In which we interview Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer, author, activist, and local politician, about his sustainable practices to incorporate carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements back into the depleted soil of his former tobacco farm in southwest Virginia. No-till agriculture not only sequesters carbon and nitrogen in the soil, it balances soil water content in both drought and flood times. Host–Felicia Etzkorn of Virginia Tech, co-host–Jamie Ferguson of Emory & Henry College, with music by Wendy Godley of The Kind.

Resources

Anthony Flaccavento Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real World Experience for Transformative Change (University Press of Kentucky, 2016) https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813167596/building-a-healthy-economy-from-the-bottom-up/

SCALE — Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies https://www.anthonyflaccavento.com/scale-inc

Savory Institute https://savory.global

National Ecological Observatory Network https://www.neonscience.org

How to Bury Carbon? Let Plants Do the Dirty Work in Nautilus

http://cshl.nautil.us/article/657/how-to-bury-carbon-let-plants-do-the-dirty-work?mc_cid=5c3e66ab03&mc_eid=71fa1ec799

Crop innovations can protect yields and improve food quality in a changing climate

https://cen.acs.org/food/agriculture/Protecting-harvest/98/i6

Climate Change Take 5 with Tony (S.2, Ep. 4)

https://www.bottomupeconomy.org/climate-change-sustainable-farming/

Sustainable farming and social justice:

Chris Newman of Sylvanaqua https://www.sylvanaqua.com

Nina Ichikawa of the Berkeley Food Institute https://food.berkeley.edu

Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth: His go-it-alone message made him a star of the food movement. Then a young Black farmer dug into what he was really saying. https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/11/joel-salatin-chris-newman-farming-rotational-grazing-agriculture/