Flipping the Table: Recent Episodes
Michael Reid Dimock
Flipping the Table: Honest Conversations About Food, Farming and the Future The production of food does more to damage the planet’s health than any other human activity. Global warming, degradation of species, soil, water, air and rural economies and epidemics of diet-related disease reveal the challenges. And yet there is real hope. Visionaries and revolutionaries are innovating to replace the harmful. They are creating or supporting agriculture and food enterprises that solve our many challenges. Hosted by the good food movement pioneer, Michael Reid Dimock, this podcast features dynamic and enlightening conversations with the people who are flipping the table to create new ways to feed the world. Listeners are energized and inspired in our challenging times.
Rural people are a minority in America and rural regions are often overlooked except during elections or farm bill debates. In Episode 4, we hear from two veteran rural advocates: Anna Claussen, Founder of Voices for Rural Resilience and Ash Hanson, CEO of The Department of Public Transformation, about the key reasons why overlooking the rural people, places and economies of our nation is a mistake. Their conversation invites us to look beyond our political and urban-rural differences to discover the culture, deep care, and creative resilience that is alive in rural communities—and what becomes possible when those strengths are recognized and supported. Rural people and communities have much to share with urban America that makes us a better nation.
Meet Jaimie Stoltzfus of P Bar Ranch and Cowgirl Meat Company and Amber Smith of Antelope Springs Ranch and Executive Director of Women in Ranching. Though separated by hundreds of miles, these first-generation ranchers, mothers, and collaborators are united by a common vision for the future of ranching.
Together, they share the story of an innovative partnership raising calves on Montana's Northern Great Plains and grass-finishing them in the Absaroka Mountains to produce regeneratively raised, grass-finished beef. Along the way, they reflect on breaking into a traditionally male-dominated industry, and why collaboration—not competition—is helping build a more resilient future for ranchers, rural communities, and the land.
Steward and Grounded Capital are two companies aiding the regenerative agriculture sector expansion. Investment is critical, but only a part of the formula for success. Hear seasoned capital providers of good heart share where they see the opportunities and why regenerative has market momentum.
In Episode 2, Michael Dimock sits down with Steward's Alissa Welker, VP of Operations and Ryan Anderson, COO to explore the organization's unique community lending platform, which has financed more than 100 farms and regional food businesses across the country. Together, they discuss how innovative financing, local infrastructure, and stronger market connections can help regenerative agriculture grow.
Michael is then joined by Roots of Change's Coco Sanabria for a conversation with Stephen Hohenrieder, Founder of Grounded Capital. Drawing on decades of experience investing in agriculture and consumer brands, Stephen shares why regenerative food and farming is gaining traction, how thoughtful capital can strengthen entire food ecosystems, and what it will take to build a more resilient, regional food economy.
This is the first of six podcasts featuring voices from this past June's Old Salt Festival. You will hear farmers, ranchers, business leaders and advocates who are creating an agrarian culture that points the way to a healthier food system in America.
In Episode 1, Michael Dimock sits down with Jose Corona, Chief Agricultural Business Officer in the Office of Kat Taylor, to discuss his work leading a farmer-guided team building the Agricultural Platform Collective—a mechanism to expand business opportunities for small farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley.
He is then joined by Conner Hackett, General Manager of Stemple Creek Ranch, one of California's leading grass-fed, regenerative livestock operations, to explore how strong networks and collaboration can help build more resilient regional food systems.
Food is Medicine is a growing movement that recognizes healthy food as a powerful tool for preventing, managing, and even reversing chronic disease. Food is Medicine goes beyond treating illness and includes addressing the underlying conditions that shape health—from nutrition insecurity and healthcare access to the strength of local and regional food systems.
Dr. Marion Nestle's 2002 book, Food Politics was instrumental in awakening the nation to the disfunction in America's food policy and its food system. She reflects on her path to food policy and shares her thinking about what she sees is important today for those seeking change
A former farmworker himself, gifted artist Narsiso Martinez, paints farmworker portraits on flattened produce boxes, which now hang in museums, galleries and homes. Narsiso is lifting up men and women that most people never see or hear, but upon whom our very lives depend.
In February 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order defining glyphosate as critical to national security. This created a firestorm among the mostly mother-powered stream of the MAHA movement insisting HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr., eliminate risky or toxic chemicals from agriculture and food ingredients. Kelly Ryerson as a nationally recognized MAHA member, often seen lobbying Congress, shares her perspective on the current battle with the Administration.
It is rare for business-oriented folks to commit their lives to policy work. But the cofounders of Land Core are doing just that. With business backgrounds they understood how federal farm policy needed to change in order to create healthy and resilient agriculture. They are creating tools and farm bill programs that offer a brighter future by weaving bipartisan support for good soil policy.
Flipping the Table Co-host Coco Sanabria engages Mary Purdy, Sara Keough and Stephan van Vliet to answer the question can meat heal both our bodies & the environment? They share the emerging nutrient density science & how regeneratively raised meat supports human health while restoring ecosystems
The relationship between sheep & humans stretches back 12,000 years. These docile and productive animals provide delicious meat & high-quality fiber. Robert Irwin, Dylan Boeken and Sallie Calhoun share why lamb matters, how thoughtful grazing sustains ecosystems & how their industry can reduce toxic waste and us of herbicides, while it reduces fire danger
Chef Sara Jenkins of New York City fame shares her journey to open & run her convivial restaurant Nina June in the small town of Rockport, Maine
Technology is a powerful ally in advancing regenerative agriculture. Learn from CEO, Tom Richards, about Harvest Path, a new tool designed to help producers track practices, impacts, & financial results in order to support relationships with shoppers & wholesale buyers who value regeneration
Today's ag financing system traps most farmers & ranchers in debt. Zach Ducheneaux, rancher & former Administrator of USDA's Farm Services Agency, has a better approach allowing farmers & ranchers more time to grow & prosper. Learn about it in his conversation with Mark Squire, owner of Tara Firma Farms & CFO of Good Earth Natural Foods
Kathy Webster of TomKat Ranch Education Foundation discusses the value and importance of direct ranch to consumer sales with Carrie Richards of Richards Regenerative and Jason Walker of StarWalker Organic Farms. Learn how you can erode the power of the American meat oligopoly when you shop.
If you are confused by all the labels on meat packaging, listen to Andy Naja-Riese, Carrie Balkcom & Elizabeth Whitlow unpack the meanings behind the array of labels. Learn how your choices online, in the store, or farmers markets impact the land, animals, rural families and economies
Chicken is the most consumed meat in America, yet 99.9% is raised in factories that are hard on the birds & rural communities. Hear from two ranchers freeing their birds from confinement to create better tasting, healthier & humanely raised poultry while progressing toward a regenerative system
Wade Crowfoot leads California's Natural Resources Agency, which has been implementing a groundbreaking set of policies designed to end the 60-year-old conflict among agricultural and environmental interests in order to achieve an impressive set of ecological and rural economic goals
Author & wild-farm advocate Dan Imhoff explores the challenge of embracing coexistence with predators when raising livestock in conversation with Montana ranchers Becky Weed & Malou Anderson Ramirez
Kat Taylor, Co-founder and Board Chair of Beneficial State Bank and Emma Ractliffe, Chief Investment Officer, World Within, share their innovative approaches to investing in the revitalization of rural enterprises, those central to the regenerative revolution underway.
Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson and Matt Jorgenson are three innovative social entrepreneurs we met at the Old Salt Festival, who work at the intersection of art, culture and enterprise. They tell their stories of how they are uplifting the creativity of rural people and communities.
A shocking sea change in food and agriculture policy is underway in Washington DC. Policies that were improving human health through better nutrition, rural economies, small and mid-scale growers have been decimated. Trade and immigration policies are harming the largest farms. The future looks bleak to many. But Maine’s veteran of the House Ag Committee, Chellie Pingree shares her honest thoughts on what may lay ahead and how we can maintain the course toward a healthy, resilient and just food and farming system.
Ali Ghiorse, Christine Caruso and Vetiveah Immanuel, leaders in the in the movement for food justice in Connecticut, share their perspectives on what is working and what is still needed to make healthy affordable food available to all in a state with an incredible wealth gap.
Episode 2 of 4 of Old Salt Festival conversations features Dr. Stephan van Vliet, among the planet’s leaders studying the impact of regenerative agriculture on nutrient density in meat.At the festival he shared the latest findings that confirm good ecological stewardship of pastures leads to meat that provides many more phytonutrients than meat from feed lots and animal factories. Phytonutrients are natural chemical compounds found in plants that support health by enhancing immune function, reducing inflammation, and protecting against chronic diseases.
E1 of 4 features Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of the Range Revolution, the heirloom quality leather goods company, Sheldon Atwood, CEO of Western Ranchlands Corporation and Taylor Ophus, land steward at Mannix Ranch. They were three of the inspiring attendees of the 2025 Old Salt Festival in Montana, a June gathering of nearly 3000 ranchers, artisans, chefs, advocates and musicians dedicated to promoting land stewardship, regional food, rural communities and regenerative ranching
Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have mine. We seek to end the polarized views that dominate the cultural discussion on the challenge and find common ground among the so-called regenerative, organic, and industrial approaches.
GenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table’s new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ Team to explore their values around food and agriculture, their reasons for wanting to work on food systems with Roots of Change and the college food experience.
Stuart Woolf, among California’s largest farmers and Executive Chairman of Woolf Farming Company, has a vision for the heart of California’s Great Central Valley. And agave, the hearty cousin of the tasty asparagus plant, is central to that vision. We talk of Stuart’s interesting journey, his family’s regenerative practices and his fascination with and enthusiasm for agave’s resilience in a drying valley and its distilled spirits that could create a whole new industry in the Golden State.
Six participants from the 20-year dialogue between aggies and enviros, known as the California Roundtable on Ag & Environment describe what it did, how it did it and why is made their lives as leaders and the state better.
After 15 years on the federal food and agriculture policy beat, perhaps no other American of her generation has a better perspective on what might or might not happen under the new Administration. RFK Jr and the MAHA movement are having an impact. What could it all mean?
The author, musician, homestead farmer, and host of the Full Expression podcast Dan Imhoff flips the table on Michael Dimock to explore the origins of Michael’s interest in and career path within the good food movement.
Diana Donlon has cultivated, mentored and inspired a growing community of regenerative agriculture activists through her leadership of SoilCentric. She reveals how she remains optimistic despite the challenges ahead.
Are tariffs good for American Agriculture? It is a very important question in the days before the election. Hear a large-scale, no-till, commodity soy bean farmer, describe his experience and knowledge about the impact of tariffs on the nation’s farmers. A special broadcast provided by Rodger Wasson from his show Farm to Table Talk.
Animal right activists placed the terribly written anti CAFO Measure J on the November 2024 Sonoma County ballot. It threatens the future of this small and mid-scale farming community and others like it across the nation. Professional Ducati motorcycle racer, organic dairy woman and Covergirl model Shelina Moreda is co leading a campaign to stop this misdirected measure while still keeping the dialogue open with her opponents.
Cole Mannix’s family has ranched in the Black Foot Valley of Montana since 1882. Even with thousands of acres and hundreds of cattle, the return on investment is bleak. Learn how his family and four other ranches have come together to create the Old Salt Co-op and beef brand with two restaurants, online sales and an annual ranch event all in order to ensure these agrarian families thrive rather than just survive.
Today Michael talks with Lisa Hamilton, a great chronicler of uncommon agrarians, and the author of the new book, The Hungry Season. Agrarians are those who live from working in agriculture. With only 2.2 million agrarians are less than 1% of the US population. These few feed our nation and much of the world. An even smaller percentage of those few farm or ranch outside the mainstream, the conventional commodity system.
Nutritionist and leader of the Dairy Council of California, Amy Delisio and dairy farmer from Humboldt County, Cody Nicholson Stratton, dialogue with Michael around the opportunities and challenges related to nutrition and the environment faced by California’s gargantuan dairy industry.
If you are hearing the news lately you know the campuses, now educating Gen Z, are rocked by angry students on both sides of the war in Israel. This is an energized group and may indicate a sea change in the level and type of activism in the country in the years ahead. In this episode we’ll learn from three members of “Gen Z” if they believe the passions of their generation could also be felt intensely in efforts to change our food and farming system.
Tim Johnson CEO of California Rice Commission shares how rice growers are modeling the future of agriculture by delivering a fabulous array of ecosystem services, wealth creation and delicious, healthy food for California and the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 to the nation’s farmers to embrace regenerative agriculture as the future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 stands in California.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 seeking more direct relationship to urban eaters.
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 seeking more direct relationship to urban eaters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael talks with John Krist, retired CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau, about the need and challenge of protecting farmworkers.
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.
CA movement leaders describe the $3.3 billion Resilient Food and Farm bond and budget request.
One of Dan’s most challenging and interesting interviews with the renown animal welfare advocate and gifted autistic. Dr. Grandin has transformed livestock handling.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Writer and activist Dan Imhoff speaks with farmer, poet and seminal writer Wendell Berry about the “oversimplification” of agriculture and all the resulting challenges.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Chef Duskie Estes and Melita Love of Farm to Pantry share benefits of gleaning to feed the hungry and end food waste
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.
Jim, a leader of the United Food & Commerical Workers Union, talks about how COVID and the current political dynamics may offer a better future for those who move the food from farm to table.
Anya Fernald of Belcampo Meat Co. Chris Sayer from Petty Ranch, Don Cameron from Terra Nova Ranch Inc. and Judith Redmond from Full Belly Farm share how they are adapting, learning and finding opportunities in this crazy COVID time.
Allen Katz, a pioneer in the craft distilling world and the Slow Food movement shares his uplifting stories about how his work has brought pleasure and conviviality, while highlighting the small grain farmers of upstate New York.
With nearly 40 years of activism toward right relationship to nature and our fellow humans, few people in American have more perspective on change movements and the moment in which we live than Dave Henson, Executive Director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.
From real dirt to common ground, Michael & Rodger engage farmers on the cutting edge who deliver the world’s best produce that meets the needs of our challenging time.
The Glynwood Center’s dynamic leader shares her strategy for creating viable regional food and farming economies.
Hubris born of human ingenuity has unleashed myriad unintended consequences that now threaten life as we know it. Britt & Michael explore how her insightful work offers an antidote to the deadly hubris that ail our species.
Darryl and Melissa Burnett built a thriving restaurant business designed to maximize neighborly intimacy in an age of fast food, large dinning rooms and mass marketing
Balancing and sowing agreement among divergent forces, while still making change requires skill. Hear from a leader doing it.
Chef Hoffman shares his unique culinary journey, including how he catalyzed farm to table in the Big Apple.
Host Michael Reid Dimock and Producer Patrick Sexton look back on a great year of
conversations about food, farming and the future. With snippets from memorable moments,
we hear what they took away from six of the 27 guests featured in season 1.
Erin has immense faith in business and seeks to make ag the center of our economy and farmers the climate heroes of our time. We hope she can!
Like Greta Thunberg, Elise is doing her part to save the planet. She came to California to learn about the food movement. It’s a great episode if you want to know more about Roots of Change’s work.
The dynamic couple behind the iconic San Francisco restaurant Mission Chinese share the story of how they came to collaborate with the State of California on a program that will make it easy for restaurant patrons to support farms and ranches that capture carbon in their soil.
A tax on sugary beverages could make food justice for all much more achievable. But Big Soda’s money in politics makes passing the tax very hard. We think Dr. Scorza’s approach is the only path to victory.
Native son of the Heartland Rodger Wasson, host of the Farm to Table Talk podcast, and Michael discuss their alternate paths, but common love of agriculture and food. Includes an interesting contrast in their views of a recent viral video from the traditional ag industry on its role in solving climate change.
LA FPC is a leader in the nation. Its success comes from great leaders and community inclusion to set agendas and making community voices heard. It’s an inspiring story and model for any community seeking health and justice.
Chris Sayer shares the pleasures and perils of farming in Ventura County, including climate resilience, cannabis production, the cost and benefit of CA’s regulations
Michael shares his history within Slow Food’s leadership and some of his peak experiences during those years. He ends with some assessments about Slow Food’s strengths and weaknesses and his hopes for the US organization.
Denisa Livingston, Dine leader from New Mexico tribal lands, shares groundbreaking victory in taxing soda and junk food to help heal her people ravaged by Type II Diabetes. It’s a brief and uplifting conversation!
Two veteran chapter leaders, Marissa La Brecque and Jennifer Breckner, share the highs and lows of movement leadership at the local level.
Chefs Duskie Estes and Anthony Myint join a live audience of Millennials to talk about the challenges, opportunities and future of the Bay Area’s culinary scene.
In its 30th year of existence, the Slow Food movement’s main man, shares his story and that of the movement he shepherds globally.
Kat is out to transform critical sectors of society: agriculture, democracy, finance & philanthropy.
Rice and wine: how California’s rice and winegrape growers are cultivating a beautiful ecological blend
Description: There’s a crisis in the Bay Area’s restaurant scene. Join noted chefs, Anthony Myint and Duskie Estes, in conversation with Michael to explore how we might maintain our culinary Mecca. July 12th at Manny’s.
LA’s food movement ROCks! Clare Fox and Joann Lo, leaders of the LA Food Policy Council, reveal why!
Author of "Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land"
Real momentum evident: examples of policy makers, farmers and activists moving us forward
Orphan Crops of Africa project & nitrogen-fixing corn, a possible breakthrough to help fix the Midwest
Living through natural disasters: what they teach and how farmers and ranchers are a key to mitigating and surviving climate chaos
The Green New Deal and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are in the news. Michael offers thoughts on why the Green New Deal concept and its supporters suggest how we could work to create a better future for our kids.
Important lessons re antibiotic use, gene editing and monoculture as taught to us by Florida’s awful Citrus Greening Disease
A decade on the frontlines covering the food movement reveals rich insights on what is working and what more must be done to fix the many food and farming challenges
Kickoff episode, defining the concept of “ food movement” and why it’s needed to survive this century
Anya describes her company’s revolutionary approach to delivering healthy, humane and sustainable meat