Down to Earth is a podcast about hope. As climate change collides with our industrial food system, we focus not on doom but instead on people who are developing practical, innovative solutions. We invite you to meet farmers, ranchers, scientists, land managers, writers, and many others on a mission to create a world in which the food we eat is healthy—for us, for the land and water from which it springs, for the lives and livelihoods of the producers, and for the planet.
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Episode 27 – Working at the “Radical Center”
Working at the “Radical Center”
How do adversaries find common ground? How do they work together to find ...
Episode 26 – Food, faith, and farming — the Good Tree Farm
Food, faith, and farming — the Good Tree Farm
Dr. Hisham Moharram founded The Good Tree Farm and Good ...
Episode 25 – Pasturemap: High tech on the range
Christine Su is CEO and co-founder of Pasturemap, a tool that helps ranchers increase productivity on their rangelands. We talk about the synergies among soil health, grass abundance, profitability, carbon sequestration, and intergenerational–and inter-regional–information sharing.
Episode 24 – Practicing regenerative agriculture
Practicing regenerative agriculture
Nicole Masters is an agroecologist who teaches, writes about, and consults
Episode 23 – Planting the seeds of local agriculture
Planting the seeds of local agriculture
Bill McDorman is executive director of the Rocky Mountain Seed ...
Episode 22 – Cattle grazing, community building, and ecosystem restoration
Cattle grazing, community building, and ecosystem restoration
Ariel Greenwood and Guido Frosini are ...
Episode 21 – Eating wild foods in the industrial age
Eating wild foods in the industrial age
What’s the difference between one head of lettuce and another? A lot, ...
Episode 20 – Saving the Gunnison Sage Grouse: Community Conservation in Action
Saving the Gunnison Sage Grouse: Community Conservation in Action
In Gunnison, Colorado, there is an ...
Episode 19 – Fowl play: our insane poultry system and how to fix it
Fowl play: our insane poultry system and how to fix it
Why is it that poultry breeds in the US grow so fast ...
Episode 18 – Science, Spirituality, and Agriculture: The Faithlands Initiative
Science, Spirituality, and Agriculture: The Faithlands Initiative
Religious leaders as farmers, ...
Episode 17 – Laura Ingalls Wilder — the story of the land behind the Little House stories
Laura Ingalls Wilder — the story of the land behind the Little House stories
Caroline Fraser just won the
Episode 16 – Does Money Really Grow on Trees?
Does Money Really Grow on Trees?
Author and sustainability ecologist Tony Juniper talks about his book, What ...
Episode 15 – Organic production agriculture in Montana: Scaling up at Vilicus Farms
Organic production agriculture in Montana: Scaling up at Vilicus Farms
Doug Crabtree and Anna Jones Crabtree ...
Episode 14 – Science on the range: studying wide open landscapes in the American West
Science on the range: studying wide open landscapes in the American West
Geographer Nathan Sayre talks about ...
Episode 13 – Cows Save the Planet
Cows Save the PlanetJudith Schwartz is the author of Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of ...
Episode 12 – Opening the conversation about living soils
Opening the conversation about living soilsChris Jagger is a vegetable farmer in Oregon, and he’s founder of ...
Episode 11 – From conflict to conciliation on Western landscapes
From conflict to conciliation on Western landscapesLesli Allison, executive director of the Western Landowners ...
Episode 10 – What on earth is earth? A soil scientist tell us…and why we shouldn’t treat it like dirt.
What on earth is earth? A soil scientist tell us…and why we shouldn’t treat it like dirt.Christine Jones is a ...
Episode 9 – Eat Mesquite? Yes. Really.
Eat Mesquite? Yes. Really.Brad Lancaster is co-founder of Desert Harvesters, in Tucson, Arizona. He’s author of
Episode 8 – Patron saints of regenerative agriculture: Gabe and Paul Brown
Patron saints of regenerative agriculture: Gabe and Paul BrownGabe Brown and his family endured hail, drought, ...
Episode 7 – Wes Jackson on the problem of agriculture and the perennial solution
Wes Jackson on the problem of agriculture and the perennial solutionWes Jackson is a visionary. Plant ...
Episode 6 – The Water Win-Win: Food and ecosystems in balance
The Water Win-Win: Food and ecosystems in balanceSandra Postel‘s new book is Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of ...
Episode 5 – The deck is stacked against family farmers. Here’s one rancher’s powerful response.
The deck is stacked against family farmers. Here’s one rancher’s powerful response.Mike ...
Episode 4 – The Butchers meet the Buddha: Conscious meat production today
The Butchers meet the Buddha: Conscious meat production todayAdam Danforth left behind a career in advertising and ...
Episode 3 – Slowing climate change, one farm at a time
Slowing Climate Change, One Farm at a Time...Calla Rose Ostrander is an expert on climate change policy and ...
Episode 2 – Fighting climate change with cattle…a scientist-rancher’s view of a new landscape.
Fighting climate change with cattle...A scientist-rancher’s view of a new landscape.Allen Williams is a ...
Episode 1 – Growing vegetables for fun and massive profit … really?
Growing vegetables for fun and massive profit … really?
Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser went into farming because it
