This episode, Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about how profits are political: individualistic DIY solutions aren't enough, and it takes large-scale political changes to level the playing field. We talk about how rank-and-file people can mobilize to advocate for ourselves, even when we're up against food and tech giants that seem unbeatable. • Menti…

Here's the rest of the interview with Errol Shweizer! You can listen to the whole episode on Patreon. Transcript for the trailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a saying in food justice: "There's plenty of food to feed everyone! The problem is distribution." But when we talk about reforming the food system, farms get all the spotlight. We rarely focus on distribution- even though we know it's the key to solving hunger. How does food get from the farm to people? Who decides where crops should go? Wo…

This is a short clip of a bonus episode for Patreon followers. Subscribe to Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode! • Today we talk contract broiler farming! This is the type of farming famous for "giant barns full of chickens that the farmers don't own." If you've ever wondered why farmers would keep farming in a way that "everyone just kno…

I ran into the Nightingales a few years ago on Twitter. They've spent years working to make jobs more humane (and even succeeding!) It quickly became clear that we're running into a lot of the same workplace problems in our respective industries. But how? I'm in agriculture, and they're in tech! What's going on? We talk about how sucky jobs in any …

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When sustainability advocates talk about Indigenous agriculture, it's often framed as folksy, timeless, hyperlocal, and incompatible with the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth! Historian Susan Sleeper-Smith joins us to talk about the reality of how the Miami, Shawnee, Haudenosaunee, and other Indigenous communities in North Amer…

F2T is on a mission to prove that the global grain trade is super interesting actually. This episode features grain futures, and bugs! Wall Street! How the grain trade gave birth to both laissez-faire economics and the French Revolution! Full episode is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/farmtotaber Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.…

In this episode, Maria joins us to talk about what really happened in the 2022 panic over food supplies. We're gonna debunk food supply myths that actually make food insecurity worse, and we're gonna make grain futures and crop yield data FUN. Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Accounts of the US food system take it for granted that it used to all be nice little family farms, until agribusiness suddenly changed it all in the 20th century. But corn monoculture, feedlots, and cheap bulk commodities didn't come out of nowhere in modern times- they've always been the core of US agriculture! This episode traces the origins of …

This is a trailer for a bonus episode. Join Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode here: patreon.com/farmtotaber It's so easy to think of agriculture and finance as a large-scale, impersonal realm: import-export balances, federally-backed loans, and enormous capital flows. And those are all important! But let's take a step back and remember …

Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War …

A former John Deere combine repair tech joins on to talk right to repair! For the full episode, join me on Patreon: patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The first bonus episode digs into why there's so much agrarianism in scifi, and what is it doing there? Full episode is on Patreon! patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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By Lauren Harris

In which Lauren and Adryn grill Sarah on her apiological knowledge, and what the eff is up with bees.By Lauren Harris

In which Lauren, Adryn, Sarah, and special guest Susan Martinez of NASA create a science-fantasy world involving questionable solar mining practices, wizard cloning, a sidebar into Adryn's brain boner for Dyson spheres, and a potential foray into space piracy.By Lauren Harris, Adryn Erickson, Sarah Taber, Susie Martinez

In which Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah thinly conceal their excitement at having a NASA Additive Manufacturing Engineer on the show, space radishes make a comeback, and the story of Food Safety's advent has its gut-rumbling beginnings in a shitty little story that put Pilsbury on the....F.O.D. map.By Lauren Harris, Adryn Erickson, Sarah Taber, Susie Martinez

In which Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah waffle over genre, diss colonialism (again), and create a culture of displaced lightning mages living on the ocean. The writers consider writing in this world themselves...By Lauren Harris, Adryn Erickson, Sarah Taber

In which Adryn finds a new way to annoy Lauren, and Sarah describes the advent of electric reefs (spoilers: it has to do with oil rigs), what makes current breakwater construction ineffective, and why municipalities are so hesitant to adopt electric reefs as protection for their coastlines. It's like no one told them electric reefs are the tits!…

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Sarah regales Lauren, Adryn, and Dave with her favorite trade routes that nobody talks about, plus some juicy worldbuilding tidbits like celery's slutty cousin, cocaine mummies, and why you should always bring a bird with you on long trips.By Lauren Harris

The Story Soil trio and guest host, herbalist Isaac Vars, brainstorm a science fiction world involving herby space monks. So, basically, Isaac. Listen in for the process of going from information to inspiration to full-on idea as we build the bones of a sci-fi system and religious group you can take and make your own.…

Ever want to know what a trained herbalist would keep in his saddle bag, or how he might poison an evil witch king? In this episode, Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah interview their first guest--herbalist and spiritual cunning man, Isaac Vars of Deep Earth Arts and the Three of Cups Podcast.By Story Soil Podcast, Isaac Vars

Lauren and Adryn brainstorm a fantasy world with a wild warp magic that can only be stopped by a tree with special properties, reaffirm their love of Fire Babas, and learn a few clutch environmental details from a boozy Sarah.By Lauren Harris

A story about the American Chestnut blight, and how it led to generational trauma that still affects us today. Plus a plot-bunny about post-apocalyptic dryads.By Lauren Harris

Crop scientist Dr. Sarah Taber explains how ancient Amazonians terraformed their cities and utilized agroforestry, and what this form of land management looks like for authors who want to make unique farming systems for their worlds that aren't based on the familiar Eurocentric paradigm.By Lauren Harris

Worldbuilding with Experts for Authors of Scifi and Fantasy Adryn and Lauren create a science fiction world inspired by the discussion on how plants grow in microgravity, while Sarah goes deeper into topics like bubbles as pollinators and why ethylene causes plants to act out Shakespearean death scenes.…

Crop scientist Dr. Sarah Taber answers questions about whether plants can grow in space, while fantasy author Lauren Harris and story builder Adryn Erickson interrogate her for all the details an SFF author could use for worldbuilding. Gamma-ray eating Hulk fungus is involved.By Lauren Harris, Adryn Erickson, Sarah Taber

Calling all worldbuilders! My name is Lauren Harris, a fantasy author and cohost of the Story Soil Podcast. If you’re a willing victim of the Wikipedia rabbit hole like me, chances are you love the story inspo of history, science, and anything obscure or shiny. Well, on story soil, my 20-year co-author, a rogue scientist, and I interview experts on…