Join us in another two-part special as we learn about the Lala People of Zambia in the Miombo Forest and regenerative grazing from Andre Houssney of Jacob Springs Farm in Boulder, CO.

Jacob Springs Farm is a diversified “beyond-organic farm”, located near Boulder, Colorado. They specialize in grass-fed proteins including eggs, pork, beef, lamb and chicken, as well as grass-based raw milk. They also provide fruit and vegetables in season and delicious comb honey from our bees.

Andre is passionate about Regenerative Grazing and is actively researching and developing techniques and technology for subsistence farmers worldwide. In close cooperation with Zambeezi, he created a co-op with nearly 1,200 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Africa to improve their productivity and sustainability.

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Jacob Springs Farm

Management-intensive Grazing (MiG) in Beef Systems

WWF: Miombo Woodlands

Miombo woodlands: the vast southern African dryland forests hiding in plain sight

Lala People

BBC: Our Man in Zambia : Lalaland

Collegian: CSU Todos Santos Center builds empathy, global perspective

Collegian: Our View: CSU’s role in Todos Santos reduces credibility of the University

Patrimonio Film

The Ecologist: Colorado State campus mega-development steals Mexican beach - you call that 'mindful'?

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Join us in another two-part special as we learn about the Lala People of Zambia in the Miombo Forest and regenerative grazing from Andre Houssney of Jacob Springs Farm in Boulder, CO.

Jacob Springs Farm is a diversified “beyond-organic farm”, located near Boulder, Colorado. They specialize in grass-fed proteins including eggs, pork, beef, lamb and chicken, as well as grass-based raw milk. They also provide fruit and vegetables in season and delicious comb honey from our bees.

Andre is passionate about Regenerative Grazing and is actively researching and developing techniques and technology for subsistence farmers worldwide. In close cooperation with Zambeezi, he created a co-op with nearly 1,200 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Africa to improve their productivity and sustainability.

Resources and Links:
Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/agriculture/management-intensive-grazing-mig-and-soil-health-0-570/

https://collegian.com/articles/news/2023/02/category-news-csus-todos-santos-center-builds-empathy-global-perspective-outside-of-the-classroom/

https://collegian.com/articles/opinion/2016/01/our-view-csus-role-in-todos-santos-reduces-credibility-of-the-university/

http://www.patrimoniofilm.com/

https://theecologist.org/2015/nov/02/colorado-state-campus-mega-development-steals-mexican-beach-you-call-mindful

Join us in the first episode of season two and our first two-parter as we talk with Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery Propagator Scott Skogerboe about the gestures of kind people, what makes a good throwing apple, a true mystery, the decades long hunt for Johnny Appleseed's last tree, the Russian revolution, the treasures of book keeping, the American Dream, how old 12th graders could be, a glimpse into what research looked like before Google, leaf peepin, and so so much more! Be sure to check out Part Two!

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Ft. Collins Wholesale Nursery

Trees for a Changing Climate & Resilient Urban Forest

USDA - Gambel Oak

Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico

Scott Skogerboe Background

Garden Smart article about Scott and the history mentioned in this episode

Pingree Park name change

George Pingree

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition: More Photos

Chinese Revolution

NatGeo: The Biggest Living Thing on Earth is Being Nibbled to Death

Papers:

Newton's Apple

The History of Newton's Apple Tree

Is the Wide Distribution of Aspen a Result of Its Stress Tolerance?

Dorsett-Morse Soybean Collection Trip to East Asia: 50 Year Retrospective

Join us in the first episode of season two and our first two-parter as we talk with Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery Propagator Scott Skogerboe about the gestures of kind people, what makes a good throwing apple, a true mystery, the decades long hunt for Johnny Appleseed's last tree, the Russian revolution, the treasures of book keeping, the American Dream, how old 12th graders could be, a glimpse into what research looked like before Google, leaf peepin, and so so much more! Be sure to check out Part Two!

Resources and Links:
Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree

Ft. Collins Wholesale Nursery

Trees for a Changing Climate & Resilient Urban Forest

USDA - Gambel Oak

Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico

Scott Skogerboe Background

Garden Smart article about Scott and the history mentioned in this episode

Pingree Park name change

George Pingree

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition: More Photos

Chinese Revolution

NatGeo: The Biggest Living Thing on Earth is Being Nibbled to Death

Papers:

Newton's Apple

The History of Newton's Apple Tree

Is the Wide Distribution of Aspen a Result of Its Stress Tolerance?

Dorsett-Morse Soybean Collection Trip to East Asia: 50 Year Retrospective

Soilent Green is back for season two! In this episode we check is with hosts Alyssa Hanofee and Levi Johnson as they give us a little background on themselves and a preview of what is to come.

Links:
WWOOF

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

Colorado Mountain College

CSU Soil & Crop Dept

Marie Towe (our producer's contact):
marietowe@coloradopodcastproductions.com
www.coloradopodcastproductions.com

Matt is the Chief Soil Scientist at Syngenta Group, and leads the company’s global efforts to develop products and services that enhance soil health. He is a soil ecologist who studies how microbes drive nutrient cycling, soil formation and decomposition, and affect crop health and productivity. His research showed that microbes adapt to changing environments in ways that affect not only ecosystem functioning, but global carbon cycles. He later shifted his research to elucidate novel mechanisms by which plants control the assembly of the microbiome
in their rooting zone, and has shown how this affects plant fitness. He has applied his expertise in plant-microbe interactions to develop and commercialize a patented microbial biostimulant that enhances plant growth by making soil phosphorus more available.

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: soilentgreenpodcast@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening!

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CSU Spur

NSF I-Corps

Soil Carbon Solutions Center

State Line Serpentine Barrens - The Nature Conservancy

Indigenous Peoples of Philadelphia - American Library Association

Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy

Dr. Jessie Creamean is originally from a small town in northern Illinois. She went to college at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she majored in Chemistry. She then went on to get her MS and PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where she also studied chemistry, but from an atmospheric/climate perspective. Next, she bounced over to NOAA in Boulder, Colorado where she did my postdoc fellowship on aerosol-cloud-precipitation processes in remote regions. And that, friends, is where she fell in love with the Arctic Region. After working as a Research Scientist at NOAA, she wound up here in Fort Collins as a Research Scientist in the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science. A fun fact about Jessie is that she LOVES the cold. She's been to the Arctic 8 times on land and icebreaking ships, and will be adding Antarctica to her list of places she’s worked starting in 2024. Jessie is ALSO an associate editor for 2 major atmospheric journals and has several students and postdocs that work on her projects involving aerosol particles, clouds, sea ice, the ocean, and permafrost. When she is not traveling around the world for work, she loves to enjoy the Colorado lifestyle of climbing, skiing, mountain biking, camping...you name it. She also has two cute, fuzzy golden retrievers, Montana and Whiskey, who are her adventure buddies.

To reach Jessie, email her at jessie.creamean@colostate.edu.

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: soilentgreenpodcast@gmail.com.

Correction: P.I means principal investigator.

Thanks for listening!

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https://www.livescience.com/66083-why-brain-eating-amoeba-is-deadly.html

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/methane-eating-bacteria-could-help-decrease-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-thawing-arctic-tundra

Fram Expedition - Fram Museum

Nansen's Fram Expedition Wiki

Polarstern Wiki

Polarstern - MOSAiC

Polarstern Tour

MOSAiC

NOAA - MOSAiC

AWI

Kirsten Hein is a graduate student in the McKay lab residing in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University. Her current research interests are in improving crop resilience in the face of climate change by studying the molecular mechanisms that control drought tolerance traits in maize and ecogeographic adaptation in Ethiopian orphan crop, Eragrostis tef.

Patrick Woods is a crop geneticist who has worked in quantitative genetics, experimental design, and statistics. He has discovered more than 80 candidate genes for breeding crop traits, and has 3 publications. He's also an accomplished bioinformatician and confident science communicator, both oral and written as shown by being awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Research and Scholarship Award from Colorado State University.

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: soilentgreenpodcast@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening!

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Patrick's Paper - Quantitative trait loci controlling agronomic and biochemical traits in Cannabis sativa

Kirsten's Paper - Root Pulling Force Across Drought in Maize Reveals Genotype by Environment Interactions and Candidate Genes

Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota

GMOs

George Beadle

Leibniz Institute IPK

Kent Whealy - Rescuing Traditional Food Crops in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Seed Savers Exchange

NPR Interview w/Jo Robinson

Historical context about Lysenkoism

USDA - 150 Years of Research