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All Episodes

Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast — 103 episodes

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1

Joy and Justice in Black food traditions: The power of gathering

2

The regenerative vineyard: Winemaking and wildness

3

Riding Toward a Better Food System: A National Listening Journey

4

Agriculture as if people mattered : A values-based perspective on the food system

5

Saving the bees that feed us: Cultivating pollinator-friendly agriculture

6

Return to the savanna: How grazing restores the land and reawakens our human roots

7

Knowing When to Shut Down the Farm

8

Chasing Cheese: One man's trek to learn from pastoral producers across the planet

9

ReciproCity — Caring for urban land and water

10

Growing food year-round—in any climate

11

Renewing farms with renewable energy

12

Putting soil science to work

13

Bringing bison back to indigenous lands

14

Meet Xochitl, Quivira's new Executive Director

15

Food, power, and hope in the American West

16

The perils and poetics of being a fire lookout

17

Ted Turner's Ranch: Watching degraded ecosystems bounce back

18

An outdoor classroom for land stewardship—and life skills

19

The Good Meat Movement

20

Navajo farming and entrepreneurship––for the next generation

21

Feeding a Divided America

22

Feeding a Divided America

23

Preventing Catastrophic Flooding: The Secret is in the Soil

24

Thinking ecologically—about human health

25

Cultivating community in urban food forests

26

Women ranchers finding their power

27

Women ranchers in their power

28

Making the transition to local, sustainable living

29

From backyard veggie garden to profitable livestock ranch

30

Fair Trade: Good for farmers, the land, consumers—and business

31

Federal fiasco for farmers

32

Let it Flow: Restoring balance to parched and flooded landscapes

33

Landscape restoration: letting nature do the work

34

Ducks, cows, and resilience

35

Animal welfare is good for everyone—including farmers

36

1000 Farms Initiative: A new paradigm of science in service of farmers

37

Virtual fencing—new technology that benefits both ranching and land conservation

38

Regenerating a desert wetland oasis

39

The awe-inspiring beauty hidden in our food

40

Painterland Sisters Yogurt: Regeneration at every step from farmer to consumer

41

Agave, mesquite, and a carbon drawdown game-changer

42

Commerce, the destruction of nature, and the uphill path to sustainability

43

Colorado peaches: delicious for the eaters, fair for the workers

44

Black farmers regenerating land in the face of historical and current racism

45

Empowering women in agriculture

46

The wild adventures of a New Mexico hemp farmer

47

Sarah Wentzel-Fisher on working lands, community, science, and more

48

Pueblo values + engineering expertise = resilient landscapes

49

Documentary digs deep into grazing science — and society

50

Saving seeds, saving ecosystems

51

Investing in regenerative ag

52

From suburban Chicago to rural Montana: the journey of a bison rancher

53

A matter of conscience

54

The robber barons of today's food corporations

55

Farm Aid: Food, festivity, and fighting for farmers

56

Healthy fish snacks––what cod be better?

57

The Carbon Credit Conundrum

58

At The Table: Chefs advocating for a better food system

59

The six-legged livestock: Bees

60

Bonus episode: Ask Me Anything!

61

Photographing grasslands: beauty, community, life

62

Land, sheep, and the inefficiency of being too efficient

63

Transforming 40 million acres of lawns into thriving ecosystems

64

Sheep and goats for healthy land, thriving businesses, and fire reduction

65

Words of wisdom from a holistic veterinarian and regenerative dairy farmer

66

Funneling federal ag money to the people who most need it

67

How to have family business meetings that are productive––and short

68

Weathering global change on an Oregon sheep ranch

69

From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration

70

A food forest on an eighth of an acre

71

From corporation to regeneration––a family's journey

72

Healing the trauma of Black land loss through regenerative rice production

73

Cultivating oysters for ocean health, human health, and economic development

74

From urban journalist to country farmer

75

Establishing an earth-friendly meat business

76

Taking it to the street––healthy food entrepreneurship

77

Herding animals for land––and human––health

78

Hydroponics, aquaponics, and sovereignty

79

Systems thinking: Coordinating after, during, and before disasters

80

Technology-assisted regeneration

81

Wolves in the West: Finding common ground

82

De-commodifying land: Challenging your inner capitalist

83

Healing Grounds: The enduring cultures of regenerative agriculture

84

Innovative approaches to regeneration on a California ranch

85

Giant bison, mammoths, and eagles

86

Giant bison, mammoths, and eagles

87

Sustainable development, climate mitigation, and biochar

88

Bringing dead land back to life

89

Desert wisdom: sustaining Southwest agriculture using old ways––and new

90

A vibrant pecan oasis in the desert

91

The food-housing nexus

92

Leveling the growing field

93

Big Team Farms––a new economic model?

94

The USDA goes after a small sheep farm

95

Making your tax dollars work after fires and floods

96

Place, Power, And Purpose

97

What's good for the farm is good for the planet

98

What is Your Foodprint?

99

Kiss the Ground: A project born of devotion to the earth

100

Food, forests, and farms

101

Western Wildfires

102

The path to positive food policy

103

Making the regenerative transition