Name: F2T - Josh Specht and BEEF HISTORY by Farm to Taber Podcast
Duration: 1 h 23 min 18 s
Description: 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.

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.

RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/63d97cdef2393300101e05e2

Website: https://shows.acast.com/farm-to-taber

Patreon: patreon.com/farmtotaber

Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/farmtotaber

New Farm to Taber season!

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

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.

F2T - Josh Specht and BEEF HISTORY

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