Let Them Eat Grass
A podcast about healthy farms, good food, and sustainable living.
About the show
"Let Them Eat Grass" follows one former suburbanite (me) turned farmer as I make sense in real-time of the interconnected world of farming, food, and the environment. Here, your insatiable curiosity can feast upon good food. Here, a good story only germinates in deep topsoil.
Here, you'll get some questions answered you've always had and learn about others you never knew existed.
I started this podcast on a shoestring budget in the basement of my 1950s farmhouse during my early days of farming from March 2019 through March 2020. The older episodes sound like a time capsule of pre-Covid urgency that rings still true today. I restarted this podcast three years later, in March of 2023. There is still so much I have left to say.
And, we're losing 2000 acres of farmland a day to development or abandonment. The average age of farmers is only going up. And, the effects of climate change are only going to get stronger. If you're like me, you love this planet. You want to preserve it for future generations. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we must be the change we wish to see in the world. Listen to the old episodes, but stick around for the new ones.
PS--If you're a farmer, and you need some help marketing your good food to the world, message me via my website:
Episodes
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Episode 21: Could Localism Cure Globalism?
September 25th, 2019 | 16 mins 16 secs
carbon dioxide, glaciers, globalism, localism, responsible, tourists
We're loving our favorite places to death. Let's stop.
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Episode 20: Are Beef Cows Making the Amazon Burn?
September 11th, 2019 | 15 mins 16 secs
amazon, beef cows, brazil
No... but Brazilian Ranchers Are.
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Episode 19: Lessons from Sheep
August 28th, 2019 | 17 mins 36 secs
lesson, mentor, sheep, vulnerable, wayward
Vulnerability, Waywardness, and Mentoring
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Episode 18: An Important Announcement!
August 14th, 2019 | 1 min 30 secs
announcement
I'm going back to bi-weekly episodes...
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Episode 17: Das Sheep
August 14th, 2019 | 9 mins 4 secs
bone broth, sheep, weed control
Introducing America's most underappreciated animal...
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Episode 15: A Gallon of Pasteurized Milk
July 31st, 2019 | 24 mins 14 secs
pasteurized milk, raw milk
Or, the biotechnology masquerade. You pick.
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Episode 14: Tesni Sojourner Williams
July 24th, 2019 | 2 mins 28 secs
birth, daughter, kelli, tesni
I'd like you to meet my new daughter.
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The Impossible Burger (with Will Harris)
July 11th, 2019 | 40 mins 52 secs
the impossible burger, white oak pasture, will harris
A food tech start-up makes some crazy claims about their plant-based burger... so do I.
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Episode 12: Off The Record
July 3rd, 2019 | 21 mins 18 secs
2 second improvements, time, time travel
2 Second Improvements... and a whole lotta time.
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Wilderness Abandonment (with Joel Salatin)
June 26th, 2019 | 55 mins 3 secs
joel salatin
Does land minus people equal better?
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Episode 11: The Stewardship Diet (with Kelli Williams)
June 19th, 2019 | 29 mins 3 secs
diet, kelli williams, stewardship
The only diet where healing the land is the main focus...
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Episode 10: Eat Mor Beef (with David Boatright)
June 12th, 2019 | 53 mins 37 secs
beef, david boatright
Healing the land = Eating Pasture-Raised Beef
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Episode 9: Why Bread and Why Wine?
June 5th, 2019 | 12 mins 48 secs
bread, communion, jesus, wine
Maybe Jesus had a reason for choosing bread and wine for communion...
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Episode 8: Dead Zone
May 29th, 2019 | 14 mins 5 secs
artificial fertilizer, dead zone, fritz haber, gulf of mexico, missouri river
There's a dead zone the size of Delaware in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's our fault.