Presenting: Hot Farm – Grain of the Future

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re sharing an episode from a new podcast called Hot Farm. It’s from our friends at the Food & Environment Reporting Network. The podcast is about what farmers are doing – or could be doing – to take on climate change. In this episode, we’ll hear about the crops farmers actually grow. And we’ll explore the question, Can that change? Because as the world gets hotter and the weather more extreme, we’ll have to reimagine what we sow and harvest — and also what we eat. It won’t be easy. Check out the rest of the series on Spotify or thefern.org. Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:04.2	I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the podcast where we talk about what we need to do to address
0:07.6	climate change and how we make those things happen.
0:15.8	Hello, everyone.
0:25.3	So if you've been listening to our show for a while, you've heard us talk about agriculture
0:29.9	quite a bit, and that's because nearly 11% of U.S. emissions come from agriculture.
0:36.0	It is a big part of the climate problem, and this week we're going to be hearing about
0:40.0	one potential solution to at least part of this problem.
0:43.0	It comes from our friends at the Food and Environment Reporting Network.
0:48.2	They have a podcast called Hot Farm, which we are going to be sharing with you today.
0:53.0	And this episode of Hot Farm is about one potential solution to the agricultural emissions
0:57.8	problem, and to understand the solution, just think for a minute about what we grow
1:02.9	here in the United States and in a lot of the world.
1:05.5	A lot of our agricultural land is devoted to two crops, corn and wheat.
1:12.6	Corn and wheat are the staples for many, many, many delicious things that I love to eat,
1:17.7	corn chips, corn on the cob, croissants, cakes, cookies, bread, of course, all of that
1:22.8	contains corn and wheat, but corn and wheat, the way it is grown here in the United States
1:26.1	and other places can have a pretty big environmental toll and a pretty big carbon toll.
1:31.2	Enter a new grain, cornza.
1:34.9	Cornza is a wheat grass crop that can be used the same way that grains like corn and wheat
1:39.6	are used, but unlike corn and wheat, cornza is perennial, so it grows back on its own every
1:46.4	year.
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