Farm to Taber is back! We've moved to Acast because it's easier to do certain podcast-y things there. Farm to Taber's now on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast outlets. Patreon & Kofi followers get monthly bonus episodes.

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New Farm to Taber season!

As immigration for farm work slows, farms are beginning to turn to convict labor. Host Sarah Taber talks about her experiences with prison labor on farms and what it means for both agriculture and due process.

Episode 2: The Thirteenth Amendment

Dr Brandon Ross joins us to talk about how farming inside a building works... and sometimes doesn't. This episode features design principles, interdisciplinary culture clashes, cannabis engineering, and more.

Ep 3 City Farming, Interview W Brandon Ross

What do donuts, cars, and grassed beef have in common? Careful design- not just for the final product, but careful design of the process used to make them.

"How They're Made" Videos

Dunkin Donuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDdjrr670o

Krispy Kreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0XsW2l4d4

Duck Donuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjaCcm9-_EI

Ep 4 Donut Science, Cars, & Grassfed Beef

This episode talks about the shady side of honeybees- their role in the colonization of the Americas, why they're not actually that great at pollinating, and why we're still obsessed with them anyway.

Beepocalypse Nah

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.

Grappling With Our Ghosts

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.

Mental Health on the Farm

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.

Ep 10 Refugees, farms, & bad decisions

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian who studies how white supremacy fucks over everyone including white people. We had a good time.

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Books, organizations, websites, etc mentioned during the podcast 

Masterless Men by Dr Keri Leigh Merritt: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/masterless-men/4DA0CAD8D061BD3681AB01EFF24D6D44

Nobody Should Be Talking About Beto and Gillum in 2020 Until We Understand Stacey Abrams in 2018: from The Root about Stacey Abrams’s boom in support among rural white voters. https://www.theroot.com/nobody-should-be-talking-about-beto-and-gillum-in-2020-1831061434

Case and Deaton paper on shortening life expectancies among white non-Hispanic Americans: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/casetextsp17bpea.pdf

White Supremacy is Bullshit feat. Keri Leigh Merritt (part 1)

This segment of the interview was recorded while I was still traveling around for field season & didn’t have access to the usual recording setup. Everything's perfectly audible but the sound quality is a little rustic.
 
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Books, organizations, websites, etc mentioned during the podcast

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty: https://thecookinggene.com/

The lettuce harvester tool Sarah was talking about: it’s so well-meant and it's the worst piece of farm equipment I’ve ever seen in my life. Lord help us all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIfw5_WoLU

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft. A must-read book by a therapist on how abusive men keep people under their thumbs, and why most of them don’t change: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/289845/why-does-he-do-that-by-lundy-bancroft/9780425191651/

Oregon wine grape growers providing funds for farmworker health care: https://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/2011/08/health_care_comes_to_vineyard.html

White Supremacy is Bullshit feat. Keri Leigh Merritt (part 2)

Saadia Muzaffar is a tech person based in Toronto. This podcast, we talk about what we can learn about “software eating the world” from that one time colonial agriculture ate North America.

People, books, & orgs mentioned in this podcast:   

TechGirls Canada https://www.techgirls.ca/
Tech Reset Canada https://www.techresetcanada.org/
Melissa & John Nightingale at Raw Signal Group https://www.rawsignal.ca/

2.4 Ag & Tech Share a Lot of the Same Bad Habits feat. Saadia Muzaffar (pt 1)

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.

2.6 Biochar & Why Green Tech Adoption is a Mess Sometimes feat. Mike McGolden part 2

Joe Swartz is a 4th generation farmer who started using hydroponics back in its early days—the 1980s—to help keep his family’s small farm open. Some thirty years later, it’s the longest-running hydroponic operation in the US northeast. Joe’s main job now is training new growers. In a hydro industry that’s full of hot new tools, Joe’s a great witness to how they’re still just tools. Running a good operation is still about making sure those tools serve the plants, and the humans on deck have all the training & support they need to use the tools properly.

2.7 Greenhouses & Guts feat. Joe Swartz part 1

2.7 Greenhouses & Guts feat. Joe Swartz part 2

Patrick Wyman is a historian and host of the Tides of History podcast. He grew up in eastern Washington doing a lot of construction & farm jobs. Hope you have as much fun listening as we did comparing notes on rural bosses throughout the ages.

2.8 2,000 Years of Rural Landlords feat. Patrick Wyman part 1

2.8 2,000 Years of Rural Landlords feat. Patrick Wyman part 2

Caitlin Rosenthal is a former McKinsey consultant turned historian of business practices, teaching at UC-Berkeley. Her recent book Accounting for Slavery traces how US business culture and practices were not born in the Industrial Revolution and northern factories as commonly believed, but on Southern and Caribbean plantations. She can be found on Twitter at @CC_Rosenthal .

2.9 Factories Didn’t Ruin Farms, Farms Ruined Factories feat. Caitlin Rosenthal part 1

2.9 Factories Didn’t Ruin Farms, Farms Ruined Factories feat. Caitlin Rosenthal part 2

Travis Higginbotham has an extremely niche job: he's a trainer for cannabis growers. It's a pretty straightforward plant to grow in a backyard or closet. But as the crop legalizes and greenhouses and indoor grows get larger, normal crop issues like IPM (integrated pest management), worker safety, and sustainability come to the fore. So in the interest of making larger-scale crop knowledge accessible, Travis & I got together & nerded out about running cannabis grows.

This interview was super long, so it's divided into 5 parts. The first two are here on Soundcloud, and the next three will post once a month. If you Must Have The Whole Thing immediately, the full 5-part series is available on Patreon at the $5 level as well: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham pt. 1

Part two of the interview with Travis!

The rest of this 5-episode series will post monthly, or you can listen to all 5 right away on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham, part 2

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham pt. 3

Part four of 5 in the interview with Travis!

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham, part 4

Fifth & final segment of the interview with Travis!

2.10 Interview with Travis Higginbotham, part 5 (final segment)

Deb Krol is a journalist from the Xolon (Jolon) Salinan tribe of Central California. Now based in the US Southwest, Debra covers a lot of indigenous agriculture.

That includes the traditional scale that most folks would probably think of, but there are also a lot of larger Native-owned modern operations that make up a major part of the US food system. Debra has so many great stories and insights about this huge part of the US food supply that usually get overlooked.

3.1 Deb Krol: Modern Native agriculture in the US

Jordan Hoewischer is a multigenerational family farmer & works for the Ohio Farm Bureau, working with farms to conserve soil and protect local watersheds. Some of his work can be seen here at the Ohio Farm Bureau website.

Jordan Hoewischer, farms, & watersheds

Josh Specht is a historian of beef. We talk about how ranching started out dominated by corporations & family ranches took over later, the rise of the Chicago meatpackers, and how the beef industry is still shaped more by what it's used to doing thanks to its history than by what makes sense today.

F2T - Josh Specht and BEEF HISTORY

Tamar Haspel is a journalist, oyster farmer, and fellow traveler on the "looking past the PR into what really happens in agriculture" road. This one was so fun to do.

Tamar Haspel: Food Systems & Oyster Farming

Rebecca Seidel is a young farmer, making a way for herself to stay in agriculture by making cheese. Making cheese, butter, and other dairy products at the farmstead level has been women's work for hundreds of years. In addition to cheese, Rebecca serves up info on dairy life, economics, and what dairying has to do with feminism: a LOT.

I know I said I wasn't splitting the episodes into multiple segments anymore, but this one went so long that it had to be split to fit onto Patreon.

Rebecca's on twitter! You can find her at  @casein_micelles.

Rebecca Seidel, cheesemaker & dairy farmer pt. 1

Rebecca Seidel is a young farmer, making a way for herself to stay in agriculture by making cheese. Making cheese, butter, and other dairy products at the farmstead level has been women's work for hundreds of years. In addition to cheese, Rebecca serves up info on dairy life, economics, and what dairying has to do with feminism: a LOT.

This episode split into 2 parts (even though I said I wasn't doing that anymore) because the whole thing is too long to post to Patreon in one piece.

Rebeccca's on twitter! You can find her at  @casein_micelles.

Rebecca Seidel, dairy farmer & cheesemaker pt. 2

Today we're going to talk cleaning up the food system. If you've been listening to Farm to Taber long, you probably know I think a lot of the "save the world" branding in the sustainability industry is just greenwashing. I think the Equitable Food Initiative is legit. We're going to talk about how it works.

Equitable Food Initiative with Peter O'Driscoll

Lucy Maude is a cowboy & artist (it happens). We're gonna talk about how a lot of agriculture is more performance art than an earnest attempt to make a living. It explains a lot about ag's financial and environmental problems, and so help me, turns out drag is probably the best critical lens there is for agriculture.

Language rated C for Cowboy.

Lucy Maude, Ranching, & Drag

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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