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Episode 115: Covering Ground: How Cover Crops Can Change Your Farm with Brian Magarin

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Brian Magarin has a background rooted in farming, spanning over a decade. Brian's journey has been shaped by hands-on experience and a commitment to sustainable farming methods after first starting in a conventional setting. Through years of trial and error, he has gained valuable insights into ...

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Podcast Extra - AEA's Regenerative Future: Hear From Our Investors

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - April 24, 2024 15:17 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
AEA Founder and Chief Vision Officer, John Kempf, gives a quick summary of the success of our first community raise and features six investors who share why they invested in Advancing Eco Agriculture. AEA has raised over $2.2 million thus far during our Wefunder crowdfunding campaign, aimed at e...

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S9 E5 Small-Scale Success Stories

ChangeUnderground - April 23, 2024 23:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
LINKS JM Podcasting Services https://jmps.au   No Dig Quick Start Course https://changeunderground.net/the-no-dig-gardening-course/   buymeacoffee.com/changeug   Email: [email protected] Transcript: https://worldorganicnews.com/regen5/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/gr...

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Zephyr Teachout: Today's Antimonopolist Movement Has Legs

Real Organic Podcast - April 23, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#168: Author and law professor Zephyr Teachout walks us through the hardcore push for consolidation in the food, agriculture, and chemical industries that has devastated rural communities and our population's general access to truly good food. She also delivers a hopeful message about policy cha...

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Episode 114: The State of the American Food System with Austin Frerick

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Austin Frerick is an expert on agricultural and antitrust policy. He is a 7th-generation Iowan whose passion for agriculture comes from the weekends working on his grandpa's farm. He is a Fellow at the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University. In 2022, he worked with the U.S. Department of Agri...

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S9E4: Restoring Ecosystems

ChangeUnderground - April 16, 2024 23:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
LINKS JM Podcasting Services https://jmps.au Transcript: https://worldorganicnews.com/regen4/ ‎ No Dig Quick Start Course https://changeunderground.net/the-no-dig-gardening-course/ buymeacoffee.com/changeug Email: [email protected] Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/15465...

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Hugh Kent: The Problem With Plastic Berry Farms

Real Organic Podcast - April 16, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#167: Dave Chapman visits Real Organic blueberry farmer Hugh Kent at his biodiverse King Grove Farm in central Florida, to discuss the takeover of the US berry market by global brands that are rapidly encouraging the growth of plastic farms. By leveling soil, spraying the ground with chemicals, ...

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Hugh Kent: How The USDA Supports Bad Agriculture

Real Organic Podcast - April 16, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#167: Dave Chapman visits Real Organic blueberry farmer Hugh Kent at his biodiverse King Grove Farm in central Florida, to discuss the takeover of the US berry market by global brands that are rapidly encouraging the growth of plastic farms. By leveling soil, spraying the ground with chemicals, ...

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Episode 113: The Economics and Ethos of Market Gardening with Jean-Martin Fortier

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - April 09, 2024 18:11 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Jean-Martin (JM) Fortier has over 20 years of experience developing, testing, and perfecting biointensive and regenerative growing techniques on his small-scale farms in Quebec that increase the soil’s biology to achieve maximum yields on small surfaces.  Jean-Martin’s mission is to promote th...

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293 Sonja Stuchtey - Have billions flow into regeneration by having accountants agree that it is an investment, not a cost

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - April 09, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A conversation with Sonja Stuchtey, co-founder of The Landbanking Group, about innovative financial strategies, accountancy standards and rules, reliable sourcing, better quality and lower prices, investing in the value chain and more. Let’s say you are an orange juice or chocolate bar producer...

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Seth Godin: No Society Thrives With Monopolies

Real Organic Podcast - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#166:  Seth Godin returns and lends his thoughts on corporate consolidation's threat to democracy and to our right to find, grow, and sell organic food. He also talks about the path forward and some ways to inspire effective action. Seth appears in our annual virtual symposium, which is availab...

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Episode 112: Transforming Arid Landscapes with Taimur Malik

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Taimur Malik founded Drawdown Farm, a regenerative farm in the Thal desert in Pakistan. Taimur engages in various regenerative agriculture practices, including planting diverse crops like bananas, implementing managed grazing trials, and using impact sprinkler systems powered by solar energy. ...

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Flower Power Garden Hour 196: Soil science, with Robert Pavlis of Garden Fundamentals

Flower Power Garden Hour - April 03, 2024 22:58 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Soil science can be a bit confusing. How long does it take for materials to be broken down, is it good practice to add microbes and what exactly are microbes? Robert Pavlis addresses these questions and more. Check out his new podcast Garden Fundamentals plus his impressive list of books includi...

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292 Walking the land with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, Iside Farm

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - April 02, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
This is a special episode, the first one ever of the Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer, where we walk the land of the farm with a farmer while we talk about regeneration. [On Youtube you can find a video version of this same conversation!] Walking through Iside Farm on the Iseo Lake...

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Allan Savory: Desertification's Causes, Problems + Solutions

Real Organic Podcast - April 02, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#165:  Allan Savory joins Dave for an eye-opening conversation about the best path forward for solving our most-crucial planetary problems and symptoms, including Climate Change, rapid loss of biodiversity, desertification, wildfires, and the inability of humans to act collectively and organizat...

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When to Fertilize Your Bulbs - DIY Garden Minute

DIY Garden Minute by Spoken Garden - March 30, 2024 16:57 - 3 minutes ★★★ - 4 ratings
On this episode, Sean breaks down the best times to fertilize your bulbs. Listen to hear the 4 level process of when you can add fertilizer to your bulbs to keep them healthy!   Links in this episode: Bulbs - Generally Everything Bulbs Youtube Playlist BioTone from Espoma  Eden Brothers...

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Episode 111: Questioning Farm Management Traditions with Boe Clausen

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Boe Clausen is a second-generation farmer in Eastern Washington. His parents immigrated from Denmark and established Stokrose Farm in 1981. Initially focused on vegetable seed production, the farm diversified into alfalfa, hay, corn, wheat, and cattle. Boe now manages Stokrose Farm alongside his...

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291 Adrien Pelletier - Why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - March 26, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A conversation with Adrien Pelletier, farmer, breeder, and baker, about wheat, seeds, no till organic farming, why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again, and why it is really difficult to bake sourdough with traditional organic wheat seeds that are not breed for high pro...

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Austin Frerick: Modern Day Robber Barons Rule Our Food

Real Organic Podcast - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#164:  Author and journalist Austin Frerick joins Linley to discuss his brand new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. His research on the men shaping our food system through their desire for personal greed reveals a  shocking level of immorality. Austin's ...

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290 Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman – We need animals outside to feed the planet sustainably

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - March 22, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A conversation with Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman, co-founders of Collie, a provider of virtual cow guidance system for managing production in grazing, about enabling regenerative dairy, how virtually fencing and cow guidance drastically reduce labour and boost production. To feed ourselve...

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Las Vegas Livestock: Community-based Solution to Organic Waste

Fresh Growth - March 21, 2024 17:00 - 27 minutes
Sarah Stallard is a 7th generation farmer who came to work with her uncles on a new farm near Las Vegas Nevada raising hogs. The farm is in partnership with the local waste and recycling company Republic Services. They lease the land from Republic Services and use food waste to feed the hogs.  ...

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Episode 110: Stock Cropping and Regenerative Innovation with Zack Smith

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Zack Smith is a fifth-generation farmer from northern Iowa. He is the owner and operator of Smith Seed and Agronomy, LLC, and co-founder and CEO of Stock Cropper, Inc. Zack previously worked in seed production and chemical retail as a certified crop advisor and then as a seed rep while farmin...

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289 Clint Brauer - After an investment of Chipotle, ready to scale his robots to weed hundreds of thousands of acres

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - March 19, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A check-in interview with Clint Brauer, founder and CEO of Greenfield, company powering chemical-free agriculture with advanced AI-powered robots, about his dream to get chemicals and expensive machinery out of broad acre, row crop farming (AKA soy corn farming which currently occupies millions ...

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JM Fortier: Envisioning A Hyper Local Small Farm Revolution

Real Organic Podcast - March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#163: JM Fortier joins Dave to discuss the potential of promoting a replicable, decentralized food and farming system that relies on people building relationships with both land and community, by engaging their powers of observation and connection. https://realorganicproject.org/symposium-2024/...

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Recalibrating the Pennsylvania PSNT with Dr. Charlie White

Field, Lab, Earth - March 15, 2024 12:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratings
“Recalibrating the Pennsylvania pre-sidedress soil nitrate test recommendations for modern corn production” with Charles White. Nitrogen management is one of the most important agronomic practices in modern crop production systems. The Pre-Sidedress Soil Nitrate Test, also known as the PSNT, g...

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Episode 109: From Urban Organizers to Organic Pioneers with Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast - March 14, 2024 14:02 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge are co-owners of Many Hands Organic Farm, an organic CSA farm that serves 150 families in Barre, MA. They met while doing community organizing work in Boston, and in 1982, made the decision to move out to the country to raise their kids in connection to the land a...

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288 Alfred Grand – Why an Austrian farmer and researcher trained by earthworms is very excited about AI

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - March 12, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A conversation with Alfred Grand, farmer at Grand Farm, an organic farm with a high proportion of research, about vermicompost and seed inoculation, but also what policymakers should know about farming. Plus, the role of technology in the regenerative transition and why Alfred is so excited abou...

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Zephyr Teachout + Dave Chapman: Live Panel w/ Matt Sheffer At Churchtown Dairy

Real Organic Podcast - March 11, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
#162: Live from the Saving Real Organic Conference at Churchtown Dairy in October 2023, and moderated by Matt Sheffer of Hudson Carbon, Zephyr Teachout and Dave Chapman field (tough) questions from audience members about the fate of the US anti-monopoly movement and its ability to impact our foo...

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Flower Power Garden Hour 195: Montana gardening, with Theri Vasina L’Hirondelle

Flower Power Garden Hour - March 09, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
If I was picked up and dropped into a gardening zone relatively different than mine, it would be a huge steep learning curve. I love talking to gardeners from zones different than my zone 9b and it doesn’t get much different than zone 3. I have a fun and educational chat with Theri Vasina LHiro...

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287 Sebastiaan Huisman - Farmers die slowly

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food - March 08, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A conversation with Sebastiaan Huisman, large-scale organic farmer and advisor, about consulting on many large farm transitions, including the British royal family and working with Wildfarmed. Why is he so optimistic about biodynamic, holistic, and regenerative farming, and why does it all start...