Food Chain Radio Show #1025 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Sex In the Flower Bed Guests: Professor Emeritus Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz Co-Authors – Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants  Birds do it. Bees do it. Even the flowers

Food Chain Radio Show #1024 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Whole Foods Labeling System Guests: Organic Farming Pioneers Mark Lipson & Steve Sprinkel; and Whole Foods Mobile Produce Coordinator, Matt Rogers  Consider the simple dynamics of buying food: If we were to ask a grocer for

Food Chain Radio Show #1023 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Psychotropic Medications for Children Guests: Columbia University Research Psychiatrist Dr. Mark Olfson How should a culture that feeds its children psychotropic medications be judged? We buy a lot of psychotropic drugs to correct our thinking.

Food Chain Radio Show #1022 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Neanderthal Vs Homo Sapien Guests: Professor Pat Shipman Author, The Invaders How did we beat the Neanderthal to the food? 50,000 years ago, we Homo Sapiens invaded the Eurasian homeland of the Neanderthal, thus precipitating

       Food Chain Radio Show #1021 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Owners Vrs Renters Farmland Speculation Guests: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute and Dean Kuipers, Orion Magazine Can farmers who rent sustain farmland for the future? Try this: Walk, ride or drive through any residential street in the

       Food Chain Radio Show #1020 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Safe & Accurate Food Labeling Act or… Deny Americans the Right to Know Act (DARK Act) Guests: Open Microphone  To know, or not to know, is the question! On one side stand the 90%

Food Chain Radio Show #1019 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farm’s Labor’s Lost – Farm Labor Where have all the farm workers gone? Guest: Bob Martin, GM Rio Farms and Butch Lindley, Partner J&L Farms While participating in the recent Silicon Valley AgTech Summit, I decided

Food Chain Radio Show #1018 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food Safety Modernization Act For whom will government make food safe? Guest: Pete Kennedy, Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund In response to large-scale contaminations of spinach, peanut butter and other foods that sickened and

Food Chain Radio Show #1017 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Teach Your Children Well – 4-H Should children be allowed to work on the farms of family and friends? Guest: Kiera Butler – Author,  Raise: What 4-H Teaches 7 Million Kids Friend John, who manages

Food Chain Radio Show #1016 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist National Organic Standards Board and the Organic Tug-of-War  Is the organic industry holding to its original intent, or is it being sold to outside interests? Guest: Mark Kastel, Cornucopia Institute A quarter century ago,