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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 technology for subsistence farmers worldwide. In close cooperation with Zambeezi, he created a co-op with nearly 1,200 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Africa to improve their productivity and sustainability.

Resources and Links:
Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree

Jacob Springs Farm

Management-intensive Grazing (MiG) in Beef Systems

WWF: Miombo Woodlands

Miombo woodlands: the vast southern African dryland forests hiding in plain sight

Lala People

BBC: Our Man in Zambia : Lalaland

Collegian: CSU Todos Santos Center builds empathy, global perspective

Collegian: Our View: CSU’s role in Todos Santos reduces credibility of the University

Patrimonio Film

The Ecologist: Colorado State campus mega-development steals Mexican beach - you call that 'mindful'?

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

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 technology for subsistence farmers worldwide. In close cooperation with Zambeezi, he created a co-op with nearly 1,200 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Africa to improve their productivity and sustainability. 

Resources and Links:
Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/agriculture/management-intensive-grazing-mig-and-soil-health-0-570/

https://collegian.com/articles/news/2023/02/category-news-csus-todos-santos-center-builds-empathy-global-perspective-outside-of-the-classroom/

https://collegian.com/articles/opinion/2016/01/our-view-csus-role-in-todos-santos-reduces-credibility-of-the-university/

http://www.patrimoniofilm.com/

https://theecologist.org/2015/nov/02/colorado-state-campus-mega-development-steals-mexican-beach-you-call-mindful

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!

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Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, Linktree

Ft. Collins Wholesale Nursery

Trees for a Changing Climate & Resilient Urban Forest

USDA - Gambel Oak

Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico

Scott Skogerboe Background

Garden Smart article about Scott and the history mentioned in this episode

Pingree Park name change

George Pingree

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition: More Photos

Chinese Revolution

NatGeo: The Biggest Living Thing on Earth is Being Nibbled to Death

Papers:

Newton's Apple

The History of Newton's Apple Tree

Is the Wide Distribution of Aspen a Result of Its Stress Tolerance?

Dorsett-Morse Soybean Collection Trip to East Asia: 50 Year Retrospective

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

Trees for a Changing Climate & Resilient Urban Forest

USDA - Gambel Oak

Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico

Scott Skogerboe Background

Garden Smart article about Scott and the history mentioned in this episode

Pingree Park name change

George Pingree

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition

USDA - Dorsett-Morse Expedition: More Photos

Chinese Revolution

NatGeo: The Biggest Living Thing on Earth is Being Nibbled to Death

Papers:

Newton's Apple

The History of Newton's Apple Tree

Is the Wide Distribution of Aspen a Result of Its Stress Tolerance?

Dorsett-Morse Soybean Collection Trip to East Asia: 50 Year Retrospective

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):
[email protected]
www.coloradopodcastproductions.com

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 affects plant fitness. He has applied his expertise in plant-microbe interactions to develop and commercialize a patented microbial biostimulant that enhances plant growth by making soil phosphorus more available.

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

References & Links

Buy Me a Coffee and http://patreon.com/soilentgreen

CSU Spur

NSF I-Corps

Soil Carbon Solutions Center

State Line Serpentine Barrens - The Nature Conservancy

Indigenous Peoples of Philadelphia - American Library Association

Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy

 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 at NOAA, she wound up here in Fort Collins as a Research Scientist in the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science. A fun fact about Jessie is that she LOVES the cold. She's been to the Arctic 8 times on land and icebreaking ships, and will be adding Antarctica to her list of places she’s worked starting in 2024. Jessie is ALSO an associate editor for 2 major atmospheric journals and has several students and postdocs that work on her projects involving aerosol particles, clouds, sea ice, the ocean, and permafrost. When she is not traveling around the world for work, she loves to enjoy the Colorado lifestyle of climbing, skiing, mountain biking, camping...you name it. She also has two cute, fuzzy golden retrievers, Montana and Whiskey, who are her adventure buddies. 

To reach Jessie, email her at [email protected].

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected].

Correction: P.I means principal investigator.

Thanks for listening!

References & Links

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https://www.livescience.com/66083-why-brain-eating-amoeba-is-deadly.html 

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/methane-eating-bacteria-could-help-decrease-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-thawing-arctic-tundra

Fram Expedition - Fram Museum

Nansen's Fram Expedition Wiki

Polarstern Wiki

Polarstern - MOSAiC

Polarstern Tour

MOSAiC

NOAA - MOSAiC

AWI

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 also an accomplished bioinformatician and confident science communicator, both oral and written as shown by   being awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Research and Scholarship Award from Colorado State University.

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

References & Links

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Patrick's Paper - Quantitative trait loci controlling agronomic and biochemical traits in Cannabis sativa

Kirsten's Paper - Root Pulling Force Across Drought in Maize Reveals Genotype by Environment Interactions and Candidate Genes

Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota

GMOs

George Beadle

Leibniz Institute IPK

Kent Whealy - Rescuing Traditional Food Crops in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Seed Savers Exchange

NPR Interview w/Jo Robinson

Historical context about Lysenkoism

USDA - 150 Years of Research

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 clarification of the relationship between soil ecosystems and climate change. 

Currently Wall is a professor at Colorado State University's Department of Biology, a Senior Research Scientist for the Natural Resource Ecology Lab and Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Not only has she led the way for future scientists but continues to teach and inspire new generations. 

Join us as we sit down and chat everything from past times in Antarctica, plant-parasitic nematodes, and so much more! 

For more from Wall visit her lab's website here: https://walllab.colostate.edu/ or check out her latest tweets @DianaWallSoil. 

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected]. 

Thanks for listening! 

References &Links

Sci Show - good intro to nematodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWzrlCBhCM

Fun facts about nematodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1m_20qh86I

40,000 year old nematodes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-
roundworms-allegedly-resurrected-russian-permafrost-180969782/

https://www.chaosofdelight.org/nematodes

Myrmeconema neotropicum article:
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/16_ants.shtml

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/antarctica-provides-ice-to-study-behavior-effects-in-astronauts

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26527129/

Johan van den Hoogen paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1418-6

Ghost Creature of Antarctica has survived 30 ice ages
Soil properties and nematode community composition:
http://nemaplex.ucdavis.edu/FerrisPublications/pdf%20files/150Sanchez%20et%20al%202006.
pdf

Picture a Scientist (movie): https://www.pictureascientist.com

U.S. Antarctic Program’s Sexual Assault and Harassment Needs Assessment:
https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305782&org=OPP

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120518369/antarctica-sexual-harassment-assault-nsf-report

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 is a member of the U.S. National Committee for Soil Science with National Academy of Sciences. He serves as an advisor to the United States Department of Agriculture with the National Cooperative Soil Survey, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, The National Science Foundation and several major research programs. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and is the recipient of the 2016 Soil Science Society of America Research Award. 

We were lucky enough to sit down and chat with him about soil degradation, agriculture, and biogeochemistry just to name a few topics! 

As always you can find us and our other episodes by following us on Instagram @soilentgreenpodcast where we post bonus content like pictures and graphics of the topics discussed. We can also be reached by email: [email protected]. 

Thanks for listening! 

Sources:

NEON
https://www.neonscience.org/

Phytoliths
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/B044452747800212X?token=5D1FDF3F350F85C5597700E961080DEB99062657986F510DCED7E8E74B48C2AE178B0B0AFC6F4AEBCD6007C87CFFB9E5&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220816002908

Stable Isotope Ratios of Carbon in Phytoliths as a Quantitative Method of Monitoring Vegetation and Climate Change
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/003358949190069H?token=86113F67B1EBBE02EDA30C7DFEDFFFCA3238BF3757B561017C298C9C2DF12515140FCB4C3A434FE524A2187E4336564E&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220816004050

Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWgscqb-cw

The generation and redistribution of soil cations in high elevation catenas in the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, U.S.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/science/article/pii/S0016706117314738

Landscape Topography and Regional Drought Alters Dust Microbiomes in the Sierra Nevada of California
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.856454/full

Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-drought-microbe-laden-sierras.html

State Factors
https://watermark.silverchair.com/47-8-536.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAskwggLFBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK2MIICsgIBADCCAqsGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMW2k_R7uk9uqZ8bweAgEQgIICfPVju7-jKjunuLhV4CLHl_bS0nAL1NVUcAy6U62Z2itv-vPLnr3pRdeyXj0UTx3L6TsqEjb0z081T-nLQt3roT6Zu1qf4OiHALvVI3yZxLVOEJPvJguthVMQ-4FsDTfixfZJL7eN32cgbtueGvMWrTC6ntRiUcNB_weUIqfEOcTduQHd3N0-PknOGqPJV5sARebVy21szCdEgvI9ewvkJApRGaIVZNmlBeP2eVtIk1YEq73FyPTEk9yfH6ZCk2yicR1uEsg5lBqPlGp1o4Wzgnaqu0z7cgRWMuuPbftvGIDDr79vUb-YAEG9nyHTHfXr_Nym0v7lK-Tep0ntvNOtiMR4tSUk3gDdomr-9AOB1wZ1CARXtETZuKXxFYZPSj8dDrLa48Kc2vOWZWGzIOgrSMbenVxT7uDQivsilX3-Y-4baQUFk74SxJ_4lYS3AOxKYIeP1QUnwrlpEFTUVoA1UC1pi-prSHNoqb1UJ0qjQyDgzLagfd8CwHabZpul3P7pDZADqGJ4UcN0haebTO_PPuhiQjWftu8E-HZlfQXjKvFof_bsEKo8xEbWs473xyBSEr468AYsxv439pNqEsfUcU0vEaaoyCiFblVxr81Cm-rxcgJ3SlKIg7IiBeAX5886A1f9jZodA55985kLPgJFQFzI9Y1i6ROAnRxHiCTyhKjLjuWYnht7eZtDr7IDoKPuRJKK4Guk7-D5EtYpKUaeo2RtCE7t5eq-ceDL8v48OXoefWvRY3ivGyXjFOlxC651eqibdFlv-uW3LPH2t70zt2BUJ81pwDhHAmnQieYsZCIbs-ynf6vOJNXFir0snjHMomMqplN4b_i92vDOKA

For some deep level nerding out read Factors of Soil Formation by Hans Jenny

Josue’s New Paper: Link: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00516-22 [josue]