How a visiting student's critique set a farm on a path toward profitably integrating crops, pasture and livestock.
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 207: Feed the Cow-Feed the Soil
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Ear to the Ground 206: Going Cold into Cover Cropping
A southeastern Minnesota farmer's drive to plant cover crops takes him out onto the snow and into new soil health territory.
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Ear to the Ground 205: Relaying Soil Resiliency
Iowa farmer Loran Steinlage describes the benefits of converting a monocropped desert to a "jungle mix" of continuous living cover.
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Ear to the Ground 204: Policy Change from the Ground Up
Mark Schultz talks about how LSP's members hatched one of the most innovative farm conservation programs around...and why we need to fight for it.
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Ear to the Ground 203: The Grass Apprentice
How the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship is serving as a natural next step into farming for one Farm Beginnings graduate.
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Ear to the Ground 202: Regenerative Renting
How landlords and farmers can work together to build and support long-term stewardship.
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Ear to the Ground 201: Regenerating vs. Sustaining
A young farmer's evolving view of livestock allows him to make a direct connection between profitability and soil health.
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Ear to the Ground 200: Bovines, Biodiversity & Bobolinks
Birds and other biological indicators provide evidence that an Iowa farm is a "working ecosystem."
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Ear to the Ground 199: Channeling Your Enthusiasm
Farm Beginnings helps the Schwagerls do the kind of enterprise analysis needed to transfer their passions into profits.
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Ear to the Ground 198: Odd Acres of Opportunity
For one beginning organic dairy farmer, the path to affordable land leads through some trees, up a few hills, and over a brook.
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Ear to the Ground 197: Prairie After the Plow
A row-cropped field is converted back to prairie, benefiting the environment and livestock.
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Ear to the Ground 196: Turning Back the Clock
A farmer and a soil health expert talk about how livestock, cover crops and pastures are the "rock stars" of building soil health.
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Ear to the Ground 195: Grappling with a Monster
Farmer Tom Frantzen describes how he is using diversity to make his farm more resilient in the face of extreme weather.
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Ear to the Ground 194: An Urban Garden's Ripple Effects
Gardening space in the heart of the city brings people together over food, farming and fellowship.
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Ear to the Ground 193: 50 Acres of Opportunity
A farmer's wish to not have his land become just one more cornfield provides an opportunity for beginning farmers.
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Ear to the Ground 192: Healthy Soil, Healthy Profits
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Ear to the Ground 191: Healthy Soil & Climate Change
LSP's George Boody describes what he learned at an international conference on how agriculture can sequester greenhouse gases
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Ear to the Ground 190: Rebuilding Soil's Self-Reliance
Dr. Kristine Nichols describes how we can build agronomic, economic and environmental resiliency in our agricultural soils.
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Ear to the Ground 189: A Farm Flourishes When the Soil Flourishes
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Ear to the Ground 188: Telling a New Story About Race
Autumn Brown talks about how we can counter the myths that lead to racial injustice in rural America and elsewhere.
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Ear to the Ground 187: Soil & Survival
Allen Williams on soil health, livestock and "compounding, cascading effects."
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Ear to the Ground 186: New LSP Leadership
George Boody and Mark Schultz discuss their personal passions and how LSP brings about positive change as the organization prepares for a leadership transition.
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Ear to the Ground 185: Beauty Beneath Our Feet
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Ear to the Ground 184: Cross-Border Connections
LSP members see firsthand how rural Mexicans are using their connections to the land to fight the corporate takeover of ag.
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Ear to the Ground 183: Rains Don't Lie
Seeing is believing: a rain simulator shows the value of continuous living cover on farm fields.
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