Food Chain Radio Show #1075 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Vaccines and Roundup-Ready Glyphosate Guest: Research Scientist Anthony Samsel They promised GMOs would enable farmers to use fewer pesticides, but that did not prove to be true. In fact, it proved to be The Big

Food Chain Radio Show #1074 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Urban Farming Food, Jobs and Hope in the City Guest: Open Microphone It was a perfect storm of bad food news about our young! First was a BBC video entitled, “The Lost Streets of Chicago.”

Food Chain Radio Show #1073 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Urban Teenagers In Hunger Guest: Elaine Waxman, Senior Fellow Urban Institute It was a perfect storm of bad food news about our young! First was a BBC video entitled, “The Lost Streets of Chicago.”

Food Chain Radio Show #1072 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pesticide Drift and Superweeds Guest: Steve Smith, Spokesman Save our Crops They promised genetically engineered crops would make it possible for America’s farmers to use fewer pesticides like the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup). But according to

Food Chain Radio Show #1071 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Big Business of Bison Guest: Dave Carter, Executive Director U.S. Bison Association How does one do business with bison? America’s national mammal, the bison, is big business.   Really, there is very little about it that can

Food Chain Radio Show #1070 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Hygiene Hypothesis of Disease Resistance Guest: Anne Sperling, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chicago Why do so many Hutterite children have asthma, while so many Amish children remain unafflicted? Risk in Amish

Food Chain Radio Show #1069 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Commercial Organic Farming with Compost Guest: Stan Mitchell Pacific Coast Ag Once, while visiting the Shipibo Indians along the headwaters of the Amazon, I watched as a leaf fell to the rainforest floor and

Food Chain Radio Show #1068 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food and Farm Regulations Guest: Dick Peixote Lakeside Organic Gardens If rain falls on your property, and runs down the gutter into a drain, and then into a creek, and then into a river, your property would

Food Chain Radio Show #1067 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food As Medicine Guest: Catherine Frompovich Author, Eat to Beat Disease Over 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates said, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” Does Hippocrates admonition ring true today? After all,

Food Chain Radio Show #1066 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Dowsers Guest: Ron Thompson, Thompson Well Location Food grows where water flows. In California’s Napa and Sonoma Counties food is the wine grape, and water is that which flows hundreds of feet below the surface. How