MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Power Metal: Recycling, Repair, and Re-Imagining Energy and Beyond with Vince Beiser In this episode I sit down with Vince Beiser, whose book Power Metal:…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL The Complexity of Simplicity with Jill Winger This is a salty conversation and it’s also the kind of conversation that cracks you wide open. I sit…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Basins of Relations: Water, Fire, Beavers, and Beyond with Brock Dolman WHOOEE. Brock Dolman, folks, in this episode is weaving together all sorts of things…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL An Ecology of Movement with Katy Bowman In this episode, I sit down with Katy Bowman. First, a long on-ramp to the episode where I talk…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL The Wood Age: Humans and the Forests That Made Them Human with John Perlin In this episode of the podcast I sit down with John Perlin,…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   NAFTA is in All of Our Bodies: Corn, Policy, and Health with Alyshia Gálvez In this episode, I sit down with anthropologist Alyshia Gálvez to…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Embedded in Earth’s Story: Geology, Rocks, and Time with Marcia Bjornerud In this week’s episode, I sit down with geologist Marcia Bjornerud to talk about her…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Sh*t, Shipping, and Blood: Upending Taboos and Exploring the Ignored with Rose George Rose George is the author of four fantastic books (Nine Pints, Ninety…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Celebration of Hands, Creativity, and Business with Mariele Ivy Mariele Ivy is an artist. Known for her work in making jewelry and in lapidary, she…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Weaving a New Vision for American Manufacturing and Rural Resilience with Steven Kurutz Steven Kurutz grew up in a town of 1500 people in the…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Complexity, Cooperation, and Beauty – A New Story for Earth with Ferris Jabr In this episode, Kate sits down with author Ferris Jabr, whose book Becoming…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   the Cold Chain: How Refrigeration Changed… well… Everything with Nicola Twilley In this episode, Kate sits down with author and co-host of the Gastropod Podcast,…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Inescapable Reckoning: Our Relationship with Consumption with John Vaillant In this episode of the Ground Work podcast, Kate sits down with author John Vaillant to begin…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Choosing What to Carry Into the Future: Cate Havstad-Casad is Sowing Change with Regenerative Leather Cate Havstad-Casad is leading the revolution in supply chains that…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Planetary Pulse of Connection: Exploring the Ocean, Science, and Beyond with Helen Czerski HELEN CZERSKI is a physicist with a background in bubbles and experimental…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Dust: Salvage, Water, and Hope for the Modern World with Jay Owens In this episode, Kate sits down with author Jay Owens to talk about her…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   The Tapestry of American Manufacturing with Rachel Slade In this episode, Kate sits down with author and journalist Rachel Slade to discuss her books Making…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL We are Just Bodies Bodying: Exploring Skin, Touch, and Love with May Lindstrom In this week’s episode Kate sits down with the lovely, the ineffable, the…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Finding a Way Beyond Away: Re-Imagining Infrastructure with Deb Chachra In this episode, materials scientist and engineering professor Deb Chachra shares about infrastructure. Her book ‘How…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Seeing the Unseen: How Sand Builds Our World with Vince Beiser Sand. It’s everywhere and it’s foundational to the built and digital worlds, yet we rarely…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Episode 77: Our Relationship to Our Resources: A Solo Episode with Kate Kavanaugh Our relationship to resources shapes the world. Our food, our clothing, our…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL How to Be Animal with Melanie Challenger In this episode of the podcast, Kate sits down with author and poet Melanie Challenger to discuss her two…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Episode 75: Building an Agriculture We Can Live In with Cole Mannix In this episode, I (Kate Kavanaugh) sit down with Cole Mannix of Old…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL The Gravity of Risk and the Potential of Opportunities: Regenerative Agriculture Businesses with Robby Sansom Robby Sansom is one of the founders of Force of Nature…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Episode 73: Your Fertility is Your Health: Real Food for Fertility with Lily Nichols, RDN Lily Nichols returns to the podcast to discuss what it…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Circular Economies and Linear Infrastructure: the Complex Interplay of Roads, Beavers, and Ecosystems with Ben Goldfarb In this episode, Kate sits down with author Ben Goldfarb…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Episode 70: Dream: The Art and Science of Slumber with Scott Carney Scott Carney makes his second appearance on the podcast to talk about his…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL What Are the Stories We Tell and the Stories We Don’t Tell and Why? The Cost of Free Land with Rebecca Clarren In this episode Kate…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL   Episode 67: The Phosphorus Paradox: Fertilizing Our Future or Fueling Our Folly? With Dan Egan   In this episode, Kate is joined by Dan Egan,…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Episode 66: We are the Drivers of Our Species’ Tomorrows with Cat Bohannon This week, Kate sits down with author Cat Bohannan to talk about her…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL 10% Human with Alanna Collen How do we begin to explore and illustrate the multi-factorial complexity that surrounds us? This has become one of the guiding…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL From Smokejumping to Garlic Farming and Everything in Between with Rob Krapfel Rob Krapfel has been challenging himself for a long time. Whether teaching himself how…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL 10% Human with Alanna Collen How do we begin to explore and illustrate the multi-factorial complexity that surrounds us? This has become one of the guiding…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Exploring the Mystery + Embracing the Unknown with Fred Provenza Over the course of a couple of months, Fred and I spent a lot of time…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Becoming Edible: Aliveness, Death, and the Invisible Dimension with Dr. Andreas Weber Andreas Weber has studied marine biology and cultural systems alongside his work with theoretical…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Cook your way to an Economy of Peace with Cate Havstad Cased Cate Havstad-Casad is redefining what it means to be a holistic entrepreneur. Using her…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Staying Human is the Greatest Skill with Daniel Vitalis As the digital world looms, this discussion is an exploration of built and natural worlds and how…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Leaving our Children Shade with Katie Forrester Katie Forrest, together with her husband Taylor Collins, is the founder of Epic Bar and one of the minds…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Increasing Connection + Sensation with Adrian Grenier So many of us have had the experience of nature, of farming, bringing us back to ourselves. Adrian Grenier’s…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Bringing Death Home with Heidi Boucher Heidi Boucher is a home funeral guide and writer and director of the documentary ‘In the Parlor’ where she follows…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL How the Stimulus of Death Shapes Our Responses to Life with Scott Carney Scott Carney’s book ‘the Wedge’ changed my life a little bit, and it…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Choosing The Stories We Tell Ourselves with Caroline Nelson Quick Note: A technical glitch in new recording software meant that my audio was recorded not on…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Technology, Processed Food, and Thumbs Make Us Human (But not in the ways you might think)…. with Dr. Bill Schindler Dr. Bill Schindler is an experimental…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Start a Farm: Can Raw Cream Save the World? with Blair Prenoveau Blair is a farmer, a mother, a homeschooler, a milkmaid, a renegade. On this…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Hero’s Journey for Humanity: Death in the Garden with Maren Morgan and Jake Marquez Maren Morgan and Jake Marquez are on a journey to find…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL The Discipline/Pleasure Axis and Coming Home to Farming with Alex Rosenberg-Rigutto Alex Rosenberg-Rigutto could not be defined by a single metric, maybe other than to say…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Episode 44: Where do the Food Lies begin? Searching for Sapien Wisdom with Bria Sanders Brian Sanders is the brain behind the upcoming film series Food…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL A 30,000 Foot View of Our Food, Health, and Education System (aka the Sanitization, Medicalization, and Technification of Nearly Everything) with James Connolly James Connolly is…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Episode 41: Turning the Hard Work of Farmers into Food with Anna Borgman Anna Borgman is a butcher, slaughterwoman, ardent reader, and curious student of life.…

MIND, BODY, &  SOIL Finding Nourishment in Liver, Ancestral Lifeways, and Goats with Dr. Suuzi Hazen Dr. Suuzi Hazen is a wife, mother, farmer and healer who raises goats in…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Nutrient Dense Whole Foods for Pre-Conception, Pregnancy, and Beyond with Lily Nichols, RDN Lily Nichols, RDN is shifting the paradigm on what it means to eat…

BODY +  SOIL Talking Turkey: From Animal Monoculture to Biodiversity with Frank Reese and Jed Greenberg In this special ‘Thanksgiving’ episode, Frank Reese and Jed Greenberg of Good Shepherd Conservancy…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL What Does the Soil Say About What is Possible? From Soil to Spirit to the Feminine with Molly Haviland Molly Haviland is a soil microbial ecologist…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Why Are Animals Essential to Our Food System? The Tangible + Intangible Benefits with Nicolette Hahn Niman Nicolette Hahn Niman is an environmental lawyer, a former…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Meat is the Medicine: Healing Ulcerative Colitis with Brett Ender Themes: Healing Chronic Illness, Animal-Based Diets, Intersection of Big Food and Big Pharma, Decentralization of Systems,…

 MIND + BODY After the Summit: Climbing Mt. Rainier with Erin Pata In May, Erin Pata and I sat down and talked about ranching, art, raising kids, and climbing mountains.…

BODY + SOIL How Soil Shapes the World: Healing Land and Reclaiming Health with Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery Anne Biklé and Dave Montgomery are a husband and wife…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL Farming in Collaboration with the Earth + Cosmos with China Tresemer of Hiyu Wine Farm China Tresemer is at once writer, artist, winemaker, farmer, and something…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Exploring the Nature of Paradox with Brandi Stanley Brandi Stanley is a walking and talking paradox and you are, too. This episode is a long-form podcast…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Search for the Natural State of Health, Farming, and Beyond with Dr. Anthony Gustin Dr. Anthony Gustin is a man leveraging his curiosity to find…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Process of Reclamation: Farming, Family, and Beyond with Tara Couture This is an episode you won’t want to miss, chock full of conversations around rightness,…

SOIL Building Resilient Communities, Ecosystems, and Businesses with Will Harris of White Oak Pastures Will Harris of White Oak Pastures is a 5th generation rancher in Bluffton, Georgia. Will switched…

 MIND – BODY Regulating Your Nervous System to Deepen Your Connection Pt 2 with Irene Lyon In this episode, Irene Lyon breaks down not just the fundamentals of the nervous…

 MIND – BODY Regulating Your Nervous System to Deepen Your Connection Pt 1 with Irene Lyon In this episode, Irene Lyon breaks down not just the fundamentals of the nervous…

 MIND, BODY, & SOIL A Curious Journey Into the Mineral Matrix with Hamid Jabbar Your mineral status is reflected in the mineral status of the soils, of your mother, and…

BODY – SOIL The Dark Matter of Nutrition: Looking at Biodiversity and Agroecology in the Data with Dr. Stephan van Vliet Dr. Stephan van Vliet is at the forefront of…

MIND – BODY Building Strength from the Inside Out with Ashleigh VanHouten Ashleigh VanHouten is at the center of exploring muscles – both building them and eating them. Author of…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Meat + Health, An Interview of Kate from the This Plus That Podcast Brandi Stanley, who is an incredible interviewer and explorer of paradox, was generous…

MIND Cultivating Curiosity and Learning to Think Critically with Will Reusch Will Reusch has 16 years of experience as a high school teacher – first in a public school in…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Learning to Come Home to Yourself with Lacey Jean Lacey Jean is. Lacey Jean is many things, a polymath at heart, at once butcher, mobile processor,…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Finding Fertility Through an Ancestral Diet + Practices with Sarah Kleiner Sarah Kleiner has been on a health journey and each leap she has made has…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Decentralization 101: A Look at the Similarities Between Bitcoin and Beef with Tristan Scott Tristan Scott wants to figure out where beef and bitcoin overlap –…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL How to Find Ecological Literacy in an Age of Disconnection with Bobby Gill This episode unpacks the relationships between all things, taking a systems view of…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Quantum Interconnections with Carrie Bennett Carrie Bennett is unveiling the interconnectedness between us and our environment. Exploring health and connection through the lens of quantum biology,…

SOIL Forest to Home with Katrina Amaral We follow the journey of a log from forest to home with Katrina Amaral of Timberdoodle Farm. Have you ever wondered where the…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Carnivore-ish with Beth Lipton Beth Lipton isn’t just a food writer, recipe developer, and advocate for regenerative agriculture – she is also one of the authors…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Journey to the Summit with Erin Pata Erin Pata is one of those people whose journey makes you deeply consider your own life’s journey. Her journey…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Collecting Skills with Josh Curtiss In this episode, Kate takes a step outside of her relationship with her husband and really gets curious about what makes…

BODY + SOIL Salt of the Earth with Nancy Bruns “You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi.    Salt…

MIND + BODY Innate Magic with Chelsea Connor Chelsea Connor is one of those people who exudes the kind of magic that leads you back home to yourself. Combining science,…

BODY + SOIL Tides of Time and Oysters with Lissa Monberg Lissa Monberg is a fifth generation farmer in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where she is steward to Hama Hama Oysters…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Chasing Water with Heather Hansman Heather Hansman knows a thing or two about water. Adventurer, writer, and journalist, Heather Hansman embarked on a journey some years…

MIND + BODY Liquid Gold + Living Out Your Dharma with Lynn Goodwin and Kim Welch Lynn Goodwin and Kim Welch are helping others connect to their health, the land,…

BODY + SOIL Chewing the Fat with Brad Marshall Brad Marshall knows a thing or two about fat. Farmer, butcher, chef, and molecular biologist; Brad has looked at fat through…

MIND + SOIL Reciprocal Living with Shele Jessee Shele Jessee is a polymath. Rancher, shepherd, tanner, fashion designer, entrepreneur, and beyond, Shele Jessee of Hollow Bone shares a peek into…

BODY + SOIL Farming with Intention with Alicia Brown Alicia Brown is rooted in intention and it translates to every aspect of her farm, Edible Uprising, in Troy, NY. In…

MIND + BODY the Strenuous Life with Ed Roberson Ed Roberson, host of the Mountain and Prairie podcast and Conservation Director at the Palmer Land Conservancy, shares his journey through…

MIND, BODY, & SOIL Laying the Ground Work with Kate Kavanaugh In this inaugural solo episode, I cover my personal journey while weaving in the themes of mind, body, and…