Sep 22, 2020
Zach Ducheneaux is a third generation family rancher on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, and he’s Executive Director Intertribal Agriculture Council. We spend the hour talking about how the current financing system for agriculture doesn't work for the people growing the food—especially in Indian country, where...
Sep 8, 2020
Judith Schwartz is the author of several books, including Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight. Her new book, The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth, is a riveting series of reports from all over the globe about people who are restoring landscapes and...
Aug 25, 2020
The "Radical Center" concept says that food producers and conservationists have far more in common than not—and the Audubon Society's Conservation Ranching program is a prime example of this idea in action. Working in collaboration with prairie grassland ranchers, the Audubon Society is helping them to accommodate...
Aug 11, 2020
Vanessa García Polanco is from a farming family that emigrated to the US when she was a teenager. Now she works with the National Young Farmers Coalition advocating for policies that help young farmers, new farmers, and farmers of color--who are often ignored, as infrastructures tend to serve larger commodity...
Jul 28, 2020
Jason Baldes is Tribal Buffalo Coordinator for
the National Wildlife
Federation. An Eastern Shoshone native, his people called
themselves gweechoon deka, the Buffalo Eaters. But when
the buffalo were killed by the US government, their way of life was
badly damaged.
Now Baldes is helping to restore buffalo to native...