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Winner of the Institute for Nonprofit News 2022 Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism.
Climate change is coming for your food. In the American Heartland, farmers are battling increasingly severe weather, with epic floods and heat. Agriculture accounts for an impossible to ignore 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, so if we’re serious about fighting climate change, farmers need to be part of the solution. In Hot Farm, a new podcast from the Food & Environment Reporting Network hosted by Eve Abrams, we travel across the Midwest, talking to farmers about what they are doing, or could be doing, to combat climate change.
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Introducing: Forked, presented by REAP/SOW
American food politics are a mess. The traditional forces driving policy in agriculture and nutrition have been wiped away, and ordinary people are struggling to figure out who is in charge, what…
S3 Introducing: Buzzkill, presented by REAP/SOW
We’re in the middle of a full-blown biodiversity crisis: American honeybee populations have declined by 90 percent in the last two decades. It's not rocket science. How we produce our food is killing…
S2E1 Introducing REAP/SOW!
REAP/SOW: dispatches from the front lines of food, farming, and the environment, is the latest audio project from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, an independent, non-profit news…
S1E6 Hot Farm Bonus Episode: Climavores - "Bursting the 'eat local' bubble"
From our friends at Climavores: The eat local movement is huge. Bumper stickers in liberal towns across the U.S. tell us to “Eat local” or ask “Who’s your farmer?” But eating local food may be wildly…
S1E5 Hot Farm Bonus Episode: "Should I Give up Beef?" from How to Save a Planet
We have a bonus episode from a show called “How to Save a Planet,” a Spotify Original podcast produced by Gimlet Media. This show looks at climate change from the lens of — OK, so what do we do about…
S1E4 Hot Farm Part 4. The New California
More than a fourth of our food, including most of our fruits and vegetables, comes from California. But what happens when drought parches the region we depend upon to eat? Producer Travis Lux travels…
S1E3 Hot Farm Part 3. Grain of the Future
Modern agriculture has been tweaking the same system for decades, but scientists think we need a new approach for a warmer world — one that involves novel crops. Producer Rachel Yang visits with…
S1E2 Hot Farm Part 2. Enlisting the Unconvinced
Most American farmers don’t believe man-made climate change is real. Yet we need those farmers to be part of the climate change solution. So how can we get them on board? Producer Dana Cronin finds a…
S1E1 Hot Farm Part 1. Change Is Hard
In 1988, a drought made Dave Bishop a different farmer. Back then, he was a freak in farm country. Today, he is the model that we need all farmers to be if we are to have any chance of fighting…
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Over four episodes, host Eve Abrams and her team travel the Midwest, engaging with farmers who are confronting the difficult reality of climate change—increasingly extreme floods and heat—including…
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Hot Farm, presented by REAP/SOW has published 10 episodes since March 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Hot Farm, presented by REAP/SOW is currently active with new episodes semi-annually. Average episode length is 23m.
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