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,

Food Chain Radio Show #1015 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Uganda and American Farming Guests: Godfrey Kasozi, Center for Environment Technology and Rural Development, Uganda; and Rural Development, Uganda; Peggy Pollard, U.S. Uganda Sister Cities Godfrey Kasozi came to the University of California, Santa Cruz

Food Chain Radio Show #1013 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Terra Preta & Gold in the Garbage Guests: Wes Bolsen, Public Affairs & Business Development Director, Cool Planet and Ivy Young, Santa Cruz Compost The key to humanity’s survival may well come from the

Food Chain Radio Show #1011 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Silicon Valley – From Apricots to Apple Inc Guest: Robin Chapman, Author  California Apricots ~ The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley Looking way back to the farmers at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers,

Food Chain Radio Show #1010 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist The Story of Toystory the Bull How does agriculture get so many out of so few? Guest: Keith Helkes, CEO Genex Cooperative, Inc. In the joke, the old bull offered some very wise advise

Food Chain Radio Show #1009 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist A Question for Taste Can taste tell good food from bad? Guest: John McQuaid, Author Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God