Wade Miller: Small Family Farms, Small Carbon Footprint
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English - October 11, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBHealth & Fitness Kids & Family sustainableagriculture farming food goodfoodmovement health kids pesticides publichealth socialjustice sustainability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Nicole Rakobitsch: Sustainability on Small Organic Family Farms
Wade Miller is the Vice President of Farm Resources and Sustainability at Coulee Region Organic Produce Pools (CROPP)/Organic Valley, the nation’s largest organic, farmer-owned cooperative and one of the world’s largest organic consumer brands. Tune in to learn more about:
Wade’s career path in agriculture; Sustaining family farms and recognizing that they are the caretakers of the earth; The newly awarded grant from the USDA to CROPP/Organic Valley that provides resources to accelerate 1,200 new carbon reduction and removal projects on 500 Organic Valley farms; The seed of low carbon organic milk; Interventions on farms that have carbon impacts like silvopasture, that will model carbon impact and direct farmer payments for carbon reduction and removal; Why farmers are a solution, not a problem to climate change.To learn more about Wade’s work and CROPP/Organic Valley go to https://www.organicvalley.coop/.