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Dave Chapman + Anna Jones-Crabtree: Notes For The Climate Underground

Real Organic Podcast - March 05, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#161: Co-director Dave Chapman joins our newest executive board member and Real Organic Project certified grain farmer Anna Jones-Crabtree for an interview by Al Gore at his Climate Underground Summit in November of 2023. Anna Jones-Crabtree holds a Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering  ...

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When Generosity Is Broken

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - March 03, 2024 18:01 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Shannon Gallentine speaks on when generosity is broken. We often rely on ourselves instead of the resources and provisions that God has given to us to be generous to others. We then broke into small discussion groups and shared summaries with each other. Today's Music: From the Day, The Love O...

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Eliot Coleman: Denying Our Understanding Of Real Organic Practices Robs The World

Real Organic Podcast - February 27, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#160: Organic farmer and Real Organic Project champion Eliot Coleman returns to discuss the role corporations, trade associations, and government policy has had on limiting the amount of real organic food found in the marketplace today. In the second half of the interview, the conversation focus...

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Righteousness Defined

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - February 25, 2024 17:40 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
John Novak shares on the righteousness of God and how that is also defined as generosity. He then shares on how we can apply His generosity to our lives. Today's Music: Firm Foundation (He Won't), King Of Kings, Isn't the Name, What A Beautiful Name, Take My Life And Let It Be, and Grace Like...

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Errol Schweizer: Consolidation, Greenwashing, And The Growing Myth Of Local Food

Real Organic Podcast - February 20, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#159: An insightful conversation about what's happening on grocery shelves, with Errol Schweizer, whose career in the retail natural foods space included a long stint at Whole Foods on the merchandising team. Dave and Errol talk about Walmart's effect on food prices, sellers inflation, and the n...

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Restorative Justice

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - February 18, 2024 18:12 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Chris McClure shares on how the focus of God's justice is to create shalom (peace and wholeness). We then broke into small groups to discuss and then shared our thoughts with each other. Today's Music: Stand In Your Love, Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), Holy Forever, and Abide

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Vandana Shiva: False Claims Of The Green Revolution, Then And Now

Real Organic Podcast - February 13, 2024 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#158: Vandana Shiva shares her knowledge around the Green Revolution, a transformative and chemical-dependent set of agricultural practices and policies that promised to deliver food security to populations around the world. But has it delivered on those promises? And how does its outcomes compa...

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What Happens When Justice Is Broken

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - February 11, 2024 17:50 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Listen in as Joanna Glen shares about how we can respond to others with God's restorative justice instead of responding with harsh or legalistic justice. We then broke into small group discussions followed by summaries of what we discussed. Today's Music: My Jesus, Act Justly Love Mercy Walk Hum...

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Tim Bowles: Climate Smart Agriculture Includes Tillage

Real Organic Podcast - February 06, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#157: A continuation of Linley's conversation (one year later and in-person!) with Professor Tim Bowles of UC Berkeley's Agroecology Lab. The discussion is focused on organic's relevant role in Climate Smart Agriculture, even as the DC chemical lobby is training our politicians to believe that a...

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God is Justice part 1

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - February 04, 2024 17:34 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
John starts a 3-week series on God is Justice, where he shares about how we are influenced by our environment which skews our understanding of what God's justice is. Today's Music: Blessed Be Your Name, Rescue, I Surrender All, and I Love You Lord

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Tim Bowles Part 1: Digging Into The Rhizosphere

Real Organic Podcast - January 31, 2024 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#156: Professor Tim Bowles of UC Berkeley's Agroecology Lab introduces us to some interesting players in the soil, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and how they may interact with plant roots, drought, and fertilizers.  Dr. Tim Bowles is an Assistant Professor of Agroecology and Sus...

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God Is the Creator

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - January 28, 2024 17:18 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Chris McClure shares how God is the creator of everything. He reads from Isaiah 42:1-9, sharing how God creates all the amazing beauty around us, yet mankind is his creation that was made in the image of God. Today's Music: My Lighthouse, Holy Forever, Abide, and Let Us Adore

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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin: The Need For A Real Regenerative Movement

Real Organic Podcast - January 23, 2024 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#155: Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin promotes his vision for creating systems aimed at serving entire regions and communities of farms as a successful path forward for the organic / regenerative movement . Addressing the crowd at Churchtown Dairy in October of 2023, Regi also shares his thoughts ab...

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God Is Self Sufficient, Immutable, and Infinite

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - January 21, 2024 17:34 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
John Novak continues with our 2024 Becoming Like Jesus series by looking at how the attributes of God do not change in any way. He is impassible. For this reason, He is perfect in every way. Today's Music: Holy Forever, Jesus At the Center, Breathe, and Cornerstone

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Patrick Holden: Organic Needs Top Down, Bottom Up, And In-The-Middle Action

Real Organic Podcast - January 16, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#154: UK Soil Association trustee, Sustainable Food Trust co-founder, and organic dairy farmer Patrick Holden sits down with Dave to discuss the path forward for the organic movement, as activists on both sides of the pond try to inspire our governments and corporate powers to take note of our c...

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God Is Omnipresent, Omniscient, And Omnipotent

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - January 14, 2024 17:34 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
As we kick off our new Becoming Like Jesus series, Andy shares how we can describe who God is to ourselves. This is important to share with others around us since the world around us has a very skewed concept of who God really is. Today's Music: God So Loved, Your Great Name, How Great Is Our Go...

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Francis Thicke: A Journey To Real Organic

Real Organic Podcast - January 10, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#153: Real Organic dairy farmer and former National Organic Standards Board member Francis Thicke gives the crowd at Churchtown Dairy a view through the lens of his education and decades-long career. He also shares how he believes dairies like his own (Radiance Dairy in Fairfield, Iowa) can stil...

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Lessons From the Christ Child

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - January 07, 2024 17:04 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Chris McClure shares the importance of how we are loved of God and are his children. God lavishes his love on us and calls us his own. Today's Music: How Great Thou Art, I Am, and Who You Say I Am

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Alan Lewis: Food System Betrayal

Real Organic Podcast - January 01, 2024 22:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#152: Alan Lewis  delivers deep insights into the growing number of reasons small and mid-sized farms can't find shelf space within American grocery stores. With the arrival of AI and its impact on purchasing systems, even food coops and small Mom and Pops are  aiming to stock convenient-to-orde...

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Advent Series: Love

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - December 31, 2023 17:32 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Andy shares how the love of God is unconditional. Even if we turn our backs on him or have never turned to him in the first place, he will never stop loving us. This is the Good News, that even while we still were sinners, Jesus died for us so that we might live through Him. Today's Music: Chil...

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Ben Dobson: The Politics Of Farming For Climate

Real Organic Podcast - December 25, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#151: Ben Dobson, co-founder of Hudson Carbon, has been monitoring the changes in language and funding for agricultural ventures that claim to sequester carbon. He shares his thoughts about the pitfalls that some of these directions present with the crowd at Churchtown Dairy.  https://www.real...

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Christmas Eve Service

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - December 24, 2023 17:11 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Today, we shared in our Christmas Eve service with singing and listening to stories as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Today's Music: O Come Emmanuel, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Angels We Have Heard On High, O Come All Ye Faithful, What Child Is This (John Novak and Wes German special),...

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Dave Chapman and Eliot Coleman: We Did It Before, We Can Do It Again

Real Organic Podcast - December 19, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#150: Dave Chapman and Eliot Coleman take the stage at the Saving Real Organic Conference at Churchtown Dairy to reflect on the importance of growing the real organic movement in the US amid the mounting challenges facing our country's food system. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is embracing t...

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Advent Series: Joy

Listen – Sauk Valley Community Church - December 17, 2023 17:26 ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Today, Andy shares that we can be filled with all joy so it overflows from us even in the most dire of situations. Today's Music. Joy To the World, My Lighthouse, I Am, Goodness Of God, and Call Of Christmas (Brian Boyd special).

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Karl Hammer: Imagining A Photosynthetic Food System

Real Organic Podcast - December 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#149: Organic farmer and founder of the Vermont Compost Company Karl Hammer shares his vast knowledge of our agricultural and social history, in a heady conversation with his longtime friend, Real Organic Project co-director Dave Chapman.  https://www.realorganicproject.org/donate Karl Hammer ...

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Zephyr Teachout at Churchtown: Break'em Up

Real Organic Podcast - December 05, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#148: Law Professor and author of "Break'em Up" Zephyr Teachout addresses the crowd at the Saving Real Organic Conference at Churchtown Dairy about what it will take to dismantle monopolies in the United States.  https://www.realorganicproject.org/donate Zephyr Teachout is an attorney and la...

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Kristin Kimball: The Small Farm Revolution Needs Activist Eaters

Real Organic Podcast - November 28, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#147: Writer and farmer Kristin Kimball throws light upon the idea that organic family farmers desperately need eaters to help transform the food system. Choosing to buy whole foods, choosing to cook, choosing meaning over convenience, and choosing to teach others how to do the same can bring po...

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Linley Dixon: Saving Organic: The First Five Years of The Farmer-Led Real Organic Project

Real Organic Podcast - November 21, 2023 23:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#146: Linley Dixon, co-director of the Real Organic Project, speaks to the progress of our movement and the challenges we face, including new and misleading terms like "climate smart agriculture" and a misunderstood villainization of tillage. Linley was the lead-off speaker at our recent in-pers...

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Iriel Edwards: Why Is Race In This? USDA Discrimination, Land Access, And Collective Liberation

Real Organic Podcast - November 17, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#145: Iriel Edwards, an inspector with Real Organic Project, a former dryland SRI rice farmer with Louisiana-based Jubilee Justice, and a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Entomology, addresses the crowd at Churchtown Dairy at the Saving Real Organic Conference on October 14, 2023....

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Dan Barber: The Power Of Deliciousness

Real Organic Podcast - November 14, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
#142:  Dave interviews celebrated chef and author Dan Barber at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, where they discuss the potential of getting the masses to understand the value of food production practices above the final product. Dan believes the key lies in exceptional flavor and th...