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Blue Dot: Reimagining Ag: the California State University Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture

CSU Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems Director Cynthia Daley at the CSU Chico Farm Photo.
Matt Fidler
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NSPR
CSU Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems Director Cynthia Daley at the CSU Chico Farm Photo.

Blue Dot goes down on the farm by visiting with folks from California State University, Chico's Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems (CRARS).

First, Producer Matt Fidler is given a tour of the college farm and organic dairy with CRARS Director and co-founder Cynthia Daley. Dr. Daley then joins Dave for a discussion of what regenerative agriculture's principles and practices are and how they can be both beneficial for the land and economically productive for farmers, ranchers, and orchardists.

Host Dave Schlom gets an in-depth look at soil science and the benefits of carbon capture with CSUC Environmental Science Professor Sandrine Matiasek and graduate student Jessica Portrera.

Then he wraps up the show by visiting with Tyler Burke, who did his Master's degree work by studying an alfalfa farm in Southern California where both traditional and regenerative ag practices are employed.

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.