Welcome to our 16th episode of Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the voice of eco-agriculture. My name is Ryan Slabaugh, and we are fired up to bring you another hour of conversation about ecology, agriculture, and this hour, we’re even talking about saving the world.
We have two guests on our show today. One is Mary Battjes, and I have the pleasure of working every day with Mary. She’s our project manager, and recently wrapped up a survey of young farmers around the country and world. We spoke with a lot of them, and found their look at the world and their role in the world so inspiring. Speaking generally, they want the same things most of us want — safety, security, family and a healthy environment. Yet, they see the obstacles very clearly. Climate change. Technology disruption. And an economy that favors the big devouring the small.
Yet, there is hope. And it comes in the form of our second guest, Douglass DeCandia, a young farmer from New York. He grows food using natural methods, but he does so with an even greater purpose – to serve those who are forgotten by our food system, who are systematically discriminated against because of who they are, where they are from or where they live. His “farm,” and he uses quotation marks around that so I will ask him about that later, serves youth and adults who are incarcerated, students at a school for the deaf, and young adults who are part of a residential treatment program. He also supports a number of his area’s food growing products, and when we talked to him today, he was wandering around the gardens at the school for the deaf.
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Tractor Time Episode #71: Propagate Co-Founder Harry Greene on Tree Crop Investing
Tractor Time Episode #70: Paicines Ranch’s Kelly Mulville on Vineyard Management
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Tractor Time Episode #67: Anne Biklé and David Montgomery on What Your Food Ate
Tractor Time #66: The Most Famous Farm in the World
Tractor Time #65: Rick Clark on Soil Health, Cover Crops and No-Till Techniques
Tractor Time #64: Defending Beef, with Nicolette Hahn Niman
Tractor Time #63: Beth Hoffman, author of ‘Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America‘
Tractor Time #62: André Leu, Vandana Shiva and Ronnie Cummins
Tractor Time #61:Indigenous Agriculture (w/ Kelsey Ducheneux-Scott)
Tractor Time #60: Talking Plants, Smart Insects and a New Farm Language
Tractor Time #59: Gary Paul Nabhan on 'Jesus for Farmers and Fishers'
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