The Food Chain

Michael Olson hosts Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Co-Author, The Better Brain

The Golden State of California appears to be losing its collective mind.  You can see evidence of that loss on the streets of San…

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Michael Olson with Benjamin Lorr, Author, The Secret Life of Groceries

It is a $700 billion dollar a year business, and Americans spend about 2% of their lives shopping in …

Caroline Yelle, Owner & Queen Bee, Pope Canyon Queens

I happened to be watching a honey bee working over a lemon tree blossom on the 19th of July, when I realized that it was the first honey bee I …

The Golden State of California appears to be losing its collective mind.  You can see the evidence of that loss on the streets of San Francisco, and that City-by-the-Bay leads us to ask:

Can we eat…

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Richard J. Sexton, Professor Emeritus, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California Davis & Author of Food Fight: Misguide…

China Now:  Friend or Foe?  War or Peace?
Hosts Michael Olson & Nan Su 

• China tells Brazil Xi Jinping Will Miss Brics Summit in Rio
• Annual reshuffling of PLA Generals
• Putin will visit Beijing and …

Michael Olson hosts Michael Grunwald, Author of "We Are Eating The Earth"

Some say the big problem is not fossil foods, it’s the food we eat!  If what they say is true, we simply must ask:

 Are we …

Michael Olson hosts Bob Vergidis, Chief Visionary Officer, PointOfSale.Cloud

When, of a sudden, the $10 restaurant burger became a $20 burger, the battle for the remaining burger customers across t…

Guests:  Greg Peterson, Founder & CEO, Urban Farm.org & Belle Star, Co-Founder, SeedSchoolOnline

In a deed, plant a seed, make a garden grow and transform the taste of city!  And so we ask: 

Where …

Michael Olson with Gary Bascou, Co-Founder, Staff of Life Natural Food Market

Staff of Life is a locally-owned grocery store competing for consumer dollars in a market dominated by corporate giants…

There was a time farmers grew food with shovels, hoes and horses.  As technology progressed, they used tractors, fertilizers and pesticides.  Today, farmers grow food by stringing together binary dig…

It lives alone, and mostly hidden, in its magic kingdom.  Its members are said to include the largest living organism on earth.   That so many down-to-earth people become its ardent devotees leads us…

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Patrick Montgomery, CEO & Founder, KC Cattle Company & Valor Provisions Cooperative, for a conversation about finding real value when buyi…

Michael Olson hosts Tobias Yeh – Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Medicine and Author of Clinical Truths: How to Not Be Misled by the FDA, Big Pharma & Your Doctor, for a conversation about the use of s…

There is, one hopes, a little call-of-the-wild left in all of us – even those of us who live in a concrete box stacked 40 stories high in a city sky!  That call leads us to ask:

Where can one get a…

They live where we can’t see them for a very good reason! They come in the night – and during the day– to steal the precious fruits of our labor. Their unrelenting assault on our good nature leads us…

Michael Olson hosts

Dr. Jacob Manlove, Assistant Professor of Ag Economics, Arkansas State University

MSN recently served up some news that caught my attention.  The headline read, “Venezuela tripl…

Michael Olson host Nutritionist / Author Jill Troderman

Some facts:  One in five children are obese.  Two in five adults are obese.  The rate at which we are becoming obese has doubled since 1990.  …

Michael Olson with Executive Chef Avram Samuels, Director of Culinary and Food & Beverage Operations, Chaminade Resort and Spa, Santa Cruz, CA

In 1963, California native and World War II veteran Juli…

A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM MICHAEL OLSON  

Yogi Berra once gave this piece of sage advise:  “When you get to a fork in the road, take it!”  And so we ask:

Which way should we grow our food:  our way o…