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No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

262: Unabridged Interview: Linley Dixon

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This is our unabridged interview with Linley Dixon. What does it mean to live a good life in a world increasingly disconnected from the land that sustains it?  Before Linley Dixon became co-director of the Real Organic Project, she spent years in academia studying plant pathology and soil microorganisms, peering through microscopes at the unseen relationships beneath our feet. But a passion for organic farming and the well-being of workers and the planet led her into her current role as an activist in a farmer-led movement working to restore integrity to the practice of Organic Farming. Linley offers us a vision of human flourishing rooted not in speed, efficiency, or endless consumption, but in patience, stewardship, and radical generosity. She explains why healthy soil lies at the heart of authentic organic farming, why the word “radical” is actually a botanical term, and why she believes true change begins when ordinary people are willing to tell difficult truths. ⁠⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources, and Transcript⁠ for abridged episode with Linley Dixon ⁠⁠⁠Join NSE+⁠⁠⁠ — our subscriber-only community — for ad-free listening, member-only bonus content, and early access to live show tickets. Your membership helps make No Small Endeavor sustainable. No Small Endeavor: An award-winning podcast that asks what it means to live a good life. Through conversations with leading thinkers across theology, philosophy, psychology, politics, and the social sciences, we explore human flourishing, meaning and purpose, faith and culture, science and religion, virtue and character, religion and spirituality, community, and the practices that help shape a good life grounded in truth, beauty, and goodness. Follow ⁠⁠⁠@nosmallendeavor⁠⁠⁠  Host Lee C. Camp: Lee has worked as a professor of theology & ethics for more than 25 years, teaching and writing on topics of faith & politics, inter-religious dialog, and human flourishing at the intersection of theology, moral philosophy, and social sciences. Follow ⁠⁠⁠@leeccamp ⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, friends, Lee Seacamp here. You're listening to No Small Endeavor. This is our unabridged interview with Linley Dixon.

0:10.3

Linley is, as I say in the interview, our first scholar farmer to ever have on the show that I recollect, a career in academia, doing a PhD all the way up into plant pathology and her graduate work

0:24.3

and then worked with the I believe the USDA for a while and then another nonprofit and then decided

0:30.9

at one point that she was going to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a farmer and she and her

0:36.1

husband and young child made their way to

0:38.5

Colorado, where they have become farmers. And it's a beautiful story, beautiful interview,

0:44.3

and discussion of many of the pressing issues of food. And yet it's more than that. I think

0:51.5

it's a sort of meditation upon what it means to live a good life

0:55.0

and the practices of living such a life and the way in which we may learn a great deal

1:00.9

about what a good life might mean and entail through rhythms of farming and agriculture

1:06.9

and the beauty of the creation. I hope you enjoy this. Here's Linley Dixon.

1:12.1

Hello, friends Lee Seacamp here. There is, as you may have noticed, no shortage of content

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