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 7: The State of Our Farms Address (with Lucinda Cramsley)
May 22nd, 2019 | 34 mins 56 secs
commodity, crisis, lucinda cramsley
The future looks pretty bleak for the average conventional farm.
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Episode 6: The Carnivore Bar (with Philip and Merry Meece)
May 15th, 2019 | 26 mins 19 secs
carnivore, meal replacement bars
I think I might have found the solution to the sugary, artificial junk we call "meal replacement bars".
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Episode 5: Tame, Bountiful, and Blessed
May 10th, 2019 | 19 mins 20 secs
luther standing bear, wilderness
Could farms and national parks coexist? Let's imagine a healthier kind of "wilderness"...
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Episode 3: The Danger of Labels (with Carrie Balkcom)
April 12th, 2019 | 35 mins 17 secs
alternative, carrie balkcom, chicago, labels
So, what do labels actually mean? Probably not what you think...
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Episode 2: Pasture-Raised Eggs (with David Boatright)
March 23rd, 2019 | 21 mins 26 secs
eggs, pasture
Finally, someone explains which eggs are worth buying.
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Episode 1: Pilot
March 19th, 2019 | 2 mins 58 secs
pilot, rallying-cry
The first one... of a whole lot more.