The PloughCast

David Schaengold argues that computers can’t do math and the human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.

Brian Miller, an East Tennessee farmer, praises a simple piece of technology.

Peter Mommsen asks how we can live well with technology?

Arlie Coles asks if large language models should write sermons and prayers.

Andrew Zimmerman tells how the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.

Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.

J. L. Wall describes how the way we read scripture has changed and the way that it has remained the same.

Robert Lee Williams tells how even a little tech in prison can make a big difference.

James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle in the Lake District. James describes the landscape where their families have lived for six hundred years, and how they have begun practicing regenerative agriculture as a way of restoring the land that recent conventional agriculture had damaged. He gives details about the sheep and cattle herds and the grazing systems they’ve established.

Then Helen describes what led her to write her book on the work of the farmer’s wife, and addresses mothers, who are often the ones making choices about food that are linked to questions of sustainable agriculture.

They discuss the concept of rewilding, and how that is not necessarily either possible or desirable – the landscape has not been wild for thousands of years – but that increasing complexity and biodiversity is both possible and necessary.

Tim Maendel describes his love of hunting and the connection it gives him to the human species' natural history.