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Radio Free Acton: Tech & Work: The effect of technology on farming; Upstream on ‘The Rending and the Nest’
Radio Free Acton: Tech & Work: The effect of technology on farming; Upstream on ‘The Rending and the Nest’
Mar 15, 2026 3:04 PM

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Dan Churchwell, associate director of program outreach at Acton, speaks with Kevin Scott, a farmer from Valley Springs, SD, on sustainable farming and growing technology as well as the dramatic changes in agriculture that have taken place due to new technologies. Then, on the Upstream segment, Bruce Edward Walker talks with author Kaethe Schwehn on her new dystopian novel“The Rending and the Nest.”

Check out these additional resources on this week’s podcast topics:

Listen to the first segment of the “Technology & the Future of Work” series

Read “Wendell Berry: Great poet, cranky Luddite, on ag tech” by Bruce Walker

Register here for the ing Acton Lecture Series event:Communism in Cuba, its international impact, the democratic resistance and U.S. Cuba policy

Visit Kaethe Schwen’s official site

Do you have questions for the Radio Free Acton team that you would like answered in future podcast segments? Leave a message at 888-705-4180 or email [email protected].

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