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Episode Tags: farming

Episode 905

Regenerative farming

State(s): Minnesota
family farm,  farming,  perennial crops,  poultry,  regenerative farming,  small scale farming,  sustainable farming

A pilot project in Minnesota for immigrant families shows how small-scale sustainable farming with poultry and perennial crops can provide extra income with little investment of time.

Episode 903

Forever Green

State(s): Minnesota
farmers,  farming,  food providers,  perennial food crops,  reinvention,  researchers,  revolutionary farming

Researchers in Minnesota are developing perennial food crops that could revolutionize American agriculture.

Episode 901

Sharing the load

State(s): Texas
business,  farming,  soil conservation,  water conservation,  woman farmer,  women,  women in agriculture

A mother’s tasks in a Texas farm family shows how the role of women in agriculture is now vitally important in managing the business of farming and using best practices to conserve soil and water.

Episode 904

Vanishing Salton Sea, Farmers Challenge Climate Change, Forest Habitat for Birds

State(s): California /  Iowa /  Pennsylvania
activist,  bird migration,  carbon sequester,  environmental disaster,  faith,  farming,  forests,  habitat,  health hazard,  Iowa,  landowners,  largest lake,  migratory birds,  perennial crops,  religion,  salination,  salty water,  shrinking lake,  soil,  songbird

California’s largest lake is shrinking and migratory birds are disappearing as its water is now too salty for fish — an environmental disaster and a health hazard for humans. In Iowa, activists use faith to mobilize farmers in a movement to adopt new measures like perennial crops to sequester carbon in their soils, and to get paid for doing it. Landowners in Pennsylvania are managing their forests to provide better habitat for declining species of songbirds like the golden-winged warbler.