Flipping the Table

Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson and Matt Jorgenson are three innovative social entrepreneurs we met at the Old Salt Festival, who work at the intersection of art, culture and enterprise. They tell their st…

A shocking sea change in food and agriculture policy is underway in Washington DC. Policies that were improving human health through better nutrition, rural economies, small and mid-scale growers hav…

Ali Ghiorse, Christine Caruso and Vetiveah Immanuel, leaders in the in the movement for food justice in Connecticut, share their perspectives on what is working and what is still needed to make healt…

Episode 2 of 4 of Old Salt Festival conversations features Dr. Stephan van Vliet, among the planet’s leaders studying the impact of regenerative agriculture on nutrient density in meat.At the festiva…

E1 of 4 features Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of the Range Revolution, the heirloom quality leather goods company, Sheldon Atwood, CEO of Western Ranchlands Corporation and Taylor Ophus, land steward …

Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have m…

GenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table’s new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ …

Stuart Woolf, among California’s largest farmers and Executive Chairman of Woolf Farming Company, has a vision for the heart of California’s Great Central Valley. And agave, the hearty cousin of the …

Six participants from the 20-year dialogue between aggies and enviros, known as the California Roundtable on Ag & Environment describe what it did, how it did it and why is made their lives as leader…

After 15 years on the federal food and agriculture policy beat, perhaps no other American of her generation has a better perspective on what might or might not happen under the new Administration. RF…

The author, musician, homestead farmer, and host of the Full Expression podcast Dan Imhoff flips the table on Michael Dimock to explore the origins of Michael’s interest in and career path within the…

Diana Donlon has cultivated, mentored and inspired a growing community of regenerative agriculture activists through her leadership of SoilCentric. She reveals how she remains optimistic despite the …

Are tariffs good for American Agriculture? It is a very important question given the new administration's pledge to add tariffs to imported goods. Hear a large-scale, no-till, commodity soy bean farm…

Animal right activists placed the terribly written anti CAFO Measure J on the November 2024 Sonoma County ballot. It threatens the future of this small and mid-scale farming community and others like…

Cole Mannix’s family has ranched in the Black Foot Valley of Montana since 1882. Even with thousands of acres and hundreds of cattle, the return on investment is bleak. Learn how his family and four …

Today Michael talks with Lisa Hamilton, a great chronicler of uncommon agrarians, and the author of the new book, The Hungry Season. Agrarians are those who live from working in agriculture. With onl…

Nutritionist and leader of the Dairy Council of California, Amy DeLisio, and 6th generation organic dairy farmer from Humboldt County, Cody Nicholson Stratton, dialogue with Michael around the opport…

If you are hearing the news lately you know the campuses, now educating Gen Z, are rocked by angry students on both sides of the war in Israel. This is an energized group and may indicate a sea chang…

Tim Johnson CEO of California Rice Commission shares how rice growers are modeling the future of agriculture by delivering a fabulous array of ecosystem services, wealth creation and delicious, healt…

Alegria De La Cruz has a history of creating spaces and moments for farmworkers and other historically marginalized brown and black people to fairly and wisely engage the powers that be: employers, j…