The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

In 1941 residents of Northern California and Southern Oregon voted to secede and form the State of Jefferson. Though the State of Jefferson now exists only in the mind, its Garagistes maintain their spirit of independence through the production of foods

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. As Santayana suggests, there is much in the history of food from which we can learn, and that history leads us to ask…

Thousands of U.S. farmers lost over 1.2 billion dollars when MF Global’s off-balance-sheet leveraged repo-to-maturity play on foreign sovereign debt collapsed into bankruptcy. And so we ask…

Government’s No Hungry Kids Act is forcing schools to feed children healthy lunches, which children throw into the garbage. This leads us to ask…

To feed our future, we will need to produce more food with less natural resources. Some point to the technology of the nano and say, “Salvation is on the way!” And so we ask…

Cities, like forest fires, grow out from an ignition point, consuming land. Unlike burned forests, however, new growth does not willingly spring from inner cities. Enter gardeners who, with or without permission, plant new life in that no man’s la

In the last 15 years, the U.S. government used $17 billion of taxpayer money to subsidize production of corn starch, corn syrup and soy oil. This leads us to ask…

In 1930, the United States had 6.3 million farms; in 2000, it had only 2.1 million. Some say the 27 million people who lived on those farms were deliberately forced off in a Stalin-like purge. This leads one to ask, "What did happen to all the farmers?"

In 2009, President Barack Obama selected Monsanto executive Michael Taylor to be the nation’s first food safety czar. In 2012, citizen Fredrick Ravid collected 60,000 signatures on a petition to force Taylor’s removal. All those signatures

Given our recently won ability to re-engineer life, the future looks like an apple that will not spoil. Some, however, see hope in the past and so are planting a mother orchard of heritage apple trees.