The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Topics include making the leap from city to country; what to expect when you land there; and how to survive and prosper by taking such a leap. Guests Shawn and Beth Dougherty, co-authors of The Independent Farmstead

When three Harvard scientists published a review of studies in the prestigous New England Journal of Medicine casting aspersions on saturated fat, we ate sugar and got fat! And so we ask...

When something does not go right, we establish a law, rule or regulation to make it go right. After making things go right for a couple hundred years, we now have laws that govern everything, and that leads us to ask...

Not too many years ago, most all of us were raised on farms. And from the ethics of that raising up on farms, we built a nation. Then we moved into the city, and that leads us to ask...

They said GMOs would lead to fewer pesticides, but that was not true. Now pesticide residues can be found just about everywhere, and that leads us to ask...

Ten million urban teens, give or take, have options that leave them with impossible choices. And so we ask...

Fourteen million hungry teens, give or take, have options that leave them with impossible choices. And so we ask...

Like a deadly plague in a B movie, clouds of dicamba lifted up from where sprayed to kill crops across ten states. And so we ask...

Raising bison is a big, exciting business. In fact, each can weigh upwards of a ton and run 35 miles per hour! And so we ask...

Both share a common genetic heritage, yet 20% of the Hutterite children in North Dakota have asthma, while only 2% of the Amish children in Indiana suffer. And so we ask...