LSP's Ear to the Ground
LSP's Ear to the Ground features in-the-field interviews with farmers, scientists, activists, and others involved with creating a regenerative, sustainable farm and food system. It is the official podcast of the Land Stewardship Project.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 41
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Ear to the Ground 380: Thinking Like a Prairie
Amy Rager wasn’t thrilled about moving from the North Woods to the land of grass. But three decades later, she’s an impassioned advocate for this treeless biome.
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Ear to the Ground 379: Proclaim Your Grain
Gilbert Williams is a pioneer in processing local grains for local markets. His advice? Go stand in the field, put your name on the package, and tell your story.
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Ear to the Ground 378: Dumping the Doubts
Noreen Thomas got into organic crop farming almost three decades ago as a way to produce healthy food and survive economically. Today, she’s the mentor she never had.
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Ear to the Ground 377: Flour Power
When Peter and Brittany Haugen sought to diversify their western Minnesota crop farm, they realized there was little infrastructure available to support small grains. So they forged their own link in…
Ear to the Ground 376: Cross-Boundary Grazing
One farmer says he benefits from grazing publicly-managed wildlife habitat. But what does a natural resource professional think about bringing bovines into a natural biome?
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Ear to the Ground 375: Why Not?
From crunching the numbers to developing relationships with public and private landowners, Eric Heins of Hoosier Ridge Ranch isn’t afraid to question the status quo when it comes to grazing livestock…
Ear to the Ground 374: The Power of Being Heard
LSP members and allies spoke out during the 2025 session of the Minnesota Legislature. It paid off in the form of support for local food markets, farmland access, and soil health.
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Ear to the Ground 373: Know Your Neighbors
These are tumultuous times for immigrants, but COPAL’s Ryan Perez sees hope in grassroots organizing and making basic, human-centered connections.
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Ear to the Ground 372: Dancing with Diversity
The Wild Farm Alliance is out to prove that thriving wildlife habitat and working farmland are not mutually exclusive — in fact, they can make great partners.
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Ear to the Ground 371: Avian Award
The owners of Keewaydin Farms see birds as not only a source of natural pest control but as a sign they are doing something right.
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Ear to the Ground 370: Bending the Bird Curve
The feathered residents of America’s grasslands are in big trouble, but Audubon ecologist Krysten Zummo sees regenerative grazing as a way for bovines to benefit birds.
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Ear to the Ground 369: Emerging Agrarians
Ka Zoua Berry says supporting a future generation of farmers who don’t fit the traditional Midwestern stereotype isn’t just about building a resilient farm and food system. It’s also about building r…
Ear to the Ground 368: Big Ag-Big Problems
An extractive economic system is decimating and dividing our rural communities. Now, more than ever, we need solidarity, says Cristina Ortiz.
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Ear to the Ground 367: Disrupting the Food Chain
Mastering the market is no easy task for a cutting-edge perennial grain. What lessons have the staff at Forever Green learned from their work with Kernza?
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Ear to the Ground 366: Dynamic De-Riskers
Wendy Johnson is experimenting with Kernza because she believes in the power of perennials. And livestock are helping make this cutting-edge crop a little less of a gamble.
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Ear to the Ground 365: Perennial Pivot
When Sogn Valley Farm transitioned out of intensive production of vegetable crops, it opened up opportunities to utilize a unique cousin of wheat as a way to steward the land.
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Ear to the Ground 364: Savanna Symbiosis
Stephen Thomforde sees integrating trees, grass, and grazing animals as a way to support one of the most productive ecosystems in existence, and history backs up his argument.
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Ear to the Ground 363: Small Grain-Big Opportunities
Landon Plagge’s experience growing oats has proven that this humble grain can play a big role in revitalizing soil health on corn-soybean farms. Can the milling facility he’s proposing do the same fo…
Ear to the Ground 362: Regenerative Return
When Roy Pfaltzgraff returned to his family’s northeastern Colorado cropping operation in 2016, he was committed to making farming a fulltime endeavor that built resilient soil, supported the communi…
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…