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Presenting: From Soil to Seeding Local Foods
Content:
- Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram
- Special Guests:
- Jason Grimm
- Malik Salsberry
- Ilsa DeWald
- April Lawyer
- Felicia Pieper
- Scott Koepke
Highlights
Join Emerson as they talk with the newest generation of GROW farmers, on why this work is meaningful, how food justice and food sovereignty overlap and depart, and what’s grown on site, beyond all of the vegetables. Emerson reflects on the relationships created and sustained through volunteer work, which takes them into the world of preserving fish pepper seeds, an ancestor of Black disability justice. Seeds are archives–stories rendered in biological form.
Conclusion
Food justice includes farm workers themselves, and the industry faces high rates of burnout exacerbated by uncertainty, low wages, and inaccessible land and/or markets. In early 2025 into 2026, food and farming operations witnessed devastating blows to federal funding, and creatively adapted to continue their core mission. Scott remembers Alfred Knapp.
Transcript
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Credits
Episode written and narrated by Emerson Cram, University of Iowa. Recorded with Riverside FM. Production and Sound Editing by Maura De Cicco.
All media clips are used for educational purposes only. Sound effects licensed through Pixabay.
Funding
Research, writing, and production have benefitted from generous support from multiple sources, including: the National Communication Association’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award; UI OVPR Arts and Humanities Initiative Standard Grant; UI Provost Investment in Strategic Priorities; UI College of Liberal Arts DSHB Humanities Scholar; CLAS Summer Humanities Award.
Special Thanks
With thanks to Maura De Cicco; University of Iowa Departments of Communication Studies, Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies (Especially Angie Looney, Kembrew McLeod, Eric Vázquez, Naomi Greyser, and Hallie Abelman); The Johnson County Local Food & Farm Team (Julie Watkins & Ilsa DeWald), State Historical Society of Iowa (especially Hang Nguyen, Allison Johnson, and Anu Tiwari); Sarah Keen, University Archivist, University of Iowa; V Fixmer-Oraiz, Johnson County Board of Supervisors; Kim Painter, Johnson County Recorder; Rebecca Dewing, Johnson County Historical Society; GROW Johnson County (especially Jason Grimm, Emmaly Renshaw and Malik Salsberry); the 2024 Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities Seminar Participants; Claire Fox; Teresa Mangum; Jennifer New; Phaedra C. Pezzullo; Constance Gordan; and Jesse Waggoner.
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