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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

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

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 1

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

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

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

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

Farm to Taber Podcast