City Flows is an immersive physical and digital exhibition designed by Midstory with the University of Toledo’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as part of their educational augmented reality project funded in part by the Ohio Environmental Education Fund of the Ohio EPA.

Welcome to the final episode of Greener Pastures, a Midstory podcast on the future of farming in the Midwest. In this episode, we’re talking about eggs and the chickens that lay them, and how they have become one of the most resilient commodities within the agricultural industry. Profits and productivity are climbing even as other sectors struggle to stay afloat. How does the poultry industry stay winning, and how does it affect what the future farms and farmers of America will look like?

In a gentle bend of the Maumee River, nestled between Front and Main streets in Toledo, Ohio, sits a plot of land that has gone by many names — most recently, International Park. Fast forward over 40 years later, and a new vision for the park is being realized.

Welcome to episode five of Greener Pastures, a Midstory podcast on the future of farming in the Midwest. In this episode, dive into Michigan’s fishery, an industry that put the state on the map, but has since begun to flounder. In response to rampant overfishing in the mid-20th century, the state’s Department of Natural Resources limited what commercial fishing operations could catch, and gave more freedom to recreational fishers to access and steward the resource. Today, only a handful of licensed fishing businesses remain in operation. What exactly are they up against, and is there a future for commercial catch in the Great Lakes State?