Food Chain Radio Show #1156 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Bees and Pollinators in the Mine! Guest: Thor Hanson, Author, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees About that canary in the cage… There was a time when hard-rock miners carried caged canaries down into

Food Chain Radio Show #1155 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Great Food Consolidation! Guest: Claire Kelloway, Food Reporter & Policy Analyst, Open Markets Institute As host of the Food Chain Radio show, I came to observe that certain trends along the food chain seem

Food Chain Radio Show #1154 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Homeland Security – The Russians are Coming! And so are the Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans & maybe even Icelanders! Guest: Bob Norton, PhD, Director of Auburn University’s Open Source Intelligence Lab, Faculty Liaison at Auburn’s

Food Chain Radio Show #1153   Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist 10,000 Years of Milk Guest: Mark Kurlansky, Author Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas How did milk do our bodies good? We have been drinking, eating, and fighting over milk since the dawn of

Food Chain Radio Show #1152 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Cellular Wisdom and Hidden Spirits Guests: Sondra Barrett, PhD, Cellular Wisdom School / Dick Tippett, West Coast Dowsers Association The West Coast Dowsers are once again convening in my adopted home town of Santa Cruz,

Food Chain Radio Show #1151 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Competing With Pests Guests: Thomas Wittman Gophers Limited Can we control pests without harming ourselves? We build up our farms, gardens and homes to provide for our needs, but they have needs too, and so

Food Chain Radio Show #1150   Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist African-American Farmers Escaping the Trap of History Guests: Gail Myers PhD, Founder Farms to Grow / Will Scott, Scott Family Farms / Sophia Wilmore, Ag Student, UCSC We look into the future, and to our past,

Food Chain Radio Show #1149 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pain Management Through the Opioid Epidemic Guests: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Abidi / Palliative Care Specialist Dr. William Morris Today we look once again to our Opioid Crisis, a crisis that is like World War III in

Food Chain Radio Show #1148 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farmer Suicide A Most Ominous Trend Guest: Dr. Mike Rosmann  –Farmer, Harlan IO & Psychologist, Ag Behavior Health It’s extremely ominous when the people who provide us with the staff of life, are taking their

Food Chain Radio Show #1147 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farm Worker Guests: Lowell Hurst – Retired High School Ag Instructor, Mayor of Watsonville, CA; Guadalupe Sandoval –Executive Director California Ag Labor Contractor Association; Sophia Wilmore – Environmental Studies Major University of California I had a conversion