ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Dirt Smart brings bold conversations with the farmers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are rethinking how food is grown, how land is cared for, and how technology is shaping the future of our food systems. No fluff. No jargon. Just bold ideas, hard-earned insights, and real-world stories from real people doing the work.From soil health to ag tech, climate resilience to farm entrepreneurship, we dig into the challenges and breakthroughs shaping the future of food and the planet.If you're a grower, a builder, or just someone who gives a damn — you're in the right place.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
68 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
16 episodes
since July 15, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this special episode the host of Dirt Smart sits in the interview chair and is interviewed by Dirt Smart Producer, Ty Paxton.
Ben’s story begins on his family’s 130-year-old tree fruit farm in Kent, southeast of London. It’s where he learned the rhythm of farming — the grit, the rewards, and the…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Jason Tarry spent more than three decades inside Tesco, UK's largest retailer. He rose from graduate trainee to the CEO and he's shaped how Britain shops, eats, and thinks about value. Few leaders understand the full chain from field to fork like Jason. He knows farming, he knows food, an…
Imagine scanning every tree in your orchard - blossom to harvest - and knowing with confidence what you will grow, harvest, the amount to sell, and where to send labor. In this episode we meet the founder making this crystal ball a reality for farmers across four continents.
Jenny Lemieux is the C…
In this episode we dive into the post-harvest world with Kailan Dunn, President & CEO of H.R. Spinner - one of the largest fruit packaging companies in the United States selling over 100 million boxes every year.
Since 1916 H.R. Spinner has been an industry-leading company enabling tree fruit …
Tyler Price is a Stanford educated CEO leading one of the largest fruit growing and packing companies in Washington State, Price Cold Storage and Packing Company. A fourth generation family business that's been in operation for nearly a century, Tyler is leading the company into the future wit…
Steve Saunders has built businesses in almost every link in the horticulture chain - pre harvest, post harvest, branded produce, and innovative robotics. He's helped entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and investors connect long before agricultural robotics even entered the picture. Now, Steve…
Caine Thompson is Head of Sustainability at O'Neill Vintners and Distillers. A regenerative wine pioneer who is rewriting what sustainability looks like in viticulture, Caine is helping O'Neill steward their grapes toward a future where wine is not only world class, but also climate posit…
Paul Mikesell is a visionary technologist and a serial founder who has set up multiple billion dollar businesses. He is now proving that robotics, AI and farming can co-evolve and at scale.
As the founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics he has built a company that is zapping billions of weeds without t…
Michael (Mike) Roy is a farmer who leads a century-old hop farming business in Yakima, Washington and is one of the largest independent hop growers in the world. What started as a ten acre farm in 1907, Roy Farms is trusted among the smallest craft outfits to the largest brewery giants. This episod…
Austin Allred runs Royal Family Farms in Washington State, a 20,000 acre operation and home to the largest worm farm in the world. His 7.5 acre bio-filtration worm system processes nearly 400,000 gallons of wastewater every day, recycling into clean irrigation water. and producing valuable worm cas…
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