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Flipping the Table: Honest Conversations About Food, Farming and the Future The production of food does more to damage the planet’s health than any other human activity. Global warming, degradation of species, soil, water, air and rural economies and epidemics of diet-related disease reveal the challenges. And yet there is real hope. Visionaries and revolutionaries are innovating to replace the harmful. They are creating or supporting agriculture and food enterprises that solve our many chal ...
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S3 - Ep#2 - Imhoff Archives with Temple Grandin, animal behaviorist.
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One of Dan’s most challenging and interesting interviews with the renown animal welfare advocate and gifted autistic. Dr. Grandin has transformed livestock handling.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S3 - Ep#1 - Season 3 Opener with Tom Philpott, author of “Perilous Harvest”
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Michael and Tom discuss California’s immense water problems and potential solutions. S3 E1 sets the stage for a great season of how CA is solving 21st century food system challenges.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#27 - Naima Penniman, inspiring poet, is our Season II finale!
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Naima shares her path, her poetry and vision for a food system and society that is healed, just and regenerative. An inspiring end to Season II!By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#26 - Imhoff Archives with pioneering organic farmer Eliot Coleman
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Dan Imhoff dialogues with Eliot Coleman, Maine’s Four Season Farm founder, author and organic farming pioneer. Eliot shares what plants want, what growers around the world can teach, and how small farms can make money.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#25 - Deborah Madison, the Queen of Greens shares her life.
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Author, educator, recovering Buddhist and model for a life well lived, Deborah shares her stores of a culinary and farm-centered cook’s life, all from her memoir An Onion In My Pocket.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#24 - Imhoff Archives with Wendell Berry
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Writer and activist Dan Imhoff speaks with farmer, poet and seminal writer Wendell Berry about the “oversimplification” of agriculture and all the resulting challenges.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#23 - 3 Amigas Seek to Break a Meaty Logjam
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Celebrity chef & farmer Duskie Estes, rancher Kathy Webster and farmer Sarah Silva launched the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR C) to support local livestock producers providing safe, healthy meat to a growing market.By Michael Reid Dimock
Writer, farmer, activist Dan Imhoff wets our appetite for six conversations he recorded with the pioneers of regenerative and organic agriculture in the early 2000s. The Imhoff Archives will run once per month over the next 6 months.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#21 - Christine Tran & the LA Food Policy Council
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The new leader of the nation’s largest and most impactful food policy council shares her lived experience and vision for LA’s food future.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#20 - Joe & Julie Morris talk grassfed beef
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The future of a healthy and regenerative meat source is visible by looking at Morris Grassfed. A 30-journey to build a network of mutually beneficial relationships that are good for people, animals and the planet!By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#19 - Filmmaker Sanjay Rawal, describes his new film Gather
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Native peoples are rebirthing their food traditions to heal the impacts of the modern American diet and political and economic oppression. Sanjay’s new film captures three inspiring stories of reclaimed food sovereignty.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#18 - Soil advocate Diana Donlon describes power of soil and her work
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The soil is a powerful tool for combatting climate change. Through her nonprofit, Soil Centric, Donlon builds support and pathways for everyone to join the campaign to build soil and capture carbon to create a healthier future.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#17 - School Food’s Future With Adam Kesselman
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#16 - Final installment with J. Miakoda Taylor, on crossing the divides of race and privilege.
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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In a special “Beyond Your Table” podcast, Erin Fitzgerald of US Farmers and Rancher Alliance provides a pandemic update.
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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 complexit…
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S2 - Ep#15 - Dr. Britt Wray on her new book “Generation Dread” re the impact of climate chaos and other crises on our psyches
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#14 - Miakoda, a BIPOC-healer of racial divides, shares their experience of this dramatic moment.
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#13 - Gleaning: Ancient local solution to a current national challenge
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Chef Duskie Estes and Melita Love of Farm to Pantry share benefits of gleaning to feed the hungry and end food wasteBy Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#12 - Jack Algiere and the Stone Barns Center
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A man on a mission to teach the art and advocate for a regenerative agricultureBy Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#11 - Thomas McQuillan, VP of Strategy, Culture & Sustainability at Baldor Specialty Foods.
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#10 - Jim Araby on the fate of frontline food chain workers in our time.
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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.By Micheal Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#9- Tough impacts, good news and lessons learned from the front line of four California farms in this pandemic.
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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.By Micheal Reid Dimock
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S2- Ep#8 - Allen Katz of NY Distilling Company, a man of great spirits
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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.By Micheal Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#7 - Alice Waters, A Special Episode
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An uplifting conversation re a healthier future for our kidsBy Micheal Reid Dimock
Michael’s brief download as second week of shelter in place order beginsBy Micheal Reid Dimock
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S2 - Ep#6 - Dave Henson of OAEC, on how the world will change, a timely conversation in the midst of a pandemic.
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Beyond Your Table: A new podcast co-hosted by Michael Reid Dimock & Rodger Wasson
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S2 - Ep#5 - Kathleen Finlay on our future farmers
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S2 - Ep#4 - A conversation with award-wining author and science journalist Dr. Britt Wray
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S2 - Ep#3 - Belle Harlem is 250 square feet of delicious community success
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S2 - Ep#2 - California’s Secretary of Food & Ag Karen Ross
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S2 - Ep#1 - Peter Hoffman, NYC’s most thoughtful activist chef
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Ep#50 - Season I Finale - With snippets from memorable moments, we hear what Michael and Patrick took away from six of the 27 guests featured in season 1.
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Ep#49 - Erin Fitzgerald of US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance 2.0 is thinking big re ag’s role in the climate crisis.
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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!By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#48 - Swedish millennial food activist, Elise Johanson, flips the table on Michael.
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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.By Micheal Reid Dimock
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Ep#47 - Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint (winner of 2019 Basque Culinary World Prize)
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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.By Micheal Reid Dimock
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Ep#46 - How to win the big one with Dr. D’Artagnan Scorza
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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.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#45 - Dueling podcasters: Rodger Wasson and Michael compare journeys and perspectives on agriculture.
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Native son of the Heartland Rodger Wasson, host of the Farm to Table Talk podcast, and Michael discuss their alternate paths, but common love of agriculture and food. Includes an interesting contrast in their views of a recent viral video from the traditional ag industry on its role in solving climate change.…
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Ep#44 - LA Food Policy Council Leader, Clare Fox, shares How They’ve Made Change Happen
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LA FPC is a leader in the nation. Its success comes from great leaders and community inclusion to set agendas and making community voices heard. It’s an inspiring story and model for any community seeking health and justice.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#43 A California lemon and avocado farmer, Chris Sayer, weighs in on this question: Is government the farmers’ enemy?
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Chris Sayer shares the pleasures and perils of farming in Ventura County, including climate resilience, cannabis production, the cost and benefit of CA’s regulationsBy Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#42 - Michael’s Final Thoughts Coming Out of Slow Food Nations in Denver
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Michael shares his history within Slow Food’s leadership and some of his peak experiences during those years. He ends with some assessments about Slow Food’s strengths and weaknesses and his hopes for the US organization.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#41 - Slow Food Nations Special: Navajo Nation’s Junk Food Tax Points The Way To Health Equity
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Denisa Livingston, Dine leader from New Mexico tribal lands, shares groundbreaking victory in taxing soda and junk food to help heal her people ravaged by Type II Diabetes. It’s a brief and uplifting conversation!By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#40 - Marissa La Brecque & Jennifer Breckner - Slow Food Nations Special
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Two veteran chapter leaders, Marissa La Brecque and Jennifer Breckner, share the highs and lows of movement leadership at the local level.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#39 - Mecca or Wreaka: Facing the Bay Area Restaurant Crisis
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Chefs Duskie Estes and Anthony Myint join a live audience of Millennials to talk about the challenges, opportunities and future of the Bay Area’s culinary scene.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#38 - Paolo Di Croce - On Slow Food's Future
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In its 30th year of existence, the Slow Food movement’s main man, shares his story and that of the movement he shepherds globally.By Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#37 - Special Report From Slow Food Nations - Part 2
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Ep#36 - Special Report From Slow Food Nations - Part 1
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Big take away from the Leaders’ SummitBy Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#35 - Kat Taylor - Play Big: A Powerful Woman With Multiple Missions
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Kat is out to transform critical sectors of society: agriculture, democracy, finance & philanthropy.By Michael Reid Dimock
Rice and wine: how California’s rice and winegrape growers are cultivating a beautiful ecological blendBy Michael Reid Dimock
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Ep#33 - Eligh (Living Legends, Grand Tapestry, Grouch And Eligh)
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Rap legend Eligh shares his food and art journey.By Michael Reid Dimock
