Today we're speaking with author and activist Anna Lappe of the Small Planet Institute about her work, her motivations, and the legacy of work that she has continued from her parents and her grandparents.

This week, we speak with Pamela Hess, executive director of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture. The nonprofit operates a farm, a mobile market, a food hub, and a farm to school program - all geared toward creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the D.C. area.

In part 2 of our conversation with Andrew Kimbrell, we hear more about the new GMO labeling legislation called the DARK Act, which is making its way through Congress right now.

Executive director and founder of Center for Food Safety, Andrew Kimbrell takes a break from court to discuss the GMOs and GMO labeling.

Organic Valley farmer Jon Bansen discusses how better grazing can help dairy farmers cope with drought and climate change.

Mississippi Valley Conservancy executive director, Carol Abrahamzon speaks with us about the non-profit land trust that has permanently protected more than 16,000 acres of land and waterways in southwestern Wisconsin.

Austin Ashley, co-founder of Wisco Pop, makes craft-brewed sodas using local and real ingredients in rural southwest Wisconsin. No high-fructose corn syrup here!

Guest host Anne O'Connor speaks with co-founder and vice president of Seed Savers Exchange, Diane Ott Whealy, about seed sovereignty, and the complexity around sourcing organic seeds. Open-pollinated, heirloom varieties of food crops are disappearing, so organizations like Seed Savers are on a mission to preserve them.

In celebration of Farm Aid's 30th annual benefit concert on Sep. 19th we bring you this rebroadcast of chat with Farm Aid directors Carolyn Mugar and Glenda Yoder

Dr. Molly Jahn is professor of genetics at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her work in traditional plant breeding has contributed to crop varieties that are grown on six continents, and she has worked extensively in developing countries to link crop breeding with improved human nutrition and welfare. She's leading a global alliance of research groups focused on "making the consequences of our failures to change visible to us." Systemic risks that originate from shortcomings in the food system are Molly's forte. "Can we, together, find ways of existing that steward our resources adequately?" she wonders (and it's clear that "no" is not an acceptable answer).