Today we are joined by Kristina Villa of the Farmers Land Trust to dig into one of the most critical challenges facing the future of our food system: Land access, tenure, and transition.

Kristina shares the remarkable story of her journey from an urban childhood to launching her own organic farming business and eventually founding an organization that enables emerging regenerative farmers to gain stable access to land that then can be held in community for generations.

It's no secret that conventional farming is wreaking havoc on America's farmland, but is it really possible to convert conventional row crop farms to a regenerative approach? And how can the concept of an agrarian help foster stronger ties between rural farming communities and the cities they feed?

In this first episode, we dig into the answer with someone who's done it: Josh Payne of Rusted Plowshare Farm shares the story of how he and his sister Larin transformed their grandfather's corn and soy row crop operation into regenerative pastureland complete with sheep and cattle, microgreens, and over 30 acres of chestnuts.