Across the US and Canada, there is an exciting emergence of a unique type of food festival – a festival for garlic! Why is this occurring and what can we learn about the role of garlic for small-scale farmers?
Podcasts from 2014
It turns out, in Canada, 80% of all the honey produced in the country is from the nectar of canola – yet, nowhere on the grocery store shelves do we ever see honey labelled as “canola honey”.
Deconstructing Dinner’s Jon Steinman sits down with Mark Kastel – the co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute – a populist farm policy research group based in Wisconsin. Mark and Jon discuss the changing face of organic food. Using eggs as an example – Mark explains how eaters can exercise a more discriminating awareness when purchasing ‘organic’…
It’s not uncommon for most of us eaters to view the system supplying us with food as being separate from us, but on this podcast, one of Canada’s most recognized food policy analysts offers his perspectives which suggest otherwise. Instead, the food system has in many ways been designed to satisfy the demands that we…
On this all-new podcast, Deconstructing Dinner’s Jon Steinman examines some of the key differences between conventional and organically produced wheat. (Runtime: 28 min) Features: Stephen Jones, Director, Washington State University Research Station (Mount Vernon, WA) Kevin Christenson, Owner, Fairhaven Organic Flour Mill (Burlington, WA) Sam Lucy, Farmer, Bluebird Grain Farms (Winthrop, WA) Roy Lawrence, Farmer,…