Food Chain Radio Show #1095 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pest Resistance Guest: Andy Dyer, Ph.D Plant Ecologist, University of South Carolina Author, Chasing the Red Queen This from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get

Food Chain Radio Show #1094 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food as Weapons of Bioterrorism Guest: Hank Parker, Ph.D Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Georgetown University Author, Containment Will food be used again as a weapon of terror? Let’s start with what we know: We know there

Food Chain Radio Show #1093 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Journey to the Center of Life:  The Ribosome Guest: Harry F. Noller, Professor Emeritus of MCD Biology, University of California, Director of Center for Molecular Biology of RNA Can our knowledge of ribosomes help us find viable

Food Chain Radio Show #1092 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist California Water Guest: Danny Merkley, Director of Water Resources, California Farm Bureau & Bill Wattenburg, PhD, Engineer, Radio Host, Senior Research Scientist Research Foundation, California State University, Chico Will California have enough water to grow the nation’s food? In

Food Chain Radio Show #1091 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Substantial Equivalency of GMOs Guest: Alison Van Eenennaam, PhD, Geneticist, University of California, Davis & McKay Jenkins, Author Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet How can a GMO be substantially equivalent to

Food Chain Radio Show #1090 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Of Sanctuary Cities & Lifeboat Ethics Guest: Matt O’Brien, Director of Research Federation for American Immigration Reform With thanks to the late Ecologist Garrett Hardin… Our ship has sunk, but we have fortunately succeeded in clambering

Food Chain Radio Show #1089 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Mountain Lions in the Hood Guests: Justine Smith, Doctoral StudentUniversity of California, Santa Cruz We live next to a metropolitan greenbelt, which means we live in close proximity to wildlife, including mountain lions, which are

Food Chain Radio Show #1088 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist EcoFarm Conference Guests: Deborah Yashar, Thomas Wittman & Sam Earnshaw Ecological Farming Foundation Winter is the time to tell stories, make plans and sort seeds. And that is exactly what farmers do when attending one of the

Food Chain Radio Show #1087 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Drain the Swamp of Washington, DC? Guest: Libertarian Author James Bovard “The Anti-Czar Czar” A new president is moving on Washington, DC, with a promise to “drain the swamp!”   What is “the swamp” and how would

Food Chain Radio Show #1086 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist End of Biofuel Subsidies? Guest: Don Scott, Director of Sustainability National Biodiesel Board When oil hit sixty dollars a barrel, the federal government established a Renewable Fuel Standard to support plant-based alternative biofuel. The federal government