Reviving Landrace Staple Crops with Glenn Roberts from Anson Mills

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Glenn Roberts discussing the revival of traditional landrace staple crops.

Glenn Roberts is the founder of Anson Mills, an extraordinary project to bring traditional landrace staple crops back from the brink of extinction in his part of the humid south eastern USA. This interview digs into how he achieved such an extraordinary feat, looking for clues to how others could follow his example in their own bioregions. Read much more about Anson Mills here: https://ansonmills.com/ Sign up to Recombination Nation on Substack for free weekly articles: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

People in this episode

Host: Shane Simonsen

Guest: Glenn Roberts

Topics covered

• landrace crops
• sustainable agriculture
• bioregions
• traditional farming
• food preservation

Keywords

• landrace
• Anson Mills
• sustainable farming
• agriculture
• food security

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anson Mills

Books & works: Taming the Apocalypse

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