Iowa Prairie Documentary Project

S1:E14 ENVIRONMENTAL WITNESSING WITH JENNIFER NEW

Episode Summary

Jennifer talks about something I had never heard of before: "Environmental Witnessing." From visiting her grandparent's farm in Nevada, IA to meditating in front of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations...I think this episode is bound to offer some new perspectives on how we occupy the land.

Episode Notes

Jennifer talks about something I had never heard of before: "Environmental Witnessing." From visiting her grandparent's farm in Nevada, IA to meditating in front of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations...I think this episode is bound to offer some new perspectives on how we occupy the land.

Some of the topics we cover:  What is Environmental Witnessing / Meditating at a CAFO / Remembering her Iowa farming grandparents / Beauty in Iowa / Nishnabotna River Chemical Spill / Native American Mounds / 200 - acre prairie restoration/  Data Centers in Cedar Rapids /  How to do Enviro Witnessing / Grandparents and the 1980's Farm Crisis in Nevada, IA

To watch this on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GoVxeaN6i-Q
Jennifer's website: https://www.hyphaconnect.com

The intro and outro music are original compositions made for this podcast, created and played by Anthony Arnone of Iowa City. The music tracks were sound engineered by Jay Siebold of Sieboldsound.com.

This work is a microbudget project that is self-funded by me, the host, Charlie Morris. If you would like to help me cover the costs of things like sound mastering or gas money to travel to visit interview subjects, my Venmo is @CharlieMakesMovies

Music by: Anthony Arnone https://music.uiowa.edu/people/anthony-arnone
Intro Song/DAWN 
Outro Song/FEELING FREE
 Intro/outro Sound Mastering by: https://www.sieboldsound.com

To contact Director: https://iowaprairieproject.blog