Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
Guest Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D. dietitian and organic garlic farmer reveals the single barrier preventing her from farming in her youth; she describes the soil-food web, the benefits of organic farming,…
Guest Katherine Pryor, childrens book author and sustainable food systems educator returns to discuss the story behind her latest delightful book, Zoras Zucchini. Perfect for food literacy classroom …
Guest Anna Lappe, sustainable food advocate, and co-author of Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food, reveals how industry front groups …
Guest Richard Bickel, international photojournalist, captures images of the Oystermen of Apalachicola, FL, and describes environmental threats to the region, its prized shellfish, people and culture
A…
Guest Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Birds and Beans Coffee, LLC, explains how shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee protects migratory bird populations, and our planet
Birds and Beans
Guest Lani Malmberg, gypsy goat herder, describes how and why she works with goats to provide a safe, natural, ecological answer to weed control and land restoration
Manage Weeds with Goats
Guest Sean Sellers, M.A., Senior Investigator/Monitor, Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota, FL, describes farm labor conditions in Immokalee Florida, and how farmworker standards, monitoring and ed…
Guest Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor, Independent Science News, Ithaca, NY, questions the assumptions, narratives, and PR spin re food, agric…
Guest Louis Guillette, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Marine Laborato…
Guest Amy Mondlach, Toxic Tater Campaign Coordinator, describes how pesticide drift from potato fields owned by Ronald D. Offutt (RDO), the largest potato grower in the world and one of McDonalds lea…
Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Heal…
Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Heal…
Guest Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, associate research nutritional biologist, University of California-Davis, discusses the relationship between sugar consumption, metabolic disease and industrys influen…
Guest E. G. Vallianatos, Ph.D., author of Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, takes us behind the scenes of his 25 year career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Poiso…
Guest Jeannie Economos, Pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator, Farmworker Association of Florida, discusses toxic Lake Apopka how agriculutral chemicals have harmed the natura…
Guest Andy Bellati, M.S., R.D., explains how the food industry influences what we think about food and health, and food industry deception vs. reality
Small Bites
Bruce Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H, clinician scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Childrens Hospital, and Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, talks about en…
Guest Jennifer Hartle, PhD., M.H.S., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Standford University School of Medicine, and environmental health scientist talks about Bisphenol-A (BPA), the estrogen-mimicking co…
Guest Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., dietitian with expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention describes the most important steps we can take to improve our diets. Tune in for a big pi…
Guest Lenore Arab, Ph.D. Nutritional epidemiologist, UCLA, explains how fruits, vegetables and unique components of tea can help protect our health
Lenore Arab