Flipping the Table

Dan Imhoff dialogues with Eliot Coleman, Maine's Four Season Farm founder, author and organic farming pioneer. Eliot shares what plants want, what growers around the world can teach, and how small farms can make money.

Author, educator, recovering Buddhist and model for a life well lived, Deborah shares her stores of a culinary and farm-centered cook's life, all from her memoir An Onion In My Pocket.

Writer and activist Dan Imhoff speaks with farmer, poet and seminal writer Wendell Berry about the "oversimplification" of agriculture and all the resulting challenges.

Celebrity chef & farmer Duskie Estes, rancher Kathy Webster and farmer Sarah Silva launched the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR C) to support local livestock producers providing safe, healthy meat to a growing market.

Writer, farmer, activist Dan Imhoff wets our appetite for six conversations he recorded with the pioneers of regenerative and organic agriculture in the early 2000s. The Imhoff Archives will run once per month over the next 6 months.

The new leader of the nation's largest and most impactful food policy council shares her lived experience and vision for LA's food future.

The future of a healthy and regenerative meat source is visible by looking at Morris Grassfed. A 30-journey to build a network of mutually beneficial relationships that are good for people, animals and the planet!

Native peoples are rebirthing their food traditions to heal the impacts of the modern American diet and political and economic oppression.  Sanjay's new film captures three inspiring stories of reclaimed food sovereignty.

The soil is a powerful tool for combatting climate change. Through her nonprofit, Soil Centric, Donlon builds support and pathways for everyone to join the campaign to build soil and capture carbon to create a healthier future.

The leader of the Center for Ecolitercy provides a picture of their work to transform school meals and how they've adapted in the time of COVID.

We unpack the role of white fragility, its relationship to shame, numbness and rage and ways to "keep ourselves on the hook" as participants in the healing of the nation's deepest wound.

This is a follow up to Michael's fall 2019 dialogue with Erin regarding her work to rally American food and agriculture to become climate heroes. He joins Rodger Wasson his colleague for the new podcast series "Beyond Your Table: From the Real Dirt to Common Ground." We explore the important question: can Erin rally the industry given the complexities and challenges upon us?

Global warming, Covid-19 and the murder of Black people is impacting the minds of humans planet wide. What can we do to deal with the stress and great fears before us? Britt offers hope and a path.

A dialogue on how sensations within the body and feelings allow those divided by race and privilege to find paths to healing the deep and historical national wounds that hobble us all.

Chef Duskie Estes and Melita Love of Farm to Pantry share benefits of gleaning to feed the hungry and end food waste

A man on a mission to teach the art and advocate for a regenerative agriculture

Based in the Bronx, New York. Baldor may be the most innovative food service distributor on the East Coast. You'll hear about their impressive food waste reduction programs and adaptation of their business during the pandemic.

Jim, a leader of the United Food & Commerical Workers Union, talks about how COVID and the current political dynamics may offer a better future for those who move the food from farm to table. 

Anya Fernald of Belcampo Meat Co. Chris Sayer from Petty Ranch, Don Cameron from Terra Nova Ranch Inc. and Judith Redmond from Full Belly Farm share how they are adapting, learning and finding opportunities in this crazy COVID time.

Allen Katz, a pioneer in the craft distilling world and the Slow Food movement shares his uplifting stories about how his work has brought pleasure and conviviality, while highlighting the small grain farmers of upstate New York.

An uplifting conversation re a healthier future for our kids

Michael's brief download as second week of shelter in place order begins

With nearly 40 years of activism toward right relationship to nature and our fellow humans, few people in American have more perspective on change movements and the moment in which we live than Dave Henson, Executive Director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.

From real dirt to common ground, Michael & Rodger engage farmers on the cutting edge who deliver the world's best produce that meets the needs of our challenging time.

The Glynwood Center's dynamic leader shares her strategy for creating viable regional food and farming economies.