Voices Of Courage with Ken D Foster

S5EP9, The Courage to Change Our Food System with Stephanie Anderson

From the Ground Up, by award-winning author Stephanie Anderson, offers a journey into the root causes of our unsustainable food chain, revealing its detrimental reliance on extractive agriculture, which depletes soil and water, produces nutritionally deficient food, and devastates communities and farmers. Anderson then delivers an uplifting, deeply reported narrative of women-led farms and ranches nationwide, supported by women-led investment firms, farmer training programs, restaurants, supply chain partners, and advocacy groups, all working together to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Show Benefits:  
-Simple & Engaging: Discover what regenerative agriculture is and why it matters—explained clearly.
-Big-Picture Impact: Can it solve climate change and food insecurity? Learn its potential and limits.
-Surprising Stories: Hear the most unexpected insights from "From the Ground Up"—real farming revelations.
-Your Role Matters: Find out how you can support a regenerative, fair food system and make a difference.

Stephanie Anderson is the author of From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture (The New Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Flyway, Hotel Amerika, Terrain.org, The Chronicle Review, Sweet, and more. Winner of the 2020 Margolis Award for social justice journalism, Stephanie is also a co-editor of the University of Nebraska Press series Our Regenerative Future. Her debut nonfiction book, One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture, earned a 2020 Nautilus Award and a 2019 Midwest Book Award. She holds an MFA from Florida Atlantic University, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction

Find out more about Stephanie Anderson:
Website: stephanieandersonwriting.com
Facebook: facebook.com/stephanieandersonwriting
Instagram: instagram.com/stephanieandersonwriting
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stephanie-anderson-writing

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