LSP's Ear to the Ground
Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project
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LSP's Ear to the Ground features in-the-field interviews with farmers, scientists, activists, and others involved with creating a regenerative, sustainable farm and food system. It is the official podcast of the Land Stewardship Project.
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Ear to the Ground 402: Enemy of Good
Jane Marynik’s pursuit of perfection ran into a brick wall called vegetable farming. LSP’s Farm Beginnings has helped her strike a more sustainable balance between work and life.More Information:•…
Ear to the Ground 401: The Belly of Belief
Livestock producer Frances Kelliher admits to being a bit cynical and burnt-out on her first day in LSP’s Farm Beginnings course. But the program helped revitalize her belief that regenerative…
Ear to the Ground 400: Small Farms, Big Markets
Josh Bryceson sees The Good Acre food hub as a way to not only build markets for local vegetable producers, but to germinate the next generation of farmers (2 of 2 parts).More Information:• The Good…
Ear to the Ground 399: Asking Why
A decade ago, veggie and livestock farmers Josh Bryceson and Rama Hoffpauir realized sweat equity would only take them so far in their ag journey, so they looked up from the grindstone long enough to…
Ear to the Ground 398: Land Grant Guarantee
Over the past three decades, the rotating Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems has provided farmers and others a chance to build a more sustainable farm and food system in Minnesota. Farmer and…
Ear to the Ground 397: Black Energy
In 1986, Joe Paddock co-authored a book called Soil and Survival. Its message: the relationship between farming and the land is in serious need of repair. Four decades later, that message is more…
Ear to the Ground 396: Accountable Ag
These three crop producers see no reason why productive farming and clean water can’t co-exist. But first, we need to stop the greenwashing and get our hands dirty. (2 of 2 parts; part 1 is here)More…
Ear to the Ground 395: The Lobe Rangers
In the Corn Belt, water quality is not improving at a rate that is leading to meaningful landscape level change, and these poster boys for conservation farming say it’s time for the ag industry,…
Ear to the Ground 394: Canceling Commodities
As a farmer and entrepreneur, John Strohfus sees the production of food-grade crops as a key opportunity for regenerative farmers to forge links in a value chain based on building healthy soil.More…
Ear to the Ground 393: Risk Reducers
Alan Jostock uses the kind of diversity that builds soil health as a kind of insurance policy for his farm. That means meshing his crop and livestock enterprises in a way that they prop each other up…
Ear to the Ground 392: Diversity’s Diet
Farmer and small grains marketer Matt Kruger sees a rotation based on raising food grade crops as a way for farmers to get rewarded for building soil health. It’s also a way to fight the only thing…
Ear to the Ground 391: Grounded in Grazing
Ashly Steinke remembers well the first time he saw a bobolink on pastured land that formerly grew corn and soybeans — it was a sign that he was successfully blending beef, birds, and biology.More…
Ear to the Ground 390: Sounds of Success
More Information:• LSP’s Grazing & Soil Health Web Page • NODPA Article on Kevin Mahalko • Ear to the Ground 371: Avian Award • Ear to the Ground 370: Bending the Bird Curve • Ear to the Ground…
Ear to the Ground 389: See Something, Say Something
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Odette says in the battle to make sure Big Ag plays by the rules, knowledge is power. That’s why, if we are to have a fair, vibrant farm and food…
Ear to the Ground 388: On-time Delivery
Scientist Kris Nichols finds the disconnect between food production and soil health “terrifying” and says the stakes are too high not to mend that break. So what are we waiting for? (2 of 2…
Ear to the Ground 387: Dumping the Dirt Dogma
When farmers challenged what Kris Nichols had learned from her college textbooks, the soil microbiologist didn’t dismiss them — instead, she dug deeper into the world beneath our feet (1 of 2…
Ear to the Ground 386: A Farm to School Taste Test
How a small, rural school district is taking a trial run at sourcing food from local farmers.More Information:• MDA Farm to School & Early Care Programs & Grants • Report: Building the Farm…
Ear to the Ground 385: A Longer Local Lunch Season
Jeanine Bowman believes having locally produced food on her school’s menu shouldn’t be a special occasion — it should be a daily part of nourishing kids while supporting the farm economy.More…
Ear to the Ground 384: Power Play
Ag antitrust expert Austin Frerick sees the current food system as a mechanism for modern robber barons to treat rural communities as mere “extraction colonies.” But, he argues, changing how we eat…
Ear to the Ground 383: Corporate Vs. Community
Sonja Trom Eayrs started out writing about her own family’s fight against factory farms. She ended up telling a larger story of corporate capture of rural communities (1 of 2 parts).More…
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LSP's Ear to the Ground has published 63 episodes since October 2024, covering topics in Education, Natural Sciences.
LSP's Ear to the Ground is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 33m.
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