The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include how the organic industry grew from that of small, indepednent farms to an $80 billion dollar industry; how government oversees the organic industry; and how the integrity of organic is policed by independent inspectors. Guest: Laura Mur

Topics include the objective of the Homeless Garden Project; the strategy and tactics employed to achieve that objective; and whether those who are homeless can be taught to farm their way out of homelessness. Guest:Anthony Reyes, Farm Manager, The Ho

At the beginning of the last century, former USDA Secretary of Agriculture FH King studied the agriculture of China, Korea and Japan. He then came home and wrote, Farmers of Forty Centuries, which today leads us to ask: How can we farm for forty more ce

Topics include the essential nutrients of life; how the Old Testament portrayed salt as death, while the New Testament presented it as life; and the kinds of nutrition salt has provided the human race. Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is It Organic

Guest: Gary Nabhan, Author, Food From the Radical Center

For those who industrialized food on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border, the North American Free Trade Agreement was a good deal. But for those who had to eat NAFTA, we simply must ask: What did NAFTA do to our food?

The federal government gives farmers over $13 Billion a year. One fourth of that money goes to six thousand farmers, with one getting nearly $10 million a year. All that free money leads us to ask:

For over twelve thousand years cannabis has been cultivated for textiles, fiber, food and, yes, for fun. Looking back to all its uses, and forward to all its potential, we ask:

Guest: Lisa Steele, Fresh Eggs Daily dot com

You have been growing illicit cannabis at a farm in the hills, or have been growing licit legumes in the valley, and have now decided to enter the legal cannabis trade. So, we ask: