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Building a Cooperative Food System Pt. 1: Land Access with Fordhall Community Farm

October 2, 2026 · 52 min

If we're serious about building a better food system, we have to start with land. Across the world, land is getting more and more expensive. In the United States, farmland values have nearly doubled since 2011. What we're witnessing is an…
Season 3 Trailer: Building a Cooperative Food Future

September 25, 2026 · 1 min

We often talk about how the food system is broken, but what would it look like to build one that is better? In Season 3 of Agrarian Futures, we reimagine a food system rooted in cooperative principles. What if we didn't live in a…
Rethinking Our Relationship with Land (Feed Drop: How to Change the World)

September 11, 2026 · 45 min

Hi everyone - Emma here. We're deep in prep for our new miniseries on Agrarian Futures where we will be exploring the potential for a better food system rooted in cooperative principles. In the meantime, we’ve got a special announcement…
What Big Agriculture is Hiding with Will Potter

August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Our guest today Will Potter’s new book, Little Red Barns, started as a tale about censorship in journalism around industrial agriculture, but became something much bigger: a 10 year investigation look at how factory farming, an ages old…
The Common Ingredients of Success in the Regenerative Movement

August 14, 2026 · 49 min

Enjoy Part 2 of Emma and Austin's reflections on 2.5 years of Agrarian Futures. In this episode, they highlight the commonalities they see in the big success stories of the regenerative movement, including cooperative economics, finding…

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The Big Lessons from Agrarian Futures with Emma and Austin

July 29, 2026 · 48 min

Hi all! This time, we're doing something a bit different. In this episode, Emma and Austin - hosts of Agrarian Futures - sit down to tell their own story, and share some of their key takeaways of 2.5 years of talking with brilliant…
Permaculture and the Case for Hope with Geoff Lawton

July 14, 2026 · 51 min

In this conversation, Geoff Lawton offers us something rare: a genuinely hopeful and rigorously grounded vision of how humanity can become a reparative rather than destructive force on this planet. As one of the world's leading…
The Future of Regenerative Agriculture with Gabe Brown

June 26, 2026 · 44 min

Gabe Brown didn't set out to revolutionize agriculture. He set out to survive it. After four consecutive years of crop disasters left him $1.5 million in debt, he had no choice but to question everything he'd been taught. What emerged from…
The Farm Bill Explained with Judith McGeary

June 12, 2026 · 43 min

You can't understand the modern food system without understanding the policy that shaped it. And you can't understand US food policy without understanding the Farm Bill. Judith McGeary is an attorney, farmer, and the founder of Farm and…
What Animals Teach Us About Caring for the Land with Fred Provenza

May 26, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

Our guest today, Fred Provenza, has spent his career listening to what animals can teach us: about landscapes, about food, about the deep intelligence woven into the living world. Fred is professor emeritus of Behavioral Ecology at Utah…
How Land Heals with Judith Schwartz

May 8, 2026 · 37 min

Our guest today - Judith Schwartz - has spent her career showing us that the natural world is more resilient than we think, and that we have more power to restore it than we have been led to believe. Judith is a journalist and author whose…
Life on the Range with Glenn Elzinga

April 20, 2026 · 55 min

Many of us have lost the thread that connects us to our food. Glenn Elzinga is spending his life trying to pick it back up. Glenn is the founder of Alderspring Ranch, a certified organic grass-fed beef operation in the remote Salmon River…

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About the show

Join hosts Emma Ractliffe and Austin Unruh as they explore what’s broken in our food system, and what it looks like to build something better. Visit agrarianfuturespod.com to join our email list for a heads up on upcoming episodes and bonus content. Agrarian Futures is produced by Alexandre Miller, who also wrote our theme song. Instagram: @agrarianfuturespod Twitter: @agrarianfutures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/103857304/