How one land grant experiment station is helping farmers integrate livestock and crops in a way that creates resilient soils...and a resilient food system.
LSP's Ear to the Ground is an audio podcast produced by the Land Stewardship Project. It features interviews and presentations related to sustainable agriculture, rural development, local food and farming systems, agricultural policy and social justice.
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Ear to the Ground 233: Public Science-Public Good
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Ear to the Ground 232: A Difficult Discussion
Excessive erosion on her farm prompted Jeannie Hill to have a hard conversation with her renter. But first, she did some homework.
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Ear to the Ground 231: Caves Don't Lie
Farmer and caver Martin Larsen describes the connections between land use on the surface and water quality problems he sees underground.
For more on ways to build soil health profitably, see LSP's Soil Builders web page.
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Ear to the Ground 230: Renting It Out Right
Robin Moore talks about how LSP is using soil health to forge stewardship partnerships between non-operating landowners and the farmers who rent from them.
For more resources on how to develop farmland leases that reflect your stewardship values, click here.
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Ear to the Ground 229: Kernza's Continuous Cover
A farmer and a researcher discuss the potential agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits of a commercially-viable perennial grain.
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Ear to the Ground 228: Spreading Grazing's Benefits Beyond the Fenceline
During a tallgrass prairie "BioBlitz," farmers, a wildlife expert, and an LSP organizer discuss how livestock can benefit natural habitat and the community at large.
For more on the BioBlitz events that are held periodically in western Minnesota, click here.
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Ear to the Ground 227: From Crisis to Community
When a CAFO threatened a rural neighborhood, residents looked to a beginning farmer for a different vision of the future.
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Ear to the Ground 226: What Does Justice Look Like?
This is the third and final episode in a series titled, "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native land justice and equity in Minnesota's food system. In this episode, writer and scholar Waziyatawin shares with Elizabeth her vision of land justice for the Dakota people.
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Ear to the Ground 225: Say it With Me: Bde Maka Ska
This is the second in a three-part series titled, "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native land justice and equity in Minnesota's food system. This episode offers a peek into the life of Dakota tribal member and activist, Carly Badheart Bull. Carly is a scholar of the Dakota language and, along with her twin sister, Kate Beane, has led a campaign to return the original Dakota name to an historically significant body of water, Bde Maka Ska.
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Ear to the Ground 224: Living on Stolen Ground
This is the first in a three-part series titled "Farming on Stolen Land." These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native justice and equity in Minnesota's food system. This first episode seeks to answer the question, "What does it mean to be a non-indigenous person living on native land?" Elizabeth's interviewee, Nora Murphy, attempts to answer this question in her book, White Birch, Red Hawthorn.
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Ear to the Ground 223: Sustainable Ag Policy's Deep Roots
LSP co-founder Ron Kroese talks about the National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive, which features interviews he did with pioneers in the movement to develop policy that supports regenerative farm and food systems.
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Ear to the Ground 222: Painting a New Picture for Landlords
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Ear to the Ground 221: Biological Bottom Line
Farmer Bob Mierau describes how his drive to do "organic no-till" depends on boosting and supporting his soil's bug life.
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Ear to the Ground 220: Restocking Soil's Refrigerator
Farmers Kent Solberg and Jim Wulf talk about the economic and ecological advantages of integrating crops and livestock.
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Ear to the Ground 219: From Transactional to Transformational
LSP's Terry VanDerPol talks about recent LSP research into the problems faced by the local food movement.
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Ear to the Ground 218: Diversity on the Land, Diversity in Our Communities
Farmer Darrel Mosel talks about what 40 years of concentration in agriculture has done to his community, what gives him hope, and the role immigrants can play in revitalizing rural Minnesota. (6th in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 217: You Can't Eat a Bowl of Money
Sylvia Luetmer talks about why helping beginning farmers get access to land isn't enough, and how society needs to come to grips with the kind of food system it wants. (5th in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 216: Carrots, Young Farmers & Minnesota's Future
Veteran CSA farmer John Fisher-Merritt describes how top-notch beginning farmer training, healthy soil, good food and sustainable communities are linked. (4th in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 215: The Promise of Rural Communities
Jenna Sandoe talks about the opportunities rural communities offer young people like her. (3rd in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 214: Vibrant Farms-Vibrant Communities
Farmer Laura Frerichs talks about the connection between healthcare, beginning farmers and thriving economies. (2nd in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 213: Fighting the Worst-Promoting the Best
LSP executive director Mark Schultz describes why it's critical that LSP join forces with other "people's organizations" in our fight for change. (1st in a series on Our Minnesota Future)
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Ear to the Ground 212: Less Yield, More Profit
Think the only path to profitability is through maximum productivity? Top dairy graziers are proving otherwise.
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Ear to the Ground 211: Bold Solutions for Rural MN
LSP members talk to candidates for Minnesota governor about what should be prioritized when it comes to farmers, the land and rural communities.
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Ear to the Ground 210: Ignoring a Financial Problem Never Works
An LSP panel of professionals provides farmers advice on dealing with financial stress.
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Ear to the Ground 209: Soil, Climate & Beer
How outdoor clothing company Askov Finlayson is connecting soil smart farming with its desire to turn back the carbon clock.
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