OUR HEN HOUSE PODCAST With LivingFuture's Shawn Smith and Melissa Hoffman on Wildlife-integrated agriculture, sanctuary, and the future of conservation.

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Here's a breakdown of the subject matter covered in this rollicking interview with host Mariann Sullivan.

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00:00 Entertaining news from Our Hen House’s Jasmin and Mariann.

23:12 Intro to who Shawn Smith and I are.

26:38 Coexistence (the overall ethical theme of what we do) Shawn

28:45-39:25 Wildlife-integrated food systems: what it means. Feeding the world. Land use. Local food systems. Regenerative Vegan agriculture. Melissa

39:25: The wildlife on our land. The story of starting our duck sanctuary: from duck-rice integration to sanctuary. Shawn

43:20-50:57: How we deal with rats in the sanctuary and freeing them into the wild. Shawn

50:58-55:55 : Expanding into veganic growing, growing mushrooms, ethical wild harvesting. Myco broths and brews. Shawn

56:00-1:00:47 : bringing new veganic growers onto our land within a wildlife context. Building soil and sequestering carbon with annual crops. Willow coppicing and ramial wood chipping to feed annual crops. The marriage between annuals and perennials for carbon sequestration. Melissa

1:01:29-1:08:20 Living Land Trust —on launching an ethical vegan land trust. and conservation easement. Updating the meaning of land conservation. Setting land aside for wildlife and animals. Shawn