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Episode 149 – How to have family business meetings that are productive––and short

by Lynne Whitbeck | Sep 19, 2023 | Down to Earth, Rural Communities, Succession, Working with Nature

How to have family business meetings that are productive––and short Jenn Wheeling and her four siblings were raised at the James Ranch in Durango, Colorado. At 18 they were sent out into the world, but one by one four of the five came back to live on the ranch and...

Episode 148 – Weathering global change on an Oregon sheep ranch

by Lynne Whitbeck | Sep 5, 2023 | Down to Earth, Erosion Control, Radical Center, Rangeland Science, Soil, Water, Working with Nature

Weathering global change on an Oregon sheep ranch Jeanne Carver and her husband were doing regenerative practices, including no-till and rotational grazing, at the Imperial Stock Ranch in Maupin, Oregon. But when the company that had been buying their wool for over a...

Episode 147 – From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration

by Lynne Whitbeck | Aug 22, 2023 | Down to Earth, Erosion Control, Radical Center, Rangeland Science, Soil, Water, Working with Nature

From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration Jan-Willem Jansens has been restoring landscapes in New Mexico for three decades. Owner of Ecotone Landscape Planning, he is part of a network that works to restore land that has been damaged by generations...

Episode 146 – A food forest on an eighth of an acre

by Lynne Whitbeck | Aug 8, 2023 | Decolonizing Ag, Down to Earth, Farming, Rural Communities, Working with Nature

A food forest on an eighth of an acre Roxanne Swentzell was a young mother on a small piece of land at Santa Clara Pueblo when she was introduced to permaculture design principles––which dovetailed with her indigenous views and land use. She turned her yard from hard,...

Episode 135 – Wolves in the West: Finding common ground

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 1, 2023 | Down to Earth, Radical Center, Rural Communities, Working with Nature

After being driven almost to extinction, wolves are back in some of their natural habitat. A new podcast explores how ranchers, conservationists, and others are coming together to find paths toward peaceful co-habitation.

Episode 129 – Bringing dead land back to life: a filmmaker’s perspective

by Lynne Whitbeck | Nov 15, 2022 | Climate Change, Down to Earth, Rural Communities, Soil, Working with Nature

In 1995 John Liu began documenting the Loess Plateau in China, a landscape ruined by poor agriculture practices. Over decades he documented its return to vibrant life, and filmed many other restoration projects worldwide.