Farm and Fiddle

James Owen is Executive Director of Renew Missouri, an organization working to bring more sustainable energy options to the state. Among other topics is the legislative effort to allow community solar in Missouri. Many other states have this option so that developers can include electric generation in their plans for subdivisions, apartment complexes, commercial buildings and so forth. In Missouri at present, only power companies recognized by the Public Service Commission can sell power to consumers. Bills at the legislature now can enable the change, opening a whole new way to provide electricity to consumers.

What is Farm and Fiddle?

Farm and Fiddle is the world's oldest radio program covering sustainable agriculture and local food systems. We air every Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. central time, from KOPN 89.5 fm, Columbia, Missouri. We speak to the best experts in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, animal husbandry, and cover topics like how to resist factory farms in the neighborhood and what to do if your crop is knocked out by too much or too little rain, or by a neighbor's sloppy poison application.