Ear to the Ground No. 243: Debunking the Land Ownership Myth
How the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust is connecting stewardship-minded landowners with the next generation of regenerative farmers.
How the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust is connecting stewardship-minded landowners with the next generation of regenerative farmers.
Conservation pioneer Paul Johnson talks about forging a social compact between farmers and society…and the day he made a farmer cry.
A desire to continue a legacy (and a love of weed-pulling) eases Foxtail Farm into the hands of the next generation.
What happens when you bring a group of food service folks out to see how vegetables are actually grown?
Blue Dasher Farm’s Jonathan Lundgren talks about bugs, biodiversity and, of course, cow pies.
An ag economist talks about the negative impacts the “get big or get out” attitude has had on farming and rural communities.
LSP staffer Elizabeth Makarewicz talks to participants in the 2019 Queer Farmer Convergence at Humble Hands Harvest in Iowa about connecting queerness, farming, and community.
Draft of White House Report Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations (8/14/25) A White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a leaked draft of the document… Read More →
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Clears Senate, Sending it Back to House (7/1/25) Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 tie in the U.S. Senate today to pass President Donald Trump’s centerpiece legislation on tax cuts and spending, the 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill,” reports Oklahoma Farm Report. In order to pay for spending on… Read More →
Growing Small Grains Market in Albert Lea Attracting Attention from Farmers (1/28/25) KAAL-TV reports on a Land Stewardship Project workshop where over 150 people gathered to talk about ways of bringing small grains back to Minnesota. Highlights: After being mostly replaced by corn and soybeans during the past several decades, small grains such as oats… Read More →