Russell Lord, J. Edgar Hoover & the Permanent Agriculture Movement

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

Home & Garden, Science, Nature, Leisure, Education, How To

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Part 2 of the Russell Lord story. 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	Lordy, Lordy, we're back.
0:17.0	Dear Russell Lord, the terrible puns are starting early this episode. Now, if you didn't hear part one, pause, go back.
0:24.6	Or, I don't know, listen to another podcast in general.
0:27.6	I don't know how you ended up here if you didn't listen to part one, but you know, maybe be a maniac, listen to part two.
0:34.6	Don't listen to me.
0:35.6	I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just a voice inside your head right now. Go crazy. Yeah, you heard the man. Don't listen to him or do. And I mean, if you really want to go crazy, I mean, it's up to you. You press play on this. You might as well play all our content. Yeah. So we covered our man, the Lord's early years, right?
0:55.4	He talked about his schooling, his role in the Great War, his work as a journalist after, and linking up with Harry Truman.
1:05.3	Nope.
1:06.8	Wait, Tubman, no.
1:09.4	Wallace.
1:10.3	Why are there so many Harry's back then?
1:12.6	No, it's Henry Wallace.
1:14.5	Just, yeah.
1:15.8	You got it, buddy.
1:16.9	Slowly losing that grip on reality, and I'm waiting to watch your fall.
1:20.6	Thanks.
1:21.2	I'm so happy you're here for me.
1:23.1	Yeah, I'm down here in the abyss waiting.
1:26.7	So where we got to is basically when FDR got elected.
1:30.6	Now, if you listen to the three episodes before part one, we talked about how this was kind of like this unique coalescing of opportunities.
1:40.8	And it was kind of like this Hail Mary opportunity for permanent agriculture.
1:45.0	I mean, the ball's on you for thinking our audience knows what a Hail Mary is.
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