Can Your Beans Do That?
Can Your Beans Do That?
Farmer Sledge
Musings on how raising and eating rotationally-grazed meats is an unrivalled venue to address a host of issues; starting from the regeneration of our soils to many environmental, economic, social, and moral issues branching out from the life-sustaining ecosystem beneath our feet.
#3-3 Scale: The Discontinuity of Scale
Nature scales through gestalts, not linearly. I suggest that water provides us with an appropriate model for scaling.
Feb 10, 2024
50 min
#3-2 Scale - Limits of Linearity
Arguing that intelligence is a great deal more than processing and computation. Also that viewing the world through the single lens of cause and effect is a form of insanity.
Nov 12, 2023
44 min
#3-1.5 Restating My Position On Seed Banks
Restating my position on seed bank bombings.
Oct 15, 2023
18 min
#3-1 Scale: Dismantling the Premises
The most common criticism against regenerative agriculture is that it can't accomplish what conventional agriculture can; specifically in terms of "feeding the world". Not only is the question loaded, it conceals some nasty realities.
Oct 8, 2023
49 min
#2-5 Interview by Natnael Asmelash
A conversation with my son's former roomate.
Sep 10, 2023
1 hr 28 min
#2-4 Things As Verbs
A talk I gave after a viewing of the film Kiss The Ground
Aug 29, 2023
56 min
#2-3. Webinar: Soil Health From a Grazier's Perspective
Audio from a VABF webinar on soil health. Delves into how, compared to vegetable or grain growing, rotational grazing has very different leverage points of entry into Nature's systems.
Feb 24, 2022
1 hr 35 min
#2-2. Conversation #1 (Inga Haugen) audio fixed...
I've been wanting to do an informal conversational format for a while, and who better to start with than my good friend, Inga, who is passionate about agricultural and the myriad of issues that interconnect. Let me know if you enjoy this sort of format.
Oct 24, 2021
1 hr 12 min
#2-1 Technology Unfettered
Technology is anything but neutral. And yet we swim in it like fish in water. Best we take a step back and reconsider exactly what we get out of technology and what it takes away from us.
Sep 9, 2021
1 hr 5 min
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