Lance Irving is the program director for the Leopold Conservation Award which is presented to one farmer in each of 25 participating states. The award comes after a farmer has been nominated for the conversation practices on their farm that are both financially sound and environmentally beneficial. The award is facilitated and presented by the Sand County Foundation, which is named after Aldo Leopold's watershed book titled "A Sand County Almanac" which was released in 1949.

On today's episode Lance will speak with us about the award, the work of the Sand County Foundation, working for a foundation and his journey that led him into this position. We will also discuss trends that he is seeing in agriculture and the use of conversation practices and the philosophy of the Sand County Foundation on educating people about this way of farming.