Flipping the Table

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S7 - Ep#4 - The Spirit of Resilience: Farmer Stuart Woolf and His Vision for the Future Apr 21, 2025

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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.

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 Mar 19, 2025

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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.

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 Feb 18, 2025

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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?

S7 - Ep#1 -Food Fight author, Dan Imhoff, flips the table on our host Michael Reid Dimock Jan 22, 2025

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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.

S6 - Ep#11 - Diana Donlon of SoilCentric on why regeneration and history indicate a brighter future Dec 16, 2024

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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.

S6 - Ep#10 - Are Tariffs Good For American Agriculture? Nov 01, 2024

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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.

S6 - Ep#9 - What do Ducati motorcycles and organic dairy farming have in common? Shelina Moreda, a fearless campaigner to save family farms Oct 14, 2024

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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.

S6 - Ep#8 - Cole Mannix, Old Salt Co-op, on improving the land and the lives of those who raise good meat for Montanans Sep 14, 2024

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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.

S6 - Ep#7 - Lisa Hamilton, Author of The Hungry Season & Deeply Rooted, on the Strength and Power of Uncommon Agrarians Jul 13, 2024

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Today Michael talks with Lisa Hamilton, a great chronicler of uncommon agrarians, and the author of the new book, The Hungry Season. Agrarians are those who live from working in agriculture. With only 2.2 million agrarians are less than 1% of the US population. These few feed our nation and much of the world. An even smaller percentage of those few farm or ranch outside the mainstream, the conventional commodity system.

S6 - Ep#6 - Dairy in California: Opportunities and Challenges Today and Tomorrow Jun 19, 2024

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Nutritionist and leader of the Dairy Council of California, Amy DeLisio, and 6th generation organic dairy farmer from Humboldt County, Cody Nicholson Stratton, dialogue with Michael around the opportunities and challenges related to nutrition and the environment faced by California's gargantuan dairy industry.

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