Ventures of the Land
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The Ventures of the Land podcast is dedicated to allowing listeners to grow in their relationship with the land. So follow as I George Atwell talk with experts in the fields of conservation, land management, ecology, hunting, and regenerative agriculture.
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In this episode I have a late night talk with my father Bob Atwell about religion, economics, conservation, community and how they all relate. I also provide a reason and purpose for why I am doing this podcast and why I think it is important.
Tom Kertshcer is a journalist for the Wisconsin Watch. He has done a couple stories on the Ai Data centers in Wisconsin including one on stranded assets and one on Data center companies signing NDA's with local government.
Austin has spent most of his life figuring out what lead to the destruction of rural Iowa, the consolidation of farms and our food system as a whole. In this episode my father Bob Atwell and I discuss this matter with Austin. We focus heavy on what is happening in rural Wisconsin and how to keep it from becoming as bad as Iowa.
Joe Tomandil started an apprenticeship program for dairy grazing that mimics that of the trades. It attempts to solve two problems within agriculture. It gives people who are looking to get into agriculture a way to learn and people who looking for a successor but have none to find one. Joe and I talked about what the goals and process with this program is and his thoughts on how dairy grazing can be scaled.
The 765 powerline project is something people in Vernon and Crawford county Wisconsin have a lot of questions about and none of them seem to be being answered. In this episode I talk again with Travis Klinkner and Carl Volden about this powerline project.
1In this episode I talk with Matt Rinella from the Hunt Quietly podcast. Matt and I talked about the current state of the hunting entertainment industry predominately some of effects of hunting influencers and the companies that sponsor them.
In this episode I discuss the possible project that would put massive powerlines through the heart of the driftless area of Wisconsin. I talk about this with a local organic dairy farmer Travis Kilnker.
In this episode I talk with Will Harris from White Oak Pastures. We discus a lot about the regenerative agriculture movement and Will's own motivations for the way he farms.
In this episode I talk with Dr. Patrick Keyser on grazing native warm season pasture. Dr. Patrick is highly nonweldable in pretty much all things native warm season grasses and has studied them for a very long time.
In this episode I talk with Dr. Randy Jackson about the Grassland 2.0 project. The project focuses and aims to facilitate an agricultural system based on perennial grasslands.
In this episode I talk with Mat Williams about the relationship between deer and fungi. He studies this topic and has started his own mushroom food plot company called MycoHabitat.
In this episode I discuss the basics of prairie with Chris Helzer. Chris is known as the prairie ecologist largely as a result of his blog. His blog focuses on discussing all things prairie.
In this episode I talk with Thomas Mlsna founder and owner of The Untamed Ambition. We talk about what sustainable and holistic management looks like in the world of whitetail land management. We discuss some of the common beliefs in the industry that can be misleading and some way to improve upon those.
In this episode I discus water quality and the importance of rural communities with Buzz Sorgie. Buzz is a retired Wisconsin DNR limnologist. Buzz worked on water quality for the majority of his career and towards the end focused on the idea of building back rural communities and how that can greatly effect the quality of our natural resources.
In this episode I discuss with Albert from Vitalize seed his past in food plotting and what got him into the Idea of a soil building food plot/cover crop company.
In this episode I talk a bit about one thing people need to understand about conservation.
In this episode I delve into the world of prairie with Nicholas Lirio and Kent Boucher from The Prairie Farm Podcast and Hoksey Native Seed. These two dudes were a blast to talk with and I hope you guys in joy the episode.
In this episode I have a great discussion with Mary C Anderson with the Wisconsin DNR about conservation grazing. Conservation grazing focuses on the needs of the land and then the needs of the farmer second. It is a wonderful practice and I hope you guys get to learn a lot from this episode.
In this episode I talk with Brian Kozlowski from Ideal Land management. We discuss prairie planting techniques as well as the type of work Ideal Land Management does.
In this episode I discuss food trees for your deer hunting with Ryan Haines from Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery. Food trees are a great sustainable and easy way to provide food for deer and other wildlife.
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