Episode 4 – Liz Carlisle & Latrice Tatsey
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Liz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. She has written three books about regenerative farming and agroecology: Lentil Underground (2015), Grain by Grain (2019, with co-author Bob Quinn), and most recently, Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming (2022). She holds a Ph.D. in Geography, from UC Berkeley, and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology, from Harvard University. Prior to her career as a writer and academic, she spent several years touring rural America as a country singer.
Latrice Tatsey is an ecologist and advocate for tribally-directed bison restoration who remains active in her family’s cattle ranching operation at Blackfeet Nation in northwest Montana. Her research focuses on organic matter and carbon in soil, and specifically, the benefits to soil from the reintroduction of bison (iin-ni) to their traditional grazing landscapes on the Blackfeet Reservation. Latrice is currently completing her master’s degree in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University and she serves as a research fellow with the Piikani Lodge Health Institute and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Our relationship with the environment changes when we look at the land as a teacher and the animals as our elders. In today’s episode, Latrice Tatsey and Liz Carlisle share insights on being in relationship to the land. Why is it important that indigenous communities lead this work? How different would this work be if we acted with the next generation in mind? Latrice Tatsey is a member of the Amskapiipkni (Blackfeet) Nation, an ecologist and advocate for tribally-directed bison restoration. Liz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Studies Program and author of “Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming”. Ashley, Latrice, and Liz discuss the need to reintegrate native people and ancestral knowledge into the conversation about regenerative agriculture, the role of research in activism, how to honor and garner a more appreciative relationship with the land, and so much more.
Twitter: @lizwcarlisle
