Agrarian Futures
Join hosts Emma Ractliffe and Austin Unruh as they explore what’s broken in our food system, and what it looks like to build something better.Visit agrarianfuturespod.com [https://www.agrarianfuturespod.com/] to join our email list for a heads up on upcoming episodes and…
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Rethinking Our Relationship with Land (Feed Drop: How to Change the World) (opens the original)
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Hi everyone - Emma here. We're deep in prep for our new miniseries on Agrarian Futures where we will be exploring the potential for a better food system rooted in cooperative principles. In the meantime, we've got a special announcement: Agrarian Futures is joining the World Within Studios Podcast Network [https://www.worldwithin.org/]! World Within is a non-profit that invests in solutions and stories that are building an economy that's owned by the many, not just the few. We are delighted to b
What Big Agriculture is Hiding with Will Potter (opens the original)
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Our guest today Will Potter's new book, Little Red Barns [https://www.willpotter.com/littleredbarns], started as a tale about censorship in journalism around industrial agriculture, but became something much bigger: a 10 year investigation look at how factory farming, an ages old mythos of family farms, and the rise of authoritarian politics have all worked in tandem to produce social, economic, and ecological disaster. Will is an investigative journalist and author of Green Is the New Red. In t
The Common Ingredients of Success in the Regenerative Movement (opens the original)
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Enjoy Part 2 of Emma and Austin's reflections on 2.5 years of Agrarian Futures. In this episode, they highlight the commonalities they see in the big success stories of the regenerative movement, including cooperative economics, finding the right niche in the food system, learning to tell your story, and much much more. ————- Agrarian Futures is produced by Alexandre Miller, who also wrote our theme song. This episode was edited by Drew O'Doherty.
The Big Lessons from Agrarian Futures with Emma and Austin (opens the original)
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Hi all! This time, we're doing something a bit different. In this episode, Emma and Austin - hosts of Agrarian Futures - sit down to tell their own story, and share some of their key takeaways of 2.5 years of talking with brilliant farmers and thinkers about the future of our food system. Enjoy! ————- Agrarian Futures is produced by Alexandre Miller, who also wrote our theme song. This episode was edited by Drew O'Doherty.
Permaculture and the Case for Hope with Geoff Lawton (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Geoff Lawton offers us something rare: a genuinely hopeful and rigorously grounded vision of how humanity can become a reparative rather than destructive force on this planet. As one of the world's leading permaculture designers and educators, Geoff has built demonstration sites and trained practitioners across six continents, from the Jordan Valley to the Australian bush. At Zaytuna Farm in New South Wales, he has spent over two decades transforming bare, degraded land int
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