Ranked #1
#2 Amanda Eicher on art and food, OPENrestraurant, and where we can re-imagine food systems
#2 Amanda Eicher on art and food, OPENrestraurant, and where we can re-imagine food systems
Amanda Eicher’s projects investigate the roles artists play in development processes; the ways groups engage in creative... Read more
30 Nov 2015
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50mins
Ranked #2
#5 Kati Greaney And Pete Rasmussen on farming, solidarity, and Cuba's agroecology movement
#5 Kati Greaney And Pete Rasmussen on farming, solidarity, and Cuba's agroecology movement
In this episode, Chelsea interviews husband and wife team Kati Greaney and Pete Rasmussen about their collaborations in ... Read more
20 Dec 2015
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52mins
Ranked #3
Severine von Tscharner Fleming on building a commons for the future of farming
Severine von Tscharner Fleming on building a commons for the future of farming
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a part-time farmer, activist, and organizer based in the Champlain Valley of New York.... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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55mins
Ranked #4
#29 Lexa Walsh on meals that bring people together across difference, creating temporary utopias
#29 Lexa Walsh on meals that bring people together across difference, creating temporary utopias
Lexa Walsh is a longtime artist and cultural worker based in the Bay Area. She has also lived, worked, exhibited and tou... Read more
5 Sep 2016
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52mins
Ranked #5
#11 Kyra Busch on agrobiodiversity, learning solidarity, and thinking on a 100-year time frame
#11 Kyra Busch on agrobiodiversity, learning solidarity, and thinking on a 100-year time frame
Kyra Busch has advocated for local food sovereignty for over a decade. Working with the Alternative Agriculture Network... Read more
31 Jan 2016
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53mins
Ranked #6
#12 Liz Carlisle on the Lentil Underground, and farmers as innovators and scientists
#12 Liz Carlisle on the Lentil Underground, and farmers as innovators and scientists
Liz Carlisle is the author of The Lentil Underground, a story of organic conversion and community organizing in the nort... Read more
2 Mar 2016
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49mins
Ranked #7
#21 Heidi Herrmann on the multiple livelihoods of a farmer, harvesting seaweed
#21 Heidi Herrmann on the multiple livelihoods of a farmer, harvesting seaweed
Heidi Herrmann started Strong Arm Farm in 2009, originally with a focus on vegetables, and now offering an ever-expandin... Read more
11 Jul 2016
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57mins
Ranked #8
#16 Niki Ford on plant-driven cooking and food at the nexus of creativity and poverty
#16 Niki Ford on plant-driven cooking and food at the nexus of creativity and poverty
Niki Ford is an artist, writer and chef. She worked at Chez Panisse for six years, then at the American Academy in Rome... Read more
3 Apr 2016
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #9
#9 Niki Nakazawa on cooking as exploration, and eating local in Mexico City
#9 Niki Nakazawa on cooking as exploration, and eating local in Mexico City
Since moving to Mexico City in 2007, Niki Nakazawa has navigated between the art, architecture, music and food worlds. A... Read more
18 Jan 2016
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40mins
Ranked #10
#25 Anna Lappé on connections between food systems and climate change, and the growing food movement
#25 Anna Lappé on connections between food systems and climate change, and the growing food movement
Anna Lappé is a bestselling author and widely respected educator, known for her work as an expert on food systems and as... Read more
9 Aug 2016
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47mins
Ranked #11
#50 Sana Javeri Kadri on decolonization as a series of questions
#50 Sana Javeri Kadri on decolonization as a series of questions
#50 Sana Javeri Kadri on decolonization as a series of questions by Chelsea Wills and Devon Sampson See acast.com/privac... Read more
7 Nov 2017
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53mins
Ranked #12
#17 Antonio Roman-Alcala on pushing institutions and transforming the food system at multiple scales
#17 Antonio Roman-Alcala on pushing institutions and transforming the food system at multiple scales
Antonio Roman-Alcalá is a food activist, gardener, teacher and scholar. In 2005, with a group of friends, he broke into... Read more
11 Apr 2016
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50mins
Ranked #13
#27 Michaela Leslie-Rule on bridging the generational gap in food knowledge
#27 Michaela Leslie-Rule on bridging the generational gap in food knowledge
Michaela Leslie-Rule is a digital media producer, storyteller and social scientist. As the owner of Fact Memory Testimon... Read more
22 Aug 2016
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56mins
Ranked #14
#22 Simran Sethi on the biodiversity behind the flavors we love, democratizing taste
#22 Simran Sethi on the biodiversity behind the flavors we love, democratizing taste
Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on food, sustainability and social change. Named the environmental “me... Read more
19 Jul 2016
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43mins
Ranked #15
#7 Joey Smith of Lets Go Farm on young people farming and a proposal for ending hunger
#7 Joey Smith of Lets Go Farm on young people farming and a proposal for ending hunger
Joey Smith runs Let’s Go Farm in Santa Rosa, California, on the land where he grew up. For the last five years, he has ... Read more
5 Jan 2016
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #16
#18 David Asher on raw milk and how diversity makes cheese and food systems resilient
#18 David Asher on raw milk and how diversity makes cheese and food systems resilient
David Asher is an organic farmer, farmstead cheese maker and cheese educator based on the gulf islands of British Columb... Read more
17 Apr 2016
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45mins
Ranked #17
#46 Kitazawa Seeds - Maya Shiroyama and Jim Ryugo on 100 years of selling Asian vegetable seeds
#46 Kitazawa Seeds - Maya Shiroyama and Jim Ryugo on 100 years of selling Asian vegetable seeds
Maya Shiroyama and Jim Ryugo run Kitazawa Seeds, a 100-year-old seed distributor based in California that specializes in... Read more
12 Sep 2017
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46mins
Ranked #18
Preview: Farnaz Fatemi on poetry, gardening, and the taste of somewhere you are from and not from
Preview: Farnaz Fatemi on poetry, gardening, and the taste of somewhere you are from and not from
A special preview of our conversation with poet, gardener, and writing teacher Farnaz Fatemi about tomatoes; the interpl... Read more
28 Nov 2015
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1min
Ranked #19
#20 Jonah Raskin on the oyster wars, and creativity in response to the California drought
#20 Jonah Raskin on the oyster wars, and creativity in response to the California drought
Jonah Raskin is a writer - a poet and journalist - with a love for food and the people who make it. Jonah is the author ... Read more
1 May 2016
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53mins
Ranked #20
#19 Emma Rosenbush on the changing labor politics in fine dining
#19 Emma Rosenbush on the changing labor politics in fine dining
Emma Rosenbush is the general manager at Cala in San Francisco, Chef Gabriela Cámara’s outpost of the renowned seafood r... Read more
26 Apr 2016
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46mins