Join us in another two-part special as we learn about the Lala People of Zambia in the Miombo Forest and regenerative grazing from Andre Houssney of Jacob Springs Farm in Boulder, CO. Jacob Springs Farm is a diversified “beyond-organic farm”, located near Boulder, Colorado. They specialize in grass-fed proteins including eggs, pork, beef, lamb and chicken, as well as grass-based raw milk. They also provide  fruit and vegetables in season and delicious comb honey from our bees. Andre is passionate about Regenerative Grazing and is actively researching and developing techniques and technolo ..read more

Join us in the first episode of season two and our first two-parter as we talk with Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery Propagator Scott Skogerboe about the gestures of kind people, what makes a good throwing apple, a true mystery, the decades long hunt for Johnny Appleseed's last tree, the Russian revolution, the treasures of book keeping, the American Dream, how old 12th graders could be, a glimpse into what research looked like before Google, leaf peepin, and so so much more! Be sure to check out Part Two! Resources and Links: Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree Ft. Collins Wholesale Nursery Tr ..read more

Soilent Green is back for season two! In this episode we check is with hosts Alyssa Hanofee and Levi Johnson as they give us a little background on themselves and a preview of what is to come. Links: WWOOF Rocky Mountain Youth Corps Colorado Mountain College CSU Soil & Crop Dept Marie Towe (our producer's contact): marietowe@coloradopodcastproductions.com www.coloradopodcastproductions.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ..read more

Matt is the Chief Soil Scientist at Syngenta Group, and leads the company’s global efforts to develop products and services that enhance soil health. He is a soil ecologist who studies how microbes drive nutrient cycling, soil formation and decomposition, and affect crop health and productivity. His research showed that microbes adapt to changing environments in ways that affect not only ecosystem functioning, but global carbon cycles. He later shifted his research to elucidate novel mechanisms by which plants control the assembly of the microbiome in their rooting zone, and has shown how this ..read more

 Dr. Jessie Creamean is originally from a small town in northern Illinois. She went to college at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she majored in Chemistry. She then went on to get her MS and PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where she also studied chemistry, but from an atmospheric/climate perspective. Next, she bounced over to NOAA in Boulder, Colorado where she did my postdoc fellowship on aerosol-cloud-precipitation processes in remote regions. And that, friends, is where she fell in love with the Arctic Region. After working as a Research Scientist a ..read more

Kirsten Hein is a graduate student in the McKay lab residing in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University. Her current research interests are in improving crop resilience in the face of climate change by studying the molecular mechanisms that control drought tolerance traits in maize and ecogeographic adaptation in Ethiopian orphan crop, Eragrostis tef. Patrick Woods is a crop geneticist who has worked in quantitative genetics, experimental design, and statistics. He has discovered more than 80 candidate genes for breeding crop traits, and has 3 publications. He's als ..read more

Diana H. Wall, is a globally celebrated ecologist with many accolades including being a member of Colorado's Women's Hall of Fame, Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and Distinguished Professor many times over. Just to name a few! She also has a mite and Antarctica valley named after her. Beginning her career she received her B.A in Biology at the University of Kentucky and then went on to earn her Ph.D. there in Plant Biology. Wall's work would take her much further than Kentucky though. With more than 25 years of research in Antarctica her interdisciplinary research has lead to the ..read more

Dr. Gene Kelly received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Kelly conducts research and lectures nationally and internationally on various aspects of soils as related to global change issues. His scientific specialization is in Pedology and Geochemistry with primary interests in the biological weathering of soil and studies of soil degradation and global biogeochemical cycles.  His current research is centered on Global Soil Degradation and fundamental role of grasslands in global biogeochemical cycles. He ..read more

Maintaining and managing vegetation and agriculture productivity in Boulder’s Open Spaces isn’t easy. There are noxious weeds, ecological impacts from visitors, and continuously determining how to best help shape the parks. Luckily the city has Eric Fairlee and his team who work hard to turn all the city’s goals into reality. To contact Fairlee email him at fairleee@bouldercolorado.gov  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ..read more

Josué Rodríguez-Ramos currently works with microbial communities and viruses. Besides being considered CSU’s go-to for viruses, Josué has 9 publications, earned over 50K in grant funding, won 4 presentation awards, and is a strong advocate for a working wage for graduate students. You won’t want to miss this episode in which we chat with Josué about soil viruses, their impacts on climate change, the hot debate on whether they are alive, and of course, poop! Find more from Josué by following him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jrr_microbio Sources: https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo ..read more