Podcasts
Photo Credit: A-dae Romero Briones. Elderberry harvest.
Cal Ag Roots Community Co-productions
(Help produce community-based co-productions with community partners)
(2023) “Voces del Campo” (COFS Oregon), Production assistance and audio engineering by Li Schmidt
(2023) “An Ear to the Ground” (National Young Farmers Coalition), Audio engineering by Li Schmidt
(2023) “Re-Seeding: Stewarding Stories from New Generations of California Indigenous People.” Due to a COVID-19 delay, this project shifted from a podcast produced in partnership with Indigenous co-producers to a co-produced ESRI StoryMap.
(2022) The Well Conversation Series (Audio engineering by Li Schmidt)
The Well LANDBACK Conversation with Keolu Fox
These projects were made possible by the 11th Hour Project at the Schmidt Family Foundation.
Photo credit: Farmhand and horse standing next to shed in Tulare County, Roberts Family Papers, African American Museum and Library of Oakland.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (Visit calhum.org to learn more), and the 11th Hour Project at the Schmidt Family Foundation.
We Are Not Strangers Here is a collaboration between myself, Susan Anderson of the California African American Museum, the California Historical Society, Exhibit Envoy (Amy Cohen), and the Cal Ag Roots Project at the California Institute for Rural Studies.
We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California
(SPRING 2021, Series Producer, Writer, & Host) This six-part Cal Ag Roots series, which accompanies a traveling and digital exhibit, shines a light on African Americans in the history of California agriculture and rural communities, and Black people’s relationship with food, farming and land. Lucas Brady Woods helped with the production of this podcast. Click the links below to listen!
Episode One: “Freedom Chasers: Early Black Settlers and the California Dream” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Two: “Hidden Roots: Uncovering the Legacies of African American Homesteaders in California” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Three: “Cultivating Change: African American Homesteaders, Innovators, and Civic Leaders” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Four: “Independent Settlements: Building Black Communities in Rural California” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Five: “Back to the Land: Allensworth and the Black Utopian Dream” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Six: “Still Here: Black Farmers & Agricultural Stewardship in the Modern Age” (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Kelly Carlisle of Acta Non Verba urban farm in Oakland. Photo Credit: https://farmvetco.org/stories/kelly-carlisle/
Seeds of Change: The African American Roots of Food Justice in California
(2022, Series Producer, Writer, & Host). Featuring interviews with scholars, urban farmers, and community activists, this three-part Cal Ag Roots series examines the historical relationship between food justice and politics in Black urban communities in the state. Li Schmidt edited this podcast series. Click the links below to listen!
Episode One: United We Stand: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Food Justice in Black Los Angeles’s Victory Markets. (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Two: To Free Ourselves We Must Feed Ourselves: The Hidden Legacy of the Black Panther Free Breakfast Program in California. (Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)
Episode Three: A Contemporary Harvest: Oakland’s Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project.(Caroline Collins, Host, Writer, Producer)