Episodes 286
Avg. Duration 58m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (124)
Since Jun 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Farmers interview scientists, activists, politicians, and authors engaged in protecting USDA organic food against an active corporate takeover. Real Organic Project released its add-on food label in stores and markets in 2021,  and is focused on introducing eaters across the United States to our movement and its allies. In this podcast series, you'll meet the best organic and regenerative farmers around, as well as journalists, climate experts, policy makers and chefs (Dr. Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Leah Penniman, Bill Mckibben, Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and Eliot Coleman - to name a few!) who support our mission and have lent their voices and insights to explaining the importance of keeping corporate cheaters out of the real food movement. As bad players aim to redefine what food is for the sake of their own profits, we believe there is too much at stake for both human and planetary health today and into the future. Feed the soil, not the plant!!

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Pam Koch: Joan Gussow’s Nutritional Ecology Legacy

Jun 09, 2026 1h 13m

#280 Pam Koch reflects on what she learned from Joan Gussow, how Nutritional Ecology changed the way students think about food, and why Joan’s ideas feel even more urgent now. Moving from the history…

Zephyr Teachout: Organic's Deal With The Devil

Jun 02, 2026 1h 27m

Zephyr Teachout uses the question of organic integrity to explore a larger political problem: what happens when concentrated private power reshapes public rules while staying mostly within the law?…

Austin Frerick: Food Barons - Live At Churchtown

May 26, 2026 34m

278: Austin Frerick takes the stage at our annual Churchtown Dairy event to explain why today’s food economy looks less like a functioning market that benefits farmers and eaters, and more like a new…

Lindsey Lusher Shute: GrownBy + The Future Of Farmer-Owned Tech

May 19, 2026 1h 28m

#277: Lindsey Lusher Shute returns to connect the dots between young farmer organizing, land access, and the practical tools farms need to survive. She shares how Hearty Roots Community Farm helped…

Bonus: NHPR's Safe To Drink | Season 1, Episode 1

May 15, 2026 33m Bonus

This week we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at the Safe to Drink podcast, produced by the Pulitzer Prize-finalist team behind Bear Brook and The 13th Step at New Hampshire Public…

Mara Hoplamazian: PFAS + Safe Drinking Water

May 12, 2026 50m

#276: Mara Hoplamazian joins the Real Organic Podcast to talk about PFAS contamination, poisoned wells, citizen activism, and the long struggle to make drinking water safer in New Hampshire and…

Marion Nestle: Food Politics in the Age of MAHA

May 05, 2026 29m

#275: Marion Nestle takes the Churchtown stage to examine what the Make America Healthy Again movement is actually doing, and not doing, inside the American food system. She looks at food dyes, the…

Hugh Kent: The Science Of Life On An Organic Farm

May 04, 2026 1h 28m

#274: Hugh Kent returns to further the case that there is a growing divide in agriculture between industrial, chemical-intesnive practices and the organic approach of working with nature. He connects…

Suzanne Simard: When The Forest Breathes

Apr 21, 2026 1h 4m

#273: Suzanne Simard joins Linley to discuss her new book, When the Forest Breathes, and the science that has made her one of the most influential voices in forest ecology. Together they explore…

Dr. Ann López: California Farmworker Reality Tours

Apr 14, 2026 1h 9m

#272: Dr. Ann López discusses the California farmworker reality tours she's designed and the deeper story they reveal about modern agriculture. As founder and executive director of the Center for…

Jim Cochran: Growing Real Organic Strawberries in California

Apr 07, 2026 1h 28m

#271: Jim Cochran joins us to talk about a lifetime of growing organic strawberries in California and the movement that helped make that work possible. A pioneer of organic berry production, Cochran…

Omar Dieguez: My Hunger Strike Against Driscoll's Berries

Mar 31, 2026 1h 2m

#270: Omar Dieguez shares the story behind his 30 day hunger strike over Driscoll’s berries and the campaign to stop pesticides near schools in Watsonville, CA and the Pajaro Valley. From spray drift…

JM Fortier At Farmer Friday: Growing Vegetables For Profit

Mar 24, 2026 1h 11m

#269:  Recorded live at Real Organic Project’s Churchtown event, this Farmer Friday talk features JM Fortier in front of an audience of working farmers, sharing the systems and economics behind one…

Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun for Farmers

Mar 17, 2026 52m

#268: Bill McKibben discusses his new book, Here Comes the Sun, and the rapid rise of clean energy in a warming world. While much of the climate conversation focuses on damage and delay, McKibben…

StarWalker Organic Farm: Pasture Raised Organic Beef For All

Mar 10, 2026 1h 5m

#267: What does it take to bring truly pasture-raised organic beef to market when the processing system is stacked against small and mid-sized farms? Jason and Kristina Walker of StarWalker Organic…

Brisa Ranch: Small Farms As Distributors

Mar 03, 2026 1h 11m

#266: Three farmer-owners of Brisa Ranch lay out a practical answer to a big question: how can small farms survive in a marketplace built for consolidated buyers and consolidated distribution? Their…

Maria Rodale: Family Lore And Organic Farming Trials

Mar 01, 2026 1h 11m

#265: Maria Rodale comes from one of the most influential families in American organic history; here she shares how her grandfather J.I. Rodale connected human health to the way food is grown and…

Allan Savory: Using Livestock To Reverse Desertification In National Parks

Feb 22, 2026 1h 54m

#264: What if some of the worst biodiversity loss and land degradation is happening inside protected national parks, even where there is no farming, mining, or fossil fuel extraction? Allan Savory,…

Barbara Damrosch: A Life In The Garden

Feb 15, 2026 58m

#263: Barbara Damrosch's new book A Life In The Garden is a reminder that the best garden advice is practical: touch the soil, grow what you’ll eat, and keep learning season after season. Barbara…

Sally Fox: Organic Cotton Chemical Dyes

Feb 08, 2026 1h 49m

#262: Sally Fox explains why growing organic cotton can't be simplified to “skip pesticides.” She lays out the hard parts people rarely price in: weeds, labor, fertility, and what happens after the…

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