Real Organic Podcast
1) Chuck Benbrook: Chemicals In Food DO Make People Sick
#260: Pesticide risk expert Chuck Benbrook returns for a clear examination of how chemical residues in food affect human health. This conversation responds directly to recent claims made on a popular ...Show More
2) Nancy Matsumoto: Women And Alternative Food Systems
#259: James Beard Award- winning author Nancy Matsumoto discusses her new book Reaping What She Sows : How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System. From grass-fed dairy farmers and Indigenous fish...Show More
3) Eliot Coleman on the Market Gardener Podcast
#258: What happens when one of today’s most influential market gardeners sits down with one of the founders of modern organic farming? JM Fortier interviews Eliot Coleman - author, farmer, and pioneer...Show More
4) Bob Scowcroft: A Carrot Caper Birthed The Organic Label
#257: Before the USDA organic seal existed, the movement was held together by trust, community… and the courage to confront fraud when it appeared. Bob Scowcroft, former executive director of CCOF an...Show More
5) Will Brinton: Rethinking Carbon Sequestration - It's The Plant Canopy!
#256: Drawing on decades of soil respiration research, scientist Will Brinton explains why the most important action surrounding carbon sequestration isn’t simply in the soil - it’s the plant canopy ...Show More
6) Deborah Koons Garcia: Future Of Food 20 Years Later
#255: Filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia joins us, 20 years after the release of her influential documentary The Future of Food, to reflect on how the food system has changed - and how it hasn’t. Deborah ...Show More
7) Tom Philpott: Corporate Control And The Future Of Food
#254: Food systems journalist and author Tom Philpott joins Dave for a powerful discussion on the legacy of Joan Gussow, the myths driving industrial agriculture, and the political forces shaping what...Show More
8) Helen Atthowe: Living Pathways for Mulch, Fertility and Habitat
#253: Farmer, researcher, and author Helen Atthowe has spent 40 years building soil ecosystems that feed themselves while offering their own, living biologic controls In this conversation with Dave Ch...Show More
9) Leonard Diggs: Building Community-Based Farms for the Future
#253: Farmer, educator, and EcoFarm President Leonard Diggs joins Dave Chapman for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of organic agriculture, the legacy of EcoFarm, and the urgent need to...Show More
10) Michael Pollan: “Eat Food” Came From Joan Gussow
#2xx: Michael Pollan joins Dave Chapman for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of food, health, and the organic movement. Pollan reflects on his friendship with Joan Gussow, her prophetic warnin...Show More