The Only Thing That Lasts
They say there’s only one thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, and worth dying for. It’s not love or money, not vengeance or virtue. It’s land.
To understand how the existence, value, and costs and benefits of our agricultural lands affects us all, join journalist Sarah Mock for a journey into American’s mysterious farm landscape.
An Offrange podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 48 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Chapter 1: Is the U.S. Running Out of Farmland?
In the first episode of our 8-episode limited series, agriculture journalist Sarah Mock unpacks the dire warnings advocates are making — namely, that we're losing thousands of acres of U.S. farmland …
00:34:46 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Chapter 5: Raise Less Corn and More Hell
Long before "populist" became a nebulous buzzword used to describe everyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, the farmer-founded Populist Party was a formidable force in American elections, fighti…
00:47:42 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Chapter 8: The Land Is Dead, Long Live the Land (part 2)
You probably know about the trolley problem, where someone is forced to make a decision between inaction that kills five people, or making an effort that kills only one. In this episode of The Only T…
00:36:51 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Chapter 7: The Land Is Dead, Long Live the Land
We tend to think of farmland and nature as distinct and easily distinguished, but in this episode, our host Sarah Mock poses the question: What if these boundaries are far more fuzzy than we imagine?…
00:34:23 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Chapter 6: The Wine of Wrath
Let's talk about the Dust Bowl. This distinctly American sliver of history, which most of us were schooled on with The Grapes of Wrath, was more than an act of God — it resulted from a host of short-…
00:52:49 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
Chapter 4: It's Highway Robbery
"As through this world I’ve wandered,
I’ve seen lots of funny men.
Some will rob you with a six gun,
And some with a fountain pen."
Woody Guthrie's lyrics are a fitting frame for this episode of T…
00:49:43 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Chapter 3: Get Rich Homesteading
The Homestead Act of 1862 changed the path of many thousands of Americans, who were given $1.1 trillion in free land to farm. Their descendents, who make up 25% of the U.S. population today, are stil…
00:44:56 |
Sat 25 May 2024
Chapter 2: Alchemy of Farmland
In the second episode of our 8-episode limited series, agriculture journalist Sarah Mock takes us on a journey to the origins of what we think of as farmland today — and with it, the very definition …
00:40:39 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
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