Flipping the Table

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.

Hubris born of human ingenuity has unleashed myriad unintended consequences that now threaten life as we know it. Britt & Michael explore how her insightful work offers an antidote to the deadly hubris that ail our species.

Darryl and Melissa Burnett built a thriving restaurant business designed to maximize neighborly intimacy in an age of fast food, large dinning rooms and mass marketing

Balancing and sowing agreement among divergent forces, while still making change requires skill. Hear from a leader doing it.

Chef Hoffman shares his unique culinary journey, including how he catalyzed farm to table in the Big Apple.

Host Michael Reid Dimock and Producer Patrick Sexton look back on a great year of conversations about food, farming and the future. With snippets from memorable moments, we hear what they took away from six of the 27 guests featured in season 1.

Erin has immense faith in business and seeks to make ag the center of our economy and farmers the climate heroes of our time. We hope she can!

Like Greta Thunberg, Elise is doing her part to save the planet. She came to California to learn about the food movement. It's a great episode if you want to know more about Roots of Change's work.

The dynamic couple behind the iconic San Francisco restaurant Mission Chinese share the story of how they came to collaborate with the State of California on a program that will make it easy for restaurant patrons to support farms and ranches that capture carbon in their soil.

A tax on sugary beverages could make food justice for all much more achievable. But Big Soda's money in politics makes passing the tax very hard. We think Dr. Scorza's approach is the only path to victory.