The Prairie Farm Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nicolas Lirio & Kent Boucher
Retired water scientist Chris Jones (author of The Swine Republic and now Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture) joins Kent and Nicolas to talk nitrate, tile, and crop dusting. His pitch for Iowa transition a million corn acres to pasture, oats, prairie, and pollinator habitat, and finally treat clean water as a right.
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Coffee Time Wednesday takes on the world on fire in August 2026, from Oregon's largest wildfire ever to France's biggest evacuations since World War Two. Kent, Nick, and Riley dig into fire suppression, invasive fuel loads, lost grazers, and why some landscapes are becoming unlivable. Also... broccoli for breakfast.
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Join us as we welcome Zach Lahn back to the Prairie Farm Podcast. We dive into Iowa's rich history, the urgent need to address water quality and cancer rates, and practical incentives for regenerative agriculture. Zach shares his vision for keeping young Iowans home and revitalizing our public schools.
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Join Nicolas, Riley, and special guest Nick Moats as they dive into the realities of farm insurance, food supply chains, and the value of sitting still in a deer stand. Plus, the guys discuss late-summer prairie blooms and announce an extremely limited release of hand-harvested wild strawberry seeds.
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Peter Byck, director of Carbon Nation and Rooted So Deep, joins The Prairie Farm Podcast to discuss the massive benefits of AMP grazing. We explore how regenerative practices build soil health, boost farm profitability, bring back wildlife, and why huge corporations are funding independent science to secure resilient food supply chains.
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Join Nicolas, Kent, and guest Aaron Van Wyk for Coffee Time Wednesday as they dive into the environmental impact of massive wildfires and the looming Colorado River drought. They explore the delicate balance between human infrastructure and nature’s limits, questioning how society adapts to extreme environmental challenges.
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Join Nicolas and Riley as they sit down with Ruth McCabe, Conservation Manager at Heartland Cooperative. They dive into the realities of agricultural conservation, why certain practices work in other countries but struggle in Iowa, the balance of economics and environment, and why there’s no single scapegoat for water quality.
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Join Nicolas, Kent, and Riley on this Coffee Time Wednesday as they discuss the hidden impact of agricultural chemical drift on native oaks. The guys also explore the massive surge in native plant popularity and why people are choosing prairies over lawns.
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Kevin Kincaid, CEO of Knoxville Hospital and Clinics, joins Nicolas and Kent. Kevin shares about his time serving on a nuclear submarine during the Cold War and dives deep into the complexities of rural healthcare, hospital funding, and the future of medicine in America.
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Join the Prairie Farm Podcast crew on a road trip as we dive into the origins and natural predators of invasive prairie weeds. Smooth Brome, Sericea Lespedeza, Canada Thistle, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Wild Parsnip, and discover what keeps these prolific plants at bay in their native ranges.
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Join Nicolas and Kent as they sit down with Elizabeth and Loren Steele from Hamilton Native Outpost. They discuss the incredible nutritional benefits of prairie-raised beef, managing native grazing systems, and why diverse plant communities build healthier livestock and landscapes.
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Join Nicolas, Kent, and Riley for this week's Coffee Time as they dive into the latest Farm Bill updates, extending CRP through 2031, and exciting new cost-share opportunities for prairie burning and grazing. Plus, the guys discuss America’s billion-dollar littering problem and what it costs the USA.
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Join Kent and Nicolas as they welcome Travis Hall, Associate Editor of Field & Stream, to discuss public land advocacy, the roadless rule, and why protecting our wild spaces requires active participation from hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts everywhere.
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Skip Sligh returns to The Prairie Farm Podcast to discuss the harsh realities of modern land stewardship. From the challenge of hunting mature whitetails to combating the rise in rural poaching and managing vulnerable acreage, Skip offers an honest, grounded look at what it takes to protect Iowa’s native habitats.
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Join Nicolas and Kent for another Coffee Time Wednesday! This week, they share their harrowing adventures with old farm equipment, the realities of harvesting native seeds, and dive into a deep discussion on the changing economics of dairy farming and agricultural labor. Grab your coffee and tune in!
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Join us as Dr. Larry Weber from the University of Iowa discusses the critical intersection of water quality and public health. We explore off-grid living, the importance of native prairie in conservation, and the growing nitrate crisis in Iowa’s waterways. Discover how informed communities can protect our shared water resources.
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We answer the following prairie questions in the second half of our FAQ miniseries.
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What is the best way to broadcast both large and small seeds evenly?
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What is the role of prescribed burning in long-term prairie maintenance?
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Will the native plants spread and fill in over time?
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What do I do about reed’s canary grass?
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What do I do about Canada Thistle?
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What do I do about brushy encroachment?
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What do I do about Brome in my prairie?
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What do I do about Big Bluestem that is taking over?
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Can I interseed flowers back into my prairie?
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Matt Hatala of Prairie Rose Farms shares his unlikely path from adoption and military service to raising pasture pork in Iowa. He discusses regenerative hog production, farm marketing, local food systems, water quality, animal welfare, and why rebuilding agriculture requires courage, transparency, and healthier relationships with land, community, and risk.
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In this Coffee Time episode, Nicolas, Kent, and Riley debate whether the Midwest really feeds the world, dig into commodity calories, exports, food security, environmental tradeoffs, and what prairie, local food, grazing, and conservation minded choices might mean for Iowa’s future.
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Hal Herring joins The Prairie Farm Podcast to unpack American Prairie, grazing permits, public lands, ranching culture, and the hard history behind conservation in the West.
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In part 1 of our FAQ mini series, we answer the following questions.
- How long does it take for a prairie planting to become established?
- How do I prepare the site for planting?
- Is tilling or breaking up the soil recommended before planting?
- When is the best time of year to sow native prairie seeds?
- How do I handle maintenance (mowing) in the first year?
- How high should I mow in the first two years, and when should I stop?
- Should I water or fertilize my newly planted prairie?
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Andrew Di Alessandro of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service joins the Prairie Farm Podcast to discuss Neil Smith Refuge, prairie restoration, prescribed fire, bison and elk grazing, private lands conservation, funding challenges, and how landowners can connect money, recreation and legacy to meaningful habitat work across Iowa and Illinois.
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On this Coffee Time episode, Nicolas and Kent crack into the global nut industry (forgive the pun), from California almonds and pistachios to pecans, cashews, and peanuts. They talk water use, pollination, pricing, supply chains, and why legumes might matter more in native prairie establishment than we usually give them credit for here.
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Another of Doug Duren's quarterly episodes where we have a wide ranging conversation on turkey habitat, savanna restoration, Aldo Leopold, chainsaw stories, and native landscapes. The crew digs into why habitat is the answer, why native plants matter, and how restoring prairie brings back birds, bugs, and the wildness we need.
Senior Environmental Scientist for EOR Kevin Griggs joins us to talk reed canary grass, wetland restoration, Iowa water quality, tile drainage, data centers, and the hard truth behind conservation work. His conservation conversation is practical, honest, and hopeful.
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This week on Coffee Time Wednesday, we dig into everything shaking up commodity markets heading into summer. It's complicated with a lot of nuance, so grab your coffee cup, and let's jump in!
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Mark Schneider, development and marketing manager of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, joins the Prairie Farm Podcast to talk about the real Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and how he became the "world's first celebrity".
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We dig into two big conservation stories... the Trump administration's memo opening select national park lands and wildlife refuges to hunting, and the BLM's decision to revoke American Prairie Reserve's bison grazing leases. We weigh both sides honestly and talk about what it means for the long game.
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Travis Frank, host of The Flush TV show and podcast, joins Kent, and Nicolas in Minnesota for a wide-ranging conversation on upland bird hunting and habitat. From Iowa pheasants and Kansas quail restoration to hunting dogs and conservation philosophy, this one covers a lot of ground worth covering.
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Nicolas, Kent, and Riley break in the new studio with a conversation about society's spring lawn routine. They dig into No Mow May, what actually started it, what a 2023 peer review found, and which common lawn weeds genuinely help native bees.
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Keith Horn stopped for coffee and a donut on his way mushroom hunting. A real estate sign a block away changed the course of his life. The 50 acres he bought in 2001 turned out to be the most diverse prairie we have ever seen, hosting 665 native species across five prairie types.
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Trees cut depression by a third, reduce crime, and make people spend more money. That's what the research says. Then the team brings a brand new Nature Medicine study linking Tordon herbicide to early-onset colorectal cancer, and the maps are nearly identical.
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Johnathon Swanson from Polk County Conservation joins Nicolas and Kent talk about Iowa's water quality crisis. They dig into tile drainage, nitrates, saturated buffers, constructed wetlands, and what's actually working on the ground. Plus data centers, farm diversification, and quail nostalgia.
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A new ISU study is shaking up how we think about prairies. It turns out pollinators don't just need the prairie, the prairie needs them back. Kent, Nicolas, and Riley dig into what declining pollinator populations mean for plant diversity, then shift to the Boundary Waters mining fight and what's actually at stake ecologically.
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Val Van Kooten, administrator at the State of Iowa Historical Society, returns for her third episode. The conversation digs into pioneer journal entries, pre-tractor farm life, an April Fool's fact-or-fiction game, the phenomenon of declinism, claim jumper clubs, and what autonomous tractors might do to Midwest culture.
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This week on Coffee Time Wednesday Nicolas breaks down what would actually happen if the Corn Belt set aside 10% of its acres for conservation. Using over 40 sources, he walks through the county level economics of lost grain sales, higher commodity prices, hunting revenue, and CRP payments. The math might surprise you.
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Thomas Mlsna is a habitat consultant and biologist who's spent 16 years rethinking how hunters manage land. In this episode, he breaks down the deer food pyramid, makes the case for smaller food plots in smarter locations, connects native plant diversity to EHD prevention, and challenges the entire model of chemical-heavy whitetail land management.
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Grab your coffee folks, it's time for another Coffee Time Wednesday!
This week Nicolas, Kent, and Riley kick off Coffee Time debating whether Nicolas's cargo pocket jeans are fashion-forward or a complete disaster. From there the guys swap their best farm mistakes. Tractors buried in mud, discs wrapped around power poles, and $5,000 worth of hand-collected seed dumped on gravel. Then the crew digs into the US Forest Service's move from DC to Salt Lake City and what it might really mean for conservation.
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Molly Pickering, Policy Director for Illinois Stewardship Alliance, joins Nicolas and Kent for a wide-ranging conversation on what's actually broken in America's food system. From monopoly meat packers to cottage food laws to pesticide drift hitting small farms, Molly brings the policy perspective that most farmers never get to hear.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
The Nebraska Sandhills just went through the largest wildfire in state history. What does that mean for the prairie and the cattle on that prairie?
Then the conversation shifts to Iowa's water. Two new reports just tied nitrates and pesticides to Iowa's extremely high cancer rate. Who's responsible? Who pays?
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Ray Geroff is a district heritage biologist for the Illinois DNR and has burned over 100,000 acres of prairie. 3,900 were just the day before the podcast. In Episode 344, Kent and Nicolas break down burn safety, proper weather windows, what each season of fire does to your landscape, using fire against sericea and brome, and what happens when a prairie never burns. This is burning 101 from someone who does it for a living every single year.
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Nicolas and Kent start this one recanting how a man tried to steal two tractors from them through their recent farm auction. Tim Brown, The Bearded Uplander, is back, and this one gets real fast. His bird dog Mac nearly died from a grass awn that migrated through his body — and it happens way more than people think. The guys break down which wild ryes are dangerous for hunting dogs, how to protect them at the tailgate, and then get into building pheasant habitat that actually works. Informative, honest, and a little terrifying if you run a bird dog.
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Eddie Andrews joins us to discuss the riff between republicans and democrats in Iowa, property taxes, school ESA's, and of course water quality. We enjoyed this conversation and believe you will as well!
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Kent, Riley, and Nicolas talk about what's going on with the Farm Bill today, and what status it has in the legislative pipeline. They also discuss what would need to happen for Iowa to have a higher tax bracket for out of state land owners.
There's a lot of uncertainty for the rural United States, especially with farming. What can we do to enhance it? What needs to change?
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Justin Meissen, Research and Restoration Program Manager at the Tallgrass Prairie Center, joins the Prairie Farm Podcast to talk prairie establishment from the ground up — literally. Why native annual weeds aren't always your enemy. What months to plant and which ones to avoid at all costs. How seed size predicts establishment success. And what "coefficient of conservatism" actually means. This one's packed.
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Kent's very own father, Alan Boucher, joined us to discuss a journal entry from a woman in the 1800's. We also discuss whether or not someone should burn a prairie field now or in May to eliminate brome.
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Derek Orth, a fourth general dairy farmer, joins us to discuss if small dairy farms could have a spot in the US market in the future. Dairy farmers do a lot of work for very little pay, and we get into the nitty gritty on the podcast.
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Join us for another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday. Today we discuss Bayer's Tort Immunity at the federal level and the chance they have at succeeding. We also talk about Iowa Secretary of Ag Mike Naig's recent conversation about grazing CRP.
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Black Hawk is a mythological character at this point. But why is that? What did he do, or not do? Dr. Patrick Jung, author of The Black Hawk War of 1832, joins us to tell us the incredible story of the last Native American to resist in the Midwest.
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It's finally here! Farm Bill Updates are coming.
Kent was home with the kids, so the one and only Judd McCullum joined Riley and Nicolas to talk about the new Farm Bill.
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Dr. Karen Vanderhoff joins us to discuss what she is seeing in the health crisis of Midwest farmers. The suicide rates are very high compared to other occupations, and we want to know why and what we can do about it.
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There's a lot of talk about how the price of living has shot through the roof. But is that actually true?? It's a complicated question that involves things like quality of life, inflation, hourly wages, median vs average, and more. We dive into this on Coffee Time Wednesday this week. You won't want to miss it.
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Laura Walter, of the Tall Grass Prairie Center, joins us to discuss the new species she is trying to grow at her facility. Also, which species is no one else growing that she has available for new growers. We also talk about hemiparasites and more.
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There was a push at the Iowa Capitol to put the Buffer Strip Pollinator Program into a bigger setting for farmers to put onto their land. But it was killed in subcommittee. Why? We're trying to find out. Check out another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday on The Prairie Farm Podcast.
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Produce in America is grown at unprecedented scale in human history. But how is it done. Who grows it, and how does it get to our tables? Should any changes be made to the system? We sit down with Seth Oren, who has been on produce farms all across America, and he gave us the inside story.
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Crop prices are freaky right now. We sit down and walk through the different major crops in America and if any farmer is making any money on their acres.
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Megan McKay is a legend in the Midwestern beer world. She founded Peace Tree and helped push legislation to allow for the microbreweries we love today. But what is she doing now? She is working hard to change the way Iowan's look at food, their health, food deserts, and cancer.
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A lot going on in the world of conservation and ag this week. First, we dive into the new Healthy Water Act that the Iowa Democrats have put forward. Secondly, we discuss the E15 Fuel issue that the federal legislators are "figuring out". Both of these policies would have major ramifications for the Midwest. One for our health, and the second for our economy.
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Chase Brown, a 6th generation farmer in Illinois, joins us to discuss billionaires that gobble up land, farm organizations that aren't benefitting farmers, and how he would start farming if he was a new farmer today.
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Join another riveting episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast Coffee Time Wednesday! This week Kent and Nicolas argue over ecological regulation, and we discuss which of the world's greatest apps are net negative and net positive.
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In this episode Kent interviews Nicolas about his story of going from reluctant farm kid to Bible college to prairie farm CEO. Be warned, this interview is unfiltered and is as authentic as Nicolas and Kent know how to be.
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Welcome back to another absolute banger Coffee Time Wednesday! This week the whole gang is back together-- Kent, Riley, and Nicolas. They discuss the new pilate prairie strips program that is currently being tested in Iowa.
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Lyndsey Braun, Doug Duren, and Brock Rosenkranz join us to discuss the issues with hunting access and the joys of Deer Camp.
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Welcome back to another riveting Coffee Time Wednesday! This week Nicolas and Riley sit down to discuss what is going on with these beef prices and when will they come down.
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Power couple, Bart George and Dr. Brook Lang, join us to discuss Bart's study on Mountain Lions' interaction with humans, Dr. Lang's interactions with grizzly bears, and cat poop coffee. We deeply enjoyed this episode, and you will as well!
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Welcome back to another Coffee Time Wednesday! We review the best podcasts, best wins in conservation, worst personal losses, and the worst conservation disgraces of the year. You'll love to hear these.
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Welcome to another installment of Doug Duren's "Listen to the Land". He joins Nicolas and Kent, and brought guests Ben and James O'Brien to recap the deer derby and discuss what it takes to pass conservation on to the next generation.
Tim and Joy join us again, this time at the same time, to talk hunting, bird numbers, bird habitat, and dogs.
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Zach Lahn joins us to discuss the future he envisions for Iowa, ag consolidation, chemical poisons, and more.
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We had the privilege of being joined by previous guest Mike Swartzlander, Tim Brown (The Bearded Uplander), and former Hawkeye and NFL player, Parker Hesse, for another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday.
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Tim Youngquist of Iowa State University and Practical Farmers joins us to share his experience on the Prairie Strips program at Iowa State and what farmers are able to do practically to bring income while boosting conservation.
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Another exciting episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast where Riley and Nicolas take a deeper look into the infamous "dead zones" in the water around the world.
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David Mizejewski, from Natural Wildlife Federation, joins us to talk conservation, but specifically why leaving your leaves even matters.
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Nicolas is down with Tuberculosis and Dysentery... again. But don't worry because Riley and Kent are as healthy as two fine horses and are here to talk current events in Prairie Country.
Keep snow off the road --> Order Prairie
We joined some of the crew from Abundant Design to discuss creating food forests in your own yard. We had a great time and we believe you will as well.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Another riveting episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast.
This week, we have an intriguing question from a guest that had us thinking about the Thanksgiving Holiday.
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We had the privilege of hosting Steve Hanson and Ryan Lynton (Upland Social Podcast) for a pheasant hunt and naturally we had to get them on the podcast. We discuss bird numbers in Iowa, land prices and trends, and whatever else came up in the conversation. This was supposed to be a coffee time episode, but the conversation was too good to not make it a full length episode. Enjoy!
Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! This time we discuss the responsibility of Iowa's Water Monitors and the organizations who are making it happen.
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Izaak Walton Foundation
The Article We Read
Brad Sherman was kind enough to open his house to us and sit down for a full conversation on the state of Iowa. We discuss taxes, schools, small farms, water quality, cancer, and a lot more. We deeply enjoyed it and believe you will as well!
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast- Coffee Time Wednesday! We deeply enjoyed this conversation, and we believe you will as well.
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Welcome back to another in depth, nerdy episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast. You'll love this one. We dive deeper into the science of fire and its historic use.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
This week we're back with a soybean update for the markets and what that means for the future of ag in the midwest, as well as the current shortgrass prairie shortage.
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What happened to the prairie? Kent does a historical deep dive to find out exactly what happened to the prairie and why. Then Nicolas and Kent argue about what's the best way forward. We had a great time with this podcast, and we believe you will as well.
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Join us for another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday, as we discuss the impending demise of meat as we know it. We greatly enjoyed this conversation and believe you will as well.
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Nicolas and Kent relisten and join you to discuss the second episode of The Prehistoric Prairie. If you haven't already listened to it, enjoy. If you have, we highly recommend listening again!
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This week we dive into the what does the world look like on the road in 10 years. Agriculture is often a dangerous job, and vehicle collision is a big part of that. Join us for another riveting episode of the Prairie Farm Podcast.
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Kent, Riley, and Nicolas sat down and listened to the Prehistoric Prairie docuseries they made in 2023. At the very end they give commentary on it. We discuss part 1 "The Ice Age" and what questions we have two years later. We greatly enjoyed this conversation, and we believe you will as well.
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Welcome back to another great episode of Coffee Time Wednesday. We had a great time discussing energy, John Deere, ethanol, and more.
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Julie Stauch generously sat down with us at Smokey Row in Des Moines to discuss Iowa's water quality, our public schools, vouchers, rural poverty, and a lot more. It was a great conversation. Whether you agree with her or not, we hope you will enjoy our conversation. And let the record show, we really enjoyed our time with her. She was lovely.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday. Kent is gone this week, so Riley and Nicolas take on topics much too big for them without Kent to make sure they don't get canceled. They discuss how government spending affect conservation, and what it will take to longevity to our conservation practices in the US.
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Our good friend, Judd McCullum, joins us to discuss his new hairy sheep and a philosophical discussion on consumerism. We are deep into harvest, so we don't have our normal guest lineup right now, but we deeply enjoyed this podcast and believe you will as well.
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Another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday. We dive DEEP into the soybean price market, and what is causing China to turn away our soybeans. Are soybeans something we should even be growing? What is the current administration doing about it? We jump into all of these topics and more...
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Chris Helzer is the Director of the Nature Conservancy in Nebraska and a fantastic blogger/photographer, The Prairie Ecologist.
We had a great time with him, and we believe you will as well!
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Join us for another exciting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! This week we discuss how much water AI data centers are using, and if AI is a net positive or net negative force in our world.
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Nicolas sits down to interview Kent to discuss the pressures of taking over the farm after Carroll passed and what Kent learned from Carroll in their time together.
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Give us some grace on this topic. It's hard to discuss SNAP because it's a complicated topic, but with how related to agriculture it is, we thought it necessary to discuss.
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Josh Tickell, a film director, explains why making these movies actually helps in the aid for conservation. Nicolas had some connection issues, but we enjoyed the podcast nonetheless and believe you will too!
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Join for another riveting episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast: Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Dave Hoffman, Wildlife Research Staff of Iowa, joins us to discuss the declining numbers of faun in the Midwest and what he thinks should be done to improve the numbers.
Don't forget the Iowa Sportsman Club Raffle. Tickets are cheap, and you'll want to see what they have!
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Welcome back to another awesome episode of the Prairie Farm Podcast. This episode will make you think.
Iowa Sportsman Raffle (A Raffle for Conservation)
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Louis De Jaeger, author of Save Our Soil and a farmland designer, joins us to discuss all things regeneration. We dive deep into the soil health, chemicals, tillage, and what to do to avoid these things. Louis is a very practically minded conservationist that has spoken all around the world on how to protect our resources.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of the Prairie Farm Podcast: Coffee Time Wednesday. This week we cover some of our harvest nightmares and what it was like for settlers to survive in the 1830's.
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Tayler Riggen is the founder of the Iowa Sportsman Club, a lobbying group that works on behalf of hunters and conservation concerns in the State Capitol. This episode explains how and why the ISC came to be and what it is doing on behalf of Iowans.
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Join us for another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! Kent brings us a recent event that you'll want to hear about!
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Welcome back to another incredible episode. We are joined by three different guests and we put them into one episode. You'll enjoy it as much as we did!
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Welcome back to the Prairie Farm Podcast Coffee Time Wednesday! This week we discuss Kent's frustration on planes, an innovation in plastic that biodegrades within hours, and the exciting news that WE'RE HIRING! If you want to work with the Hoksey Team, reach out at social@theprairiefarm.com or info@hokseynativeseeds.com
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We at The Prairie Farm Podcast are very excited to host Doug's new show. He will be joining us quarterly to have deep, and thought provoking conversations about our land ethic and how we can make a difference for the future. Because... "It's not ours. It's just our turn."
In this first episode, we discuss CWD, land fragmentation, Sharing The Land, our founder Carroll, and a lot more. We deeply enjoyed this conversation, and we believe you will as well!
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What does it really take to create a deer paradise? We’re joined by Jared Van Hees of The Habitat Podcast to get the dirt on what truly matters. We cover everything from smart timber stand improvement and working with loggers to building effective perennial food plots for year-round wildlife health.
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We have another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday where we discuss American Lawns and how they affect the ecosystem. We greatly enjoyed this episode, and we believe you will as well.
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Dr. Patrick Keyser from University of Tennessee joins us to talk about native warm season pastures. He's a foremost expert on the topic. We get into the weeds on this topic. If you or someone you know has pasture, you'll want to hear this episode.
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Center for Native Grasslands Management
Doug Duren joins us for this weeks Coffee Time Wednesday. And he's got some thoughts! (As per usual) You won't want to miss this episode.
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Dr. Larry Weber, Director at IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering and Iowa Flood Center, joins us to discuss Iowa's (and the Midwest's) water quality. Look friends, we're not going to sugar coat it. It's bad. And Dr. Weber helps explain to us how bad. We dive into Nitrates, flood plains, rivers, and a lot more.
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This was a fun one! We answer a great question about how to mitigate Big Bluestem from taking over native, then dive into how the Big Beautiful Bill affects rural hospitals and their importance as economic staples for rural America.
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Check out Dr. Turner's article on deer nutrition.
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This week we are talking about some of the biggest lessons our Founder and Mentor Carroll taught us while we were working with him.
Carroll Hoksbergen (1955 - 2025) passed away on Monday July 7th, 2025. We are deeply saddened but also very grateful for the time we got to spend with him. He will be missed.
This week we are re-releasing the first episode we recorded with him. This is actually a "redo recording" because the audio was so bad on that one. But if you really want to hear the FIRST FIRST interview with him, you can find it on our YouTube channel.
Welcome back to Coffee Time! With tick season in full swing across Iowa, this episode is a must-listen for anyone who works or plays outdoors.
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This week, we’re joined by Nick Larson of The Bird Shot Podcast. We explore the world of upland hunting, the urgent threat of copper mining near the Boundary Waters, and why the future of conservation depends on the passion of hunters who cherish wild places and pristine water.
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We're unpacking the new Texas food law, SB 25, and what it means for your family. This bill requires warning labels for certain food additives that are banned in other countries but approved by the FDA. We get into the debate over consumer rights and what you'll actually see on shelves.
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Kelly Kindscher is an amazing man. Kent and Riley had a wonderful time picking his deep well of knowledge on all things prairie, outdoors, and utilizing prairie for sustenance.
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This one is exciting! We boiled through this one the whole time. It was so hot!
But we've got a great prairie and pasture question as well as a great topic about Styrofoam.
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Aaron Warbritton, with The Hunting Public, joins us to discuss a new venture The Habitat Association. We are very excited for this nonprofit conservation organization. We also discuss what's going on in public land today and our natural resources.
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Another exciting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! Grab your coffee and join good people with good topics.
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Tabitha Panas was one of thousands of people fired by DOGE on February 14th. It's been a rocky and uncertain road for her since then. This is her version of the story.
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This was truly an awesome interview!
(For our friends who are only here for Rob Sand, the interview starts at 15:15)
Merch for Conservation (Preorder closes at the end of the day June 12th)
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Hal Herring is an acclaimed writer on all things public land and outdoors. He has fought ruthlessly over the years to help preserve our Public Land and to save our natural resources. And frankly, he’s a really nice guy.
We greatly enjoyed this conversation, and we believe you will as well.
Merch for Conservation
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Another great Coffee Time for you this week!
There's still a little more time to pre-order our merch line. 50% (at least) of profits will go to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
Merch for Conservation
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Chad Graeve joins us from Pottawattamie County and the Loess Hills to talk about how we can increase our quality of life by having less. We also discuss alternatives to glyphosate, and how to use fire and grazing.
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Join us for another awesome episode of The Prairie Farm Podcast. In this episode discuss how honey locust are affecting the flora and fauna of water ways. We also answer a fantastic question about establishing a prairie over 10 acres.
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Join Nicolas and Kent for this fantastic conversation with Kyle Lybarger of The Native Habitat Project.
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Another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! Join us for great topics and great people.
Check out our merch line that fights for conservation!
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Ryan Kurtz is the Program Advisor for Natural Resources at Hawkeye Community College. He joined us to talk about what the future of conservation looks like, considering he is with the future generation regularly. We also discuss burning prairies and how to manage a high quality prairie.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Vermeer Drills on the Moon Source
Travis Frank, host of The Flush, joins us to share haunting stories of fishing, hunting, and how he aims to make a difference in the hunting/conservation world.
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Another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday! We kept this one short and sweet due to the craziness of May prairie farm season.
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Dr. Julie Meach of Des Moines University joins us to talk in depth about the Pleistocene era, dire wolves, and conservation in science.
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It's time for another riveting Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Enjoy this rerelease in celebration of Tulip Time in Pella, Iowa. Val Van Kooten goes through the history of Pella and its incredible founding in the mid 1800's.
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Welcome back to another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
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The infamous, Steve Hanson, joins us to discuss land prices, tariffs, our outdoor resources, and a lot more!
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Another great, and deep, Coffee Time Wednesday!
Send us your question at social@theprairiefarm.com to hopefully get your question answered and get free native seed mix.
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Jackie and Chase Burns, with Land Guys, join us to discuss how to help bring back the community and benefits of rural America's lifestyle.
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It's time for another great Coffee Time Wednesday episode!
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Hunter Lehman, with Grazing Labs, joins us to dive into how to graze cattle in a regenerative way.
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Welcome back to a riveting Coffee Time!
P.S. We merged our two websites. Both can be found at hokseynativeseeds.com
He's back and ready to tell it like it is. Longtime guest and friend of the show Luke Fritch joins the show to talk about how life is on the farm, the health of rural America and how good we could have it.
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Welcome back to The Prairie Farm Podcast! Grab your coffee; it's time to enjoy good company, good topics, and a great podcast!
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Jacob Hofer is a good friend of ours, host of The Land Podcast, and owner of White Tail Master Academy. We greatly enjoyed our conservation, and we believe you will as well!
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Grab your coffee and join for another riveting episode of Coffee Time Wednesday, but this time we've got Judd McCullum joining us!
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Tony Vorwald, a fellow prairie enthusiast, joins us to discuss the nuances of prairies and maintaining them.
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Welcome back to Coffee Time Wednesday! Grab your coffee, because it's time!
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Pete Berthelson of Conservation Blueprint joins us once again to talk about Doge, managing prairies, Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund, solar projects, and a lot more.
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It's time for your favorite Coffee Time of the week!
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Skip has possibly fought harder than anyone at the legislative level in Iowa to help protect our natural resources, particularly our white tailed deer.
We greatly enjoyed our conversation with him, and we think you will as well.
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Join us for another great time on Coffee Time!
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This one's for you Judd.
And everyone else of course, but Judd is going to like it the most. We had the privilege of sitting down with Jeremiah Haas, an aquatic biologist at the Constellation Quad Cities Clean Energy Center in Cordova, IL. Jeremiah is a professional in every sense of the word, and he joined the show to talk about nuclear energy, it's impact on the Mississippi River, his role in bringing alligator gar back to their native home of Illinois, netting and tracking bald eagles and so much more.
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It's been a volatile and unsettling week in the conservation world over the past week as our country takes its first actions on our $36T debt, and begins eyeing public land fossil fuel and mineral resources. We don't have all the answers, but we do have some opinions. Buckle up and do your best to determine what makes sense!
Ittttt's Coffee Time!
We want to hear your conservation, habitat, and prairie questions! Send them our way at social@theprairiefarm.com
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Dr. Matt Helmers joins us to discuss his research in nutrient reduction in Iowa.
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It's time to jump into another Coffee Time Wednesday!
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We should probably clarify. Jill Beebout, founder of Blue Gate Farms, is not an organic farmer. She is Certified Naturally Grown farmer, which has more restrictions than organic. She is the real deal. We greatly enjoyed the conversation, and we believe you will as well.
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We want to hear your conservation, habitat, and prairie questions! Send them our way at social@theprairiefarm.com
Each week a question will be selected, and we'll read and answer the question on Coffee Time. Oh, AND we will give free seed to the asker of the question!
For now, enjoy this week's Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Tim Brand, founder of Many Hands, joins us to describe the destitute situation Haiti is in, and how Many Hands has used agriculture to start a movement of economical, spiritual, and physical freedom.
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It's time for another Coffee Time! Grab your coffee and join us for yet another incredible conversation on conservation.
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Mark Kenyon, host of Wired to Hunt, joins us to discuss public lands, white-tailed deer, and his care for conservation.
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It's time for another Coffee Time argument with Kent Boucher, Nicolas Lirio, and Riley Rozendaal.
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Lance Roorda, founder and owner of Eunoia Counseling and avid lover of the outdoors and prairie, joins us to discuss the link between our mental health and being outdoors.
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Grab your coffee, and fill it extra full, because this Coffee Time is a little longer!
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Connie Mutel, author and/or editor of seven books on prairie ecology, joins us to discuss the extreme danger of our little talked about biodiversity loss. I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did.
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Welcome back for another great episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Our dear friend, Laura Walter from Tallgrass Prairie Center, joins us to discuss her recent discoveries on how to practically preserve prairie species.
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Another Wednesday, another Coffee Time! Join us to dive into the world of cattle grazing.
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Our good friend Matt Hatala, founder of Ancestral Farms of Iowa, joins us to discuss his venture in farming a healthier and more sustainable way. But it's not without challenges.
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Well, it's about that time again. Join us for another Coffee Time Wednesday!
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Justin Meissen, our friend from The Tallgrass Prairie Center, joins us to give an update on the latest research in the prairie world. We deeply enjoyed our conversation with him and we believe you will as well.
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Another Wednesday, another Coffee Time! Join us as we discuss the best practices for managing your prairie fields.
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Kevin Griggs joins us to discuss goats, prairie management, water quality, and his pet bison. We deeply enjoyed our time with him, and we believe you will too.
If you're interested in Iowa Ag Mitigation, make sure to check them out!
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Join us for another riveting Coffee Time Wednesday! And don't forget your Wild Rivers Coffee while you are at it, the best coffee that fights for conservation!
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We're joined by Austin Frerick, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry, joins us to discuss what happened to our food system as a country and what we can do about it.
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Join us for another great Coffee Time Wednesday. We've got great people and great topics. All you need is good coffee from Wild Rivers Coffee.
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Jeremy French, from the Southeastern Grasslands Institute, joins us to discuss what vast prairies that used to reside in large portions of the Southeastern United States.
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Happy Thanksgiving! We are so thankful for each of you! Enjoy another information and laughter filled episode of Coffee Time Wednesday.
Bryan Vander Meiden, President of Midwest Sanitation and Recycling, joined us to teach us exactly where our trash and recycling goes here in the midwest. We felt like little kids learning about dump trucks. It was awesome!
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Good people, good topics, good coffee. We've got two of those; Wild Rivers Coffee has the other.
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We sat down with Joe Crookham, founder of Musco Lighting and researcher of the late John F. Lacey, to hear about how Lacey changed the world as we know it for the better and for conservation.
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It's time for your coffee time! Join us for good people and good topics, and grab your Wild Rivers Coffee for good coffee.
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This was a special one. Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this journey this far. We enjoyed a great conversation with our founder, and Nicolas' dad, Carroll Hoksbergen. I am sure you will enjoy it as much as we did.
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Welcome back to Coffee Time! Great coffee, great people, great topics.
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theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that fights for conservation)
Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm, joins us to talk about the HUGE jump she made from her career to move to Iowa to run a farm with her husband, Jon. Navigating family dynamics, ecological factors, and agricultural markets, Beth has quite the story to tell. We thoroughly enjoyed the conversation, and we bet you will too.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for Native Pasture and CRP mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join us for another great Coffee Time!
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that fights for conservation)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and pasture mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Buddy Huffaker, Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, joins us to talk about the world-changing legacy that Aldo Leopold, "father of wildlife ecology", has left for us.
Hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and native seed mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee (the coffee that fights for conservation) and join us for another episode of Coffee Time Wednesday!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
This is our last week of our podcast sabbatical at The Prairie Farm Podcast, but until next week, enjoy this episode from our co-host, Kent Boucher's, second podcast.
The guy who took on the quest to bag a rooster in all of Iowa's 99 counties. Nick Martin explains how he came up with his quest, as well as what he has noticed about the quality of hunting experiences available throughout the state of Iowa, and how many birds he still has to bag.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for pheasant habitat mixes and CRP mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairies and pollinators)
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join us for Coffee Time!
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that saves the earth)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and wildlife habitat)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Jake Debow of New England Naturals is an authority on trapping. He builds his life around the outdoors and spends much of his time hunting, but trapping is the thing he is known for. I had the privilege to sit down and learn from Jake about the trapper lifestyle- its history, its current popularity and where it's headed in the future. It truly was one of my favorite interviews I've recorded in a while, and I think Jake's perspectives will draw you in as well.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and wildlife habitat mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Join us for coffee time this week. This one is fast and sweet. We walk through the best way to plant native prairie.
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that fights for conservation)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and wildlife habitat mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Enjoy this episode from Kent's podcast- The First Gen Hunter Podcast.
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Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join us as we dive into some spicy topics on agriculture, conservation, hunting, and our beloved farmers.
Wildriverscoffeeco.com (for great coffee that fights for conservation)
Theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and hunting Mixes)
Join us for a laid back conversation with our friend Myriam, a local watershed coordinator.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and Hunting Mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Welcome back to the Prairie Farm Podcast, Coffee Time Wednesday. Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee (certified 2% giver to conservation) and enjoy!
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP seed and hunting mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairies and pollinators)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that fights for conservation)
Riley Rozendaal, founder of Iowa Prairie Bison and the newest member of the Hoksey team, joins us to talk about raising Bison, growing prairie, making farming mistakes, and laughing a lot.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and pasture mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard pollinator mixes)
It's time for coffee time!
Wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that saves the earth)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie and hunting mixes)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP mixes)
Drake and Justin are long-time friends of The Prairie Farm Podcast and Hoksey Native Seeds. They own and manage Vitality Visions, a habitat management company that focuses on deer habitat and native species. Also, their instagram has really cool photos...
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP or hunting habitat mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard pollinator)
vitalityvisionshabitat.com (to learn more about what Drake and Justin do)
We had a lot to share this coffee time. Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join us as we dive into the world of conservation and agriculture and laughter.
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard pollinator mixes)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP mixes)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (to save the earth while drinking coffee)
Brian Reisinger, author of Land Rich, Cash Poor, is a journalist raised as a dairy farmer. Join us as we discuss the history of the American farmer and how farming and our food system have drastically changed over the last century. You're going to love this one.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and native seed mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie and pollinator mixes)
amazon.com (to purchase the book, but you should try to buy locally if you can)
In every coffee time you need three things: Good people, good topics, and good coffee.
We have the first two, Wild Rivers Coffee has the other.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for all your native seed needs)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for great coffee that fights for conservation)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie and hunting mixes)
Adam with Iowa Kiko Goats has made his living with goats. His story is curious and inspiring. Join us as we pick his impressive brain.
Hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and Pasture Mixes)
Theprairiefarm.com (for yard prairies)
Coffee time gets a little feisty this week. Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join Nicolas and Kent.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for native prairie mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for prairie in your yard)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for the best coffee that fights for conservation)
Andy May joins us to discuss his journey with the conservation of his property and how it was spurred from deer hunting, plus a couple wild stories of his hunts.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for hunting mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee, and join us as we dive into this week's Coffee Time Wednesday!
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP Seed)
theprairiefarm.com (for prairie/pollinator seed)
wildriverscoffeeco.com (for coffee that fights for conservation)
Genevieve Guerry is a PhD candidate at East Carolina University and has been studying Microplastics and PFAs for several years. Join us as we attempt to tackle such a huge topic within too short of time. We loved what we learned, and plan to talk with Genevieve again in the future.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for native prairie seed)
theprairiefarm.com (for native yard and native hunting mixes)
ewg.org (to find out what's in your water)
Genevieve's Insta
When it's Coffee Time you need three things-- good people, good discussion topics, and good coffee. We've got the first two, and Wild Rivers has the third.
wildriverscoffeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
thepairiefarm.com
Andy James, founder of Prairie Fire Restoration, quickly became a gentleman we greatly enjoyed. Join us as we discuss the largest mono-crop in the United States... lawns.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for larger prairie areas and CRP)
theprairiefarm.com (to turn your lawn into a prairie or pollinator patch)
Here are a few of the many studies he quoted in the podcast.
- Pet population increase from inital Kentucky study.
- 19 MILLION POUNDS anually in the 2018 study
- Our concept of the traditional lawn comes from Medieval Europe
- Counter intuitive results from lawn fertilization, much of the issue is over application. Urban envrionments see an improvement in water quality. Solution: find a way to mitigate over application
COFFEE TIME WEDNESDAY!! It's here. Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee, and join us.
wildriverscoffeeco.com (to save the earth while caffeinated)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for CRP and hunting habitat mixes)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairie mixes)
Joe Dickie, founder of Joe Dickie Photography, has been behind the camera on some huge platforms, but he's dedicated his most recent efforts to telling the story of farmers who are changing to a more conservation friendly practice.
hokseynativeseeds.com (for native prairie and wild flower seed)
theprairiefarm.com (for yard mixes and hunting habitat mixes)
Don't let the middle of the week get you down. Enjoy a good coffee time!
Ancestral Farms Iowa (for higher quality pork)
Wild Rivers Coffee Co (for caffeine that gives back to the environment)
theprairiefarm.com (for backyard prairies)
hokseynativeseeds.com (for more native seed fun)
Chad Graeve, a natural resource specialist, shares his life lessons working with the prairie and how we as humans can move from being human consumers to human beings.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Join us for this weeks coffee time, and don't forget your Wild Rivers Coffee. Wild Rivers gives 2% or more of every purchase to conservation causes, and we are proud to partner with them!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Thomas Mlsna, founder of Untamed Ambition, sits down with us to talk through why shortcuts in habitat management never get the results we want.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Get your Wild Rivers Ninja Creami ice cream, and join us for a little coffee time.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Meredith Nunnikhoven, founder of Barnswallow Flowers, joins us to discuss why she came back from the film industry to the family farm and decided to dive into the world of alternative cropping. Also... she's an inventor, and we like that about her.
barnswallowflowers.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
It's controversial. It's complicated. It's heated. It's Coffee Time Wednesday.
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Margaret Spiegel is a historian at Nelson Pioneer Farm Museum. We interviewed her as a part of our Prehistoric Prairie. Here is the full interview.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee this morning as we jump into this week's coffee time.
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Part 3 is finally here! Jump into the final episode of Prehistoric Prairies, as we discuss their disappearance and the ramifications that follow.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Refresh your memory on prairies with part 2 before you jump into the third episode of the Prehistoric Prairie Serious.
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
Before jumping into Part 3 of the prehistoric prairie, catch yourself up on the history of pre-historic prairie.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
The new administrator of the State Historical Society of Iowa and previous guest, Val Van Kooten, joined us to talk all things Iowa's history.
history.iowa.gov
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
It's time to learn, laugh, and caffeinate ourselves. Coffee Time is here!
wildriverscoffeeco.com
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Joe is young, passionate shepherd and entrepreneur. Founder of earthgrazers.com his goal is to restore the earth's ecosystems using livestock and regenerative ag.
Looking for native seed? Check out our mixes.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Coffee time is here! Don't forget to save the planet by getting your coffee from Wild Rivers Coffee.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
It's always a good time to talk to experts, especially when they're experts in something so interesting as the Lewis and Clark expedition. Join us as we learn a lot more about Lewis and Clark than you'll ever learn in school.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Head Quarters
Gather 'round, grab your coffee, and get ready to learn and laugh... mostly laugh. It's Coffee Time Wednesday!
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Taylor Keen's, founder of Sacred Seed and professor at Creighton University, discusses the importance of the Native American culture and perspective on American history.
His new book Rediscovering Turtle Island comes out June 11. Order it today!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Wild Rivers Coffee, laughs, and good conversation. Must be coffee time.
The Video We Discussed
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Living Lands & Waters is one of the most powerful, boots on the ground conservation organizations of the past 25 years. In this interview we are joined by Mike Coyne-Logan who has been with the organization for most of its existence. He tells us the staggering amount of trash removed from waterways around the nation and the impacts LL&W have had on America's rivers and ecosystems.
Hoksey Native Seeds
The Prairie Farm
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee, and join us dive deep in this one.
Want to watch us drink coffee during coffee time? Our episodes will soon be published on YouTube. Keep an eye out for them!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Bob St. Pierre has advocated for conservation with Pheasants Forever for a long time. In this episodes he shares his own journey with conservation and how he's seen Pheasants Forever play a role in the landscape of North America.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Grab your Wild Rivers coffee and have a listen!
P.S. soon you'll be able to watch our podcasts online, if you want to see our beautiful faces.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Larry Terpstra was our founder's, Carroll's, first boss. He remember farming before it is what it is today. Hear first hand how farming has changed over the years.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
You've been working hard this week. Take a break. A coffee break! And don't forget your Wild Rivers Coffee.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
There's a good chance you heard us on Travis' Podcast, The Flush. We had the privilege of having him on our podcast. Don't miss it.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee Co and join us for a good ol' fashion coffee time!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
Dr. Eyheralde is a professor of wildlife biology at William Penn University. He has done extensive research in the role of animal hides with seed dispersal in prairies and has a wealth of other experiences that make this podcast interview a fascinating conversation.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Behold, Ye Olde Coffee Time on The Prairie Farm podcast
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
A conversation that has been ongoing in the wildlife conservation world for the past 5 years or so, is the decline of the wild turkey population in North America. We reached out to Kacie Bauman, a Biologist with the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) to learn more about what's happening with turkeys, as well as some interesting general information about these iconic birds.
Turkey Conservation Project: Waterways for Wildlife
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Happy Coffee Time from the The Prairie Farm!
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
We get told we're very "philosophical" by people who listen to our podcast. Well, Fritch is 10x as thoughtful about our world. He carries a point of view that is eye-opening. Can someone please get this man's presidential candidacy started??
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Coffee time.... Thursdays? Sorry for the late post. Spring is a busy time on The Prairie Farm.
wildriverscoffeeco.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Josh Sparks helps make the magic happen at Midwest Whitetail. But he knows a lot more than hunting. He's a videographer, a traveler, and one of the few people who caught their childhood dreams.
Looking for hunting habitat mixes? Check out our websites.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Ittttt's THYME er uh I mean TIME! It's coffee time!
Check out Wild Rivers Coffee for some incredible coffee.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Judd McCullum with Working Class Bowhunter joined us to discuss discovering mammoth tusks, hand collecting natives, and vocationally tearing down old barns.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
It's Wednesday, so it's time for some educational and occasionally confrontational fun...
Check out Wild Rivers Coffee for some incredible coffee.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Ted Koch is one of our favorite people. He's a great mind in the conservation and hunting communities, and has accomplished much on behalf of wildlife in North America.
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
Ever wonder what hot dogs are made of? Join us to find out.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
Pete Berthelsen of Conservation Blueprint has spent his career advocating for, and managing prairie habitat in Nebraska to be as healthy as possible. From teaching his community about the importance of using fire as a management tool to helping make prairie make sense in solar fields, Pete has accomplished much in expanding prairie in Nebraska.
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
These are important things that everyone in the midwest should know... so grab your coffee...
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
Chase Burns, host of Land Your Ground and realtor with The Land Guys, joins us to discuss the great problems and excitement of owning land.
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
We recorded this at 6:30 in the morning. Who knows what could come out of our mouths... Oh, and Kent's dad, the original Bouch-man joined us.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
Jake Hofer is one of the foremost authorities on buying land as a deer hunter. He has a strong entrepreneurial gene and has become a multi farm owner before the age of 30. If you have hopes of owning your own slice of dirt this interview is for you!
It's coffee time! Except this week we're joined by a live audience.
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
Wildriverscoffeeco.com
The American Prairie Reserve (now just American Prairie) is a prairie conservation organization that is dedicated to reconstructing a massive contiguous portion of prairie habitat in Montana. Sean Gerrity is one of the founders and the retired CEO of AP, and nobody knows the story of this incredible project better than he does.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
We had a guest at work with us, so they joined us for coffee time!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
A tragic wildlife loss that has taken place in the last 160ish years is the extinction of the eastern elk subspecies. These majestic cervids were the stunning feature of the prairies east of the Mississippi river, but they were unfortunately erased from these ecosystems by overhunting and habitat loss during the settlement of that part of the country. Nicolas and Kent sat down with Steven Dobey of RMEF to discuss this interesting tragedy.
Join RMEF
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Coffee time is a great time to grab your cup of Wild Rivers Coffee!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Wild Rivers Coffee
Ancestral Farms of Iowa decided "food quality" was worth pursuing with their whole lives... their time, energy, and money. Join us as we sit down with co-founder, Matt, and learn about the price we all pay for cheap food.
Hoksey Native Seeds
The Prairie Farm
Ancestral Farms
Grab that steaming hot cup of Wild Rivers Colombia Roast (the one with the sweet bull elk bag) and settle in for this week's edition of coffee time... cheers!
We had the privilege of hosting the cofounder of Wild Rivers Coffee Company, Marshall Seedorff. Marshall is a man of many talents and many hats. He is an avid outdoorsman and dedicated conservationist. Here is his story.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Grab your coffee and make sure it's not in a plastic container... It's coffee time!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
wildriverscoffeeco.com
It's finally here! Iowa's Water series...
From Des Moines Water Works CEO to South Skunk Watershed Project Manager, we took a deep dive into the water quality of Iowa, what it used to look like and the water quality issues we face today.
Stay on the lookout for part two and the full interviews with each interviewee.
Links of the interviewees below.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
dmww.com
Chris Jones
Keith Schilling
Red Rock Reservoir Army Corps of Engineers
Joy Van Wyngarden
Grab your Wild Rivers Coffee and join us for our coffee time!
wildriverscoffeeco.com
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Hope you've got a lot of coffee for this long coffee time!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Get out of the snow and grab a cup of coffee! It's coffee time!!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Ready for the controversy? Grab your coffee, and let's complain about the government together.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
It's chilly outside, but your coffee is nice and hot. Enjoy your coffee time!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Nothing more exciting than talking about our government's inadequacies, so grab your coffee!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Laura Ingalls Wilder gave a us fascinating look into the era of the Midwestern Settlers. Join Kent as he interviews an expert from Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Don't forget to take your coffee break and get your podcast in!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
We had an incredible time working with Doug Duren and sharingtheland.com to create an experience for access seekers in Iowa. Join us as we sit down with Doug and three of those access seekers to see if Sharing The Land really works.
sharingtheland.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Happy almost Thanksgiving! Give yourself a break today... you earned it!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
The Director of the Tallgrass Prairie Center, Laura Jackson, joins us as we dive into our favorite topic, prairie.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
tallgrassprairiecenter.org
Sit down and enjoy your break. You earned it. Coffee Time Wednesday!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Sarah Nizzi, a pollinator specialist, joins us as we discuss what is happening to the insects, and how can we help.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
xerces.org
We get so into the weeds on A.I. environment implications, that we don't even get to Kent's topic... whoops!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Justin Meissen, from Tallgrass Prairie Center, knows A LOT about the science of prairie plants. We got to pick his brain about the latest science behind what makes a prairie stand establish well.
Grab your thermos, because it's getting cold, and it's COFFEE TIME!
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
https://wildriverscoffeeco.com/
You've heard her before on our podcast, and we've mentioned her many times, but we were really excited to sit down with Laura Walter from the Tallgrass Prairie Center and discuss her ventures into learning how to farm prairie.
hokseynativeseeds.com
https://tallgrassprairiecenter.org/
theprairiefarm.com
Welcome back to Coffee Time Wednesdays! Your favorite fifteen minutes of your week. Enjoy!
hokseynativeseeds.com
The Roadside prairie program is the second largest prairie program in Iowa, second only to CRP. Join Kristine as she walks us through how prairie gets into our ditches.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
Hoksey Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
Andy Olson is the Prairie on Farms Programs Manager at Tallgrass Prairie Center. He helps people get prairie back on their farms. Another step towards sustainable farming!
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Hoksey Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
Jack Bensink, owner of the one and only Bensink Farms Hunting preserve, sat down with us to discuss conventional farming, hunting on a preserve, and raising pheasants... We really enjoyed him, and we think you will too.
Hoksey Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
It's harvest season, and we took a nice long coffee time...
Hoksey Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Bob Wubben, founder of Blooming Prairie Nursery, joined us to discuss how he started his journey on a new way of growing prairie plants.
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
The Prairie Farm Insta
Hoksey Insta
Welp... It's that time of week again. Don't worry. Kent kept it short this time.
Hoksey Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
John O'Keefe is a theologian turned movie maker. He went out to the last large scale prairie in North America to film the land and connect with it. Quite the interesting guy.
Want to purchase some backyard prairie? Check it out here!
Want to purchase some CRP seed? This is the place!
The Prairie Farm Insta:
Hoksey Native Seeds Insta:
hokseynativeseeds.com
theprairiefarm.com
We've been getting really into animals recently... Enjoy!
Hoksey Native Seeds Insta
The Prairie Farm Insta
theprairiefarm.com (blogs, seeds sales, and more)
hokseynativeseeds.com
Karen Viste-Sparkman is as knowledgeable as they come. She has spent years getting her hands dirty at the Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge. Join us as we sit down and pick her brain on prairie and what it was.
Hoksey Insta:
The Prairie Farm Insta:
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
Ready to learn some outdoor conservation facts?? Grab your coffee. It's time.
The Prairie Farm Insta
Hoksey Insta
hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
Once a horticulture professor, now working with fruit growers in Iowa, Randall Vos is a part time row crop farmer and side job sheep farmer. He's done a lot, and we got to sit down and pick his brain.
Randy's Instagram
hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
... this one is weird and fascinating. Buckle in!
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Hoksey Native Seeds Instagram
Geoff Mouming, Project Manager for Restoration for Impact 7G, joined us to talk about all things conservation, but we started with a very odd socialist experiment from over a hundred years ago... the poor farm.
We found Geoff fascinating! And we're sure you will too!
Wanting some Backyard Pollinator/Prairie? Look no further!
theprairiefarm.com
Looking for CRP this year?
hokseynativeseeds.com
Want to know more about Geoff and Impact 7G?
https://www.impact7g.com/
Back to the classic. Sit back and enjoy your coffee!
Our Instagram
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Just the title, Senior Research Associate at the Center for a Livable Future, is epic. Let alone the man who holds the title and our conversation with him.
Tom Philpott is a forward thinker and understands exactly what makes the world's agriculture and food world go round. You won't want to miss this one.
tomphilpott.net/
Hokseynativeseeds.com
Theprairiefarm.com
There's a lot more to this coffee time. More time and more voices. Join us as we discuss what we believe is conservation's next big step: Sharing The Land.
Todd Bogenschutz, Iowa's Upland Wildlife Research Biologist, knows animals. And we sat down to dive deeper into what the fauna portfolio would have been hundreds of years ago and how those have changed.
theprairiefarm.com
hokseynativeseeds.com
Buckle your seat belts, and join us on our road trip as we bring Coffee Time on the road.
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Today, to most people "getting into farming" means taking out a $10 million loan and farming corn and beans. But our guest today proved that just isn't the case.
Fellow prairie-lover, dermestid beetle owner, bison rancher, and entrepreneur Riley Rozendaal walks us through how with some hard work, out-of-the-box thinking, and humility anyone can become a farmer. No more excuses.
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This coffee time is more of a lunch listen... We hung out with our friend Lance Brisbois from Iowa Prairie Network, the loess hills, and Golden Hills Resource Conservation. We had a good time. You will too when you listen.
This past winter, we sat down with a leading studier of prairie, Russel Benedict of Central College. He is quite the enthusiasts and helped us understand where prairie came from. You probably heard him in our Prehistoric Prairie Series, but here's the full episode.
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Welp! It's that time again... Grab your Folger's and pull up a chair. It's Coffee Time!
It's finally here! The second episode of The Prehistoric Prairie Series is complete. We are moving forward in time from the last ice age to the establishment of prairie across the midwest and plains states. In this episode we will hear from Dr. Russ Benedict of Central College, Taylor Keen of Creighton University and Sacred Seed, Karen Viste-Sparkman of Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, and Todd Bogenschutz of the Iowa DNR. This team of experts shares information on prairie plants, soils, wildlife, and the people who inhabited the prairies.
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Satanta - Kiowa chief. First Peoples of America and Canada. (n.d.). https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/Satanta.html
We're joined by 4 boomers (including Carroll himself) and asked each, "What's the biggest change you've seen in agriculture?"
A classic coffee time discussion.
What causes food price spikes? And why is there hunger when 1.5x the amount of needed food is produced every year?
Join Nicolas as he takes a deep dive into what makes the world's food cycle go round as he discusses the Ukrainian War, Covid, inflation, sustainable agriculture, and local food sourcing.
What causes food price spikes? And why is there hunger when 1.5x the amount of needed food is produced every year?
Join Nicolas as he takes a deep dive into what makes the world's food cycle go round as he discusses the Ukrainian War, Covid, inflation, sustainable agriculture, and local food sourcing.
We gathered some of the most knowledgeable and passionate prairie people we know. We put them all in a room and hit record.
We were visited by
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Taylor Keen of Sacred Seed http://www.sacredseed.org/new-page-1
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Tabitha Panas and Lance Brisbois of Iowa Prairie Network https://www.iowaprairienetwork.org/
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Dustin Clayton of Hitchcock Nature Center https://www.pottconservation.com/parks/hitchcock_nature_center/
Pour that extra strong brew following the holiday weekend, breathe deeply, put on the headphones and relax.... it's Coffee Time!
Skip Sligh is one of the most recognizable names in the whitetail deer property world. Skip is driven by the mystery and awe that this iconic animal inspires, so much so that he moved to Iowa, The Whitetail State, from his home state of Michigan. Skip explains what makes Iowa a great place for whitetail deer and how hunters and conservationists need to rally politically to keep it that way.
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It's coffee time crazy busy week edition!
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This is the full length interview with Dr. Julie Meachen of Des Moines University. Dr. Meachen is a professor of anatomy and paleontology and spends much of her time studying pleistocene megafauna fossils.
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Grab a cup of Canadian coffee and kick up your feet, it's coffee time!
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Here's the full length episode with the fossil hunters Judd McCullum (Working Class Bowhunter), Mitch Gleason, and John Waller. Enjoy!
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Here's the full length interview with Mahaska County Naturalist, Laura DeCook explaining the discovery and excavation of mammoths from Mahaska county Iowa.
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Finalllllly a late coffee time.
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Where did prairie come from? Who lived here, and what were they doing? What was the landscape like? How does it compare to today?
Those questions are what we will answer in this first episode in our three part docuseries--Prehistoric Prairie. This first episode features the time period of the most recent glaciation of Iowa. We discuss topics including soil, vegetation, and what happened to all of those pleistocene megafauna?
Our guests include fossil hunters (Judd McCullum, Mitch Gleason, John Waller), a medical school professor and paleontologist (Dr. Julie Meachen), a collegiate biology professor (Dr. Russ Benedict), and county naturalist (Laura DeCook). You won't want to miss this one!
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The longest coffee time in the world just keeps on ticking. Get ready to treat yo'self to a steaming hot episode of COFFEE TIME.
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We had a great time visiting with land manager, and broker Steve Hanson joined us to talk about his experiences on the land in Alaska and now in Iowa.
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To people who truly understand its value, nothing is more free in America than the public lands we have, and access we have to them. Sam Soholt of Public Land Tees joins me and Nic to discuss the importance of public land, and his experiences enjoying that freedom.
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You know what time it is. Pour the coffee, hold the cream and sugar and sip that hot caffeine... it's coffee time!
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What the heck are carbon credits? And who's buying them? And who's selling them? We had the same questions. Thankfully, we had an awesome interview with Lisa Kubik, who happens to work in the thick of carbon credit programs. Get all these answered and much more on this episode of the prairie farm podcast.
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Did you know Bison have emotionally healthy, functioning family groups, including grandmas and angsty teenage bulls? Or at least... they're supposed to. Most bison farmers (possibly all except Bob himself) don't structure their herds in a manner that allows that to happen. Join us for the second part of our interview with Bob "Action" Jackson, as Bob tells us what he learned about bison while on the range of Yellowstone.
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Bob "Action" Jackson, former Yellowstone Backcountry Ranger and legendary hunter of poachers, sat down with us to tell us some of the wildest stories you will ever hear. Join us as Bob tells us of the times when all he had was a gun, a good horse, and his own solitary thoughts.
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Angela is a wealth of knowledge on homesteading and sustainable practices. Tune in to hear how you can incorporate her ideas into your own lifestyle.
The city of Pella, found in central Iowa celebrates their Dutch heritage every year with a festival called Tulip Time. But what are they celebrating? What are the origins of Pella? And how did it blossom into the thriving city it is today? Join us, as we interview Executive Director of Pella Historical, Val Van Kooten, on the prairie flooded history of Pella.
Grasslands CRP sign up opened last week. What does this mean for ag, conservation, and landowners? Find out by tuning in as Nicolas dives in to explain this cattle focused conservation reserve program. It's C-C-CCCoffee Time (dramatic echo).
Clay Frazer is a passionate conservationist with one of the most experienced resume's we have ever heard. From being a prescribed burn specialist, beaver researcher, prairie reconstruction expert, to humanitarian work in Africa, Clay has been there and done that. This conversation touches on all of those topics and more.
Happy Coffee Time! Kick back and sip those work time blues away as you hear the news you didn't know you needed to know.
For someone to develop a land ethic they need to spend time interacting with the land. That's the goal of Doug Duren's Sharing The Land initiative. In this episode we discuss topics ranging from the Driftless Area of the United States, to the history of the famed Duren Family Farm, and even the management of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer populations. Most importantly though the theme of conserving the land we are made of serves as the undertone to the whole conversation.
Shuffle down to the break room, grab that crusty work mug of yours, fill up with some less than fresh coffee off the warmer, and get ready to go on an auditory and intellectual journey. It's coffee time people.
On this episode Mary and Tom Holm join the show to talk about their experience hosting the PBS show "Prairie Yard and Garden," as well as their own gardening experiences at their home. It's a great conversation with plenty of stories and inspiration that will make you want to transform your own yard.
In the words of Bruce Buffer: "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt's tIIIIIIIIIIImmmme!" It's coffee time!
We are joined by Tyler Perry of Perry's Turf and Seed to keep you up on what's been going on in global conservation news... it's COFFEE TIME!
In this episode we are joined by Wendy Caldwell of the Monarch Joint Venture to discuss the importance of Monarch Butterflies and how we can help them last on our landscape.
Thursday, March 9th at 6am a bulldozer took to one of Illinois last remaining prairies-- a state that coincidentally calls itself the prairie state. But what happened? Who was involved? And how did a state that was once covered by 22 million acres of prairie get be left with so little that a patch of a few acres was fought over for years?
Ryan Callaghan (more commonly known as Cal) is one of the most inspiring and important voices in the natural conservation community. We got to talk about how Cal has interacted with prairies, why hunting is a critical component of conserving wildlife, what's going on with the North American Grasslands Conservation Act, and a lot of other great talking points. This was one of our all time favorite interviews and we're confident it will be the same for you.
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Grab your coffee and sip away your workday worries as we take you on another educational journey.... it's coffee time, folks!
This past weekend we hung out at the Iowa Deer Classic Convention. Not only did we have a lot of fun, we asked a lot of Deer hunters what the best method of deer hunting was and what was the best habitat for these deer. We also wanted an expert opinion, so we interviewed Jace Elliott, Iowa's State Deer Biologist of the Iowa DNR. You won't want to miss his knowledge on deer habitat.
Go ahead grab your coffee, kick your feet up and listen to the problems of the universe being solved... er, uh... talked about. It's COVFEFE TIME!
Ever wonder what cover crops are all about? Tune into this one to get the low down with Iowa Cover Crop Cofounder James Holz to fill you in on the ins and outs of cover cropping to preserve our most foundational resource.
Pheasant Forever and Quail Forever's national conventional Pheasant Fest was a blast. We put out a mic to strangers and asked some debated topics. But listen until the end, because we ask an expert, Senior Farm Bill Biologist Cierra Rhodes, about how to build good food plots and habitat for upland birds.
We sat down with a good friend of ours, Lucas Fritch, a 6th generation farmer, a teacher, and a thinker. We dive into how things are today, how they used to be, and what's our path forward as farmers.
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It's Wednesday... It's coffee time... Join us while we discuss who's buying farm land and who's replanting millions of trees.
On this episode we discuss the de-extinction of mammoths, wild hogs in Canada and the future with synthetic food products. Enjoy!
We had the privilege of speaking to an incredible conservation group, OWLS (Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors). We discussed the founding of Hoksey Native Seeds and what it looks like to create a conservation culture moving forward.
This week on Coffee Time Wednesdays we discuss egg prices, the evil of chickens, and Tesla being the great destroyer of agriculture.
Enjoy!
15 minutes, no more, no less. Usually about prairie. Always a good time. Join us as we discuss the latest news about prairie, ag, and conservation.
Chase Burns is a Land Broker, Land Manager, Rancher, Conservationist, and Outdoorsman. With a resume like that it's hard to imagine anyone who cares for the land more than Chase does. In this episode Nicolas and Kent talk about Chase's background in all of the aforementioned roles he serves in, as well as his take on all things related to conserving our natural spaces on the map.
Joy Van Wyngarden is the project manager of the South Skunk River Water Shed. She is passionate and knowledgeable about how to keep our water clean for future generations... Oh, and we had a lot of fun too. Enjoy
Iowa CRP manager, Matt Allen, joined us to discuss the past, present, and future CRP. We also discuss Federal and State Ag workers and their impact on everyday farmers.
Curious about CRP? Matt has your answers on this podcast episode.
Chris Helzer, the Prairie Economist, is one of the most experts in native midwest flora and fauna (specifically insects) that we have had the privilege to speak with. He also, coincidentally, happens to be the most talented photographer we has spoken with.
Local conservationist and Hoksey friend, Steve DeJong (Aka Flipper), joined us to talk about his ventures on organic farming, why he quit, and conservation.
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Russel Kirt, retired professor of Dupage Community College, and prairie enthusiast has dedicated a large part of his life to prairies. When visiting his personal prairie in Iowa, we had the privilege to sit down with him and talk shop. We got to treat him to his first ever podcast episode. Though short, you won't want to miss it.
President of the Iowa Prairie Network, Tabitha Panas, joined us to discuss past, present, and future prairies of the midwest and what we can do to pass them onto the next generation.
If you know a beekeeper in Iowa (or even the Midwest), chances are they know of Ebert Honey. Phil Ebert, is not only a master beekeeper, but also the keeper of the bees on our farm. Having just turned 80, Phil has some stories and a legacy you won't want to miss.
Ryan Bryson, founder of Bryson Wildlife and Land Management, joins us to discuss the best and worst of the nuanced practice of managing our wildlife habitat.
Taylor Keen, founder of Sacred Seed, joins us as we dive into indigenous tradition of agriculture and how today's agriculture is affecting it.
Laura Walter, of the University of Northern Iowa Tallgrass Prairie Center, helps lead the way for education on conservation in Iowa. Join Nicolas, Kent, and Laura as they discuss dirty diapers, open prairies, and the hopeful situation for prairie's future in Iowa.
Here at The Prairie Farm we specialize in prairie flora. But on this episode Nicolas and Kent were joined by a man focused on the prairie fauna: Mr. Ted Koch of the North American Grouse Partnership. Ted recently published an article on the rapidly disappearing lesser prairie-chicken in hopes of rallying conservationists to participate in the advocacy needed to preserve the remaining population of these original members of the prairie. Other topics discussed include water, and air quality, as well as creative solutions for the way forward.
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Nancy and John Brannaman founded the Lavender Farm at Sutliff, but it wasn't a straightforward journey. Check out how their journey took them from Ukraine to a rural farm in Iowa.
Conservation can be a lonely fight... and few people know that the great Wolfer of the West. Carter Niemeyer was picked as the perfect man for the job by the US government to reintroduce wolves from Canada to the United States. Don't miss the epic life of this courageous and wild man.
The Lavender Farm at Sutliff has the lofty ambition of starting and stewarding a sustainable farm with u-pick and many other exciting ventures. Join us, as we pick the the brains and brawn of the operation with Nancy Brannaman and Abby Barten.
Howard Vincent joins us to discuss his journey from volunteer to CEO of America's most efficient and effective conservation organization.
hear the juicy, inside details of what it's like working at on a prairie farm with Payton Scandridge
Former DNR employee, Paul Attema, has chosen a more wholesome route to his lifestyle after his time in the DNR. Check out why and how
Pheasants Forever's director of marketing and media, Bob St. Pierre, walks us through how his love of nature grew as he learned to hunt, fish, and dog train.
Hear how Hoksey Native Seeds, one of Iowa's oldest prairie farms, was founded by a man inspired by a pheasant.