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Food Memory Lane with Jere Gettle
From: Carole Murko
Series: Heirloom Meals Radio
Caption: Jere Gettle and family, Credit: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Join us as we go down Food Memory Lane with Jere Gettle, founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 26:09
Food Sleuth Radio, Jan Weber Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews award winning filmmaker Jan Weber. Based in Brooklyn, but born in Wisconsin, Weber travels b...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Designer Genes Without Labels: The Fight For GMO Transparency
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Charles Margulis
Have you ever tasted a strawberry whose DNA was altered to include fish genes? In the United States, genetically modified foods are not generally l...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
From Vine To Cork: Sustainable Wine-Making Practices
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Revkin
You are planning a nice dinner party and you want to buy a bottle of wine. How do you stay true to your environmental commitment when choosing a wi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jim Riddle Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jim Riddle, University of Minnesota Organic Outreach Coordinator. Riddle has worked for ove...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Food Sleuth Radio, Maria Rodale Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., and author of “The Organic Manifesto. Maria...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Genetically-Modified Corn Nearly Unavoidable in Bourbon Distilling
From: Louisville Public Media
Caption: In the grain room at the Four Roses Distillery, corn kernels wait for evaluation., Credit: Erica Peterson/WFPL News.
Nearly 90 percent of the corn grown in America is now genetically-modified. That corn ends up in many foods...and increasingly in spirits, like bou...

Bought by NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
Bees: The Threatened Link in Food Security (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Caption: Honey Bee on Winter Aconite, Credit: Tie Guy II/ flickr
Honey bees help pollinate 1 in every 3 bites that we eat. They are vital in our agricultural industry and essential for the survival of the almost ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Stephenie Caughlin Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Stephenie Caughlin, farmer and owner of Seabreeze Organic Farm in San Diego, CA. What makes...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
2/16/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., on the Detrimental Effects of the Herbicide, Atrazine
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., biologist, University of CA-Berkeley. Hayes is known for his groundbrea...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
2/2/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert on Food Waste and GMOs
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jeremy Seifert, documentary film maker. Learn about Seifert’s film about the tragedy of Am...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
1/19/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Chef John Turenne on Sustainable Food Systems
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews John Turenne, professional Chef and President of Sustainable Food Systems. Turenne was dir...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
1/12/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Ocean Steward and Commercial Fisherwoman Anne Mosness on Sustainable Seafood
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Anne Mosness -- an ocean and fisheries advocate, and family fisherwoman describes our fragile oceans and exposes the risks of both factory fish f...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lionfish
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The surging population of non-native lionfish off the atlantic coast has brought about new recipes, rivalries, and even rodeos.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Year of Idaho Food Wrap Up
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Producer Guy Hand looks back on the highlights of the 12 month long project called "2011: The Year of Idaho Food."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Aquaponic Gardening
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New Society Press jacket cover
Sylvia Bernstein, president and founder of The Aquaponic Source, provides a step-by-step guide to raising vegetables and fish together.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 17:15
Balancing Ducks, Diversity and Dollars: The future of local food
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Duck eggs at Morning Owl Farm, Credit: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand visits a small-scale farmer who gave up a tenured university professorship in the wake of September 11th to grow local, organic f...

Bought by KUOW, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Dec 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Chestnuts Return to America
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Chestnuts in chestnut burrs, Credit: Guy Hand
After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resi...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Quince: A Path to the Past
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Quince, Credit: Guy Hand
Modern science acknowledges the unique power of taste and aroma to teleport us back in time. It’s simply the way our brains are wired. For Boisean ...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KLCC, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Michael Pollan, Credit: Jan Mangan
Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It’s dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized....

  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Gardening for Health and Fun
From: Judy Fossum
Series: High Plains Home & Yard
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Sure it is obvious that gardens provide us with delicious fresh food and beautiful flowers, but they actually provide us with so much more. This e...

Bought by Monarch Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Amy Wincentsen of Little Bear Dairy, a raw milk dairy, with Butterscotch., Credit: Guy Hand
Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several ...

Bought by KLCC, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
Get Yer Goat: A new meat on American menus.
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Say the word “goat” and most Americans picture a horned cartoon with a taste for tin cans. But what we Americans don’t get about goat–and the rest...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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The Northwest has several crop quarantine zones to control the spread of diseases. In southern Idaho, a quarantine zone helps protect the states l...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WABE, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Nov 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4

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