Farm to Taber

Oct 03 2023 49 ep. 39 mins 179

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Deep dives on agriculture, the food system, and money.
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DIY isn't enough: systematic change with Cory Doctorow

Oct 03 2023 55 mins

This episode, Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about how profits are political: individualistic DIY solutions aren't enough, and it takes large-scale political changes to level the playing field. We talk about how rank-and-file people can mobilize to advocate for ourselves, even when we're up against food and tech giants that seem unbeatable. • Mentioned in the episode:Ben Bar

Food logistics for the people! Pt. 2 of interview with Errol Schweizer [TRAILER]

Sep 19 2023 8 mins

Here's the rest of the interview with Errol Shweizer! You can listen to the whole episode on Patreon. Transcript for the trailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deep dive: food distribution with Errol Schweizer

Sep 04 2023 45 mins

There's a saying in food justice: "There's plenty of food to feed everyone! The problem is distribution." But when we talk about reforming the food system, farms get all the spotlight. We rarely focus on distribution- even though we know it's the key to solving hunger. How does food get from the farm to people? Who decides where crops should go? Wow do those decisions trickle down

Bonus episode: Chicken farming & money [TRAILER]

Aug 15 2023 15 mins

This is a short clip of a bonus episode for Patreon followers. Subscribe to Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode!• Today we talk contract broiler farming! This is the type of farming famous for "giant barns full of chickens that the farmers don't own." If you've ever wondered why farmers would keep farming in a way that "everyone just knows" makes them poor, this ep

Ag & tech workplace culture with the Nightingales

Aug 01 2023 88 mins

I ran into the Nightingales a few years ago on Twitter. They've spent years working to make jobs more humane (and even succeeding!) It quickly became clear that we're running into a lot of the same workplace problems in our respective industries. But how? I'm in agriculture, and they're in tech! What's going on? We talk about how sucky jobs in any industry are a choice, making them

Mailbag Q&A with Hanah Ehrenreich [TRAILER]

Jul 25 2023 10 mins

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Indigenous food systems of the Midwest: interview with Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith

Jul 03 2023 77 mins

When sustainability advocates talk about Indigenous agriculture, it's often framed as folksy, timeless, hyperlocal, and incompatible with the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth!Historian Susan Sleeper-Smith joins us to talk about the reality of how the Miami, Shawnee, Haudenosaunee, and other Indigenous communities in North America's most fertile farmland actuall

GRAAAAINS pt. 2 [TRAILER]

Jun 15 2023 6 mins

F2T is on a mission to prove that the global grain trade is super interesting actually. This episode features grain futures, and bugs! Wall Street! How the grain trade gave birth to both laissez-faire economics and the French Revolution!Full episode is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/farmtotaberTranscript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Do Grains? pt. 1

Jun 01 2023 42 mins

In this episode, Maria joins us to talk about what really happened in the 2022 panic over food supplies. We're gonna debunk food supply myths that actually make food insecurity worse, and we're gonna make grain futures and crop yield data FUN.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

King Cotton, Jim Crow, and Pellagra

May 04 2023 125 mins

Accounts of the US food system take it for granted that it used to all be nice little family farms, until agribusiness suddenly changed it all in the 20th century. But corn monoculture, feedlots, and cheap bulk commodities didn't come out of nowhere in modern times- they've always been the core of US agriculture!This episode traces the origins of today's food system back to its ori