities, beginning farmers, social/economic justice, and agricultural/environmental policy.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 381
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Ear to the Ground 181: Diverse Land, Drunk Grasshoppers
How birds, biology and food production blend on one Minnesota dairy farm.
Ear to the Ground 180: Forging Strong Ties from Weak Links
Using Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson training to make holistic decisions on a community farm.
Ear to the Ground 179: Risky Business
LSP investigates how innovative farmers manage economic and agronomic risk.
Ear to the Ground 178: A Sick Healthcare System
The MN Nurses Association's Rose Roach talks about working with LSP to transform healthcare from a commodity to a human right.
Ear to the Ground 177: Covering the Bottom Line
A farmer and a researcher talk about making cover crops pay.
Ear to the Ground 176: Testing Total Terra
LSP experiments with a new test that provides deeper insights into soil's productive potential.
Ear to the Ground 175: Spades, Worms & Fungi
An Indiana farmer describes his experience with cover cropping and how it fits into a bigger goal of improving his land's soil health (part 3 of 3).
Ear to the Ground 174: From the Roots Up
A soil scientist compares Indiana's 'bottom up' approach to advancing soil health to Maryland's 'top down' system (part 2 of 3).
Ear to the Ground 173: A Million Acres of Cover Crops
How Indiana became the king of cover cropping (part 1 of 3).
Ear to the Ground 172: Beyond the Backyard
With the help of LSP's Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson, Sara Morrison takes her garden beyond the backyard.
Ear to the Ground 171: Pasque Providers
Using conservation grazing to revitalize a prairie.
Ear to the Ground 170: Constructive Criticism
How a Farm Beginnings field day makes everyone a "consultant."
Ear to the Ground 169: Acre of Opportunity
A livestock/crop farmer lends out an "odd corner" on his property as a launching pad for a beginning vegetable operation.
Ear to the Ground 168: Blitzing the Biome
Rural residents and naturalists "BioBlitz" grassland and learn about its relationship to clean water and vibrant communities.
Ear to the Ground 167: Small Goals, Big Plans
Farm Beginnings grads achieve a series of "micro-goals" in service of the bigger picture: a successful livestock enterprise.
Ear to the Ground 166: From the Lab to the Land
A farmer works with a professor and her students at a local college to study the impacts of cropping on soil health.
Ear to the Ground 165: A Night of Wendell Berry
LSP farmer-members honor Wendell Berry with an evening of readings.
Ear to the Ground 164: No GMO
Farmers, seed dealers and meat firms come together at an LSP meeting to talk about the non-GMO crop market.
Ear to the Ground 163: Trial by Fire
Rising from the ashes: Farm Beginnings grads recover from a disaster and launch a dairy farm.
Ear to the Ground 162: Ensuring an Insurance Disaster
How federal crop insurance is harming family farmers, the land and our communities—and why we all have a stake in reforming it.