Food Chain Radio Show #1251 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Return to the Small Farm Guest: Chris Smaje, Author, A Small Farm Future  We have cooked up some very confusing times for our world. We have mixed up some nasty-smelling politics with a viral pandemic;

Food Chain Radio Show #1250 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Processed Food and 7-Eleven Begets Trader Joes Guest: Benjamin Lorr, Author, The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket Not too long ago, most all of us lived very close to

Food Chain Radio Show #1249 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Dicamba War: Farmer v Farmer Guest: Terry Fuller, Farmer & Chair of the Arkansas State Plant   Chemical weed-killers make it possible for farmers to kill weeds without having to use a hoe.  That

Food Chain Radio Show #1248 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Green Revolution   Guest: Anneliese Abbott, Agriculture Journalist, ACRES USA The Green Revolution was, in essence, the dissemination of America’s industrial agriculture to the world community.  Plant scientist Norman Borlaugh was the Green Revolution’s 

Food Chain Radio Show #1247 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pushing Unhealthy Food Guest: Emily Snyder, Senior Policy Associate Center for Science in the Public Interest The ways in which we eat to live have been changed in a very short period of time. A

Food Chain Radio Show #1246 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Problem of Cannabis Industry Guest: Morgan Fox, Media Relations Director, National Cannabis Industry Association Back in the 1930s, the intoxicating cannabis plant, which was then called “marijuana,” was valued at pennies per pound. When

Food Chain Radio Show #1245 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Agrihoods Guest: Anna De Simone, Author, Welcome to the Agrihood: Housing, Shopping, and Gardening for a Farm-To-Table Lifestyle Things are not looking too good in the big cities of America. And we don’t need

Food Chain Radio Show #1244 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Fast Food Weeds Guest: Professor Catherine Keske, Ag Economist at the University of California, Merced & Author, Fast Food is Comforting, But in Low-Income Areas it Crowds Out Fresher Options Most everyone who has

Food Chain Radio Show #1243 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Busting Farming Myths Guest: Judith Schwartz, Author, The Reindeer Chronicles,  Cows Save The Planet & Water in Plain Site How should we tend our earthly garden? When it gets right down to it, we’ve been most

Food Chain Radio Show #1242 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Two Sciences of Hydroxychloroquine Guests: Michael Daugherty, President, LabMD & Author, The Devil Inside the Beltway 2020 will go down in history as the year a new coronavirus leaked out of China to create a