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April 07, 2015 Jennifer McGruther – pulling traditional, highly nutritious and delicious foods back into today’s kitchens…beautifully
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You want to eat delicious, healthy foods. You want to get back to what’s real, and you want to do it yourself! But you’re not sure where to start, and you wonder if you’ll spend the rest of your life in the kitchen!
Worry no more. Jennifer McGruther recently published an absolutely beautiful cookbook that goes by the same name as her wildly popular website – The Nourished Kitchen. Based on sound science, as well as time-tested approaches, Jennifer’s book will guide you back to great taste and high nutrition. In this Deep Roots Radio interview, she explains how you can do it!
Bringing traditional health and taste back into cooking
28 min
April 04, 2015 Harvey Ussery: Natural, wholistic chicken management (podcast)
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In this Deep Roots Radio interview, chicken guru Harvey Ussery describes ways the small flockster (chicken keeper) can start chicks off right, use natural feed and manure management approaches, and consider improving the breeds.
Ussery’s focus in the small-scale livestock producer – keeper of the small flock for the homestead and market. Based on over 30 years experience, Ussery continues conducting on-farm research and adding to the insights and lessons he shares in talks and workshops across the country. His book and blog “The Small-Scale Poultry Flock” are full, up-to-date resources for the new and experienced poultry keeper.
30 min
March 21, 2015 Jim French, rancher and ag advisor to Oxfam America
A long-time Kansas rancher, Jim French is Senior Advocacy Advisor for Agriculture to Oxfam America. He has traveled the world in Oxfam’s efforts to work with local communities to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice.
Jim has come to believe that you must meet people where they are in their efforts, tap their local traditions and support their goals for prosperity. It’s not about exporting US agricultural products to foreign countries, but rather supporter their abilities to boost their local food production and economies.
I hope you enjoy this interview. For more information about Oxfam, visit www.oxfamamerica.org.
Sylvia
28 min
January 03, 2015 Chicken guru Lisa Steele writes/lives “Fresh Eggs Daily” Cluck!!
A fifth-generation chicken keeper, Lisa Steele is also an engaging writer and terrific photographer – proven skills that earned her Better Homes & Gardens recognition as one of the Top Ten Garden Bloggers in 2014. Author of Fresh Eggs Daily, and the power behind the blog by the same name, Lisa offers sound advise on how to raise your backyard flock naturally.
I hope you enjoy this Deep Roots Radio chat with Lisa.
Free-range chickens checking out the changed landscape
Deep Roots Radio w Lisa Steele
27 min
December 13, 2014 FERN Investigative reporter/editor Sam Fromartz on “The Search for the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker’s Odyssey”
Sam Fromartz is Editor in Chief of the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN). His interest in food isn’t limited to the academic or mud-raking, however. He grew up on the great rye breads made in his native Brooklyn and has been a devoted bread baker for decades. His passion for crusty artisan breads collided with his journalistic career several years ago to send him on a three year journey around the world in search of the perfect loaf.
In this Deep Roots Radio interview, Sam talks about the explorations that resulted in his new book “In Search of the Perfect Loaf: a Home Baker’s Odyssey.”
25 min
June 18, 2014 Around the Farm Table’s Inga Witsher
Inga is a pleasure to watch in her episodes of Around the Farm Table, and fun to chat with about why she visits and film sustainable, small, family farms all across Wisconsin. I hope you enjoy this Deep Roots Radio chat with her.
Sylvia
29 min
June 17, 2014 U of Guelph research links GMO crops to dramatic decline of monarch butterfly
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Dr. Tyler Flockhart, University of Guelph researcher
Earlier this month, the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) released a research report that ties the dramatic decline of the monarch butterfly to the pervasive use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) crops across the United States.
Monarch butterfly – a pollinator
In this Deep Roots Radio interview, researcher and co-author Dr. Tyler Flockhart describes how his team identified the industrial agricultural practice of planting and spraying GMO cropland as a dominant contributor to the 90% decline in the monarch butterfly population in the eastern United States.
I hope you find his remarks as interesting as I did. Let me know what you think.
Sylvia
For a copy of the report: http://ow.ly/xVA2c
30 min
June 17, 2014 Dr. Gail Hansen – on industrial ag and antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming
The numbers are shocking: according to Save Antibiotics, a health initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, 23 thousand Americans die every year because they don’t have the medicines they need to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Add to this an additional two million who are sickened.
Why is this happening? How did we get here?
According to Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming, industrial livestock production plays a big role. The animals crowded into feedlots by the tens of thousands are fed sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics in their feed rations. This practice helps create antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs. And that’s a health threat of crisis proportions.
This situation can be reversed, says Dr. Hansen, and the greatest influencers are consumers – you and me. How?
Listen to this live Deep Roots Radio interview with Dr. Hansen, expert in infectious diseases and the antibiotic resistant superbugs that threaten public health in the US and worldwide.
30 min
May 20, 2014 Dr. Gail Hanson on antibiotics overuse in industrial ag and the rise of superbugs
The antibiotics given to livestock amount to tons every year. If these drugs were administered to help the animal recover from illness or injury, I could see it. But that’s not the case. In many confined animal feeding operations, antibiotics are mixed with the daily feed in order to prevent illness due to crowded conditions, and to boost animal growth.
What does that mean for us?
Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming
This Deep Roots Radio interview with Dr. Gail Hanson, of the PEW Charitable Trusts provides eye-opening information.
Sylvia
30 min
June 11, 2011 Gearld Fry bovine genetics guru
A rose is a rose is a rose, or so the old song goes. But is it? The more we learn, the more we become aware that every living thing is unique. While two roses may appear identical at first glance, a closer examination reveals hundreds of differences – many of them critical. While both are red, one can thrive in drier soil, while another is resistant to aphids. In both cases, the traits can be passed on to the next generation: they are heritable.
Full Throttle, registered BueLingo bull, herd sire
Genetic variability and inheritable traits are true for cattle as well. (You knew I was going to get to farming, eventually.)
And what bovine expert Gearld Fry has learned over many decades is that the bull plays a dominant role in setting the health, conformity and vigor of your herd, including the body features of daughter cows.
I hope you enjoy this Deep Roots Radio chat with Mr. Fry – his insights are powerful. It was recorded live in the studios of WPCA Radio, Amery, Wisconsin.
You can learn about Mr. Fry’s work at Bovine Engineering dot com.
27 min

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