The Appropriate Omnivore with Aaron Zober

Aaron Zober welcomes Leah Segedie of the blog Mamavation to The Appropriate Omnivore podcast. Leah runs a successful blog reaching millions of American women annually about the hormone-disrupting chemicals their families are exposed to and how reduce that exposure. Recently, Leah has been focusing perflurochemicals or PFAs as they're commonly referred to. They’re also known as forever chemicals be...

Aaron Zober welcomes back Pam Schoenfeld of Women and Family Nutrition to The Appropriate Omnivore podcast. Pam talks about vitamin A, a vitamin which has been overlooked in terms of its importance. She gets into all of the health benefits of vitamin A, especially with vision and pregnancy. Pam says liver is the best source of vitamin A. As many people are afraid to try liver, Aaron and Pam share...

Aaron Zober brings on Tim Richards to The Appropriate Omnivore podcast. Tim recently rebranded The Philosopher’s Stoneground as Philosopher Foods. Philosopher Foods makes organic craft almond and coconut butters. Tim talks about everything almond farming. Conventional almond farming is one of the most unsustainable types of agriculture with its heavy use of water and pesticides. Tim explains thoug...

With Halloween soon approaching, Aaron Zober brings on Sweet Apricity founder Tonya Butts. Tonya had been following the paleo diet for several years. After creating a caramel which her friend on the autoimmune protocol (AIP) diet could eat, Sweet Apricity was born. Tonya has since expanded into other caramel product along with marshmallows using grass fed gelatin. Tonya talks about how she's been...

On this episode of The Appropriate Omnivore, Aaron Zober delves into how restaurants are becoming more sustainable. To discuss sourcing regenerative, organic, and natural ingredients for a restaurant, he welcomes Brad Kent to the program. Brad previously founded Blaze Pizza and Olio Wood Fired Pizzeria. His upcoming restaurant Bagel + Slice will also feature pizza, but will differ with serving bag...

On The Appropriate Omnivore, Aaron Zober stresses the importance of knowing your farmer. Now Aaron makes the case to know your baker so you know the ingredients they source and the processes they take in making the baked goods. To demonstrate how to know your baker, Aaron welcomes Lisa McCullough Roark. Lisa is the founder of the Topanga Grain Company, which she sell at Aaron’s local farmers marke...

Aaron Zober welcomes back Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) founder and executive Judith McGeary for her third visit to The Appropriate Omnivore. As FARFA supports common sense agricultural policies, Judith weighs in on California’s Proposition 12. Prop 12 goes into effect at the beginning of 2022. The initiative will prohibit farm owners and operators from knowingly causing any covered anim...

For this episode, Aaron Zober welcomes Sharon Brown of Bonafide Provisions onto the program. Aaron first met Sharon back in 2012 at the Wise Traditions Conference. At that time, Sharon was just launching her bone broth business. Bonafide Provisions' frozen real bone broth is now sold at supermarkets nationally. Sharon shares her experience of going from healing her son's health issues to becoming...

Aaron Zober welcomes registered dietician Laura Poe Mathes to his podcast. Laura explains how she sees benefited having learned both conventional nutrition and the functional nutrition with traditional foods which she practices now. A major principle of her current nutritional counseling is maintaining good gut health. She explains why she focuses a lot on the gut and how introducing foods you may...

Aaron Zober is joined by fourth generation farmers Blake & Stephanie Alexandre of Alexandre Family Farm to talk about all things dairy. Blake & Stephanie discuss the breakthrough in the dairy industry known as A2 milk, which many have found easier to digest. Like many real foods, this is going back to what food used to. Traditionally, only the A2 protein was found in dairy until mutation occurring...

Aaron Zober welcomes author Nicolette Hahn Niman to his program. Nicolette recently released the second edition of her groundbreaking book "Defending Beef", which blew the lid off against all the myths surrounding the environmental and health claims against beef. Nicolette explains the reason she's released a new version of her book with updated information. She then gets into the details debunkin...

Aaron Zober celebrates National Ice Cream Month on his podcast by bringing on Alec Jaffe, founder and CEO of Alec’s Ice Cream. Alec gets into how he made ice cream in the first place and what led to forming his business. Aaron and Alec both agree that grass fed ice cream still largely untapped market in the natural foods world. Alec makes his grass fed ice cream stand out from the other by targeti...

Aaron Zober is joined by clinical nutritionist Sara Keough of Eco Nutrition. Sara's practice focuses on having her clients be healthy by eating food which is both nutrient dense and environmentally sustainable. Aaron and Sara both see grass fed pasture raised meats as important for a person's health and for the health of the planet. Yet some are confused by their messages and ask both of them if t...

One of Aaron’s favorite foods has always been eggs. Like all foods, Aaron looks for the most sustainable. He brings on Ryan Miller, co-owner and president of Farmers Hen House, which is one of Aaron’s favorite pasture raised eggs. Farmers Hen House is sustainable in many ways from its eggs being organic and pasture raised to the solar power on the farms to even its compostable cartons. Another ama...

The Appropriate Omnivore podcast reaches its 100th episode. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Aaron Zober brings back to his most frequent guests, Hannah Crum of Kombucha Kamp and Monica Ford of Real Food Devotee. The three have a round table discussion on the past, present, and future of real food. All three of them now live in Los Angeles and have attended many events in person, but they all...

For National Dairy Month, Aaron Zober is joined by Nicola O’Connell of the excellent Irish dairy farm Truly Grass Fed. Truly Grass Fed is known for its cows grazing outside on the lush green grasses of Ireland. They produce two of Aaron's favorite dairy products, butter and cheese. Nicola explains how the company is a coop of small family dairy farms. She lets Aaron know what they look for in term...

One of the grow trends in sustainable meat are butcher shops. Eagle Yu of the upcoming Los Angeles butcher shop Meat and Essentials joins Aaron on the Appropriate Omnivore podcast. Eagle tells the listeners all about how he got into butchery in the first place and what people can expect at his shop. Eagle delves into where he'll be sourcing his meats from. Aaron and Eagle share in what they think...

The Appropriate Omnivore is all about sustainability in food, but reducing food waste is also a major part of sustainability. Aaron welcomes Dinesh of Incredible to the program. Incredible makes spoons, which instead of throwing away, you eat at the end. Dinesh discusses the growth of his company. Incredible’s original focus was on restaurants and now they’re targeting the consumer. Their spoons c...

For the first Appropriate Omnivore podcast of 2021, Aaron Zober is joined by Shannon Brescher Shea. Shannon is author of the book "Growing Sustainable Together". Shannon's book is all about having children learn more about sustainability. The second chapter of her book focuses specifically on teaching kids how to garden. Shannon talks both about how children in general can be more in touch with th...

The latest episode of the COVID-19 subseries of The Appropriate Omnivore focuses on baking. While sheltering at home, many have learned to bake during the pandemic. Even better, many are baking sourdough and using ancient grains. So Aaron Zober brings on Montana farmer Bob Quinn, who introduced the ancient wheat known as khorasan to the world and trademarked it as KAMUT. Bob gets into the problems...

The Appropriate Omnivore subseries on the COVID 19 pandemic continues, this time discussing food delivery. Food delivery has seen huge a growth during the pandemic. Aaron brings Monica Ford of the Los Angeles delivery service Real Food Devotee back to the program. Monica’s has been thriving in the delivery business long before everybody was talking about it. Monica gets into which menu items of he...

For the latest episode of The Appropriate Omnivore, Aaron welcomes on Big Picture Foods co-founder Sotiris Kitrilakis. Big Pictures produces on Aaron’s favorite things to eat — olives. These are olives different from what we typically see on the market. Most of the olives available in supermarkets aren’t fully fermented and have chemical products added into them. Sotiris tells the stories of how e...

The Appropriate Omnivore continues its coverage of access to real food during the COVID-19 pandemic, Aaron turns to the topic of meat shortages. One way meat shortages can be avoided is a bill proposed in Congress a while back called the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act. The PRIME Act allows farms access to custom slaughterhouses, which currently only people such as hun...

In the second Appropriate Omnivore podcast during the time of the pandemic, Aaron Zober brings on Mac Anderson, a co-founder of Cleveland Kitchen. Aaron is pleased to see a successful natural foods business from his hometown. Mac tells the story of how the business came to be as it was originally called Cleveland Kraut and how they made the transition to it becoming Cleveland Kitchen. Mac and the...

For the first Appropriate Omnivore podcast since we've all been quarantined at home, functional medicine physician Dr. Deborah Gordon from Ashland, OR makes a return to the program. Aaron asks her all of the questions in building immunity to the coronavirus during the time of this pandemic from nutrition to supplements to exercise to vaccines. Dr. Deborah talks about the importance of animal prote...