Tribal food renaissance
Latashia Redhouse is director of the American Indian Foods program at the Intertribal Agriculture Council, where she supports food producers across th...
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast
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Down to Earth is a podcast about hope. As climate change collides with our industrial food system, we focus not on doom but instead on people who are developing practical, innovative solutions. We invite you to meet farmers, ranchers, scientists, land managers, writers, and many others on a mission to create a world in which the food we eat is healthy—for us, for the land and water from which it springs, for the lives and livelihoods of the producers, and for the planet.
From despair to care
William deBuys is a prolific author of books documenting people's relationship to the earth—which is too often destructive. In his new book, The Trail...
Stepping back from the abyss
James Rebanks is the author of the newly-released book Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey, which recently won the 2021 Wainwright prize for UK Nature w...
Restoring the global water cycle
Sandra Postel has devoted her life to studying the world's freshwater systems, and they're not looking so great right now. Through a combination of ov...
How—and why—to be good to your microbes
Many of us were taught that microbes—and bacteria in particular—were dangerous pathogens, and the safest thing human beings could do was create a ster...
Lush and abundant biodiversity—in a desert city
Reese Baker has been designing permaculture landscapes for many years, and with his family has turned his home on a quarter-acre lot in Santa Fe, NM i...
The deep history of apples
Gordon Tooley and his wife Margaret Yancey started Tooley's Trees in Truchas, New Mexico, in the early 1990s. They grow and sell rare and heirloom tre...
Pests, pathogens, and porcupines
Steve Wood is an apple grower and cider maker in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and he's been working on the family orchard since he was a child. Dubbed the ...
Rockweed: underwater forest or industrial commodity?
Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley grew up in Maine and has dedicated her life as a scientist to the preservation of coastal ecosystems—in particular a form of ...
Designing systems that improve as they age
Jesse Smith was studying design when he was asked, how can you make something that gets better than age? Intrigued by the question of how to design st...