Laura is joined by farmer and pastor Bryan Allen Demeritte today.

Laura highlights meat processing in Minnesota – how to help independents – https://bottleneckproject.weebly.com

Talking about the revitalization of oat farming in Minnesota and northern Iowa today.

Embodied Permaculture with Dan McTiernan of https://earthbound.fi/ Oxford 2024 Word of the Year was Brain Rot. Let’s envision a better word for 2025. Thrutopia – Not utopia or dystopia but Thrutopia. How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? First we need to be in our bodies. On today’s show we talk about Grounding, Attuning, Opening and Integration

Host Laura Hedlund talks about the winter solstice with Liz Johnson from Magus Books and Herbs and Steven who tells us about this winter solstice event: https://givebutter.com/qx1HCT

This week’s show features Eric Lee-Mäder author of The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology and Christopher Stein with Twin Cities Eco-Rotary to talk about connections between Milkweed and Monarchs.

This week host Laura Hedlund highlights Cause Cart (https://cause-cart.com/)