Farm to Taber is a show about the inner guts of the food system, and what it takes to make work sustainably. Wherever that takes us—science, history, tech, culture, policy, marketing, psychology, design, and more— Farm to Taber goes there.
https://soundcloud.com/farm-to-taber-podcast
2.2 Backed Up Like an Alabama Sh*t Train
This episode takes us on a brief global history of biochar and poop. Listen and find out what sewage history has to do with warfare, early globalization, organic certification, and beer. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/farm-to-taber-podcast RSS subscribe: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:432549147/sounds.rss Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560 Donate: https://paypal.me/farmtotaber Twitter: https://twitter.com/farmtotaberpod?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarmToTaber/ Sources: Alabama Shit Train: “A ‘poop train’ from New York befouled a small Alabama town, until the town fought back.” Erin Shaw Street, Washington Post, 20 April 2018 England and China handled human waste very differently: Dean Ferguson, “Nightsoil and the ‘Great Divergence’: human waste, the urban economy, and economic productivity, 1500-1900” in Journal of Global History, 2014, 9(3):379-402 Justus von Liebig quote about England being a “vampire upon the breast of Europe” Coprolite mining http://www.bedfordshiregeologygroup.org.uk/leaflets/BLGGCoprolites.pdf Terra preta & what it’s made of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311424/ Beer history/IPA made possible by coke (basically biochar made from coal): Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature 1893 Guano islands off of Peru: https://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islands