Russell Lord: Ecological Problems Are Agricultural Problems

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Before Murray Bookchin, another man paired ecological health with societal health, Russell Lord. In this episode, we dive into Lord's early years and his exposure to sustainable agriculture. Heavily influenced by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lord worked as a journalist and extension program educator to advocate for the needs of farmers across the country in the early 20th century. During this time, he made a number of crucial connections which would later catapult him to becoming a forgotten but incredibly important conduit for the permanent agriculture movement's success over a number of decades. To read about Russell Lord's contributions to history, check out the following substack for sources and further details: hhttps://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/russell-lord To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For PPA Writing Content, visit: www.agroecologies.org For PPA Restoration Content, visit: www.restorationagroecology.com For PPA Merch, visit: www.poorproles.com For PPA Native Plants, visit: www.nativenurseries.org To hear Tomorrow, Today, our sister podcast, visit: www.tomorrowtodaypodcast.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome. We're back and we're doing things on people known has ever heard of.
0:18.7	And at this point, it's kind of our specialty.
0:21.5	The poor niche almanac.
0:23.2	Welcome.
0:24.0	When you want someone to listen to a few of our episodes, you can say, check out our PNAs.
0:28.6	Our Pnees, you might say.
0:31.6	Yes, and all of our episodes start like this, and I am sorry.
0:34.3	No, this is not the poor niche omniq.
0:37.6	This is the poor Perl's omnic.
0:39.5	And if you're here, if you're new here, sorry, Andy's just like that.
0:45.8	It's true.
0:46.8	So we are continuing our trajectory through the permanent agriculture movement that we've
0:52.2	been covering basically since the 1800s. In the last few weeks, we've been covering basically since the 1800s.
0:55.0	In the last few weeks, we've kind of talked about the major players in the Roosevelt administration
1:01.0	and their attempts to kind of make permanent agriculture some part or a focal part of the American
1:08.0	farming practice and kind of how that fell short. In that episode, we had brought
1:12.9	up the name Russell Lord a few times as he was just kind of on the periphery and was still pretty
1:18.1	closely tied to figures in that administration and was even a good friend of Vice President
1:24.3	Henry Wallace. Now, today we're going to focus on him and his role in the movement, and in particular
1:29.5	because he continued on pushing forward the whole permanent agriculture movement past World
1:36.4	War II into the 50s, and then we're going to see in a few episodes how that affects other
1:42.7	folks from the organic movement with Rodale, the Odom
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