Kate Kavanaugh

Regenerative farmer. Host of the Ground Work // Mind Body Soil Podcast. Threads of what it means to be humans woven into this earth. IG: @kate_kavanaugh

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Pesticides/herbicides made from fossil fuels and a history of our relationship with them. It’s also a history of war and war w/ nature in this incredible piece by @Laura_J_Martin. Dovetails with recent interviews on petroleum, phosphorus, & infrastructure. https://t.co/ouPAX9dHIe

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Excited to release today’s episode with @JohnVaillant. I read all 4 of John’s books and sat down with him to tease out some big themes. What it came down to: an inescapable reckoning. Tune in to hear us talk about all that and more. https://t.co/bACz8FZ2vE

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This week’s episode with Rachel Slade is one of my favorites. The parallels between ag and manufacturing were many! We get into all of it: manufacturing, economics, policy history, unions, and how to re-imagine the fabric of our communities with American Manufacturing. Out now!

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@VinceBeiser have you seen this? Where sand and power metals meet. https://t.co/epugk3Qm2D

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Loved recording episode 79 of the Mind, Body, and Soil podcast with @debcha continuing our exploration of infrastructure!

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Absolutely loved recording this episode with @VinceBeiser for the podcast. As I reflect on our modern world, I can’t help but notice how much of it goes unseen, especially a material as foundational to how we live as sand.

https://t.co/5EChdwMZE8

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@KTaylorWrites @ben_a_goldfarb Participating with @ben_a_goldfarb in a "veritable palimpsest of word and thought" is about the nicest compliment I've ever received. Thanks for tuning in!

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Can’t stop thinking about how much @ben_a_goldfarb changed my perception of roads in this conversation we shared together on the Mind, Body, and Soil podcast!

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Listen to my conversation on the Mind, Body, and Soil podcast with me & author @ben_a_goldfarb! We tackle circular economies, linear infrastructure, and the entangled complexity of roads, beavers, humans, and beyond. I absolutely loved having this conversation with Ben.

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Listen to the full episode here! https://t.co/e9JGbSRAaK

[Kate Kavanaugh @katekavanavgh]

I recently sat down with @DefendingBeef to talk about the tangible AND intangible benefits to raising animals. Often overlooked? As Nicolette puts it the “health of our democracy” and opportunity to raise our children in an environment that promotes independence.

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Finally got to sit down with the @MrSollozzo and talk all things meat, history of our food system, investing in our health and agriculture, and decentralizing our food. It’s one of my favorite episodes to date.

https://t.co/qdidkdlYoV

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So excited that Episode 32 of the Ground Work Podcast is live! How Soil Shapes the World with @Dig2Grow. We look at the collaborative nature of soil, the state of our soils, and how all of it connects to human health and more! https://t.co/ziCNxsrDdP

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Loved this talk with @vanvlietphd about the dark matter of nutrition and measurable differences in regenerative and conventional practices of raising meat. He’s adding data to what we as butchers and farmers know when we raise and cut our meat.

Listen:
https://t.co/8djUa4DeVv

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@MrSollozzo Love this. I want to add that the centralization of slaughter/packing facilities by these companies put a big bottleneck for independent and local producers, especially in certain states (laws vary by state). It’s imperative that we build indie packers as well as farmers.

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2/ Put that money back into local regenerative farmers and ranchers by eating “tough” collagen rich cuts of meat like shanks, necks, shoulder, and neck and knuckle bones. Get collagen from whole foods! You benefit and so does your farmer and your local ecosystem.

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1/ Collagen supplements represent an over 2 billion dollar industry. Often found to be contaminated with heavy metals, herbicide residues, and from questionable origins, what’s the alternative?

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@MrSollozzo Building health through reciprocity

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I love it AND it’s not the side of farming we show, it’s the side we tuck away. Is the younger first generation of farmers ready to embrace this style of problem solving, physical labor, and type 2 fun?

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Saturday Morning On the Farm: A Study in Why We Should NOT Romanticize Farming.

It’s important that we come “home” to the farm in younger generations and preserve the skills and regenerative food production of generations past without romanticizing it.

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[Kate Kavanaugh @katekavanavgh]

Today there are no golden fields and pictures with animals, no idyllic barn raising or processing day, just grubby labor and DIY tasks. It’s hard. And it feels like spinning wheels in the mud to literally move rocks from one place to another.