The Role of Native Tree Crops in Sustainable Agriculture with Zach Elfers

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

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

5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode, we're joined by Zach Elfers to talk about tree crop breeding history, creating marketable products from tree crops, and bridging the present with the past. What is our role in building future food systems that we may never see, and how can we do this while engaging with our beliefs around equitable business models? These questions frame up how the Keystone Tree Crop Cooperative operate and build up their business model to showcase what our food system can look like when centered around native tree crops, and offer us a novel way to think about food and industry. Check out Zach's work with the Keystone Tree Crop Cooperative: https://keystonetreecrops.com/ Find Zach on Instagram at:@susqu_alum 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 back to the Port Poles Almanac. This is Andy once again in today's episode. We're joined by Zach Elfers.
0:21.9	Now, Zach doesn't really fit into any particular category, and I guess that's probably how he likes it. A forager,
0:27.8	botanist, wilds, tender, and researcher, his engagement with the landscape and agricultural
0:32.8	systems around him reflect more of a time forgotten than the way we try to pigeonhole ourselves
0:37.7	as specialists today.
0:39.5	Today we talk about how his unique blend of history and ecology has allowed him to take
0:44.1	advantage of living in one of the most important regions of the country in terms of recent
0:49.1	tree crop advancement.
0:50.8	This was a really fun conversation to get into the weeds about the nerdy stuff we tend to talk about on this show, especially from a historical perspective, and I think you'll really enjoy it too.
1:00.7	So take a listen. Let us know what you think.
1:07.3	Zach, thanks so much for coming on. I'm pretty excited to talk to you because we've chatted a bunch online and now we get
1:13.5	to talk face to face.
1:15.1	That's exciting for me because you're like one of the only people that I can post anything
1:18.6	about some historical agricultural figure and you're like, oh, let me tell you about this about
1:22.7	them and that's pretty cool.
1:25.3	Thanks for coming on.
1:26.3	Thanks, Andy.
1:27.3	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:28.4	Awesome.
1:28.7	So tell us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up getting into the work that you do and what we're going to talk about.
1:36.2	Sure.
1:36.7	It was sort of a meandering journey.
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