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The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers

The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers


The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers

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108 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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For people passionate about farming, gardening, food politics, food security, and the intersections among these topics.

Jordan Marr, a certified organic farmer in British Columbia, interviews farmers, gardeners, academics, and journalists about stuff farmers and food system nerds care about. If where and how your food is produced matters to you, this podcast is produced for you!
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 108 episodes

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A Critique of Canada's Pesticide Oversight

In the summer of 2023, Bruce Lanphear, Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser Uni...

68 minutes
Sep 10, 2023

I Threw Out The Turkey You Sold Me.

The Ruminant's first ever holiday special! Fellow Canadians, don't @ me. The original v...

14 minutes
Nov 22, 2022

Big Chicken, Indebted Farmers

The US chicken industry is dominated by just a few very large, vertically integrated co...

47 minutes
Sep 17, 2022

The Case for Slower

This ep: we introduce a new segment called Farm Sounds. This time: when the tradeoff th...

23 minutes
Jul 09, 2022

Crop Wild Relatives in Plant Breeding

This episode I speak with Dr. Patrick Byrne, Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding and G...

53 minutes
Jun 02, 2022

The Very First One. It's about potting blocks!

The interview we planned to record yesterday and release today was postponed, so I dug ...

66 minutes
May 19, 2022

The Biggest Little Disappointment

This episode: to mark the release of an update (sort of?) to Netflix's big, farmy 2018 ...

42 minutes
May 05, 2022

I Hope You Die: Livestock Farmers on the Threats They Receive

This episode, three farmers who slaughter animals reflect on the experience of encounte...

47 minutes
Apr 21, 2022

Did Certified Organic Pay a Price for its Success?

This episode: Rebecca Kneen, a BC-based organic farmer & brewer, whose roots and activi...

60 minutes
Apr 07, 2022

Let's Whet Together

Hi Everyone! Herein: four audio segments I think you'll enjoy. Each comes from a 25-epi...

56 minutes
Jan 08, 2021

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