No Land Farms

5. Renewable Natural Gas-lighting

In the final episode of No Land Farms, we learn about a waste scheme loved by agribusiness and the fossil fuel industry, discuss climate change impacts, and conclude the series with final thoughts and advice from Delmarva organizers. We hear again from Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, Kathy Phillips, and Rebecca Wolf from the earlier episodes, and we meet Tyler Lobdell, a senior attorney [https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2020/10/19/tyler-lobdell/] at Food & Water Watch who worked alongside Delmarva organizers to oppose a factory farm gas plant in Seaford. More info & sources: linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod [http://linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod] Written, researched, and edited by Carly Rizzuto Cover art by Paige Langmead Music by MarieCaron [https://freesound.org/people/MarieCaron/] (theme), JoseAgudelo [https://freesound.org/people/JoseAgudelo/], Garuda1982 [https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/], and theblockofsound235 [https://freesound.org/people/theblockofsound235/] (outro) from Freesound If you liked the podcast, consider supporting it: buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod [http://buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod] Find No Land Farms on Instagram and YouTube @nolandfarmspod [https://www.instagram.com/nolandfarmspod/] Thank you for listening!

4. Tyson: We Feed the Shareholders Like Family

In episode 4, we investigate the chicken industry’s influence on the public and policy-makers in Delmarva, and we examine the claim that this factory farm food system feeds the world. The interviews in this episode are continued conversations with Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, Craig Watts, Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Rebecca Wolf, and Rachel Casteel from the previous episodes. More info & sources: linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod [http://linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod] Written, researched, and edited by Carly Rizzuto Cover art by Paige Langmead Music by MarieCaron [https://freesound.org/people/MarieCaron/] (theme), ViraMiller [https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/], AmishRob [https://freesound.org/people/AmishRob/], lucasgonze [https://freesound.org/people/lucasgonze/], Garuda1982 [https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/], and theblockofsound235 [https://freesound.org/people/theblockofsound235/] (outro) from Freesound If you liked the podcast, consider supporting it: buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod [http://buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod] Find No Land Farms on Instagram and YouTube @nolandfarmspod [https://www.instagram.com/nolandfarmspod/] Thank you for listening!

3. Premature Death Makes Perdue a Tender Chicken

Episode three dives further into air pollution from Delmarva’s chicken industry and some examples of how governments in the Delmarva region have actively protected the chicken industry’s profits over the health of their citizens and environment. We meet fellow organizer to Maria Payan and senior regional representative at the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project [https://sraproject.org/], Rachel Casteel; retired Delmarva coatkeeper, Kathy Phillips; director of communications at the Environmental Integrity Project [https://environmentalintegrity.org/], Tom Pelton; and the executive director of the Chesapeake Legal Alliance [https://www.chesapeakelegal.org/], David Reed. We’ll also hear from folks interviewed in the previous episodes, including Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, and Gabby Ross. More info & sources: linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod [http://linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod] Written, researched, and edited by Carly Rizzuto Cover art by Paige Langmead Music by MarieCaron [https://freesound.org/people/MarieCaron/] (theme), lucasgonze [https://freesound.org/people/lucasgonze/], Soundrack [https://freesound.org/people/Soundrack/], Garuda1982 [https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/], ViraMiller [https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/], and theblockofsound235 [https://freesound.org/people/theblockofsound235/] (outro) from Freesound If you liked the podcast, consider supporting it: buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod [http://buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod] Find No Land Farms on Instagram and YouTube @nolandfarmspod [https://www.instagram.com/nolandfarmspod/] Thank you for listening!

2. Mountaire Doesn't Care

How did we get the chicken industry that we have today? What’s it like to be a chicken farmer? How else have people in Delmarva been affected by the region’s concentrated chicken industry? From the debt treadmill of contract farming to water contamination in Millsboro and Salisbury, episode 2 examines these questions with help from Rebecca Wolf, Craig Watts, and the Delmarva organizers we met in episode 1: Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, and Gabby Ross. Rebecca Wolf is a Senior Food Policy Analyst [https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2020/10/20/rebecca-wolf/] at Food & Water Watch, and Craig Watts is a farmer, previous contract grower, and director of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project’s Contract Grower Transition Program [https://sraproject.org/programs/contract-grower-transition-program/]. More info & sources: linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod [http://linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod] Written, researched, and edited by Carly Rizzuto Cover art by Paige Langmead Music by MarieCaron [https://freesound.org/people/MarieCaron/] (theme), ViraMiller [https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/], chinoise [https://freesound.org/people/chinoise/], YleArkisto [https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/], and theblockofsound235 [https://freesound.org/people/theblockofsound235/] (outro) from Freesound If you liked the podcast, consider supporting it: buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod [https://buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod] Find No Land Farms on Instagram and YouTube @nolandfarmspod [https://www.instagram.com/nolandfarmspod/] Thank you for listening!

1. No Land Farms in Delmarva

What are no land farms? How are people living near and working in chicken production impacted by the industry? In the first episode of the series, we’ll begin to tackle these questions and meet Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, and Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy. Maria Payan is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Sussex Health and Environmental Network [https://www.shen-network.net/]. Gabby Ross is a founder of Concerned Citizens Against Industrial CAFOs (CCAIC [https://www.facebook.com/groups/157904441244357/about/]) and a previous Delmarva coastkeeper, and Monica Brooks, also a founder of CCAIC, is the President of the Wicomico County NAACP [https://www.chamberdata.net/webforms/wicomico-county-naacp-branch-7028_5005356_3_21_5009649_memberprofile.aspx?dbid2=mdsal]. Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy is a cultural and medical anthropologist [https://www.thurkasangaramoorthy.org/], global health researcher, and a professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at American University. More info & sources: linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod [http://linktr.ee/nolandfarmspod] Written, researched, and edited by Carly Rizzuto Cover art by Paige Langmead Music by MarieCaron [https://freesound.org/people/MarieCaron/] (theme), ViraMiller [https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/], Koops [https://freesound.org/people/Koops/], Profispiesser [https://freesound.org/people/Profispiesser/], nickcase [https://freesound.org/people/nickcase/], DeVern [https://freesound.org/people/DeVern/], Garuda1982 [https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/], and theblockofsound235 [https://freesound.org/people/theblockofsound235/] (outro) from Freesound If you liked the podcast, consider supporting it: buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod [http://buymeacoffee.com/nolandfarmspod] Find No Land Farms on Instagram and YouTube @nolandfarmspod [https://www.instagram.com/nolandfarmspod/] Thank you for listening!