Tag Archives: farming

Eco Report – December 26, 2025

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. In today’s episode, we’re looking back at features from 2025 in our special Eco Report: year in review episode.  Up first, WFHB Environmental Correspondents Max Jancich and Ashton Harper talk with Dr. Thomas Butts from Purdue University about nozzles and herbicides and how …

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Eco Report – April 28, 2023

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:40 — 27.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey And I’m Cynthia Roberts Later in the program, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze asks green business consultant and Indiana native BRANDON PITCHER about his past work in the hemp industry and his current ECOpreneurial endeavors creating a range …

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April 2023: Brown Water Utopia

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:00 — 83.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of Partisan Gardens, we explore the competing utopias at stake in the struggle to stop Cop City in Atlanta. Cop City is itself a grim utopia, a vision concocted by cops and politicians of a depopulated, fake city that will actually bend to their …

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August 2022: A Foot in Both Worlds

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this episode, we share a candid and generative conversation between Kay and Sarah, shortly after World’s End, Sarah’s farm, hosted a week long group retreat. They share reflections on that experience, and the role of farms in hosting urban visitors. They touch on the strange idea …

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July 8, 2022: The Old Atlanta Prison Farm

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week on Kite Line, we return to Atlanta’s proposed “Cop City”- a police training facility set to be built over a vast urban forest. People from across the city and the country have been organizing against its construction, which would make it the largest police training …

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March 2022: The Grain Problem- Russian Agriculture and the Impact of War

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:14 — 42.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, we spoke to Susanne Wengle, a professor at Notre Dame who researches post-Soviet political and economic transformation in Russia.  Her second book is Black Earth, White Bread; a Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food. We were eager to hear her perspective on the history of agriculture …

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February 2022: RetroSuburbia with David Holmgren

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, we’re excited to share our conversation with David Holmgren, author of the recent RetroSuburbia and co-author of the landmark 1978 book, Permaculture One, with Bill Mollison, which launched the international permaculture movement.  Drawing on permaculture principles of recognizing existing patterns and incorporating them into design, …

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January 2022: The Farmworker Caravan

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 84.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this episode of Partisan Gardens, we learn about the conditions facing migrant farm workers in California. We share a two conversations: one between Partisan Gardens and Nikola Garcia, author of a recent article in Inhabit: Territories called “The Farmworker Caravan: Mutual Aid in California’s Migrant Worker …

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November 2021: Putting Food By, with Sandor Katz

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 76.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn this autumn episode of Partisan Gardens, we’re sharing skills for preserving our harvests and thoughts on the significance of food preservation and food sovereignty. First, Ren, a local grower, speaks with Tom, who has launched a biodiverse and integrated homestead in the Adirondacks.  Tom discusses the …

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September 2021: The Oikos Vision For Tree Crops

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 54.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor our episode this month, we spoke with Ken Asmus, the founder of Oikos Nursery.  From 1982 till earlier this year, Oikos was one of the most important sources of rare fruit trees and other non-commercial perennial food plants.  Ken recently retired from the nursery business in …

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