The Food Chain - What's Eating What Radio

Some look to doctors and hospitals for healing and hope; others look to the smiling faces in Washington, DC. But a few still look to the wisdom of grandmothers, and they lead us to ask….

She was a corporate attorney, but chucked it all to become the love in Love Apple Farms, where she now grows for David Kinch’s world-famous Manresa Restaurant. Her biodynamic incantations lead us to ask…

Topics include why the need for organic goat milk instead of baby formula; the miniature goat solution to feeding babies; and whether cities should allow their residents the freedom to raise food animals. Guests: Gingi Freeman & Kristeina Wolfert,

E. Coli 0157:H7 has precipitated a civil war in the nation’s salad bowl. On one side are those who say all forms of extraneous life should be removed from farms. On the other side are those who advocate for adding more life. This leads us to ask,

A few short years ago, 35% of the county’s farmers were 65 years or older, and more than half of the county’s farmers reported having no on to take over the farm. Then someone discovered Placer Gold! Topics include why farms were disappeari

Decades ago, we left the farm for the city. Yet today we sing, I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away! This leads us to ask: “What will we find when we move back to the farm?” Topics include why city people move to the farm; the kind of

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired writers to document what America was eating. From these accounts it is evident that what we were eating is not what we are eating, which leads us to ask…

Topic include the 100 trillion microorganisms that live within each of our bodies; what those organisms do within our body; and whether we are what we eat, or we are what they eat? Guests: David Montgomery & Anne Bikle

In the leafy green fields of the nation’s salad bowl, growers are killing off wildlife. One grower was reported to have poisoned his ponds to prevent frogs from hopping around his fields. This leads us to ask…

60 million people now rely on a government $150 trillion in debt (give or take) for food. This leads us to ask…