We speak with Evan Marks, founder of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano (Orange County), CA. Evan is a first-generation farmer who has practiced agroforestry in Nigeria and Ghana. For the past several years, he has devoted himself to fostering agroecological, community-focused agriculture in his own suburban region, in...

Started in 1877, American Humane blazed a trail for animal welfare. Today, the organization is doing more than ever before. In this first episode of Behind the Label with American Humane, president and CEO Robin Ganzert shares intriguing details from the organization's history. From American Humane's work on a law...

HRN Board Member, Brian Kenny sits down with the Division Manager for Hearst Ranch, Roland Camacho. Hearst Ranch is the nation's largest single-source provider of 100% grass-fed beef. Brian and Roland talk about the practices that make Hearst Ranch unique, including the conservation easement that protects 150,000 acres of California...

Indonesia is home to a wealth of species, and a vast rainforest that is rapidly disappearing through the untrammeled sale of land to internal and external forces intent on becoming the largest producers of palm oil in the world. The land grabbers are mostly Indonesian but they sell their product...

Tom Driscoll, Director of the NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy describes the biggest challenges facing farmers today. Whether its the 50% reduction in income projected for this year, or the market consolidation in commodities and agriculture, farmers are being squeezed up and down the supply chain. Listen up for a...

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Daniel Liberson became a vinegar maker by way of preservation; a 200 acre estate in Delaplane, Virginia, once surveyed by George Washington himself, was site to a rampant herd of cattle trampling the banks of the Boiling Branch Stream. This tributary empties into...

On this episode of Eating Matters, host Jenna Liut speaks with Dr. Reese Halter about the effects of our current agricultural system on bee health, including recent declines in the bee population, its devastating repercussions and what everyone can do to reverse this trend. Dr. Reese is an author and...

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, the last of 2016, we end with a retrospective look at Erin Fairbanks' work with Heritage Radio Network. Her near 5 year tenure as our Executive Director, and 7+ year run on her own podcast, The Farm Report, in which she talks to...

This week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined in the studio by Elizabeth "Betsy" Barlow Rogers, a landscape designer, landscape preservationist and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park, New York City. This took place under her guidance as the...

Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign joins us on the phone to talk about the American buffalo. Also known as the bison – and recently named the US's national mammal – the creature faces culling in the state of Montana. "The only ones that aren't behind fences, grass-fed and...