Farm To Taber
Summary: Farm to Taber is a show about the inner guts of the food system, and what it takes to make work sustainably. Wherever that takes us—science, history, tech, culture, policy, marketing, psychology, design, and more— Farm to Taber goes there.
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- Artist: Dr. Sarah Taber
- Copyright: ©2018 Farm To Taber
Podcasts:
2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham
2.9 Factories Didn’t Ruin Farms, Farms Ruined Factories: interview with Caitlin Rosenthal
2.8 2,000 Years of Rural Landlords feat. Patrick Wyman
2.7 Greenhouses & Guts feat. Joe Swartz
Mike McGolden is an engineer who builds equipment for making biochar. We talk about the drama of getting new green technologies ready to use, and the additional drama of convincing people to use it once it’s ready.
2.5 On Avocados & Being Considerate for Fun and Profit feat. Chris Summers
2.4 Software Eating the World
Episode Notes coming soon
2.2 Backed Up Like an Alabama Sh*t Train
Michelle Allison is a nutritionist who teaches her clients how to eat to be healthy and feel strong, wherever that takes them—rather than trying to make their body look a certain way. Her website is http://www.fatnutritionist.com/, and she can be found on twitter at @fatnutritionist.
This episode is a deep dive into the people side of agriculture. Farm to Taber talks with criminologist Alex Tepperman about systematic bad decisions in criminal justice, and how these decisions played out in the past and today. In the second half, we take on the difficulty of making *good* decisions.
Chris Higgins, greenhouse pro, joins the podcast to nerd out about crop breeding, greenhouses, and the next steps forward in indoor farming.
Special guest & rancher Meg Brown (@MegRaeB on Twitter) joins us to talk the real stuff: the real-world consequences of the isolation that comes with farming, and the macho culture that doesn't need to be part of it but often is.
Family farming isn't all rainbows and unicorns. This episode talks about the history of how America's family farms came to be, how that's shaped them to this day, the rise of agribusiness, and what this means for sustainable agriculture moving forward.
Join us with Jim Pantaleo to talk the blood & guts of financial sustainability for indoor farming. We're talking crop selection, tools and equipment, marketing, wrangling buildings, and more.