Delicious Revolution

Michelle Glowa is an assistant professor in Anthropology and Social Change department at CIAS in San Francisco. Her work explores the dynamics between activists engaged in changing the landscapes of cities and food systems and the contemporary institutions with which they interact. Michelle approaches her research with over a decade of experience working with food justice and urban agriculture organizing in the United States and Mexico. Chelsea talks with Michelle Glowa about the role of urban gardens in re-imagining and reshaping cities.

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Joey Smith runs Let’s Go Farm in Santa Rosa, California, on the land where he grew up. For the last five years, he has grown a very wide variety of vegetables bound for a Community Supported Agriculture and for the Windsor Farmers Market. Joey also works and teaches hands-on vegetable farming at Shone Farm, which belongs to Santa Rosa Junior College, a community college here in Sonoma County. Joey, like Devon, is an alum of UC Santa Cruz and of Food First’s internship program. In this episode, Devon and Joey talk about young people farming, growing unusual vegetables, a strategy for ending hunger in Sonoma County, and the farmers - one down the street and one in rural Costa Rica - that have inspired Joey.

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A special preview of Delicious Revolution episode 7, in which Devon and Joey talk about young people farming, growing unusual vegetables, a strategy for ending hunger in Sonoma County, and the farmers - one down the street and one in rural Costa Rica - that have inspired Joey. Our interview with Joey airs January 4th, 2016.

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Victoria Wagner is a visual artist, educator, and baker based in Sonoma County, California. Her work is comprised of organic, multilayered paintings, sculptures and drawings that vacillate between objective and non-objective notions. The main thread of her work is found in tonal vibration, electricity and naive human understanding of the simplicity of the natural world. Recently her work has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, theLab, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sonoma County Museum, and the DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve. She teaches at the California College of the Arts. This past summer, she ran an experimental biscuit business out of her hatchback called Hello Nomad Roadside Biscuits. In this episode, Chelsea and Victoria talk about the overlap and symbiosis of baking and painting, the selling biscuits in the least likely corners of Sonoma County, and getting to know your neighbors through food.

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A special preview of Chelsea's conversation with Victoria Wagner, painter and proprietor of Hello Nomad Roadside Biscuits, an experimental itinerant baking company. They talk about the overlap and symbiosis of baking and painting, the selling biscuits in the least likely corners of Sonoma County, and getting to know your neighbors through food. Our conversation with Victoria airs on December 28, 2015. Visit deliciousrevolutionshow.com to subscribe.

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In this episode, Chelsea interviews husband and wife team Kati Greaney and Pete Rasmussen about their collaborations in farming, activism, and filmmaking. Kati is a photographer, filmmaker, and educator who has for the last ten years worked internationally creating documentary photography and film about farmers and farmers movements. She holds a MA from the Social Documentation program a at UC Santa Cruz.Most recently she directed and produced, Los Guajiros, a film that follows two young Haitian agronomists, exploring Cuba's world-renowned agricultural model. Pete is a farmer and educator who founded Sandhill Farms in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. There he grows over 30 varieties of rare, gourmet, heirloom garlic from around the world. Pete worked for the Community Agroecology Network where he organized and led farmer exchanges from Latin America to the US, and planned student trips to farming communities throughout Latin America.

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Farnaz Fatemi is a poet, a writer and a teacher of the craft of writing at UC Santa Cruz, and, importantly for us, she is a gardener and lover of tomatoes. Her poetry has been published in the Ekphrasis, Red Wheelbarrow, and several other poetry journals, and in the anthologies Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been, and recently, Love and Pomegranates: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran, both compilation of works by the Iranian writers outside of Iran. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A favorite recent work of hers is in the Tupelo Quartlerly, a very personal and lyrical essay about visits to Iran called The Color of the Bricks. Devon and Chelsea speak with Farnaz about tomatoes; the interplay between gardening, cooking, and writing; travel; and the necessity of poetics and creativity in a movement.

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Maywa Montenegro is a seed scholar and science writer who we know through many mutual friends and through the agroecology movement. She is a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, where her research focuses on the social relations around seeds and seed systems. She also has a degree in molecular biology, and a masters in science writing from MIT. She publishes work in academic journals and also widely in the popular press. She was an editor at Seed Magazine, and her work has been published recently by Ensia, Gastronomica, The Huffington Post and Grist.org, among many other publications. On Delicious Revolution this week, Devon talks with Maywa about the conservation of crop wild relatives, GMOs, the food movement, and the privileged positioning of scientific knowledge and the need to recognize many kinds of knowledges about food. More at deliciousrevolution.com

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A preview of Delicious Revolution's conversation with journalist and researcher Maywa Montenegro of the Berkeley Food Institute on GMOs, agrobiodiversity, and the politics of scientific consensus. You can hear the full interview on Delicious Revolution on December 7, 2015. Visit deliciousrevolutionshow.com

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A preview of Chelsea's interview with husband-and-wife team Kati Greaney and Pete Rasmussen, Pete farms garlic and organic vegetables at Sandhill Farm in Utah, and Kati is a photographer and film maker. We talk about collaboration and their film that follows farmers from Haiti through a tour of Cuba's agroecology movement. You can hear the full interview on Delicious Revolution December 21, 2015. Visit deliciousrevolutionshow.com

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