Flipping the Table

Food is Medicine is a growing movement that recognizes healthy food as a powerful tool for preventing, managing, and even reversing chronic disease. Food is Medicine goes beyond treating illness and includes addressing the underlying conditions that shape health—from nutrition insecurity and healthcare access to the strength of local and regional food systems. 

Dr. Marion Nestle's 2002 book, Food Politics was instrumental in awakening the nation to the disfunction in America's food policy and its food system. She reflects on her path to food policy and shares her thinking about what she sees is important today for those seeking change

A former farmworker himself, gifted artist Narsiso Martinez, paints farmworker portraits on flattened produce boxes, which now hang in museums, galleries and homes. Narsiso is lifting up men and women that most people never see or hear, but upon whom our very lives depend.

In February 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order defining glyphosate as critical to national security. This created a firestorm among the mostly mother-powered stream of the MAHA movement insisting HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr., eliminate risky or toxic chemicals from agriculture and food ingredients. Kelly Ryerson as a nationally recognized MAHA member, often seen lobbying Congres...

It is rare for business-oriented folks to commit their lives to policy work. But the cofounders of Land Core are doing just that. With business backgrounds they understood how federal farm policy needed to change in order to create healthy and resilient agriculture. They are creating tools and farm bill programs that offer a brighter future by weaving bipartisan support for good soil policy.

Flipping the Table Co-host Coco Sanabria engages Mary Purdy, Sara Keough and Stephan van Vliet to answer the question can meat heal both our bodies & the environment? They share the emerging nutrient density science & how regeneratively raised meat supports human health while restoring ecosystems

The relationship between sheep & humans stretches back 12,000 years. These docile and productive animals provide delicious meat & high-quality fiber. Robert Irwin, Dylan Boeken and Sallie Calhoun share why lamb matters, how thoughtful grazing sustains ecosystems & how their industry can reduce toxic waste and us of herbicides, while it reduces fire danger

Chef Sara Jenkins of New York City fame shares her journey to open & run her convivial restaurant Nina June in the small town of Rockport, Maine

Technology is a powerful ally in advancing regenerative agriculture. Learn from CEO, Tom Richards, about Harvest Path, a new tool designed to help producers track practices, impacts, & financial results in order to support relationships with shoppers & wholesale buyers who value regeneration

Today's ag financing system traps most farmers & ranchers in debt. Zach Ducheneaux, rancher & former Administrator of USDA's Farm Services Agency, has a better approach allowing farmers & ranchers more time to grow & prosper. Learn about it in his conversation with Mark Squire, owner of Tara Firma Farms & CFO of Good Earth Natural Foods

Kathy Webster of TomKat Ranch Education Foundation discusses the value and importance of direct ranch to consumer sales with Carrie Richards of Richards Regenerative and Jason Walker of StarWalker Organic Farms. Learn how you can erode the power of the American meat oligopoly when you shop.

If you are confused by all the labels on meat packaging, listen to Andy Naja-Riese, Carrie Balkcom & Elizabeth Whitlow unpack the meanings behind the array of labels. Learn how your choices online, in the store, or farmers markets impact the land, animals, rural families and economies

Chicken is the most consumed meat in America, yet 99.9% is raised in factories that are hard on the birds & rural communities. Hear from two ranchers freeing their birds from confinement to create better tasting, healthier & humanely raised poultry while progressing toward a regenerative system

Wade Crowfoot leads California's Natural Resources Agency, which has been implementing a groundbreaking set of policies designed to end the 60-year-old conflict among agricultural and environmental interests in order to achieve an impressive set of ecological and rural economic goals 

Author & wild-farm advocate Dan Imhoff explores the challenge of embracing coexistence with predators when raising livestock in conversation with Montana ranchers Becky Weed & Malou Anderson Ramirez

Kat Taylor, Co-founder and Board Chair of Beneficial State Bank and Emma Ractliffe, Chief Investment Officer, World Within, share their innovative approaches to investing in the revitalization of rural enterprises, those central to the regenerative revolution underway.

Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson and Matt Jorgensen are three innovative social entrepreneurs we met at the Old Salt Festival, who work at the intersection of art, culture and enterprise. They tell their stories of how they are uplifting the creativity of rural people and communities.

A shocking sea change in food and agriculture policy is underway in Washington DC. Policies that were improving human health through better nutrition, rural economies, small and mid-scale growers have been decimated. Trade and immigration policies are harming the largest farms. The future looks bleak to many. But Maine's veteran of the House Ag Committee, Chellie Pingree shares her honest thoughts...

Ali Ghiorse, Christine Caruso and Vetiveah Immanuel, leaders in the in the movement for food justice in Connecticut, share their perspectives on what is working and what is still needed to make healthy affordable food available to all in a state with an incredible wealth gap.

Episode 2 of 4 of Old Salt Festival conversations features Dr. Stephan van Vliet, among the planet's leaders studying the impact of regenerative agriculture on nutrient density in meat. At the festival he shared the latest findings that confirm good ecological stewardship of pastures leads to meat that provides many more phytonutrients than meat from feed lots and animal factories. Phytonutrients...

E1 of 4 features Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of the Range Revolution, the heirloom quality leather goods company, Sheldon Atwood, CEO of Western Ranchlands Corporation and Taylor Ophus, land steward at Mannix Ranch. They were three of the inspiring attendees of the 2025 Old Salt Festival in Montana, a June gathering of nearly 3000 ranchers, artisans, chefs, advocates and musicians dedicated to pro...

Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have mine. We seek to end the polarized views that dominate the cultural discussion on the challenge and find common ground among the so-called regenerative, organic, and industrial approaches.

GenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table's new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ Team to explore their values around food and agriculture, their reasons for wanting to work on food systems with Roots of Change and the college food experience.

Stuart Woolf, among California's largest farmers and Executive Chairman of Woolf Farming Company, has a vision for the heart of California's Great Central Valley. And agave, the hearty cousin of the tasty asparagus plant, is central to that vision. We talk of Stuart's interesting journey, his family's regenerative practices and his fascination with and enthusiasm for agave's resilience in a drying...

Six participants from the 20-year dialogue between aggies and enviros, known as the California Roundtable on Ag & Environment describe what it did, how it did it and why is made their lives as leaders and the state better.