Heritage Breeds

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Hereford heritage pig.

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends podcast, our conversation circles around Heritage breeds, why we love them, need to save them, and why we eat them.

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Hank Will
is a business leader, academic, and agricultural practitioner devoted to conservation and small scale, sustainable agriculture. He’s currently the editor-at-large at Ogden Publications in Topeka, Kansas, publishers of titles such as GritCapper’s FarmerMother Earth NewsFarm Collector and many other print and digital properties. Hank’s small-scale, high-cash-flow farming experience spans more than four decades, with plant and animal crops as varied as native perennials and heirloom laying chickens. His current project, Prairie Turnip Farm in rural Osage County, Kansas, is home to direct-market Highland beef, landrace lamb, soap, feral bee, hay, and metal-working businesses. Hank has also authored or co-authored 9 books and hundreds of articles. He enjoys maintaining open-pollinated corn varieties his great-grandfather developed in Bismarck, Dakota Territory, under the Oscar H. Will & Co. brand.

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Carla Tilghman and Jessica Mitchell
Charlotte French
Music by Zack Slaten

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