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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Episodes
The socially correct pizza: A conversation with Chef Sarah Minnick
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTheresa's guest today is Sarah Minnick, chef and co-owner of Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, a pizzeria and ice cream shop in Portland, Oregon. Sarah has one of the most refreshing, liberating takes on pizza, using only organic home-made tomato sauce as well as fairy-tale toppings like cornflower blossoms and fenugreek greens. Tune in to learn more about: - Sarah's story of becoming a restaurant owner - The socially correct pizza - Why she sources her ingredients from farmers markets and organic...
Farming while Black: A conversation with Leah Penniman
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBLeah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author and food justice activist. She co-funded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim the ancestral connection to the land. As co-Executive Director, Leah is part of a team that facilitates powerful food sovereignty programs, including farmer trainings for Black and Brown people, a subsidized farm food distribution program for people living under food apartheid, and domestic and internat...
One mom's passion and career: Protecting children's health
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBNsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director for the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), leader in the field of children's health, and proud mom of four, has served as a key spokesperson for children’s health vulnerabilities and the need for their protection. Tune in to learn more about: - The Children's Environmental Health Network and its push for the effective implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act, a pesticide reform bill that improved the protection of childr...
Healing communities through healthy food, medicine and compassion
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Jifunza Wright-Carter M.D., M.P.H. is a family physician boarded in holistic integrative medicine. She is also a community health advocate and the co-founder of Black Oaks Center for Renewable Sustainable Living and Health Food Hub, a 500+ community supported agriculture project in Chicago. Black Oaks Center assists communities in reducing their carbon footprint and fossil fuel use through education and training that includes teaching permaculture. Tune in to learn more about: - About...
All about grazing and why cows should eat grass
January 12, 2021 03:23 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBKevin Mahalko is the Board President of the Wisconsin non-profit organization GrassWorks, a grassroots membership organization that provides leadership and education to farmers and consumers for the advancement of managed grass-based agriculture. With 45 cows on the 300 acre family farm, Kevin is all heart and soul when it comes to the health of his cows and the quality of his 100 percent grass-fed milk. Tune in to learn more about: - His personal journey into grazing - Why grazing is...
A Woman's Story on Nurturing the Land
January 04, 2021 21:05 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBJen Salinetti is co-owner and operator of Woven Roots Farm, a regenerative farm and CSA in Massachusetts, that grows vegetables, herbs, and flowers using traditional farming practices. For over 15 years, Jen has offered workshops and courses that develop relationships to the land, build skills of resilience and promote regenerative growing practices on the farm and in the local school system. Tune in to learn more about: - The history of Woven Roots Farm and her own path of becoming a farm...
Grow your own food, eat healthy and be active
December 29, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBTheresa's guest today is Dr. Joan Dye Gussow, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, nutritionist, writer, and gardener. She was one of the first experts to advocate, as early as the 1970's, that we "eat locally, think globally." As a nonagenarian, she is still teaching, gardening and cooking her own food. Tune in to learn more about: - The breakdown of our food system during COVID-19 - Ultra processed food - 60% of food that Americans are...
What we all need to know about Roundup weed killer
December 21, 2020 16:34 - 28 minutes - 66.4 MBTheresa's guest today is Dr. Charles Benbrook, who leads the management team carrying out the Heartland Study, a long-term clinical study that is assessing the impacts of herbicide exposures across the Midwest on birth outcomes and children’s development. Tune in to learn more about: - The history of Roundup - His work on the Roundup non-Hodgkin lymphoma litigation, including the Lee Johnson case - The Heartland Study - The Dietary Risk Index - a tool for tracking pesticides in foo...
Sustainability talk with Dr. Kathleen Merrigan
December 11, 2020 21:37 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTheresa's guest today is Dr. Kathleen Merrigan, Professor in the School of Sustainability, Executive Director of the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University as well as former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tune in to learn more about: - The 3 legged stool of sustainability. - The difference between regenerative and organic. - The Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems and its ongoing research. - ...
Our Broken Industrial Food System
December 08, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 66.4 MBAfter growing up on a small dairy farm without running water and electricity and milking cows by hand, Dr. Ikerd initially supported the industrial food system, just to realize years later that it was having a severe impact on our environment, health and economy. Dr. Ikerd is hopeful that the way we farm can change. "We changed it in the past and we can change it in the future. We can fundamentally transform and change our whole food system." In this episode, Dr. Ikerd talks about: - L...
Transforming Hawaii's Food System by Empowering Native Hawaiian Youth
December 01, 2020 13:28 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDid you know that 90% of the food in Hawaii is imported? And that Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders experience significantly higher rates of diet-related chronic illness than the state average, including a 130% higher incidence of diabetes? Listen to Dr. Albie Miles of the University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu as he describes: - The history and transformation of the food system in Hawai'i. - MA'O Organic Farm and its program of empowering youth to succeed in college and secure sustainin...
Student activism towards a herbicide free campus
November 24, 2020 14:31 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBIn honor of mother's day week we are revisiting this inspiring interview with Mackenzie Feldman. In this new episode Theresa chats with Mackenzie Feldman, Founder and Executive Director of Herbicide Free Campus, an organization that supports student groups who want to eliminate synthetic herbicide use on their campuses. Mackenzie's activism was inspired while growing up in Hawaii witnessing and being part of the fight against GMO food. Listen to her incredible story, her passionate work, h...
School lunches and feeding our children during COVID-19
November 17, 2020 15:33 - 28 minutes - 66.4 MBListen to Chef Ann Cooper speak with Theresa about her own story and her long life passion of providing better food for all children. With schools going virtual all across the country, high unemployment rates, and 1 in every 5 kids in the US being food insecure, every school have to make sure that their food is being distributed to all children in need. Tune in to listen more about: - Challenges and opportunities for school lunch programs in the current pandemic. - Chef Ann Foundation an...
Why our children get sicker and the link between gut health and pesticides
November 10, 2020 14:10 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTheresa is talking today with Dr. Michelle Perro, a veteran pediatrician with over thirty-nine 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 “What is making our children sick” book as well as Executive Director of the non-profit scientific website “GMO Science”. Tune into this episode to learn more about: - the gut health/microbiome -...
How pesticides are threatening our children's health
October 27, 2020 14:04 - 28 minutes - 66.4 MBDr. 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. Tune in to learn more about: - Pesticides and children's health - Fetal programing, epigenetics & windows of vulnerability - What parents can do to protect their children's health - The Heartland Study Dr. Landrigan urges parents to "Vote for chi...