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Join hosts Emma Ractliffe and Austin Unruh as they explore what’s broken in our food system, and what it looks like to build something better.Visit agrarianfuturespod.com [https://www.agrarianfuturespod.com/] to join our email list for a heads up on upcoming episodes and bonus content.Agrarian Futures is produced by Alexandre Miller, who also wrote our theme song.Instagram: @agrarianfuturespod [https://www.instagram.com/agrarianfuturespod/]Twitter: @agrarianfutures [https://x.com/agrarianfutures?s=11&t=zpfBCgxXojsB0QAj0JDZDA]LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/103857304/
Agrarian Futures hosts Agrarian Futures, a science show with 42 episodes published.
Gabe Brown didn't set out to revolutionize agriculture. He set out to survive it. After four consecutive years of crop disasters left him $1.5 million in debt, he had no choice but to question everything he'd been taught
You can't understand the modern food system without understanding the policy that shaped it. And you can't understand US food policy without understanding the Farm Bill. Judith McGeary is an attorney, farmer, and the fou
Our guest today, Fred Provenza , has spent his career listening to what animals can teach us: about landscapes, about food, about the deep intelligence woven into the living world. Fred is professor emeritus of Behaviora
Our guest today - Judith Schwartz - has spent her career showing us that the natural world is more resilient than we think, and that we have more power to restore it than we have been led to believe. Judith is a journali
Many of us have lost the thread that connects us to our food. Glenn Elzinga is spending his life trying to pick it back up. Glenn is the founder of Alderspring Ranch, a certified organic grass-fed beef operation in the r
Steve Gabriel joins us to unpack one of the most consequential myths shaping how we grow food in America: the separation between forest and field. As a co-steward of Wellspring Forest Farm in Mecklenburg, New York, autho
Regenerative agriculture isn’t just about how we raise animals. It’s about whether the entire system around them makes sense. Smaller, regenerative producers with meat businesses, have traditionally lacked an economic ou
We walk into our local grocery store and most likely barely consider what’s on display in front of us. Forty thousand items. Stacked, uniform, produce. Cuisine from around the globe. Open often 24 hours. As author Benjam
I’m willing to bet that most of our listeners - like us - have traditionally seen acorns as food for squirrels, not people. But as Elspeth Hay points out in this conversation, that assumption says more about our food sys
We’ve spent a lot of time on this show digging into the dire state of modern farming and ranching, and the challenging economics for those trying to build a regenerative future. Our guest today, Cate Havstad , is no stra
Joel Salatin is one of the most influential voices in the modern regenerative farming movement. As the founder of Polyface Farm in Virginia, he’s become known for building a radically different model of agriculture, one
Fish have long been one of the last wild foods, a source of nourishment that connects us to the powerful ecology of the planet’s waters. But as journalist and author Paul Greenberg chronicles in his award-winning book Fo
If you want to understand what it takes to build a healthier local food system and bring rural communities back to life, you talk to someone who’s actually done it. Bob Quinn has spent decades farming in Montana, rebuild
If regenerative agriculture is about rebuilding the foundations of our food system, then soil is where that story starts. Geologist and author David Montgomery has spent decades tracing how the health of our soil shapes
Across the south, generations of Black farmers and business owners have faced losing not just their land, but their livelihoods - pushed out by discriminatory lending, land theft, and the consolidation of power. Yet from
What happens when you leave behind a career in food journalism to take over a family farm in Iowa? For Beth Hoffman, it meant putting theory into practice - and learning firsthand just how difficult it is to make small a
Before industrial dredging, clear-cutting, and destructive fishing practices, our rivers and oceans were full of wood. Fallen trees, driftwood, and branches created underwater forests where fish and countless other creat
Years before regenerative ag and grass-fed beef hit the spotlight, Will Harris was figuring it out on his own land. At White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, Will spent the last few decades unwinding everything industr
We all need land to eat, but more and more, farmland has become a financial asset instead of a source of food, livelihood, and community. And when agriculture becomes just another investment, we risk losing something ess
Are fewer, bigger farms putting our entire food system at risk? That’s the warning at the heart of Land Rich, Cash Poor , the latest book by Brian Reisinger. In it, he explores the forces—technological, political, and ec
Fred Provenza
Professor
1 appearance on this show
Elspeth Hay
journalist/author · Feed Us With Trees
1 appearance on this show
Joel Salatin
farmer · Lunatic Farmer
1 appearance on this show
Paul Greenberg
psychologist · NORA
1 appearance on this show
Bob Quinn
Executive Director · SCRA
1 appearance on this show
David Montgomery
Professor, Earth and Space Sciences · International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
1 appearance on this show
Will Harris
owner and operator · The Hustle Marketing and Design
1 appearance on this show
Brian Reisinger
journalist and author of Land Rich, Cash Poor
1 appearance on this show
Cole Mannix
president and co-founder · Old Salt Co-op
1 appearance on this show
Anthony James
Senior Industrial Security Consultant · Soccer Vision Academy
1 appearance on this show
Mark Watson
SVB’s former management governance head · Historic Scotland
1 appearance on this show
Dave Chapman
Puppeteer · Real Organic Project
1 appearance on this show
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