
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”

Episode 26 – Food, faith, and farming — the Good Tree Farm

Episode 25 – Pasturemap: High tech on the range

Episode 24 – Practicing regenerative agriculture

Episode 23 – Planting the seeds of local agriculture

Episode 22 – Cattle grazing, community building, and ecosystem restoration

Episode 21 – Eating wild foods in the industrial age

Episode 20 – Saving the Gunnison Sage Grouse: Community Conservation in Action

Episode 19 – Fowl play: our insane poultry system and how to fix it

Episode 18 – Science, Spirituality, and Agriculture: The Faithlands Initiative

Episode 17 – Laura Ingalls Wilder — the story of the land behind the Little House stories

Episode 16 – Does Money Really Grow on Trees?

Episode 15 – Organic production agriculture in Montana: Scaling up at Vilicus Farms

Episode 14 – Science on the range: studying wide open landscapes in the American West

Episode 13 – Cows Save the Planet

Episode 12 – Opening the conversation about living soils

Episode 11 – From conflict to conciliation on Western landscapes

Episode 10 – What on earth is earth? A soil scientist tell us…and why we shouldn’t treat it like dirt.

Episode 9 – Eat Mesquite? Yes. Really.

Episode 8 – Patron saints of regenerative agriculture: Gabe and Paul Brown

Episode 7 – Wes Jackson on the problem of agriculture and the perennial solution

Episode 6 – The Water Win-Win: Food and ecosystems in balance

Episode 5 – The deck is stacked against family farmers. Here’s one rancher’s powerful response.

Episode 4 – The Butchers meet the Buddha: Conscious meat production today

Episode 3 – Slowing climate change, one farm at a time

Episode 2 – Fighting climate change with cattle…a scientist-rancher’s view of a new landscape.
