The Food Fix

In this episode, guest reporter Caroline Miller talks to the owner of Country Mill Farms in Charlotte, Michigan about a storage innovation that extends the life of their produce. These new storage bins come from the French company, Janny MT. 

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Janny MTCountry Mill Farms

Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode, guest reporter Jonus Cottrell talks to the owners of Nutcase VeganMeats about the benefits of eating plant-based food. These physicians-turned-entrepreneursfound themselves dissatisfied with the meat-replacement market and decided to createtheir own product that is better for people and the planet.

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 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

This episode features the founder of the Michigan Seed Library Network, Bevin Cohen. He travels the state to establish community seed libraries that distribute parcels of seeds so individuals can learn to grow their own produce. Patrons return the seeds from produce they grow to the library. Seed libraries struggle with a low rate of returns and “bad seeds,” but educational programs are attempting to change that.

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Bevin Cohen - Michigan Seed Library Network Founder

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Michigan Seed Library Network  Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode reporter Genevieve Fox covers a non-profit organization in Detroit working to relieve food insecurity and waste with mobile pantries. Forgotten Harvest's Marketing and Communications Director, Christopher Ivey, talks to her about the data tracking used to find neighborhoods with food insecurity and the limitations with mobile pantries. 

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For more information:Forgotten Harvest  Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode our host, Taylor Haelterman, expresses her frustration with slimy salad greens and learns about a Detroit-based company looking to solve that problem. Planted Detroit's Leader of Plant Health & Employee Success, Kelly Sharpe, explains why greens get slimy so fast and how the company is tackling the issue by growing and distributing their crops differently. 

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 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode Lars Fadness, professor of global public health and primary care at the University of Bergen, explains his research on a dietary change that can add over a decade to your life expectancy. He also talks about the tool he and his team created to help estimate the impacts of your dietary choices.  

 

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Lars Fadnes - Professor in the University of Bergen Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care 

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Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study

Food For Healthy Life Calculator

Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

This episode features Josh Rosenstein the owner and founder of Edible Eden Baltimore Foodscapes. He talks about how his company designs, installs, and maintains edible gardens and ecological landscaping for homeowners, businesses and schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and how he struggles to balance a triple bottom line of sustainability, community, and profit. 

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Josh Rosenstein - owner and founder of Edible Eden Baltimore Foodscapes

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Edible Eden Baltimore Foodscapes

 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode of the Food Fix, our host, Taylor Haelterman, speaks to Diego Rose, professor of nutrition and food security at Tulane University, about his recent study that found swapping out "high-impact" foods, like choosing to eat poultry or pork instead of beef, can lower your carbon and water scarcity footprints. The study shows that making environment-friendly food choices can be easier than you think!

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Diego Rose -  Professor of nutrition and food security at Tulane University in New Orleans

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“Single-item substitutions can substantially reduce the carbon and water scarcity footprints of US diets”

 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode our host, Taylor Haelterman, dives into food waste consequences and solutions with Katy Hart, operations director of the non-profit organization ReFED. The majority of America’s food is intended for consumption, but much of it doesn’t end up being consumed. The people at ReFED are working to make sure food ends up where it’s intended to be - in people’s bellies.

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Katy Hart - ReFED Operations Director

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ReFED Website

 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.

In this episode of the Food Fix our host, Taylor Haelterman, and journalist, Sheldon Krause, break down the impacts of the warming climate on Michigan crops and how it might affect what farmers can grow in the future.  Follow us and join the conversation @msufoodfix on Facebook and Twitter.  Featured guest:

Sheldon Krause - Student Journalist at Michigan State University 

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Farmers chase migrating crops in a warming climate

 Theme music: Upbeat Acoustic by Lesfm on Pixabay About the podcast: The Food Fix focuses on researchers and innovators better feeding the world. It’s a production from the Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, an organization that teaches student and professional journalists how to report on the world's most important beat.

About the host:Taylor Haelterman is pursuing a master’s degree in environment, science and health journalism at Michigan State University. As a volunteer, intern, podcast producer, editor and host, she’s had a hand in nearly every aspect of audio production and live radio. She plans to continue combining her passion for audio with her love of storytelling for the rest of her career.