The Only Thing That Lasts
af Sarah Mock / Ambrook
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Chapter 10: The Things We Do For Land
Chapter 10: The Things We Do For Land
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They say there’s only one thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, and worth dying for. It’s not love or money, not vengeance or virtue. It’s land.
To understand how the existence, value, and costs and benefits of our agricultural lands affects us all, join journalist Sarah Mock for a journey into American’s mysterious farm landscape.
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- Chapter 10: The Things We Do For Land · 46 min.In our final episode, host Sarah Mock acknowledges that while obtaining property may look bleak for aspiring farmers in 2026, there are plenty of reasons for hope. As she…
- Chapter 8: The Land Is Dead, Long Live the Land (part 2) · 37 min.You probably know about the trolley problem, where someone is forced to make a decision between inaction that kills five people, or making an effort that kills only one. In this…
- Chapter 7: The Land Is Dead, Long Live the Land · 33 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 7We tend to think of farmland and nature as distinct and easily distinguished, but in this episode, our host Sarah Mock poses the question: What if these boundaries are far more…
- Chapter 9: Bought the Farm · 54 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 9After 8 episodes of The Only Thing That Lasts, looking at the deeply complicated history of farmland in America, host Sarah Mock brings us into the present day, with an episode…
- Chapter 4: It's Highway Robbery · 46 min. · Episode 4"As through this world I’ve wandered, I’ve seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen." Woody Guthrie's lyrics are a fitting frame…
- Chapter 6: The Wine of Wrath · 52 min.Let's talk about the Dust Bowl. This distinctly American sliver of history, which most of us were schooled on with The Grapes of Wrath, was more than an act of God — it resulted…
- Chapter 5: Raise Less Corn and More Hell · 48 min.Long before "populist" became a nebulous buzzword used to describe everyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, the farmer-founded Populist Party was a formidable force in…
- Chapter 3: Get Rich Homesteading · 43 min.The Homestead Act of 1862 changed the path of many thousands of Americans, who were given $1.1 trillion in free land to farm. Their descendents, who make up 25% of the U.S…
- Chapter 1: Is the U.S. Running Out of Farmland? · 35 min. · Sæson 1 Episode 1In the first episode of our 8-episode limited series, agriculture journalist Sarah Mock unpacks the dire warnings advocates are making — namely, that we're losing thousands of…
- Chapter 2: Alchemy of Farmland · 39 min.In the second episode of our 8-episode limited series, agriculture journalist Sarah Mock takes us on a journey to the origins of what we think of as farmland today — and with it…
