S5 - Ep#11 - Will Harris Regenerates An Entire Community Through White Oak Pastures
Release Date: 11/14/2023
S7 - Ep#6 - Investigative journalist and author Michael Grunwald’s new book ostensibly argues for industrial agriculture, but does it really?
Flipping the Table
Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have mine. We seek to end the polarized views that dominate the cultural discussion on the challenge and find common ground among the so-called regenerative, organic, and industrial approaches.
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S7 - Ep#5 - The Summer GenZ Team working for Roots of Change talks with new Co-host Coco Sanabria about their perspective on how food systems relate to their values
Flipping the Table
GenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table’s new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ Team to explore their values around food and agriculture, their reasons for wanting to work on food systems with Roots of Change and the college food experience.
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S7 - Ep#4 - The Spirit of Resilience: Farmer Stuart Woolf and His Vision for the Future
Flipping the Table
Stuart Woolf, among California’s largest farmers and Executive Chairman of Woolf Farming Company, has a vision for the heart of California’s Great Central Valley. And agave, the hearty cousin of the tasty asparagus plant, is central to that vision. We talk of Stuart’s interesting journey, his family’s regenerative practices and his fascination with and enthusiasm for agave’s resilience in a drying valley and its distilled spirits that could create a whole new industry in the Golden State.
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S7 - Ep#3 - Finding the Radical Center: How the California Roundtable on Agriculture & Environment fostered trust and unleashed creative solutions at the intersection of agriculture and ecosystems
Flipping the Table
Six participants from the 20-year dialogue between aggies and enviros, known as the California Roundtable on Ag & Environment describe what it did, how it did it and why is made their lives as leaders and the state better.
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S7 - Ep#2 - Helena Bottemiller Evich from Food Fix shares her views on Trump nominees RFK Jr. & Brooke Rollins and the striking possibility of realignment around food policy in Washington DC
Flipping the Table
After 15 years on the federal food and agriculture policy beat, perhaps no other American of her generation has a better perspective on what might or might not happen under the new Administration. RFK Jr and the MAHA movement are having an impact. What could it all mean?
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S7 - Ep#1 -Food Fight author, Dan Imhoff, flips the table on our host Michael Reid Dimock
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The author, musician, homestead farmer, and host of the Full Expression podcast Dan Imhoff flips the table on Michael Dimock to explore the origins of Michael’s interest in and career path within the good food movement.
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S6 - Ep#11 - Diana Donlon of SoilCentric on why regeneration and history indicate a brighter future
Flipping the Table
Diana Donlon has cultivated, mentored and inspired a growing community of regenerative agriculture activists through her leadership of SoilCentric. She reveals how she remains optimistic despite the challenges ahead.
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S6 - Ep#10 - Are Tariffs Good For American Agriculture?
Flipping the Table
Are tariffs good for American Agriculture? It is a very important question given the new administration's pledge to add tariffs to imported goods. Hear a large-scale, no-till, commodity soy bean farmer, describe his experience and knowledge about the impact of tariffs on the nation’s farmers. A special broadcast provided by Rodger Wasson from his show Farm to Table Talk.
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S6 - Ep#9 - What do Ducati motorcycles and organic dairy farming have in common? Shelina Moreda, a fearless campaigner to save family farms
Flipping the Table
Animal right activists placed the terribly written anti CAFO Measure J on the November 2024 Sonoma County ballot. It threatens the future of this small and mid-scale farming community and others like it across the nation. Professional Ducati motorcycle racer, organic dairy woman and Covergirl model Shelina Moreda is co leading a campaign to stop this misdirected measure while still keeping the dialogue open with her opponents.
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S6 - Ep#8 - Cole Mannix, Old Salt Co-op, on improving the land and the lives of those who raise good meat for Montanans
Flipping the Table
Cole Mannix’s family has ranched in the Black Foot Valley of Montana since 1882. Even with thousands of acres and hundreds of cattle, the return on investment is bleak. Learn how his family and four other ranches have come together to create the Old Salt Co-op and beef brand with two restaurants, online sales and an annual ranch event all in order to ensure these agrarian families thrive rather than just survive.
info_outlineAfter decades of economic decline around the Harris family’s farm, Will
experienced an epiphany that led to a journey to what we now call regenerative agriculture. His story is about a pioneer’s perseverance, love for animals, the land and a community. His example could transform rural America.