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S7 - Ep#14 - Terra Madre Americas: A special weekly series, Segment 2: Regeneration & Resilience: Stewarding California Lands & Future with Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, CA Natural Resources Agency Nov 11, 2025

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Wade Crowfoot leads California's Natural Resources Agency, which has been implementing a groundbreaking set of policies designed to end the 60-year-old conflict among agricultural and environmental interests in order to achieve an impressive set of ecological and rural economic goals

S7 - Ep#13 - Terra Madre Americas: A Special Weekly Series Segment 1: We're All Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf! Nov 04, 2025

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Author & wild-farm advocate Dan Imhoff explores the challenge of embracing coexistence with predators when raising livestock in conversation with Montana ranchers Becky Weed & Malou Anderson Ramirez

S7 - Ep#12 - Old Salt Festival's Final Series Episode: Financial Innovations and the Regenerative Revolution Sep 17, 2025

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Kat Taylor, Co-founder and Board Chair of Beneficial State Bank and Emma Ractliffe, Chief Investment Officer, World Within, share their innovative approaches to investing in the revitalization of rural enterprises, those central to the regenerative revolution underway.

S7 - Ep#11 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival #3: Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson & Matt Jorgensen Shine a Light on Agrarian Artists and Communities Sep 03, 2025

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Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson and Matt Jorgensen are three innovative social entrepreneurs we met at the Old Salt Festival, who work at the intersection of art, culture and enterprise. They tell their stories of how they are uplifting the creativity of rural people and communities.

S7 - Ep#10 - Congressmember Chellie Pingree, veteran member of the House Agriculture Committee, pulls no punches in unpacking the impacts of the new Administration on the federal policy gains made over the last 20 years Aug 19, 2025

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A shocking sea change in food and agriculture policy is underway in Washington DC. Policies that were improving human health through better nutrition, rural economies, small and mid-scale growers have been decimated. Trade and immigration policies are harming the largest farms. The future looks bleak to many. But Maine's veteran of the House Ag Committee, Chellie Pingree shares her honest thoughts on what may lay ahead and how we can maintain the course toward a healthy, resilient and just food and farming system.

S7 - Ep#9 - What's Up with Food Justice in One of America's Wealthiest States Aug 06, 2025

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Ali Ghiorse, Christine Caruso and Vetiveah Immanuel, leaders in the in the movement for food justice in Connecticut, share their perspectives on what is working and what is still needed to make healthy affordable food available to all in a state with an incredible wealth gap.

S7 - Ep#8 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival, #2: The Human Health Benefits of Regeneratively Raised Meat with Dr. Stephan van Vliet Jul 29, 2025

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Episode 2 of 4 of Old Salt Festival conversations features Dr. Stephan van Vliet, among the planet's leaders studying the impact of regenerative agriculture on nutrient density in meat.At the festival he shared the latest findings that confirm good ecological stewardship of pastures leads to meat that provides many more phytonutrients than meat from feed lots and animal factories. Phytonutrients are natural chemical compounds found in plants that support health by enhancing immune function, reducing inflammation, and protecting against chronic diseases.

S7 - Ep#7 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival E1: The Rich Diversity of Products & Services from Regenerative Ranches Jul 14, 2025

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E1 of 4 features Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of the Range Revolution, the heirloom quality leather goods company, Sheldon Atwood, CEO of Western Ranchlands Corporation and Taylor Ophus, land steward at Mannix Ranch. They were three of the inspiring attendees of the 2025 Old Salt Festival in Montana, a June gathering of nearly 3000 ranchers, artisans, chefs, advocates and musicians dedicated to promoting land stewardship, regional food, rural communities and regenerative ranching

S7 - Ep#6 - Investigative journalist and author Michael Grunwald's new book ostensibly argues for industrial agriculture, but does it really? Jun 17, 2025

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Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have mine. We seek to end the polarized views that dominate the cultural discussion on the challenge and find common ground among the so-called regenerative, organic, and industrial approaches.

S7 - Ep#5 - The Summer GenZ Team working for Roots of Change talks with new Co-host Coco Sanabria about their perspective on how food systems relate to their values May 27, 2025

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GenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table's new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ Team to explore their values around food and agriculture, their reasons for wanting to work on food systems with Roots of Change and the college food experience.

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