Editor’s Desk: Here comes FERN’s Hot Farm podcast!
For the past year, we’ve been at work on a narrative podcast, Hot Farm, about what the people who grow our food are doing, or could be doing, to fight climate change. The trailer is out now, and the first episode launches April 12, with new episodes every Tuesday through May 6. Agriculture accounts for an impossible to ignore 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, so if we’re serious about fighting climate change, farmers need to be part of the solution.
Over four episodes, host Eve Abrams and her team travel the Midwest, engaging with farmers who are confronting the difficult reality of climate change—increasingly extreme floods and heat—including those who don’t believe they’re part of the problem. We also meet the scientists who are developing new crops that are better suited to an unpredictable climate, and the people who are trying to convince farmers and consumers to embrace those crops. And we get a detailed look at one possible future for agriculture in America: As California dries out and heats up, people are asking if other regions of the country can take up the slack.
It’s the same great narrative journalism you’ve come to expect from FERN, but with the singular intimacy that audio delivers. Hot Farm brings you the voices too often absent from the debate about climate change—the farmers who grow your food.
Listen to the trailer here and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. You can also listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 1 arrives April 12.
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