by Lynne Whitbeck | Apr 23, 2019 | Down to Earth, Farming, Racial Equity, Radical Center
That’s the name of Lean Penniman‘s new book, and it’s a profound and wide-ranging exploration of everything from the practical details of how to start a farm, to the rich history of African-heritage farming.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Apr 9, 2019 | Down to Earth, Health and Nutrition, Soil
Carey Gillam is a veteran journalist, researcher and writer with more than 25 years experience in the news industry covering corporate America. Since 1998, Gillam’s work has focused on digging into the big business of food and agriculture.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 19, 2019 | Down to Earth, Ranching, Working with Nature
“In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers.”
by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 6, 2019 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science, Working with Nature
Glenn Elzinga is a rancher on mostly public lands in the Idaho Rocky Mountains. He’s also a forester, and his wife is a botanist…and together they have developed a practice of cattle grazing called “inherding”.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 19, 2019 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Soil, Working with Nature
If we were left to our own devices with a large selection of healthy food choices, how would we choose? Would we make healthy choices? What about livestock, and wildlife?
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 5, 2019 | Down to Earth, Economics, Farming, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science
We talk this week to On Pasture magazine founder Kathy Voth, whose mission is to make science accessible to people who need it–and to help keep them from being bamboozled by the latest agriculture fads.