Episode Timeline:

00:00 - What is Mercedes relationship with farming?

02:20 Land Institute and work with Perennial Grains

03:30 What Regenerative Practices have you implemented on your farm?

08:30 Framing regenerative practices with climate solutions

10:00 What makes Mercedes want to be involved in agriculture

16:00 Kernza Poster, look at these roots.

18:00 Annual Monocrops and Insurance

19:00 Farm Bill

22:40 What made you want to farm in this particular way?

24:00 Intellectual Hootenanny

27:00 What has been the biggest barrier to regenerative and perennial agriculture.

29:00 Funding and Supply Chains

33:00 Plant Domestication

35:30 What setbacks has Mercedes experienced in regenerative and perennial agriculture

38:00 How should agriculture and food systems change in the next decade?

42:30 What advice does Mercedes have for farmers and ranchers interested in these practices.

46:00 Community Resilience Hub - Kansas Wesleyan

49:00 Soil is the Cradle of Life, the Highest Thing

Links:

Common Ground Producers and Growers

Next Gen Farming

Kansas Black Farmers Association

Kansas Farmer’s Union

Kansas Appleseed Article

The Land Institute

K-State Horticulture

NSAC - Farm Bill Platform

Prairie Ramblings Podcast

Kansas Rural Center Presents Podcasts

Kansas Rural Center’s Food and Farm Conference