Farm to Taber

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 Barnes , Shawnee hi...

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.

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 to the place whe...

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 episode digs into...

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 not suck is a p...

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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 actually farmed. They...

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/farmtotaber Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

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 origins: slavery,...

This is a trailer for a bonus episode. Join Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode here: patreon.com/farmtotaber It's so easy to think of agriculture and finance as a large-scale, impersonal realm: import-export balances, federally-backed loans, and enormous capital flows. And those are all important! But let's take a step back and remember that 95% of US farms are family-owned. That means...

Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photographs, Yale University Photogram...

A former John Deere combine repair tech joins on to talk right to repair! For the full episode, join me on Patreon: patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript Dr. Tim Fritz , historian at Mt. St. Mary's 1940s home video of Carolina rice workers Stono rebellion Photo of rice crew from Library of Congress, "Rice harvest at Mulberry Plantation, Berkeley County South Carolina." Bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first bonus episode digs into why there's so much agrarianism in scifi, and what is it doing there? Full episode is on Patreon! patreon.com/farmtotaber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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