Heartland Stories Radio
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Heartland Stories Radio is a weekly 29-minute radio show hosted by good food pioneer Theresa Marquez and sponsored by the Heartland Health Research Alliance (https://hh-ra.org/).
Each show, meet a new voice from the diverse activists and professionals on the road to change food, farming and public health. Solid information about what we all can do to assure a healthy and a just food system for the 21st century needs to come from a diverse set of voices.
“As a dedicated organic marketing professional, I have dedicated my 40-year career to protecting family farmers and facing our health crisis through a culture of healthy food,” says Marquez. “I am inspired and dedicated to learn from professionals, using science to understand our problems - but sometimes the best common sense and inspiration comes from people on the ground daily facing problems and finding solutions that are often fun and creative. Our food system needs to change and my guests from all walks of life have that goal in common.”
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LeAnna Compagna: My Love for Organic Farming
January 24, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBLeAnna Compagna is a third generation organic farmer in Middlebury, Vermont. Together with her husband they are farming on their own dairy farm as well as on LeAnna’s parents farm that became an organic farm in 2007, when her parents sold the herd of cows that had come with the farm and replaced it with a herd of organic Dutch Belted dairy cows. Tune in to learn more about: LeAnna’s story of becoming an organic dairy farmer; Small family farms; Becoming a steward of the land; All abou...
Piper Davis: The Story of Artisan Bread
January 17, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBPiper Davis is a celebrated baker and partner at Grand Central Bakery, a regional chain of 10 cafes and artisan bakeries in the Pacific Northwest. An avid baker, cook and good food provisioner, she is the co-author of “The Grand Central Baking Book” and is Board Chair of the national nonprofit Chefs Collaborative. Tune in to learn more about: Piper’s childhood and her love of baking inspired by her mom - Grand Central Bakery founder, Gwyneth Bassetti; The artisan bread revolution; The ...
How Pesticides are Threatening Our Children's Health (Re-run)
January 10, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 66.4 MBDr. Philip Landrigan is a pediatrician and epidemiologist, as well as Professor, Director of the Global Public Health Program and of the Global Pollution Observatory at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College. His research focuses on toxic chemicals in the environment and their effects on children’s health and development. Tune in to learn more about: - Pesticides and children's health; - Fetal programing, epigenetics & windows of vulnerability; - Wh...
George Siemon: Organic Can Feed the World (Re-run)
January 03, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBGeorge Siemon is an organic pioneer and the co-founder and former CEO of CROPP/Organic Valley. In September 2022, George was one of the recipients of the 2022 Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The Honorary Recognition Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their professions, their communities and the university. Tune in to learn more about: George’s path into organic farming; His...
Marianne LeGreco: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice (Re-run)
December 27, 2022 16:26 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBDr. Marianne LeGreco is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is also the co-author of “Everybody Eats: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice” which was published in 2021. Tune in to learn more about: Marianne’s inspiration for studying communications; The four legged stool of the food system; Food access and poverty; Her book “Everybody Eats: Communication and the Pat...
Antonio Roman-Alcalá: Strategies for Changing the Food System
December 20, 2022 13:56 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBAntonio Roman-Alcalá is an educator, researcher, writer, and organizer based in Berkeley, California who has worked on issues of sustainable food systems for nearly 20 years. Antonio is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, East Bay teaching Geography and Environmental Studies. Previously, he co-founded San Francisco’s Alemany Farm, the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, and the California Food Policy Council, and his 2010 documentary film, “In Search of Goo...
Rick Nahmias and Food Forward: Preventing Waste and Fighting Hunger with Fresh Produce
December 13, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBRick Nahmias is the founder and CEO of Food Forward, and an award winning photographer and writer who is focused on the faces and stories of marginalized communities. He is an internationally recognized speaker on food justice and social innovation issues and his work has been profiled in dozens of media outlets. Tune in to learn more about: The story on how Food Forward was born; How Food Forward recovers fruits and vegetables that would have been wasted from backyard fruit trees, public...
Reginaldo Haslett Marroquin: The Regenerative Poultry
December 06, 2022 11:01 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBReginaldo Haslett-Marroquin engages immigrants, farmers old and new, and established agricultural entrepreneurs in his life's work of designing, refining, and championing a global model for poultry-powered, planet cooling, scalable and regenerative agriculture. Reginaldo has immersed himself in this work by launching the non-profit Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, co-founding the Tree-Range® Chicken brand, and recently being named CEO of Tree-Range® Farms. He is creating opportunities to h...
Bill Tracy: Breeding Sweet Corn
November 29, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBBill Tracy is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Chair of the Masters program in Agroecology as well as Clif Bar and Organic Valley Endowed Chair in Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tune in to learn more about: - Sweet corn breeding; - Breeding for climate; - Why diversity of crops and perennials are important; - The experiments with perennializing of sweet corn; - Nixtamalized corn. To learn more about Professor Bill Tracy go ...
Erin Silva: Agroecology and Organic Grain Research
November 22, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Erin Silva is an Associate Professor and State Extension Specialist in Organic and Sustainable Cropping Systems in the Department of Plant Pathology as well as the Director for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison. Tune in to learn more about: Her work in agroecology and how this is associated with organic agriculture; Why we need a diversity of crops and a diversity of farmers; On farm research; The Organic ...
Cathy Erway: The Art of Eating In
November 15, 2022 13:44 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBCathy Erway is a James Beard and IACP (The International Association of Culinary Professionals) award winning food writer and the author of the cookbooks “The Food of Taiwan”, “Sheet Pan Chicken”, and the memoir “The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove”. She hosts the podcast Self Evident, exploring Asian America's stories. Tune in to learn more about: Cathy’s experience living in New York and how she learned to stop eating out and eating at home; Her blog...
George Siemon: Organic Can Feed the World
November 08, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBGeorge Siemon is an organic pioneer and the co-founder and former CEO of CROPP/Organic Valley. In September 2022, George was one of the recipients of the 2022 Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The Honorary Recognition Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to their professions, their communities and the university. Tune in to learn more about: George’s path into organic farming; His...
Frances Moore Lappé: 50 years of Diet for a Small Planet (re-run)
November 01, 2022 13:22 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBFrances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She is the co-founder of three organizations including the Oakland-based think tank Food First and the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé, and the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide. Tune in to learn more about: - Wh...
Lauren’s Story: Being a 4th Generation Young Female Organic Dairy Farmer
October 25, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBLauren Perkins is a 4th generation organic dairy farmer at Perk Organic Dairy Farm in Frankford, West Virginia. Lauren grew up on the 1,000-acre farm that her great-grandfather started in 1942. At 26, she became the first woman in her family to manage the dairy farm. Tune in to learn more about: The story of how Lauren’s grandfather started as a dairy farmer; How the farm transitioned to organic and become part of Organic Valley Family Farms; Why farming organic became sustainable for L...
Professor Robert Gottlieb, author of "Care-Center Politics" and Farm to School Pioneer
October 18, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBRobert Gottlieb is Professor Emeritus of Urban and Environmental Policy and the Founder and former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. Professor Gottlieb research is focused on environmental and food justice, care politics, power and inequality, global cities and the infrastructure of everyday life. He is also the author of numerous publications, including 14 books. His newest book “Care-Centered Politics” was published this year by MIT Press. Tune ...
Wade Miller: Small Family Farms, Small Carbon Footprint
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBWade Miller is the Vice President of Farm Resources and Sustainability at Coulee Region Organic Produce Pools (CROPP)/Organic Valley, the nation’s largest organic, farmer-owned cooperative and one of the world’s largest organic consumer brands. Tune in to learn more about: Wade’s career path in agriculture; Sustaining family farms and recognizing that they are the caretakers of the earth; The newly awarded grant from the USDA to CROPP/Organic Valley that provides resources to accelerat...
Nicole Rakobitsch: Sustainability on Small Organic Family Farms
October 04, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBNicole Rakobitsch is the Director of Sustainability at Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools (CROPP)/Organic Valley. Organic Valley is America's largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation's leading organic brands. Tune in to learn more about: Nicole’s path that led her to sustainability and to Organic Valley; Why organic farmers are the real stewards of the land; The $25 million grant awarded to Organic Valley that focuses on helping small organic family farms...
Dr. Niesha Douglas: The Story of Food Insecurity in Greensboro, North Carolina
September 27, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Niesha Douglas is an educator, author and writer. Dr. Douglas has over 15 years of experience in higher education and over 6 years of experience in community development. Dr. Douglas is a community activist that believes in giving back to the community that helped her grow and develop into a professional and leader. She has served on several committees regarding food insecurity/hunger and was chosen to lead a discussion on Community Activism in Adult Education at the 2016 Adult...
Nutrition, Food and Politics with Marion Nestle
September 20, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. Dr. Nestle holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen books, se...
Dr. André Leu: Regeneration International
September 13, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. André Leu is the international director of Regeneration International, an organization that promotes food, farming and land use systems that regenerate and stabilize climate systems, the health of the planet and people, communities, culture and local economies. He is an internationally recognized speaker and the author of “Growing Life”, “Poisoning our Children” and the “Myths of Safe Pesticides”. Dr. Leu was the longest serving President of IFOAM – Organics International, the world cha...
Marianne LeGreco: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice
September 06, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBDr. Marianne LeGreco is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is also the co-author of “Everybody Eats: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice” which was published in 2021. Tune in to learn more about: Marianne’s inspiration for studying communications; The four legged stool of the food system; Food access and poverty; Her book “Everybody Eats: Communication and the Pat...
Naima Dhore: The Story of a First-Generation Somali American Farmer
August 30, 2022 10:08 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBNaima Dhore is a first-generation Somali-American farmer, activist and educator committed to look after mother earth and community building. She is the Program Director at the Somali American Farmers Association and owner of Naima’s Farm LLC, where she supports future Somali-American farmers in Minnesota. Tune in to learn more about: Naima’s home country of Somalia and their food; Her story on becoming a first-generation Somali-American farmer; About the Somali American Farmers Associa...
Don Stuart: “No Farms No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture”
August 23, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDon Stuart has worked in natural resources and the environment for over 40 years. He served as Pacific Northwest Regional Director for the American Farmland Trust, was the Executive Director for the Washington Association of Conservation Districts, as well as a former Alaska commercial salmon fisherman, a former Seattle trial attorney, and a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps during the Vietnam War. Don’s new book entitled “No Farms No Food: Uniting Farmers and Envir...
Annie Shattuck: Agroecology and Pesticides in Rural Communities in Southeast Asia
August 16, 2022 11:58 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Annie Shattuck is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University. Her research interests include sustainable food systems and food politics in the United States, and agrarian change, agricultural development and rural health in Southeast Asia. She is a former National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a fellow of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First. She received a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. She is...
Know Your Farmer: Javier Zamora, Organic Farmer & Owner of JSM Organics
August 09, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBImmigrating to the United States in 1986, Javier Zamora worked in the service industry in southern California for 20 years before going back to school at the age of 43, earning his GED and a degree in landscape design before enrolling in the horticulture program at Cabrillo College. Sharpening his farming skills through the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA), he started farming organically in 2012 on 1.5 acres. Today, as owner of JSM Organics, he farms over 100 acres on C...
Julie Guthman: “Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry”
August 02, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBDr. Julie Guthman is a Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her publications include four books and over forty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals. In 2017 and 2018, Dr. Guthman received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Tune in to learn more about: Her book “Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry” and her interest in researching highl...
Teresa Mares: Food systems, Food Justice and Migrant Farm Workers
July 26, 2022 11:02 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBDr. Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and the Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems. She received her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington. She also completed a graduate certificate in Women Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. Mares’ research focuses on the labor in the food system, food security and food sovereignty, and migration from Latin America. Her first boo...
Dr. Leonardo Trasande: “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer”: Understanding endocrine disruptors (re-run)
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBThis week we are revisiting one of our interviews with Dr. Leonardo Trasande. Dr. Leonardo Trasande, Jim G. Hendrick MD Professor, is the Director of the Division of Environmental Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Dr Trasande is also the author of the 2019 published book “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We C...
Kelly Ryerson: The Glyphosate's Girl Story (re-run)
July 12, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBThis week we are revisiting one of your interviews with Kelly Ryerson. Kelly Ryerson is an environmental health writer, filmmaker, and ardent public health advocate. After alleviating her own chronic illness by eating a gluten-free and organic diet, she realized that toxins and chemicals were at the core of the explosion in chronic disease in the United States. Determined to make the issue of glyphosate’s impact on the microbiome more well-known, she began the blog Glyphosate Girl. She co...
Raj Patel: “Inflamed”, His Newest Book Co-authored With Rupa Marya (re-run)
July 05, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBThis week we are revisiting one of our interviews with Raj Patel. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. Raj’s latest book, co-authored with Rupa Marya, entitled “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice...
John Ikerd: Our Broken Industrial Food System (re-run)
June 28, 2022 10:05 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week we are revisiting one of our interviews with Dr. John Ikerd. Dr. John Ikerd is a retired Professor Emeritus of Agricultural & Applied economics at the University of Missouri, author, speaker as well as a leading figure in the sustainability revolution—one who is capable of deep insights but also has the capacity to engage everyone in the conversation and work. Tune in to learn more about: - Lessons learnt from the past, especially the 1980s farm crisis and the current lessons...
Jacob Hundt on Holistic Higher Education in Microcolleges
June 21, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBJacob Hundt is Executive Director, Board Member and a Faculty member at Thoreau College in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Growing up on a dairy farm in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin and one of the founding students of the Youth Initiative High School, Jacob gathered inspiration for transformation in higher education through his studies at Deep Springs College, the American University in Bulgaria, and the University of Chicago. Tune in to learn more about: Jacob’s own journey and backg...
Dr. Michelle Perro: Sick Kids and What Parents Can Do About It
June 14, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Michelle Perro is a veteran pediatrician with over 40 years of experience in acute and integrative medicine. Dr Perro has transformed her clinical practice to include pesticide and health advocacy more than fifteen years ago. She is also the co-author of the book “What’s Making Our Children Sick” as well as Executive Director of the non-profit scientific website “GMO Science”. Tune in to learn more about: The difference between acute and integrative medicine; The root cause of disease...
Molly Jahn: The Real Risks in the Food System
June 07, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBDr. Molly Jahn is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds appointments in the Department of Agronomy, the Nelson Institute, the Global Health Institute (on leave 2019-20 for Government Service), and a $0 appointment in the Wisconsin School of Law. She is currently on an Interagency Personnel Agreement from UW-Madison to work as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Tune in to learn more about: The risks in the US food system a...
Andy Fisher: Big Hunger
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAndy Fisher is the Executive Director of the Ecological Farming Association and has been a leading force for social justice in the anti-hunger and food movements in the U.S. since the mid 1990s. He co-founded and led the Community Food Security Coalition for over 17 years and published his first book “ Big Hunger, The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups” in 2017. Tune in to learn more about: His upbringing in Ohio; How hunger/food insecurity is defined; Food...
Tony Bedard: Frontier Co-op's Story of Giving Back (Re-run)
May 24, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBThis week we are revisiting our interview with Tony Bedard. Tony Bedard is the Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Co-op, whose mission to nourish people and planet is rooted in corporate social responsibility. Tony has also led more than 25 humanitarian missions to El Salvador and Haiti to support projects in the areas of education, clean water, and healthcare. Tune in to learn more about: - The story of Frontier Co-op and their products; - Tony's story of growing up in rural Iowa in...
Dave Goulson: Silent Earth (Re-run)
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBThis week we are revisiting our interview with Professor Dave Goulson. Dave Goulson is a Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex (England), who specializes in bee ecology. Professor Goulson has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects, plus seven books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers “A Sting in the Tale” (2013), “The Garden Jungle” (2019), and “Silent Earth” (2021). In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wil...
Rachael Jones: The Locavore Farm
May 10, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBRachael Jones is a farmer and a co-founder of Locavore Farm and Sumac Creek Farm, which are situated 43-miles south of downtown Chicago in Kankakee County, Illinois. In 2013, Rachael was named Economic Development Leader of the Year by the Small Business Administration and in 2019 she received an Innovation in Agriculture Award from Kankakee County on behalf of the Daily Journal. The Joneses have pigs, sheep, chickens, goats and 120 different varieties of organically grown produce on their f...
Dr. Christopher Carter: “The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice”
May 03, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Christopher Carter is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego and a pastor in the United Methodist Church. He just published his first book “The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice” and is on the board of directors of Farm Forward, an anti-factory farming non-profit. Tune in to learn more about: His grandfather’s experience being a migrant farm worker picking cotton, and attending school until 4th grade during Jim Crow laws...
Liz Carlisle: “Healing Grounds - Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming”
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBLiz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. She has written three books about regenerative farming and agroecology: “Lentil Underground” (2015), “Grain by Grain” (2019, with co-author Bob Quinn), and most recently, “Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming” (2022). Tune in to learn more about: Her new book on climate issues, justice and regenerative far...
Tammi Jonas: The Story of a Farmer, Agroecologist & Mindful Meatsmith
April 19, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBTammi Jonas is an agroecologist, farmer, mindful meatsmith, agrarian activist, author and academic with a focus on ethical, ecologically sound and socially-just food system. Tammi is the President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and the founder and owner of Jonai Farms and Meatsmiths, a 69 acre farm in Eganstown (Australia), where together with her husband, she pasture raises happy, tasty, heritage-breed Large Black pigs. Tune in to learn more about: The story of how as a vegeta...
Chef Michel Nischan: Bringing Healthy & Wholesome Food to Those in Need
April 12, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBChef Michel Nischan is the founder and Executive Chairman of Wholesome Wave, the founder of Wholesome Crave, and co-founder of the James Beard Foundation’s Chefs Action Network. Michel is a four-time James Beard Award winning chef with over 30 years of leadership advocating for a more healthy and sustainable food system. Tune in to learn more about: Michel’s memories of working on his grandfather’s farm; How a climbing accident pushed him to finally found the non-profit organization Whole...
Elena Terry of Wild Bearies: The Healing Power of Ancestral Indigenous Food
April 05, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBElena Terry is the Executive Chef/Founder of Wild Bearies, a non-profit community outreach catering organization that supports participants to overcome alcohol and other drug abuse issues or emotional traumas. One of her goals has been to develop mentorship programs that help build stronger communities within the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement. Developing the Native American Food Sovereignty Association’s Food and Culinary mentorship program in 2020, Elena emphasizes the healing nature...
Larry Jacobs: The Story of an Organic Farming Pioneer
March 29, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBTogether with his wife Sandra Belin, Larry Jacobs founded Jacobs Farm, a successful northern California organic farming operation specializing in fresh culinary herbs in 1980. In 1986, they launched Del Cabo, a collective with a unique vision for social change and sustainability. Sandra and Larry were awarded the prestigious Organic Trade Association’s (OTA) 2007 Organic Farming Leadership Award for “innovation in organic farming practices, their extensive work to educate farmers on organic ...
Sarah Nelson of 18 Reasons: Why Cooking Still Matters
March 22, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBSarah Nelson is the Executive Director for the organization 18 Reasons, a non-profit cooking school in the San Francisco area, with the mission to empower the community with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook and eat good food every day. Tune in to learn more about: Why and when we stopped cooking and the negatives effects it had/has on our health; About 18 Reasons and why flavor and deliciousness needs to be incorporated into nutrition; How home cooking can be sustainable while...
Dr. Ricardo Salvador: The Union of Concerned Scientists
March 15, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Ricardo Salvador is a senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has over four decades of experience working with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable and socially equitable practices. Tune in to learn more about: About the Union of Concerned Scientists and their mission to fight back when powerful corporations m...
Michelle Horovitz: Appetite For Change
March 08, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBMichelle Horovitz is co-founder and Vice President of Innovation at Appetite For Change (AFC), a nonprofit social enterprise organization in Minneapolis, MN, which is dedicated to using food as a tool to build health, wealth and social change. AFC works with residents to build strong families and healthy, equitable communities around food. Tune in to learn more about: The different reasons for starting Appetite For Change; The racism of cities in the Heartland; Why food is a tool to bui...
Jeanette Burlingame: Community Hunger Solutions
March 01, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBJeanette Burlingame is the Program Manager at the Community Hunger Solutions in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Community Hunger Solutions is dedicated to connecting healthy, locally produced food with community members who face barriers to access. Tune in to learn more about: Jeanette’s story; About Community Hunger Solutions and their programs; How food pantries are still filled with processed food and how solutions on filling them with organic and nutritious food are being sought; The work the...
Alicia Kennedy: The Entangled Story of Food, Capitalism and Sustainability
February 22, 2022 14:13 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBOriginally from New York, Alicia Kennedy is an accomplished food writer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her weekly newsletter “From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy” delves into the topics of food culture, politics and media and has over 17,000 subscribers. She also contributed a recipe to the 50th anniversary of Frances Moore Lappé’s “Diet for a Small Planet”. Tune in to learn more about: Alicia’s story on becoming a food writer; Her weekly newsletter “From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy”; How s...
Dr. Robert Kremer: Glyphosate and Its Devastating Impact on Soil Biology
February 15, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Robert Kremer is an adjunct professor of soil science in both the Division of Plant Science and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. Dr. Kremer served as a research microbiologist for 32 years with the Cropping Systems and Water Quality research unit in Columbia, MO. Tune in to learn more about: The job of a microbiologist; The billions of microorganisms found in a teaspoon of soil; Why glyphosate will stay and built up in the soil for several years and har...