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Animal Welfare is Good for Everyone — Including Farmers Adam Mason is senior manager of Farm Animal Welfare and Environmental Policy at the ASPCA, the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In our conversation, he talks about their multi-pronged...

1000 Farms Initiative: A New Paradigm of Science in Service of Farmers Entomologist, agroecologist, farmer, rancher, and beekeeper, Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, was a scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service for 11 years. He left to undertake regenerative...

Virtual Fencing: New Technology that Benefits Ranching and Land Conservation The Nature Conservancy partners with ranchers on virtual fencing, a new technology that keeps animals in delimited areas through GPS collars — resulting in labor saving, wildlife...

Regenerating a Desert Wetland Oasis Don Boyd spent a year on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, photographing, living, and finding a deep connection to land, water, and animals — including the many migrating birds that live part-time...

The Awe-inspiring Beauty Hidden in our Food Robert Dash‘s new book, "Food Planet Future: The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities," features photo collages of foods from all over the planet. Combining images from a scanning electron microscope...

Painterland Sisters Yogurt: Regeneration at Every Step from Farmer to Consumer Hayley and Stephanie Painter saved their farm by creating a national yogurt brand — and they’re committed to fostering not only nutrient dense, regenerative food, but also health at every...

Agave, Mesquite, and a Carbon Drawdown Game-Changer André Leu knows what it takes to take massive amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and put it into the soil permanently. We talk about his new book, The Regenerative Agriculture Solution. André Leu is co-founder...

Commerce, the Destruction of Nature, and the Uphill Path to Sustainability Sara Dant‘s book, "Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West," covers the long history of human habitation on the North American continent — from the time that megafauna like...

Colorado Peaches: Delicious for the Eaters, Fair for the Workers Gwen Cameron grew up on Rancho Durazno, her family's peach farm. She was pursuing a career in journalism when her father asked her if she wanted to come back and take over the farm. She agreed and never...

Black Farmers Regenerating Land in the Face of Historical — and Current — Racism P. Wade Ross‘s great grandfather was a runaway slave who bought land in Texas. His descendants founded Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Community Based Organization, a non-profit that...