web02.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:25:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Let Them Eat Grass - Episodes Tagged with “Joel Salatin” https://letthemeatgrass.fireside.fm/tags/joel%20salatin Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0500 "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: https://www.seofarmmarketing.com en-us episodic A podcast about healthy farms, good food, and sustainable living. Austin Williams "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: https://www.seofarmmarketing.com no Agriculture, Farming, Conservation, Food, Regenerative, Environment, Sustainability Austin Williams austin@letthemeatgrass.org Wilderness Abandonment (with Joel Salatin) https://letthemeatgrass.fireside.fm/wilderness-abandonment-with-joel-salatin 506c78f0-e0a1-4973-af34-cf9b48679cac Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0500 Austin Williams full Austin Williams Does land minus people equal better? 55:03 no The radical ideology of wilderness abandonment is getting misapplied to our public and private land. We are seeing the unfortunate consequences of the "hands off" ecological approach. Everything from beetlekill in Colorado to California burning wildly out of control. Still, we persist in our belief that we need to keep our hands off the land. Rather than use our opposable thumbs for good, we just need to stay off entirely. We are losing farmland to wilderness at a frightening pace in our country. 3 acres every 60 seconds. At that rate, our farm would be gone in 2.5 hours. Is there any alternative to this madness? Can we produce food in a way that heals the land rather than destroys it? Is land better off being abandoned? Agriculture, Conservation The radical ideology of wilderness abandonment is getting misapplied to our public and private land.

We are seeing the unfortunate consequences of the "hands off" ecological approach. Everything from beetlekill in Colorado to California burning wildly out of control. Still, we persist in our belief that we need to keep our hands off the land. Rather than use our opposable thumbs for good, we just need to stay off entirely.

We are losing farmland to wilderness at a frightening pace in our country. 3 acres every 60 seconds. At that rate, our farm would be gone in 2.5 hours.

Is there any alternative to this madness? Can we produce food in a way that heals the land rather than destroys it? Is land better off being abandoned?

]]> The radical ideology of wilderness abandonment is getting misapplied to our public and private land.

We are seeing the unfortunate consequences of the "hands off" ecological approach. Everything from beetlekill in Colorado to California burning wildly out of control. Still, we persist in our belief that we need to keep our hands off the land. Rather than use our opposable thumbs for good, we just need to stay off entirely.

We are losing farmland to wilderness at a frightening pace in our country. 3 acres every 60 seconds. At that rate, our farm would be gone in 2.5 hours.

Is there any alternative to this madness? Can we produce food in a way that heals the land rather than destroys it? Is land better off being abandoned?

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