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Hosted by Sylvia Burgos Toftness · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 47 episodes
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This is about connecting the dots. Every dollar we spend on food, clothes, health care, recreation, and building materials either supports pollution or clean water, farm worker poverty or economic health, nutrition or empty calories, and humane or cruel livestock conditions. Guests from across the country and around the world describe how we can work for a better, healthier culture, lifestyle, and planet. There is hope. Be the change.
Sylvia Burgos Toftness hosts Deep Roots Radio, a health show with 47 episodes published.
I love that thunk when my passport gets another stamp proving foreign travel. Now that badge of adventure is happening in Wisconsin when people travel to farms for food, fun, and education excitement. In this Deep Roots
Twelve regenerative, small family farms are on the map for your self-guided tour of the Apple River Farm Tour , July 11, 2026, from 10AM to 4PM. Think mushrooms, sheep, lambs, furry Highland cattle, chickens, fresh veggi
Sometimes you just can't predict when you'll bump into a thriving textile business. Black Cat Stitchery is one of those. Just 18 months in its new storefront, the small space is an expression of quality, creativity and w
Connecting the dots between what we wear and environmental impact creates a scary picture. According to the EPA, billions of pounds of textiles ends up in landfills every year. Why? One of the reasons may be our culture'
The day's are bright, the air fresh - perfect time to visit a nearby farm and learn about how our food is grown, how livestock are raised, and taste delicious local food. The 2026 farm visiting season kicks off with the
When March hits, Wisconsin can be a roller-coaster of temperature and snow - nasty. Yet this is the time of year when new lambs decide to baaa their way into the world. At Curlee Acres, a small sheep farm near Centuria (
When you think "maple syrup" what comes to mind? Vermont? Canada? Nah, think Wisconsin. Z-Orchard in Amery, WI was recently featured in a syrupy article in the New York Times, and the recognition is well deserved. Z-Orch
Many travel to France for the annual display of lavender: fields of purples ranging from dusky to intense. Luckily for us in the Upper Midwest, we need go no further than Kiel, Wisconsin to drink in the site and fragranc
Wisconsin loses more than a farm a day because of the high costs and low incomes to farmers. Not a new story: WI lost 10% of its farms between 2017 and 2022. Yet, there is a clear way for farmers to increase their income
Sheila Everhart, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association points visitors to on-farm fun all across Wisconsin. She also asks the public to help remove barriers to agricultural tourism opportun
In this first of two Deep Roots Radio interviews, journalist Elspeth Hay introduces us to her fresh off the presses book, Feed Us With Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. She describes what describes what agriculture loo
Land Stewardship Project has been working for the health and growth of small family farms and practices that restore soil health, and extend the affordable access to land. In this Deep Roots Radio interview Laura Scheibe
When we think of gauging the health of our soils and water, we usually imagine lab tests. When we say the word "farm," it's common for images of livestock and row crops to come to mind. However, just as the "canary" came
It's spring: time to find and schedule on-farm adventures all across Wisconsin. One you don't want to miss is The Classic Green Reunion, June 12-14, 2025, West Bend, WI. In this Deep Roots Radio interview, Sheila Everhar
Who can resist a cuddly lamb or bouncing baby kid? It seems thousands of us love watching videos about them. Well we don't have to settle for virtual clips. Every Spring, Govin's Farm, in Menomonie, Wisconsin opens its b
This episode originally aired in 2023.
We think we know honey. As kids, we drizzled it on toast, dolloped in into tea, and swirled it onto cereals. But now we can tap into its real power: as medicine, and especially wen combined with other helpful herbs and s
Deep Roots Radio in-studio chat with Alondra Cano, the energy and collaborator behind the Engine Room, in downtown Amery, WI. The new cocktail bar is just off the blocks and gaining speed with expertly crafted cocktails
In this 5th Deep Roots Radio conversation, Anne Stobart describes major considerations when designing a medicinal forest garden of any size. In our chat, she talks about the steps she took - over several years - to estab
In this 5th Deep Roots Radio conversation, Anne Stobart describes key considerations when designing a medicinal forest garden of any size. In our chat, she talks about the steps she took - over several years - to establi
Elspeth Hay
journalist/author · Feed Us With Trees
1 appearance on this show
Christopher Smith
postdoctoral fellow · American Museum of Natural History
1 appearance on this show
Bill Zager
Z-Orchard
1 appearance on this show
Sheila Everhart
Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association
2 appearances on this show
Laura Schreiber
Land Stewardship Project
1 appearance on this show
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