Episodes 273
Avg. Duration 55m
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Since Jun 2021
Latest Episode Mar 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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Brisa Ranch: Small Farms As Distributors

Mar 03, 2026 1h 8m

#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 8m

#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 51m

#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 55m

#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 46m

#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…

Max Goldberg: Threats to Organic - Hydroponics & Regenerative Confusion

Feb 01, 2026 1h 9m

#261: Organic Insider founder Max Goldberg unpacks the most urgent threats facing organic integrity today: the explosive growth of hydroponic “organic,”  the quiet industry push to normalize…

Chuck Benbrook: Chemicals In Food DO Make People Sick

Jan 25, 2026 1h 45m

#260: Pesticide risk expert Chuck Benbrook returns for a clear examination of how chemical residues in food affect human health. This conversation responds directly to recent claims made on a popular…

Nancy Matsumoto: Women And Alternative Food Systems

Jan 21, 2026 1h 1m

#259: James Beard Award- winning author Nancy Matsumoto discusses her new book Reaping What She Sows : How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System. From grass-fed dairy farmers and Indigenous…

Eliot Coleman on the Market Gardener Podcast

Jan 18, 2026 1h 32m

#258: What happens when one of today’s most influential market gardeners sits down with one of the founders of modern organic farming? JM Fortier interviews Eliot Coleman - author, farmer, and…

Bob Scowcroft: A Carrot Caper Birthed The Organic Label

Jan 11, 2026 1h 55m

#257:  Before the USDA organic seal existed, the movement was held together by trust, community… and the courage to confront fraud when it appeared. Bob Scowcroft, former executive director of CCOF…

Will Brinton: Rethinking Carbon Sequestration - It's The Plant Canopy!

Jan 04, 2026 1h 5m

#256:  Drawing on decades of soil respiration research, scientist Will Brinton explains why the most important action surrounding carbon sequestration isn’t simply in the soil - it’s the plant canopy…

Deborah Koons Garcia: Future Of Food 20 Years Later

Dec 28, 2025 55m

#255: Filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia joins us, 20 years after the release of her influential documentary The Future of Food, to reflect on how the food system has changed - and how it hasn’t. Deborah…

Tom Philpott: Corporate Control And The Future Of Food

Dec 21, 2025 1h 8m

#254: Food systems journalist and author Tom Philpott joins Dave for a powerful discussion on the legacy of Joan Gussow, the myths driving industrial agriculture, and the political forces shaping…

Helen Atthowe: Living Pathways for Mulch, Fertility and Habitat

Dec 14, 2025 1h 9m

#253: Farmer, researcher, and author Helen Atthowe has spent 40 years building soil ecosystems that feed themselves while offering their own, living biologic controls In this conversation with Dave…

Leonard Diggs: Building Community-Based Farms for the Future

Dec 07, 2025 1h 6m

#252: Farmer, educator, and EcoFarm President Leonard Diggs joins Dave Chapman for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of organic agriculture, the legacy of EcoFarm, and the urgent need…

Michael Pollan: “Eat Food” Came From Joan Gussow

Nov 30, 2025 28m

#251: Michael Pollan joins Dave Chapman for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of food, health, and the organic movement. Pollan reflects on his friendship with Joan Gussow, her prophetic…

Karen Washington: Food Justice and the Power of Community

Nov 23, 2025 52m

#250: Farmer, activist, and Real Organic ally Karen Washington joins Dave Chapman to talk about her decades-long fight for food justice and her friendship with food systems pioneer Joan Gussow Karen…

Hugh Kent: Saving A Real Organic Farm Through Direct Marketing

Nov 16, 2025 32m

#249: Florida blueberry farmer Hugh Kent of King Grove Organic Farm shares the story of how corporate power and USDA negligence nearly drove his organic farm out of business - and how he saved it…

Eliot Coleman: The Self-Fed Farm

Nov 09, 2025 1h 8m

#248: Pioneer organic farmer Eliot Coleman returns to the Real Organic Podcast to share the ideas behind his newest book, The Self-Fed Farm and Garden: A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method. In…

"Eat Food": The Amazing Work Of Joan Gussow

Nov 02, 2025 58m

#247: This week, we celebrate the life and work of Joan Gussow, the visionary nutritionist whose thinking transformed how many understand the connection between soil, food, and health. You'll hear…

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