Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist OUR OCEAN GARBAGE PATCHES Is it possible to throw plastic away?   Guest:  Captain Charles Moore, Founder The Algalita Marine Research Institute Out there in the oceans of the world, where the life we will eat sometime in

“Together, we can eat our way to economic security and personal freedom, and it won’t cost a dime and it will be so easy it will make you blush!”  The 2X2 Pledge by Michael Olson [jwplayer mediaid=”7137″]        I am signing up and taking

Slaying Natural Food Labels Should any food be labeled “Natural”?   Guest:  Stephen Gardner, Director of Litigation Center for Science in the Public Interest   It is a food selling $40 billion a year, but there is really nothing to it but a suggestion that really doesn’t

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist COOKING, EATING AND LIVING WITH ABANDON Can we learn to cook, eat and live with abandon? Guest:  Karen Karbo, Author Julia Child’s Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life   At six foot three inches, she was taller than most men,

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist MAO TSE TUNG’S GREAT LEAP Why did Mao starve 45 million to death? Guest:  University of Hong Kong Professor Frank Dikotter – Author, Mao’s Great Famine   When all else had been eaten, there were only two things left to eat,

Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson Urban Farming Agriculturalist STALIN’S GREAT HOLODOMOR Why did Stalin’s government starve millions to death? Guest:  Professor Walter Zaryckyj Center for U.S. – Ukrainian Relations   In 1932 and 1933, approximately seven million Ukranians and Cossacks were starved to death in the breadbasket of the Soviet

Urban Farming Agriculture Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson #942•  November 2, 2013  •  Sat 9AM Pacific Guests: Jo Ann Baumgartner, Wild Farm Alliance Sarah Hackney, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Ken Kimes, New Natives Farm   THE NEW RULE What kind of farm will be allowed

Urban Farming Agriculture Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson #941•  October 26, 2013  •  Sat 9AM Pacific Guest: Joar Opheim, Nordic Naturals Company THE MISSING OMEGA-3 What is essential about Omega-3 fatty acids? Omega-3 fatty acids are essential to health.  These fats cannot be manufactured by

Urban Farming Agriculture Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson #940•  October 19, 2013  •  Sat 9AM Pacific Guest: Thomas Wittman, Gophers Limited PESTERING THE PESTS We build our farms, gardens, and homes to suit our needs, then they sneak in and steal everything they can.  And

Urban Farming & Agriculture Food Chain Radio Host Michael Olson #939•  October 12, 2013  •  Sat 9AM Pacific Guests:  Various Participants of the Eat Local First Festival THINK & EAT LOCAL, FIRST! “Charity begins at home” is an expression found, in one form or another,