The Fifty One Podcast
1) From Veggie Vouchers to Vertical Farming, Talking Solutions with Civil Eats
That's a wrap on season 1! In this episode we bring back Civil Eats' contributing editor Twilight Greenaway to talk about solutions big and small, the right way to talk about food access issues, and w...Show More
From Veggie Vouchers to Vertical Farming, Talking Solutions with Civil Eats
28:22 | Dec 5th, 2018
2) SNAP, the Farm Bill, and More with The New Food Economy's Claire Brown
Food policy and environment reporter Claire Brown's first job in food was helping SNAP recipients use their benefits at New York farmers markets, so we invited her on to talk about everything from SNA...Show More
3) A Detroit Food Pantry Giving People Choices, Stability, and Dignity
In this episode we head to Detroit with WDET reporter Taylor Wizner to check out the Broadmoor Food Connection, run by Reverend Roslyn Bouier. Its client-choice model gives people struggling with food...Show More
4) Community Coalition of South Los Angeles on the Intersection of Food Access, Transportation, Discrimination, Health, and Poverty
The Community Coalition of South Los Angeles, or Coco South LA, is known for looking at the complex web of factors behind community issues, and their approach to food is no different. In this episode ...Show More
5) Food Is Medicine
Last year California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill providing $6 million over three years to the Food Is Medicine pilot. The pilot will provide medically tailored meals for 1,000 Medi-Cal patients...Show More
6) The Intersection of Colonization and Food Sovereignty for the Navajo Nation
Indigenous people in the U.S. are up to 400% more likely to experience food insecurity, according to the USDA. That's by design. A key aspect to colonization has always been to erode food sovereignty,...Show More
The Intersection of Colonization and Food Sovereignty for the Navajo Nation
38:55 | Oct 17th, 2018
7) Rethinking "Poor People's Food" in Appalachia
Chef and farmer Mike Costello, from the 100 Days in Appalachia project, joins us to talk about re-imagining Appalachia's food history and how the stories we tell about the we eat impact access and hea...Show More
8) The Link Between the Opioid Crisis and Food Insecurity in Dayton, Ohio
West Dayton recently lost the last of its grocery stores. Its food pantries are serving several hundred families every week, many of them grandparents raising grandkids orphaned by the opioid epidemic...Show More
9) Tracing Red Lines and Food Insecurity in Birmingham, Alabama
When fifth-generation Birmingham, AL native Randi Pink started looking for her first home to buy, she realized there were no neighborhoods in her hometown that could offer both great food options and ...Show More
10) How Redlining Helped Create Food Insecurity
Redlining effectively segregated U.S. cities for decades, and precipitated divestment from low-income neighborhoods. Those same neighborhoods are the ones struggling with food insecurity today. Next w...Show More