Episode 5: Talking About Cows and Climate (Part Two)
Sunshine, pasture, soil, and cows...this may be the package deal that fights climate change!
Paige Stanley explains how keeping cattle on pasture will cause the soil to lock away carbon. How much?...6.65 kilograms CO2 for every kilogram of beef...but when will we hear about it in the news or in our classrooms? The answer is when more research in this area is done. We also talk about land-sharing versus land-sparing strategies for food production and biodiversity. Listen as Tom struggles to say "adaptive multipaddock grazing" and "soil carbon sequestration" while he talks about these important topics.
A great big thank you goes out to Paige Stanley for sharing her knowledge with us!
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Sunshine, pasture, soil, and cows...this may be the package deal that fights climate change!
Paige Stanley explains how keeping cattle on pasture will cause the soil to lock away carbon. How much?...6.65 kilograms CO2 for every kilogram of beef...but when will we hear about it in the news or in our classrooms? The answer is when more research in this area is done. We also talk about land-sharing versus land-sparing strategies for food production and biodiversity. Listen as Tom struggles to say "adaptive multipaddock grazing" and "soil carbon sequestration" while he talks about these important topics.
A great big thank you goes out to Paige Stanley for sharing her knowledge with us!
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Dig Deeper:
Go ahead and download the original research from Michigan State using the link below. Consider this a starting point, where further research is needed in this area. Let's see what happens in the next few years...
Go ahead and download the original research from Michigan State using the link below. Consider this a starting point, where further research is needed in this area. Let's see what happens in the next few years...
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Episode 4: Talking About Cows and Climate (Part One)
How can we have constructive, accurate, and meaningful discussions about Canadian beef and its impact on the environment? Kincardine area environmentalist, farmer, and teacher Tom Franklin intends to find out. His guest is Dr. Frank Mitloehner from the University of California Davis. Dr. Mitloehner is a highly regarded climate scientist, and the world authority in the realm of agriculture and the warming of the Earth.
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How can we have constructive, accurate, and meaningful discussions about Canadian beef and its impact on the environment? Kincardine area environmentalist, farmer, and teacher Tom Franklin intends to find out. His guest is Dr. Frank Mitloehner from the University of California Davis. Dr. Mitloehner is a highly regarded climate scientist, and the world authority in the realm of agriculture and the warming of the Earth.
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Dig Deeper:
Dr. Cain (Oxford University) talks about short-lived climate pollutants in a snazzy video... Click here for the snazzy video
If you are really feelin' it, download the original journal article using the link below.
Dr. Cain (Oxford University) talks about short-lived climate pollutants in a snazzy video... Click here for the snazzy video
If you are really feelin' it, download the original journal article using the link below.
| A solution to the misrepresentations of... |
Episode 3: Lawns Gardens And Native Grasses With Art Wiebe
Are you dreaming of summer? Sunshine, the smell of burgers on the BBQ, and......yard work? in this episode you will be encouraged to rethink your lawn and to appreciate the intrinsic value of native grasses. Attention farmers and landowners...take Art up on his generous offer and grow some native grasses!
My thanks go out to Art Wiebe for enthusiastically sharing his knowledge and experience. It was my intention to honour him as a local champion for the natural world, and I sincerely hope that I have done so.
(Bobolink in grass photo David Watkins)
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Are you dreaming of summer? Sunshine, the smell of burgers on the BBQ, and......yard work? in this episode you will be encouraged to rethink your lawn and to appreciate the intrinsic value of native grasses. Attention farmers and landowners...take Art up on his generous offer and grow some native grasses!
My thanks go out to Art Wiebe for enthusiastically sharing his knowledge and experience. It was my intention to honour him as a local champion for the natural world, and I sincerely hope that I have done so.
(Bobolink in grass photo David Watkins)
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Episode 2: The Bobolink As A Notion
Thanks to Dr. Noah Perlut, Ray Ford, and Stan Eby for participating and being so generous with their time. Each of these men thoughtfully share their ideas about environmental stewardship and farming.
First we come to understand the world of a wildlife biologist, and as we do so we recognize the genuine interest and enthusiasm that Dr. Perlut has for the natural world and in particular the Bobolink. Next we meet Ray Ford, a farmer and writer who thoroughly describes his strategies for conservation haying and pasture management including the "songbird strip" . Later Stan Eby provides an interesting and informative account of the changes for the beef farmers of Bruce County and further abroad. Tom Franklin, the host of the People Nature Food Podcast, works to unpack the issue of the Bobolink as a threatened species in Ontario and how this relates to current farming practices.
(Bobolink In Grass Photo David Watkins)
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Thanks to Dr. Noah Perlut, Ray Ford, and Stan Eby for participating and being so generous with their time. Each of these men thoughtfully share their ideas about environmental stewardship and farming.
First we come to understand the world of a wildlife biologist, and as we do so we recognize the genuine interest and enthusiasm that Dr. Perlut has for the natural world and in particular the Bobolink. Next we meet Ray Ford, a farmer and writer who thoroughly describes his strategies for conservation haying and pasture management including the "songbird strip" . Later Stan Eby provides an interesting and informative account of the changes for the beef farmers of Bruce County and further abroad. Tom Franklin, the host of the People Nature Food Podcast, works to unpack the issue of the Bobolink as a threatened species in Ontario and how this relates to current farming practices.
(Bobolink In Grass Photo David Watkins)
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Don't "Wink In The Dark". Let others know that you maintain Bobolink habitat. Describe your practices and offer your farms' general location in an email to me...Tom Franklin. Some time I'd like to put together a map with all farms pinned to it, so that you know you are not alone in your efforts.
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Episode 1: Meet The River
Learn the significance of the Penetangore River to the first European Settlers in 1848, and how its natural state was almost immediately changed.
Are you ready for some facts? We'll review the geography of the area as a foundation for better understanding our "place".
Consider the watershed's most recent report card with Jo-Anne Harbinson from Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority .
What's missing? In a future podcast, I would like to examine the watershed before 1848. I think it will take some research, as the historical record focuses on locations to our north (Inverhuron, Port Elgin, Southampton, Saugeen First Nations, Owen Sound).
(Bobolink in grass photo David Watkins)
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Learn the significance of the Penetangore River to the first European Settlers in 1848, and how its natural state was almost immediately changed.
Are you ready for some facts? We'll review the geography of the area as a foundation for better understanding our "place".
Consider the watershed's most recent report card with Jo-Anne Harbinson from Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority .
What's missing? In a future podcast, I would like to examine the watershed before 1848. I think it will take some research, as the historical record focuses on locations to our north (Inverhuron, Port Elgin, Southampton, Saugeen First Nations, Owen Sound).
(Bobolink in grass photo David Watkins)
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