Food Radio Collective's Podcast

Children and food safety, seed saving, GMO labeling

What is seed saving and is it legal? The first segment this month will answer that question. The second segment is a discussion concerning the heated exchanges that took place in August and September 2014 between The New Yorker and Vandana Shiva.

News: Starbucks is against VT GMO Labeling Law. Interviews with Schilling Brew Company and Green Mountain Harvest Hydroponics

Interviews with Green Mountain Girls Farm CSA, Vermont Law School first year student whose family in Missouri owns a Thai restaurant, and with South Royalton School's lunch program coordinator.

In this episode, we review the global, national, and local (VERMONT) food and agricultural news. An interview with Theo Fetter of Seven Bees Farm located in North Tunbridge, VT introduces us to permaculture agricultural practices. Laurie Ristino fills us in on the USDA grant given the the Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. And, students debate the idea of food choice being a fundamental right!

Food Autonomy In what ways do you control your food, and in what ways does it control you?

Dairy

Giving Thanks- Thanksgiving.The federal government shut down effects on food and agriculture! We discuss this and other breaking news to open the show. Then, we get out in the field to speak with some people who make thanksgiving possible. Including, gleaning volunteers at Willing Hands, the Royalton Senior Center and local turkey farmers at Adams Family Farm. Then, we thank Abigail Carroll for looking back on the history of thanksgiving and giving us a cornucopia of questions to chew on this season.

Migrant Justice is the theme of this episode. Emily Lyons and Emily Laine bring you the headlines, then, Barry Estabrook discusses the recent successes of tomato pickers in Florida. We return to Vermont to hear from Katia Chavez, who tells us about migrant workers access to healthcare in Lamoille Valley.

In Episode 5, another installment of Farm Bill Watch with Emily Lyons. Jack Hornickel sits down with friend of the show, Professor Pamela Vesilind, to have a conversation about animals in agriculture and the new legal attempts to protect them. Robin Kundis Craig, Distinguished Summer Fellow at Vermont Law School, presents her research on aquaculture and its potential in achieving food security. Pasture Program Coordinator for the University of Vermont Extension, Jenn Colby, explains the key concepts of good grazing; and Jack Hornickel follows up with friend of the show David Ainsworth to see how this South Royalton farmer grazes his dairy herd.

This month on FTR: Emily Lyons updates us on the tumultuous state of the Farm Bill; Jack Hornickel provides two segments- the first is a look at the new generation of farmers- who they are, what they grow, and how they got onto their land. The second is a talk with Mark Lapping, professor at the University of Southern Maine and leader of the Maine Food Strategy Initiative, an effort to rethink Maine's food system; finally, Erik Andrus, founder of the Vermont Sail Freight Project, explains how with the launch of his newly-built barge, he hopes to re-establish a carbon-neutral, maritime economy that connects the farms and forests of Vermont with the urban markets of the lower Hudson valley.

On this month's episode, Emily Lyons provides an update on the Farm Bill; Jack Hornickel brings us an expose on trail food and nutrition, after a recent excursion on the Appalachian Trail; members of the Food Radio Collective visit the recently-opened Mad River Food Hub to discuss self-processing for food entrepreneurs; Jack Hornickel interviews Cathy Bacon, owner and founder of Freedom Foods, a co-packing facility in Randolph, VT; and the Friends of Fermentation speak with Matt Cohen, head brewer of Fiddlehead Brewery in Shelburne, VT.

In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics. Geo Honeyford discusses farming impacts from Hurricane Irene. Bridget Croke tells us about the role of social media in activism. The headlines about recent food and agricultural law are revealed, then, Roger Albee former Secretary of Agriculture, in Vermont about the renaissance in agriculture. Finally, Pamela Vesilind, has a discussion about the current state of animal welfare in American agriculture.

In our first episode, we present a conversation with Vermont Law School's President and Dean, Mark Mihaly, on the evolution of agricultural law; an update on the Farm Bill; an interview with founders of the Worthy Burger, South Royalton's new burger and beer joint; a Point-Counterpoint discussion on the labeling of genetically engineered foods; and an interview with local farmer and former VT state representative, David Ainsworth.