Food Transforms

Maggie Pleskac is passionate about the changes food can make in everyone's life. She joins Alex to talk vegetarian cooking, seasonal eating, functional foods and the joy that food can bring to life. Plus special content from the greenhouse where we explore Robinette's micro greens production with Megan, the Queen of Micros.

Cole Mannix, CEO of Old Salt Coop in Montana, joins Alex to talk about how spending time on the land that grows your food is the best way to build a food system that values more than just monetary profit. The Old Salt Festival, June 19-21, 2026 in Helmville, MT on the Mannix Ranch is in it's 4th year of bringing people to place, and Alex and Cole explore this event and the power of Commerce, Conse...

Chef Shack Butters of Doane University and Bread and Butter Catering knows a thing or two about change and the power of food. He grew up on the northeastern coast of South America in Guyana, as well as the island of Bimini in the Bahamas before landing in the US to play basketball. Medical school?: No way -- "Food is a love language!"

Can food change your life and improve the land that grows it? If you're ready to be inspired by stories of food transformations, join Alex McKiernan and Chloe Diegel of Robinette Farms for the first episode of Food Transforms. This week Chloe and Alex talk about the history of their land, why they farm, if one can live on "Soylent," and the positive change that food has made in their lives. Join e...