Michael Mazourek's guest appearances

Michael Mazourek

The Modern Acre

Camille's Demi-Hour - NANTUCKET NPR

Masters of Regeneration Radio

Raising Kale

David Lebovitz

Ray Isle

Mary Celeste

Todd White

John Burns

Paul Hawken

Elise Bauer

Dustin Wilson

Eric Asimov

Rajat Parr

Ruth Reichl

Bianca Bosker

Alice Waters

Kevin Anderson

Michael Ruhlman

OwlTail

This week we hear from scientist Michael Mazourek, who’s designing new vegetables as a seed breeder with Row 7 Seed Company. He’s doing something radical with our food--he’s making it taste better! He is an actual kale raiser--as in, he breeds the seeds that grow vegetables! It all started with a challenge from chef Dan Barber to build a better butternut squash. The result is the delicious and widely available honeynut squash!

This week we hear from scientist Michael Mazourek, who’s designing new vegetables as a seed breeder with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Row7Seeds/?__cft__[0]=AZWKzSEgo-A8Ke3He-XQHUN60OUIUbM2-1U4-2OkhmkodmO314SecS9r6pgvmLSAzDEYYxq6Y7I0MyefvU3HKm5avDNqbMTOoAx6jMU9b8S6DIkua5vwt70Q8qdliKmuNuA0knu25dEjhhLyrZv3jqJQ&amp;__tn__=kK-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Row 7 Seed Company</a>. He’s doing something radical with our food--he’s making it taste better! He is an actual kale raiser--as in, he breeds the seeds that grow vegetables! It all started with a challenge from chef Dan Barber to build a better butternut squash. The result is the delicious and widely available honeynut squash!

Episode 10-Michael Mazourek: Making Purple Peas & Other Seeds

Michael Mazourek, Seed Baron - Founder, Row Seven Seed Company by Host: Camille Broderick - NANTUCKET NPR

Michael Mazourek, Seed Baron - Founder, Row Seven Seed Company

"Just 50 years ago, some 1,000 small and family-owned seed companies were producing and distributing seeds in the United States; by 2009, there were fewer than 100. Thanks to a series of mergers and acquisitions over the last few years, four multinational agrochemical firms — Corteva, ChemChina, Bayer and BASF — now control over 60 percent of global seed sales." Michael Mazourek is co-founder of Row 7 Seed Company and an Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He first met the likes of the butternut squash, the cucumber, the pea and the pepper tending to his family’s garden as a child; little did he know that the would later go on to specialize in these same crops. A deep interest in human health and getting to the root of how stuff works led him to the study of biochemistry, illuminating the links between plants and the important phytochemicals in our diet. Today he has the opportunity to strengthen these connections—and serve regional farmers—by breeding improved vegetables and training others in his craft.

"Just 50 years ago, some 1,000 small and family-owned seed companies were producing and distributing seeds in the United States; by 2009, there were fewer than 100. Thanks to a series of mergers and acquisitions over the last few years, four multinational agrochemical firms — Corteva, ChemChina, Bayer and BASF — now control over 60 percent of global seed sales." Michael Mazourek is co-founder of Row 7 Seed Company and an Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He first met the likes of the butternut squash, the cucumber, the pea and the pepper tending to his family’s garden as a child; little did he know that the would later go on to specialize in these same crops. A deep interest in human health and getting to the root of how stuff works led him to the study of biochemistry, illuminating the links between plants and the important phytochemicals in our diet. Today he has the opportunity to strengthen these connections—and serve regional farmers—by breeding improved vegetables and training others in his craft.

Michael Mazourek: Seed Breeders