How the Tallgrass Prairie Center in Iowa is introducing a little wildness into a domesticated landscape.

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.

Excessive erosion on her farm prompted Jeannie Hill to have a hard conversation with her renter. But first, she did some homework.

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.

A farmer and a researcher discuss the potential agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits of a commercially-viable perennial grain.

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.

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.