Farm to Future

Hi friends! Enjoy this revisit of my interview with farmer Joel Salatin from 2022 while I recover my health. Looking forward to sharing tons of exciting new content very soon! Much love, Jane. Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vigno...

Hey friends, happy new year! Hope you had a wonderful holiday and ate lots of good food. I certainly feasted and got to enjoy my dad’s cooking for about two weeks straight, so no complaints.  And if you’re like me and overdid it a bit with the desserts or heavy meals or just feel like you need a reset, especially if you’ve been traveling, I’m here with Chef Dr. Mike today to share some tips on how...

Olive Oil Sommelier, educator, and author of eight cookbooks, Emily Lycopolus is the Olive Oil Critic . With a degree in Life Science from Queen’s University and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, her love of science and discovery has blended with her deep love of food and flavour — her kitchen is a lab for discovery and learning. Since being introduced to olive oil at an olive grove owned by her hus...

Julia Putzeys is the founder and general manager of the Trash Panda App. As a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Julia combined her career in software product management with her passion for health and wellness. The concept for Trash Panda was ignited when she realized how many harmful additives are in our food today, and the impact they have on chronic disease. As a mom of two who lives...

Learn about the whole food approach to preparing your body for motherhood (and fatherhood). Chef Dr. Mike answers your questions about when to take prenatal vitamins, foods to support fertility, and the crucial window where what you eat will affect your child’s health for years to come.  Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both...

Wendy Kathryn is an environmental toxins lawyer turned clean living coach, who educates women about how toxins are impacting our health and our kids’ health, how to spot them, and how to avoid them. Wendy’s  career has spanned making coffee as a Starbucks barista to reviewing and analyzing environmental toxins regulations in Europe.   Her toxins experience dates back to over a decade ago, when she...

Christine Couvelier is a leader who is passionate about food. With over 40 years experience as a Senior leader, Executive Chef, Culinary Executive & Global Culinary Trendologist, Christine is a global Voice of sustainability, food waste and circular economy. Her exceptional ability to be external focused, study competitive & category analysis, identify & learn from gold standards, pred...

Henry Arrowood, Founder and CEO of Farmshare, is revolutionizing American agriculture. After moving to a 7th-generation cattle ranch in Montana and recognizing the barriers farmers and ranchers face, he launched Farmshare. Now based in Colorado, Henry is focused on digitizing the $11 billion direct-to-market farm sales industry, empowering farmers and ranchers with modern, easy to use and convenie...

Join me as I walk through my comprehensive DNA test! I took the Circle DNA’s Premium DNA test, which includes over 500 results across diet, nutrition, fitness, cancer and disease risk, ancestry, and drug response. I walk through highlights from my report, some of the science behind the results, and who I think should get this test done.  Use code JANEZHANG for 40% off the Premium DNA test from Cir...

Meet Jean-Marie Merkle: an extroverted maximalist with a knack for branding, project management, and regenerative agriculture. With a decade in the design world under her belt, she is all about sharp design, savvy strategy, and forging connections. Starting from urban roots in Pennsylvania, she left home at 18 to study Fashion Marketing in Philadelphia. A detour led her to New York, where she work...

Mark McAfee founded the Raw Milk Institute (RAWMI) in 2011 to assure that farmers had a resource to assist them in producing very low risk raw milk for their consumers. Mark is passionate about “grass to glass” risk reduction management on the farm, and he believes that raw milk cannot emerge as a trusted food unless it is very low risk. He is certified in HACCP management from Chapman University...

Olive Oil Sommelier, educator, and author of eight cookbooks, Emily Lycopolus is the Olive Oil Critic . With a degree in Life Science from Queen’s University and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, her love of science and discovery has blended with her deep love of food and flavour — her kitchen is a lab for discovery and learning. Since being introduced to olive oil at an olive grove owned by her hus...

Max Kane is an American entrepreneur, local food activist, author, engaging speaker, natural health advocate, and a leading expert in non-toxic, raw dairy production. Max is the CEO of three privately held companies and the author of several books on food and health. Max has over $50M in marketing experience driving revenue to small farms, and has apprenticed under hundreds of farmers around the U...

Carl Jr. Kodakin-Yakeleya is Shutagot'ine (Mountain People) from the communities of Tulita and Deline First Nations located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. He grew up living in many towns across the Northwest Territories and spent extended periods of time in the bush with his father and siblings. Now, as a father to 3 children of his own, Carl want to pass on the tea...

Chef Dr. Mike gives us an intro to Nutrigenomics, the study of how food affects your genes and how your genes affect the way your body responds to food. This is a different way of looking at food than nutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc.) but how different foods have bioactives, chemical compounds that interact with our genes and cause certain genes to turn on or off.  Michael S. Fens...

Happy AAPI month! (Yes, it's technically still May.) To celebrate Asian eco-foodies everywhere, here are six of my favorite clips from the Asian American/Canadian voices we've had on the show.  Buckle up for some fun stories and colorful perspectives on food and sustainability, that you don't typically hear in the farm to table world. Check out the full episodes: John Yau, art curat...

Story time! Hear about how I healed my gut through years of trial and error, and how I pieced together my gut health triggers and needs over the years, from fainting and migraines in high school to experimenting with vegan diets in college, to cutting gluten in adulthood. Plus, I share my favorite gluten-free foods that have changed my life. TW: I talk about eating disorders. Disclaimer: I'm...

Amy van Saun is a Senior Attorney in the Center for Food Safety's Portland, Oregon office. After clerking for CFS in law school, Amy joined CFS as an attorney in 2015. As part of CFS's legal team, Amy practices environmental and administrative law to defend farmers, communities, and the environment from industrial animal factories, aquaculture, genetically engineered crops and animals, a...

Kelly Ryerson, MBA, IHC, is a health advocate and environmental health writer, better known as Glyphosate Girl on social media and for her blog, Glyphosate Facts.  In coping with and curing her own illness through diet change and vitamin replenishment, Kelly spent years studying intestinal permeability, the microbiome, and toxins. She writes on behalf of all those who are chronically sick, fatigue...

Erica Campbell is the Policy Director at Kiss the Ground, where she helps guide Regenerate America, a coalition-based campaign advocating for increased support for regenerative agriculture and soil health in the US Farm Bill. Erica has been working to transform food and agriculture systems for 25 years; most recently, she was Senator Sanders' policy advisor and farmer liaison. She's work...

Chef Dr. Mike shares how he as a physician evolved his guidance on fat — from low-fat diets to promoting saturated fats as part of a healthy lifestyle. He shares practical tips and answer all of your listeners questions, including: What oils are safe to use at high temperatures? What's the latest science on cholesterol? How much fat is too much?  Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef D...

Join Jane Z. for a kitchen chat! Today we're discussing the spicy IG comments about medicinal plants and beef, survival tactics for soaring egg prices, and my favorite high-protein snacks for all my fitness fiends out there. Enjoy! Studies on Plants and Meat Comprehensive Toxic Plants–Phytotoxins Database and Its Application in Assessing Aquatic Micropollution Potential: https://pubs.acs.org/...

How to build your immunity while traveling, how pine trees and music can help your immune system, why we should all be living in log cabins, and the easiest recipe for bone broth you can make at home.    Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist, and Profes...

EDIT: The Inflation Reduction Act’s allocation for regenerative agriculture is $20 billion, not $20 million as mentioned in the episode.  Julia Ranney is the Creative Communications and Policy Associate for the Center for Food Safety. After over a decade of independent, academic, and professional research, Julia has built varying levels of subject expertise on food systems as they relate to geneti...

Samuel spent 15 years making a living in Shakespeare, puppetry, and the circus. He fell in love with an acrobat and made her nutrient-dense pancakes out of popcorn to get her attention. She married him (for her own reasons) and talked him into selling the pancakes as a side hustle. In 2015, Samuel founded Long Table to sell those mixes. When all the theaters closed in 2020 Samuel went full time on...