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The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained

The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained

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Start living more sustainably. The Good Dirt podcast explores all aspects of a sustainable lifestyle with healthy soil as the touchpoint and metaphor for the healing of our relationship with the planet. Mother and daughter team Mary & Emma bring you weekly interviews with farmers, artists, authors, and leaders in the regenerative and sustainable living space.Copyright 2019 - 2022 Lady Farmer 社会科学
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  • Ep.241: Food Communion: Rethinking What We Throw Away with Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez

    Ep.241: Food Communion: Rethinking What We Throw Away with Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez
    2026/09/25
    It's the autumnal equinox as we record this one — rain all afternoon, a first cup of hot tea for the season, the kind of cozy day that makes you want to slow down and pay attention. Fitting, since Mary and Emma open this episode by pausing to say hello properly: a reintroduction, for anyone new to the podcast, of who they are and why they've kept this conversation going for years, even as the pace has slowed to something more sustainable than weekly.Then Mary sits down with Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez, a food systems circularity advocate who's spent more than fifteen years turning zero-waste ideas into real programs — from a green-barter pilot she built in her hometown in Michoacán, Mexico, to her current work here in the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve. Daniela's story moves through Cornell, a favela-inspired recycling exchange in Curitiba, Brazil, and a front-row seat to just how much food — avocados especially — travels a long, tender distance before it ever reaches an American kitchen counter.This conversation lands just ahead of Food Waste Prevention Week, and it's full of the kind of practical, no-guilt wisdom Daniela calls "food communion" — not just what we eat, but what we do with what's left over. Expect real numbers, real hacks, and a genuinely moving reframe of a habit most of us do without thinking twice.In this episode:Mary and Emma's reintroduction to the podcast — where Lady Farmer and The Good Dirt have been, and why the podcast has settled into a monthly rhythmDaniela's path from international relations and conflict resolution studies to food systems circularity, by way of Cornell, the Pan American Health Organization, and a green-barter pilot she built in Michoacán, MexicoThe Curitiba, Brazil program that inspired her work: exchanging recyclables for fresh produce in low-income communitiesWhat "food systems circularity" means — from soil to plate to what happens afterThe scale of avocado waste moving through the DMV region, and what that waste costs the farmworkers and land it came fromHow Daniela ended up in the Montgomery County Ag Reserve, and what she learned about the incinerator eight miles from homeThe difference between landfilling, incinerating, and composting — and why methane from food waste is a bigger climate issue than most people realizeA tour through the local composting landscape: decentralized vs. centralized composting, drop-off locations, and why "closer to home" mattersPractical food waste prevention hacks: the three-list system (pantry, fridge, freezer), "remix night," market traps, proper storage (onions and potatoes should never share a bin!), freezing bread and bananas, and moreConfusing food date labels — why "best by" doesn't mean "bad," and where to check if you're unsureFood Waste Prevention Week: what it is, when it runs, and how to find local and virtual eventsDaniela's monthly community group in Poolesville and how listeners can plug into food waste prevention where they liveResources & Links Mentioned:Food Waste Prevention Week — national campaign; this year runs September 28–October 4Save the Food — NRDC's food waste tips, storage guides, and recipesEat or Toss by Rachael Jackson — a science-based resource for deciding whether food is still safe to eat NourishNet — University of Maryland's NSF-funded food recovery initiative; free English/Spanish fact sheets available on the siteCompost Crew — DMV-area food scraps recycling and composting service, with Compost Outposts at One Acre Farm, ECO City Farms, Butler's Orchard, and GreenbeltRed Wiggler Community Farm — Germantown, MD care farm with a CSAKoiner Farms (Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming, Silver Spring, MD)Regenerative Solutions — Daniela's freelance practice and monthly community group in Poolesville, MDEco City FarmsOne Acre FarmA note on the numbers: Daniela cites a number of statistics in this conversation (avocado waste tonnage, Montgomery County food insecurity figures, household spending, methane comparisons). These come from her own research and public sources rather than something we've independently verified — take them as her stated figures.We'd love to hear from you.Have you found a food-waste hack that actually stuck? Ever learned a storage trick (like the onion-and-potato rule!) the hard way? Send us a message or leave us a voicemail — we always love hearing what the good dirt means to you.🌻 About Lady Farmer:Subscribe to The ALMANAC, a Lady Farmer Newsletter & CommunityVisit Our WebsiteFollow @weareladyfarmer on InstagramEmail us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you!Original music by John Kingsley. Editing and podcast production by Lady Farmer. The Good Dirt podcast is proudly part of the Connectd Podcasts network.🌿 The Good Dirt Producers:Wendy GrayAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://...
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  • Ep. 240: The Future of Food with Jill Demers (Part 2)

    Ep. 240: The Future of Food with Jill Demers (Part 2)
    2026/08/21

    A few weeks ago, we sat down with Jill Demers and couldn't stop talking...so, we came back for part 2!

    In this episode, we dig into the economics of small farming in America, and why the deck has been stacked against it for decades. Jill lays out the numbers plainly — most small farms operate at a loss, propped up by off-farm income, in a system that was never designed to sustain them. We talk about commodity crops, genetically modified seed, the vertical integration of the food industry, and what "get big or get out" actually did to the farms that used to feed us directly.

    But this isn't a doom-and-gloom conversation. Jill's real subject is reconnection, what she calls "farm hospitality," and what we'd call remembering something our bodies never really forgot. Because underneath all of it is the same idea Jill's been chasing for over twenty years: food is our deepest connection to nature, and the fracture in that relationship is costing us more than we realize...in our health, our communities, and our sense of belonging to the land under our feet.

    In this episode:

    • Why 86% of U.S. farms are classified as "small" — and why most of them lose money every year
    • How the "get big or get out" model took hold after WWII, and what it replaced
    • What a commodity crop actually is (and why that field of corn you're driving past isn't headed to anyone's dinner table)
    • The vertical integration of seed, chemical inputs, and distribution — and why it locks small farmers out
    • Genetically modified corn, glyphosate, and what it means for our gut health
    • Jill's concept of "farm hospitality" as a way to reconnect people to their food — and why many farmers resist it
    • The disappearance of farmland to development and, increasingly, to solar leases
    • Food deserts and systemic inequity on reservation land in Montana
    • Why Jill encourages people to "start at the top of the food chain" (and what that means)
    • The cultural narrative that food should be cheap — and why that narrative is doing real damage
    • How much less of our income goes to food today than it did in the 1950s, and what filled that gap
    • The "60 harvests" figure from Kiss the Ground — and what it means for how much time we actually have
    • Why Jill believes consumer dollars, not policy, will be what shifts the system first


    Resources & Links Mentioned:

    • ReWild Ranch — Jill Demers' regenerative farm, glamping, and retreat space in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana
    • Kiss the Ground — documentary on regenerative agriculture and soil health, source of the "60 harvests" statistic
    • Listen to Part One: "Food As Our Deepest Connection to Nature with Jill Demers of ReWild Ranch" (Ep. 238)


    We'd love to hear from you.

    Has your own relationship to food or farming shifted this year, the way Mary's and Emma's has? Where do you land on "starting at the top of the food chain"? Send us a message or leave us a voicemail — we always love hearing what the good dirt means to you.

    🌻 About Lady Farmer:

    • Subscribe to The ALMANAC, a Lady Farmer Newsletter & Community
    • Visit Our Website
    • Follow @weareladyfarmer on Instagram
    • Email us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you!

    Original music by John Kingsley. Editing and podcast production by Lady Farmer. The Good Dirt podcast is proudly part of the Connectd Podcasts network.

    🌿 The Good Dirt Producers:

    • Wendy Gray


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  • 239. Returning to Our Birthright Relationship with Nature: A Conversation with Julie Brams

    239. Returning to Our Birthright Relationship with Nature: A Conversation with Julie Brams
    2026/07/17
    Our guest today on this week's episode is Julie Brams — an earth-centered psychotherapist, certified forest therapy guide, meditation teacher, and the author of The Nature-Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves. Julie states that her work is in helping restore the human mind to its rightful place within the living world. She is also co-founder of Elemental, an earth-centered learning community helping participants heal the division between humans and the rest of nature. This is a rich, unhurried conversation — the kind you might want to take on a walk, or sit with under a tree. We hope it meets you right where you are.In This EpisodeJulie's path from 34 years as a licensed marriage and family therapist into earth-centered psychotherapy and forest therapy guidingWhy she moved away from the term "ecopsychology" to "earth-centered" and "re-rooting."The idea of "the rest of nature" — and how this small language shift addresses the human/nature divideHow Western civilization's model of extraction and domination differs from cultures built on kinship and reciprocityThe historical roots of mind/body/earth separation — from ancient Greek philosophy through Descartes and the EnlightenmentWhy our bodies "cannot be separate from Earth" — from the air we exchange with plants to the physiological toll of space travelGloria Steinem's phrase "linked, not ranked" as an alternative to hierarchyThe story of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight and the moment it reshaped Julie's thinking about sustainabilityWhat forest therapy actually looks like in practice — and Julie's own humbling first encounter with a treeA story about a jumping spider that became an unexpected lesson in love versus ownershipReflections on grief, reciprocity, and the idea that the more-than-human world may be missing us as much as we miss itLanguage, indigenous wisdom, and the book Sand Talk as a guide to non-divisive ways of thinkingWhy unlearning this division is, in Julie's words, "a group effort"Resources & Links MentionedThe Nature-Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves by Julie Brams (2026 Nautilus Gold Award winner)Elemental, the Earth-Centered Learning Community co-founded by Julie BramsThe Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, where Julie was certified as a guideThe Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom HartmannMolecules of Emotion by Candace PertSand Talk by Tyson YunkaportaPaul Hawken, author of Carbon: The Book of Life— referenced from a past Good Dirt conversationEcoCiv, an organization promoting earth-centered culture and economyA Note From MaryIf this conversation stirred something in you — a longing, a memory, a small ache of recognition — we'd love to hear about it. Send us a note or leave us a voicemail. And if you try Julie's simple invitation this week (find a tree, sit with it for twenty minutes, see what happens), tell us how it goes.🌻 About Lady Farmer:Subscribe to The ALMANAC, a Lady Farmer Newsletter & CommunityVisit Our WebsiteFollow @weareladyfarmer on InstagramEmail us at thegooddirtpodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail! Call 443-459-1950 and ask a question or share what the good dirt means to you!Original music by John Kingsley. Editing and podcast production by Lady Farmer. The Good Dirt podcast is proudly part of the Connectd Podcasts network.🌿 The Good Dirt Producers:Wendy GrayAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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    1 時間 8 分
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