Food Chain Radio Show #982 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist OUR BILLION DOLLAR TRASH CAN Should government force school children to eat healthy food?   Guests: Kyle Olson, Education Action Group; Chef Jamie Smith, Food Smith The Crisis:  Parents in the United States are

Food Chain Radio Show #978 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE 10,000 MILE DIET! Which food is the economically most efficient: Local or industrial?   Guest: University of Toronto Professor Pierre Desrochers, Author of The Locavore’s Dilemma For most of our existence, we ate food grown

Food Chain Radio Show #975 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist ROOFTOP FARMING IN THE SKY Can it be practical to farm the roofs of our big cities?   Guest: Maggie Cheney, Director of Farms and Education, Farm-in-the-Sky Project, EcoStation NY; and Steven Peck, Founder and President, Green Roofs

Food Chain Radio Show #973 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist HOPE IN HERITAGE APPLES Should we hold on to seeds of the past? Guest: Farmer & Organic Pioneer, Amigo Bob Cantisano  Given our recently won ability to re-engineer life, the future looks like an apple

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist GMO SCIENCE VRS GMO SCIENCE Whose GM science should we trust? Guest: UC Davis Animal Science Professor Allison Van Eenennaam and U Georgia Plant Science Professor Wayne Parrot  Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods that have been re-manufactured by

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Food Safety Modernization Act What kind of food do we want the future to serve for dinner? Guest: Kristin Carlson & Anna Ringelman, Senior Environmental Studies Students, University of California, Santa Cruz The great Yogi Berra once

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Arming the USDA Why are we arming the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with submachine guns and body armor? Guest: Ray Parga, Del Valle Gunsmithing The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a public Request

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist SPICES OF LIFE How have spices spiced up history? Guest: Gary Paul Nabhan, PHD Author, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans Like many, if not most, I came to take spices for granted.  Whenever my food needed a lift, I reached

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist THE FOOD IGNORANCE COVENANT Should we learn the stories of our food? Guest: Ann Vileisis, Author of Kitchen Literacy When we lived on or close to the land, we knew the stories about the foods we ate.  We

Food Chain Radio Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist Farming Nutrients – the Lost Food Can farming return the nutrients missing from food? Guest:  Daphne Miller, M.D., author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology Following in the footsteps of Weston A. Price, physician Daphne Miller went looking