The Bottlenecks for Regenerative Ag with Jon Lundgren

About this episode

Peter Byck interviews Dr. Jon Lundgren about the challenges in regenerative agriculture.

Peter sits down with Dr. Jon Lundgren, an ambitious scientist and a farmer who has been part of our team since 2013, when he worked with Peter to assemble the research team featured in the docuseries Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there). Dr. Lundgren is an agroecologist, Director of the ECDYSIS Foundation, and CEO for Blue Dasher Farm. He received his PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004, and was a top scientist with USDA-ARS for 11 years before r...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Byck

Guest: Dr. Jon Lundgren

Topics covered

• regenerative agriculture
• agroecology
• entomology
• sustainable farming
• scientific research

Keywords

• regenerative agriculture
• agroecologist
• entomology
• sustainable farming
• research team

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ECDYSIS Foundation, Blue Dasher Farm, USDA-ARS

Books & works: Roots So Deep

Places: University of Illinois

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