Trippin on the Shoestring

Ep. 26: Farms, Floods, and Climate Change with Alisa Klein and Piyush Labhsetwar


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In every month of 2023, average global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. That’s a first, and it’s a tipping point that climate scientists have raised concerns about for years. The Connecticut River Valley is not immune to those impacts. Last year, western Mass experienced its hottest summer ever recorded, a deluge of smoke from wildfires spreading across Canada, and the devastating flooding of the Connecticut and Mill rivers, which wiped out crops. Many plots at the farming organization Grow Food Northampton were among those that were flooded out. On this week’s episode, Dusty Christensen and Shelby Lee sit down with two guests from Grow Food Northampton: Alisa Klein, the organization’s director, and Piyush Labhsetwar, GFN's farm and land stewardship manager whose work as an agroecologist looks at finding ways to strike a sustainable balance between ecological relationships and agricultural production.
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