Agrarian Futures

What Big Agriculture is Hiding with Will Potter

Our guest today Will Potter’s new book, Little Red Barns, started as a tale about censorship in journalism around industrial agriculture, but became something much bigger

The Common Ingredients of Success in the Regenerative Movement

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 t

The Big Lessons from Agrarian Futures with Emma and Austin

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 som

Permaculture and the Case for Hope with Geoff Lawton

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 destru

The Future of Regenerative Agriculture with Gabe Brown

Gabe Brown didn't set out to revolutionize agriculture. He set out to survive it. After four consecutive years of crop disasters left him $1.5 million in debt, he had no

The Farm Bill Explained with Judith McGeary

You can't understand the modern food system without understanding the policy that shaped it. And you can't understand US food policy without understanding the Farm Bill.

What Animals Teach Us About Caring for the Land with Fred Provenza

Our guest today, Fred Provenza, has spent his career listening to what animals can teach us: about landscapes, about food, about the deep intelligence woven into the livi

How Land Heals with Judith Schwartz

Our guest today - Judith Schwartz - has spent her career showing us that the natural world is more resilient than we think, and that we have more power to restore it than

Life on the Range with Glenn Elzinga

Many of us have lost the thread that connects us to our food. Glenn Elzinga is spending his life trying to pick it back up. Glenn is the founder of Alderspring Ranch, a

Blending Forest and Field with Steve Gabriel

Steve Gabriel joins us to unpack one of the most consequential myths shaping how we grow food in America: the separation between forest and field. As a co-steward of Wel

The Economics of the Other Half with Jim and Mark Kleinschmit

Regenerative agriculture isn’t just about how we raise animals. It’s about whether the entire system around them makes sense. Smaller, regenerative producers with meat b

The Dark Miracle of the Supermarket with Benjamin Lorr

We walk into our local grocery store and most likely barely consider what’s on display in front of us. Forty thousand items. Stacked, uniform, produce. Cuisine from aroun

Why Aren't We Eating Acorns? with Elspeth Hay

I’m willing to bet that most of our listeners - like us - have traditionally seen acorns as food for squirrels, not people. But as Elspeth Hay points out in this conversa

Could Leather Be the Missing Piece for Regenerative Ranching? with Cate Havstad of Range Revolution

We’ve spent a lot of time on this show digging into the dire state of modern farming and ranching, and the challenging economics for those trying to build a regenerative

The Regenerative Rebellion with Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin is one of the most influential voices in the modern regenerative farming movement. As the founder of Polyface Farm in Virginia, he’s become known for buildin

Eating Fish in the Age of Limits with Paul Greenberg

Fish have long been one of the last wild foods, a source of nourishment that connects us to the powerful ecology of the planet’s waters. But as journalist and author Paul

The Future of Food, Health, and Rural Life with Bob Quinn

If you want to understand what it takes to build a healthier local food system and bring rural communities back to life, you talk to someone who’s actually done it. Bob Q

Why Soil Is the Key to Regeneration with David Montgomery

If regenerative agriculture is about rebuilding the foundations of our food system, then soil is where that story starts. Geologist and author David Montgomery has spent

Building Collective Power in the Rural South with Terence Courtney

Across the south, generations of Black farmers and business owners have faced losing not just their land, but their livelihoods - pushed out by discriminatory lending, la

Farming Against the Odds with Beth Hoffman

What happens when you leave behind a career in food journalism to take over a family farm in Iowa? For Beth Hoffman, it meant putting theory into practice - and learning