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Flipping the Table

115 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings

Flipping the Table: Honest Conversations About Food, Farming and the Future. Hosted by: Michael Reid Dimock.

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S6 - Ep#3 - Alegria De La Cruz, a Weaver and a Warrior for Equity and Justice

March 19, 2024 15:45 - 1 hour - 191 MB

Alegria De La Cruz has a history of creating spaces and moments for farmworkers and other historically marginalized brown and black people to fairly and wisely engage the powers that be: employers, judges and policy makers.

S6 - Ep#2 - Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott, an inspiring indigenous millennial working to heal our land through stewardship

February 20, 2024 20:21 - 44 minutes - 101 MB

As 30-year-old Native American rancher, mother and nonprofit leader, Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott reflects the power of the millennial generation born between 1981 and 1996. Indigenous knowledge, the future of food and her role in the film Common Ground are deeply explored in this episode.

S6 - Ep#1 - Rick Clark, a large-scale Midwestern regenerative organic farmer from Indiana, shares his story of transition away from conventional commodity agriculture to the center of the film Common Ground

January 16, 2024 21:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MB

A 5th generation commodity crop farmer from Indiana, the Heartland of America, Rick Clark had an awakening during a one-inch rain event in 2007 that washed topsoil from his fields. That moment spawned a ten-year journey during which Rick created rich healthy soil that captures carbon and holds water, diversified his crops and increased his profits. This success placed him at the center of the film Common Ground. As the film says, Rick “cracked the code” of large-scale regenerative farming.

S5 - Ep#12 - Jim Kleinschmit of Other Half Processing and the Growing GRASS Climate Smart Commodities Partnership Project

December 05, 2023 22:28 - 52 minutes - 121 MB

Farm boy and entrepreneur Jim Kleinschmit started a company called Other Half Processing to ensure that the hides and other byproducts from cattle and bison production are fully utilized. When USDA began its funding campaign to promote regenerative agriculture, he hatched an idea that has bloomed into a $35 million project to build lucrative markets in Europe and beyond for hides and more livestock byproducts.

S5 - Ep#11 - Will Harris Regenerates An Entire Community Through White Oak Pastures

November 14, 2023 17:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MB

After decades of economic decline around the Harris family’s farm, Will experienced an epiphany that led to a journey to what we now call regenerative agriculture. His story is about a pioneer’s perseverance, love for animals, the land and a community. His example could transform rural America.

S5 - Ep#10 - Filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell share their story of the making of 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 and why regenerative agriculture must become the norm

October 17, 2023 15:41 - 46 minutes - 106 MB

Josh and Rebecca Tickell produced and directed the newly released film, Common Ground. It is a compelling look at the expanding acceptance of regenerative agriculture as an antidote to many of the challenges faced by farmers, ranchers, consumers and policy makers. Josh and Rebecca share about why they included a powerful diversity of voices and perspectives to compelling convey their hopes for regenerative agriculture. They describe it as a love letter to all our children as well as a call t...

S5 - Ep#9 - The long strange trip of Loren Poncia of Stemple Creek Ranch

September 19, 2023 18:35 - 49 minutes - 112 MB

Hear how Loren Poncia, a former Monsanto sales rep, became a model regenerative rancher. He and his wife faced the omnivore’s dilemma to transform the family dairy into a multimillion dollar iconic grassfed organic meat brand.

S5 - Ep#8 - The Good Food Movement Is Advancing More Quickly Each Year

August 24, 2023 16:08 - 18 minutes - 43.1 MB

For the 100th Episode of Flipping the Table, Michael shares his perception of the advances being made by those seeking a healthier, resilient and just food system. He makes the case for remaining optimistic about our future.

S5 - Ep#7 - What does grassfed meat really mean with Carrie Balkcom of the American Grassfed Association.

July 18, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 84.9 MB

Grassfed, grass finished, pasture raised are all terms you see on meat and dairy packages these days. But what do they actually mean? Can they be trusted? Michael dives into this question with Carrie Balkcom the executive director of the American Grassfed Association. AGA is the nation’s singular independent certification program that confirms livestock are fed only their natural diet for their entire lives.

S5 - Ep#6 - Deep Connections: Healthy Soil Leads to Healthy Plants, Animals and Humans

June 13, 2023 21:58 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Spencer Smith is a self-described soil nerd who has raised livestock his whole life. He believes California is a great place to produce grass-fed beef. His goal as a consultant is to help livestock producers optimize the health of their land in order to ecologically, humanely and profitably manage businesses that deliver healthy food for humans.

S5 - Ep#5 - Will California’s Nutrition Incentive Program (CNIP) live on?

May 18, 2023 03:37 - 37 minutes - 86.3 MB

Since 2016, California has provided $30 million in matching funds to attract nearly the same amount from the USDA in order to provide SNAP families with matching dollars to support their purchase of healthy fresh and organic produce. Minni Forman, Valeria Velazques Duenas and Shawn Harrison, who manage nutrition incentive programs in their communities, share their work and the impact of both CNIP and the Market Match promotion of incentives offered at over 200 farmers markets and farms stand...

S5 - Ep#4 - How Cliff Pollard and Cream Co, Inc. provide the missing middle link in creation of West Coast regional regenerative meat supply chains

April 08, 2023 23:28 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

In the national effort to reanimate local and regional meat supply chains serving primarily organic and regenerative ranchers, the key is a what is known as a “cut and wrap facility.” These are where animal carcasses are skillfully cut into steaks, chops and roasts and ground into burger and hot dogs sought by shoppers, restaurants and cafeteria food providers. Cream Co, founded by Cliff Pollard, fills this vital niche on the nation’s west coast.

S5 - Ep#3 - Jacob Katz, senior scientist for the nonprofit California Trout, describes how flexible farmers are a solution to major endangered species problems

March 14, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

California has declared that species diversity is a major environmental goal. After 150 years of intensive agriculture, achieving that goal is a challenge. But there is a great example underway on the Sacramento River where endangered salmon are being saved by proactive rice farmers. The Nigiri Project reveals an approach that has implications for crop and livestock operations across the state and the nation.

S5 - Ep#2 - Leonard Diggs and the Regenerator Project on cultivating the next generation of women and BIPOC farmers and ranchers

February 14, 2023 04:31 - 49 minutes - 113 MB

We need more farmers and many of them must be women, Black, Indigenous and other people of color in order to sustain the nation’s food abundance and heal the wounds of the nation’s persistent racism. After a 35-year farming career, Leonard Diggs, a Black farmer from California’s Great Central Valley, is fully engaged in supporting the emergence of that healing generation of new farmers.

S5 - Ep#1 - Food recovery at scale: Rick Nahmias on the birth and growth of Food Forward

January 18, 2023 00:04 - 48 minutes - 112 MB

Food justice and climate change demand an end to good waste. Food Forward in Los Angeles is the most impressive food recovery program we’ve ever seen. Founder Rick Nahmias shares the story of how he and his team have delivered over 1 billion servings of food to 150,000 people per day.

S4 - Ep#12 - A Look Back at the Roots of Change story in its 20th year of existence

December 20, 2022 01:37 - 55 minutes - 126 MB

Flipping the Table is a production of Roots of Change, a program of the Public Health Institute. Roots of Change has been a major catalyst in the growth and power-building of the good food movement. It was launched in 2002 and this episode features a conversation with 4 individuals who have been deeply involved in its founding and evolution and offer perspectives on what has worked and what has not.

S4 - Ep#11 - Update on the Achieving of Resilient Communities project and more with Maureen McGuire, CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau

November 15, 2022 14:33 - 50 minutes - 115 MB

After talking about the day’s farm tour on the Oxnard plain of Ventura County to educate CalPolySLO engineering students working to keep drinking water cool for farmer workers in hot fields, Maureen and Michael explore how to solve the many complex challenges faced by farmers in a time of intense political polarization, climate change and escalating prices.

S4 - Ep#10 - How Siskiyou County might save good ranches and healthy meat in the age of industrial concentration and climate change. A conversation with Grace Woodmansee and Tom Tomich.

October 11, 2022 05:46 - 56 minutes - 130 MB

You have probably heard how challenging it is to keep a farm or ranch alive in today’s industrial food system. Low prices, high barriers to market entry and climate impacts are killing off the family ranches that are the primary sources of meat. Big corporations are capturing the vast majority of the wealth and impoverishing rural communities. Hear about one attempt to turn the tide in one of the most rural regions of California, which is home to many good people and beautiful ranches seekin...

S4 - Ep#10 - How Siskiyou County might save good ranches and healthy meat in the age of industrial concentration and climate change. A conversation with Grace Woodmansee and Tom Tomich

October 11, 2022 05:46 - 56 minutes - 130 MB

You have probably heard how challenging it is to keep a farm or ranch alive in today’s industrial food system. Low prices, high barriers to market entry and climate impacts are killing off the family ranches that are the primary sources of meat. Big corporations are capturing the vast majority of the wealth and impoverishing rural communities. Hear about one attempt to turn the tide in one of the most rural regions of California, which is home to many good people and beautiful ranches seekin...

S4 - Ep#9 - Woody Tasch, Slow Money and a Call to Farms

September 05, 2022 20:42 - 43 minutes - 99.6 MB

Perhaps no one has spoken so clearly about the problem of capitalism and its impact on our food system as Woody Tasch. He is the founder of the Slow Money Institute and the movement it supports. Hear about his latest written statement, A Call to Farms and the Beet Coin initiative launching on September 11, 2022.

S4 - Ep#8 - Carmen Snyder on the nation’s first Farm Trails map and promotor of local small family farms

July 26, 2022 00:21 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Resilience requires access to local food. One model of how to sustain and promote local farms is Sonoma County Farm Trails. Launched in 1973, it is the nation’s first community-based organization with such a mission. Carmen Snyder, executive director, shares its story and about its upcoming event: the Gravenstein Apple Fair.

S4 - Ep#7 - Regenerative farmer Craig McNamara, son of Robert S McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War

June 21, 2022 03:11 - 58 minutes - 133 MB

Craig shares his dramatic life journey from the JFK White House to a farm near UC Davis, the challenge of loving a complex father and how his farm brought healing inside and with the Vietnamese people.

S4 - Ep#6 - Dr. Steven Chen on food as medicine and the future

May 17, 2022 01:07 - 44 minutes - 101 MB

The healing power of food has long been recognized by indigenous cultures and through much of human history. Yet only recently has modern western medicine begun to return to food as healing agent. Diet related disease and other factors ignited this change. Dr. Steven Chen from Alameda County's health system describes how produce prescriptions and medically tailored meals are moving front and center in the effort to heal our communities and create health equity.

S4 - Ep#5 - Two Young Regenerative Meat Producers Share Their Challenges and Solutions

April 26, 2022 08:20 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Guido Frosini and Sarah Silva, members of the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative, tell us what production and processing challenges they face and how they are solving these challenges even amidst global warming. 

S4 - Ep#4 - Three social justice leaders share their views on the struggle for Health Equity and Racial Justice Fund

March 22, 2022 02:04 - 33 minutes - 75.8 MB

Community food projects and much more would be funded if we can place the Health Equity and Social Justice Fund in the California Budget. Mar Velez, Rod Lew and Ron Coleman, three veteran policy campaigners leading the charge, describe the fund, its uses and how we plan to win the Governor’s support.

S4 - Ep#3 - Let’s Feed LA County team reveals the power of community based organizations in our challenging age

March 01, 2022 02:42 - 42 minutes - 97.6 MB

Pandemic, heat waves, fires and storms demand robust public health infrastructure that includes networks of well resourced community based organizations (CBOs). The Let’s Feed LA County program that included 19 local organizations, Roots of Change, Center for Wellness and Nutrition and Wholesome Wave makes clear the need to permanently invest in CBOs on the frontline so they are ready when things get tough.

S4 - Ep#2 - Protecting Farmworkers by Achieving Resilient Communities, Part II with John Krist

February 16, 2022 17:58 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Michael talks with John Krist, retired CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau, about the need and challenge of protecting farmworkers.

S4 - Ep#1 - The ARC project, Part I with Maricela Morales of CAUSE

January 18, 2022 02:29 - 46 minutes - 105 MB

A conversation with Maricela about the Achieving Resilient Communities project and her work with Central Coast Alliance for Sustainable Economy. Maricela is a social justice warrior and the project is a core initiative of Roots of Change and its partners at the Public Health Institute.

S3 - Ep#3 - Unprecedented funding for local, just and regenerative food and farms

May 18, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 99.6 MB

CA movement leaders describe the $3.3 billion Resilient Food and Farm bond and budget request.

S3 - Ep#2 - Imhoff Archives with Temple Grandin, animal behaviorist.

April 08, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

One of Dan’s most challenging and interesting interviews with the renown animal welfare advocate and gifted autistic. Dr. Grandin has transformed livestock handling.

S3 - Ep#1 - Season 3 Opener with Tom Philpott, author of “Perilous Harvest”

March 23, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 126 MB

Michael and Tom discuss California’s immense water problems and potential solutions. S3 E1 sets the stage for a great season of how CA is solving 21st century food system challenges.

Niama - v2

December 23, 2020 08:30 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Naima shares her path, her poetry and vision for a food system and society that is healed, just and regenerative. An inspiring end to Season II!

S2 - Ep#27 - Naima Penniman, inspiring poet, is our Season II finale!

December 23, 2020 08:30 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Naima shares her path, her poetry and vision for a food system and society that is healed, just and regenerative. An inspiring end to Season II!

S2 - Ep#26 - Imhoff Archives with pioneering organic farmer Eliot Coleman

December 10, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB

Dan Imhoff dialogues with Eliot Coleman, Maine’s Four Season Farm founder, author and organic farming pioneer. Eliot shares what plants want, what growers around the world can teach, and how small farms can make money.

S2 - Ep#25 - Deborah Madison, the Queen of Greens shares her life.

November 26, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Author, educator, recovering Buddhist and model for a life well lived, Deborah shares her stores of a culinary and farm-centered cook’s life, all from her memoir An Onion In My Pocket.

S2 - Ep#24 - Imhoff Archives with Wendell Berry

November 12, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Writer and activist Dan Imhoff speaks with farmer, poet and seminal writer Wendell Berry about the “oversimplification” of agriculture and all the resulting challenges.

S2 - Ep#23 - 3 Amigas Seek to Break a Meaty Logjam

October 29, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Celebrity chef & farmer Duskie Estes, rancher Kathy Webster and farmer Sarah Silva launched the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR C) to support local livestock producers providing safe, healthy meat to a growing market.

S2 - Ep#22 - Imhoff Archives Intro Show

October 15, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 112 MB

Writer, farmer, activist Dan Imhoff wets our appetite for six conversations he recorded with the pioneers of regenerative and organic agriculture in the early 2000s. The Imhoff Archives will run once per month over the next 6 months.

S2 - Ep#21 - Christine Tran & the LA Food Policy Council

October 01, 2020 08:30 - 53 minutes - 122 MB

The new leader of the nation’s largest and most impactful food policy council shares her lived experience and vision for LA’s food future.

S2 - Ep#20 - Joe & Julie Morris talk grassfed beef

September 17, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 112 MB

The future of a healthy and regenerative meat source is visible by looking at Morris Grassfed. A 30-journey to build a network of mutually beneficial relationships that are good for people, animals and the planet!

S2 - Ep#19 - Filmmaker Sanjay Rawal, describes his new film Gather

September 03, 2020 08:00 - 50 minutes - 115 MB

Native peoples are rebirthing their food traditions to heal the impacts of the modern American diet and political and economic oppression.  Sanjay’s new film captures three inspiring stories of reclaimed food sovereignty.

S2 - Ep#18 - Soil advocate Diana Donlon describes power of soil and her work

August 20, 2020 08:30 - 53 minutes - 121 MB

The soil is a powerful tool for combatting climate change. Through her nonprofit, Soil Centric, Donlon builds support and pathways for everyone to join the campaign to build soil and capture carbon to create a healthier future.

S2 - Ep#17 - School Food’s Future With Adam Kesselman

August 06, 2020 14:53 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

The leader of the Center for Ecolitercy provides a picture of their work to transform school meals and how they’ve adapted in the time of COVID.

S2 - Ep#16 - Final installment with J. Miakoda Taylor, on crossing the divides of race and privilege.

July 23, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 147 MB

We unpack the role of white fragility, its relationship to shame, numbness and rage and ways to “keep ourselves on the hook” as participants in the healing of the nation’s deepest wound.

In a special “Beyond Your Table” podcast, Erin Fitzgerald of US Farmers and Rancher Alliance provides a pandemic update.

July 09, 2020 06:30 - 39 minutes - 31.6 MB

This is a follow up to Michael’s fall 2019 dialogue with Erin regarding her work to rally American food and agriculture to become climate heroes. He joins Rodger Wasson his colleague for the new podcast series “Beyond Your Table: From the Real Dirt to Common Ground.” We explore the important question: can Erin rally the industry given the complexities and challenges upon us?

S2 - Ep#15 - Dr. Britt Wray on her new book “Generation Dread” re the impact of climate chaos and other crises on our psyches

June 25, 2020 06:30 - 45 minutes - 104 MB

Global warming, Covid-19 and the murder of Black people is impacting the minds of humans planet wide. What can we do to deal with the stress and great fears before us? Britt offers hope and a path.

S2 - Ep#14 - Miakoda, a BIPOC-healer of racial divides, shares their experience of this dramatic moment.

June 11, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

A dialogue on how sensations within the body and feelings allow those divided by race and privilege to find paths to healing the deep and historical national wounds that hobble us all.

S2 - Ep#13 -  Gleaning: Ancient local solution to a current national challenge

May 28, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 99.3 MB

Chef Duskie Estes and Melita Love of Farm to Pantry share benefits of gleaning to feed the hungry and end food waste

S2 - Ep#12 - Jack Algiere and the Stone Barns Center

May 21, 2020 07:00 - 49 minutes - 112 MB

A man on a mission to teach the art and advocate for a regenerative agriculture

S2 - Ep#11 - Thomas McQuillan, VP of Strategy, Culture & Sustainability at Baldor Specialty Foods.

April 30, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 90.5 MB

Based in the Bronx, New York. Baldor may be the most innovative food service distributor on the East Coast. You’ll hear about their impressive food waste reduction programs and adaptation of their business during the pandemic.