Food, Montana

Our guest today is Tommy Bass. Tommy is an extension specialist in animal and range sciences at Montana State University. He works across local and regional food systems in a variety of advisory capacities ranging from the supply chain level all the way to farms, ranches and processors. He has a background in water quality and conservation work. In recent years, he's worked across the northern...

Our guest today is Elizabeth Swank. Elizabeth is a doctorate student in the Indigenous and Rural Health program at Montana State University and the development coordinator at Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based nonprofit. An enrolled member of the Apsáalooke Nation, she grew up in Garryowen. With a background in nursing and community health, and a masters in Sustainable Food Systems, Elizabeth is passi...

Our guest today is Kira Jarosz. Kira is the owner of Black Dog Farm along with her husband, Tim. They started the farm, which is northwest of Livingson, in 2017, the same year Kira graduated from vet school. The original goal was to raise food for their family that tasted really good and that they could feel good about eating. But later that same year, they began selling eggs to the public, and th...

Our guest today is Cole Mannix. Cole grew up near the small community of Helmville, on a ranch that his family has run 1882. Today, he lives about 60 miles east of Helmville with his spouse, Eileen Brennan, and their two sons, Finn and Charlie. For the past 15 years, Cole has worked as a sort of urban ranch hand, as he’s built Old Salt Co-op, a vertically integrated, regenerative meat marketplace...

Our guest today is Ali Moxley. Ali is a graduate of Montana State University’s Sustainable Food Systems Master’s Program. She has worked across the food system in lab settings, grocery stores, restaurants, and at a variety of vegetable farms across the Gallatin Valley. She is a co-founder of SporeAttic, a specialty cultivated mushroom farm here in Bozeman. Ali now works as a consultant helping far...

Today we’ve got a bonus episode for you, a recording of a panel I led this past fall for the nonprofit Farm to Crag at Story Mill Park in Bozeman.  The theme was “Food, Farming, Fairness and Finance: Building Equitable Food Systems.”  Our guests were two longtime organic farmers, Jacy Rothschiller and Bob Quinn, as well as Caleb Williams, who at the time was finishing a Masters focused on improvin...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 35 Our guest today is Wyatt Nelson, founder of Montana Local Food Distribution, a wholesale food distributor. Sourcing animal proteins from farms and ranches around the state including in Fort Benton, Belt, Corvallis, Hardin, and Big Timber, Nelson provides products to grocery stores, restaurants, and institutions. Previously, he was the meat and seafood manag...

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Welcome to Food, Montana, after our one week break. Population: 75 Our guest today is Esther Smith. Esther is a physical therapist in Bozeman and part time executive director of the nonprofit Farm to Crag . In 1999, at age 17, she and her sister and brother taught themselves how to farm organically, tend to an orchard, and raise and process animals including goats, sheep, pigs, turkeys and chicken...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 71 Our guest today, Jill Holder, has been working to improve food security in Southwest Montana for the past 13 years. She is the Food & Nutrition Director for the Human Resource Development Council, which operates the Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Big Sky Community Food Bank, Headwaters Area Food Bank, the Fork & Spoon pay-what-you-can restaurant, KidsPa...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 61 Our guest today, Nate Powell-Palm, earned organic certification in 2008 at age 16, making him the youngest farmer in the country to do so. Fast forward, and Nate has grown his organic wheat, pulses, flax and cattle operations from 10 leased acres in Belgrade to 1,400 leased and 70 owned acres between the Gallatin Valley and Wyoming. In 2020, US Secretary of...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 36 Our guest today is Megan Randall. Megan works with Farm to School of Park County as an educator and garden manager. She loves gardening with students of all ages and is passionate about connecting Park County schools and communities with healthy, local food. Prior to working with Farm to School, Megan spent seven years working on organic vegetable farms in...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 30 Our guest today is Mary Stein. Mary has over 25 years of experience working in sustainable food systems. She helped lead the National Farm to School Network, and helped launch and lead the Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems degree program at Montana State University, one of the first of its kind in the nation. Now a program manager with the Buffalo Nati...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Population: 6 Our guest today is India Maxwell. India recently opened a cottage bakery in Bozeman, baking bread with 100% ancient whole grains grown in Montana. She has worked at three farms in the Gallatin Valley, as well as Blackbird Kitchen for five years. Prior to moving to Montana, she worked at Slow Money, a nonprofit org in Boulder, Colorado, that provides low-inte...

Welcome to Food, Montana. Join hosts Emily Stifler Wolfe and Jeremy Nadison as we explore what it takes to create more resilient local and regional food systems in Montana.

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