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Dispatches from the frontlines of food, farming, and the environment. From the Food & Environment Reporting Network, the producers of Hot Farm, REAP/SOW brings you narrative and investigative reporting that examines the consequences of what we choose to eat and why. Currently featuring BUZZKILL, a six-part series on the pollinator crisis
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S4E14 The Food Babe dishes on MAHA’s next moves
Helena and Theodore are joined by Vani Hari, “the Food Babe,” a New York Times Best Selling Author, wellness entrepreneur, and social media influencer. This is a wide-ranging conversation, on…
S4E13 Forked welcomes in the new year with bold (and unsubstantiated) predictions!
It’s 2026 and Forked has returned from a short holiday break. Helena and Theodore are excited – and maybe a little nervous – to see what happens in the second year of life in the MAHA moment. Along…
S4E29 The future of Louisiana oysters is farmed
The Gulf Coast is one of the last places in the world where there is still a major wild oyster harvest. Lately, though, that harvest is in trouble. In this episode, the second in a two-part series on…
S4E28 What’s the problem with offshore aquaculture?
Americans now eat more farmed seafood than they do from the wild ocean. That’s turned farming fish into big business, one that consumers have benefited from. But the U.S. imports most of that seafood…
S4E12 Forked goes on the road with the What You’re Eating podcast
In this episode, Helena and Theodore take the show on the road, talking many things MAHA and more with Jerusha Klemperer, host of the What You’re Eating podcast, from FoodPrint, a nonprofit dedicated…
S4E11 Live in DC – A Forked special event on MAHA momentum
This episode explores whether MAHA momentum in the states translates into actual policy change nationwide. Helena and Theodore host the first episode of Forked recorded in front of a live audience in…
S4E27 Food, power, and hope in the American West
In this postscript to FERN’s special issue of High Country News, Food and Power in the West, Mary-Charlotte Domandi, host of Radio Café’s Down to Earth podcast, goes deep with writers Rick Bass and…
S4E10 The federal government shutdown and the SNAP default
In this episode, Helena and Theodore look at the federal government shutdown and what it means for SNAP. Also, the Truth Social post from President Trump to America’s ranchers, calling on them to…
S4E26 Update: Immigrant meatpacking workers are still under threat
In February, FERN senior editor Ted Genoways investigated how JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had come to rely heavily on Haitian migrants and other refugees at its plant in Greeley,…
S4E9 How many people did they actually fire at the CDC?
Theodore and Helena discuss a kind of chaos that is almost becoming normal: painful layoffs and firings at a federal agency, which are then mostly undone not long after. This time it was the CDC,…
S4E25 How refugees remade a Colorado meatpacking town
In 2006, a recently created ICE cracked down on undocumented labor in meatpacking plants. Large meat companies were desperate for workers, and so they turned to a new source of vulnerable labor –…
S4E8 Special episode: A collaboration with the Unconfined podcast
Veteran food policy journalist Tom Philpott, one of the hosts of the Unconfined podcast from the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University, joins Helena and Theodore in a unique…
S4E23 FERN’S special issue on food and power, with High Country News
In this episode, FERN Editor-in-Chief Theodore Ross talks food and power in the West. There’s Ted Genoways on a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado; Jeremy Miller on how large pecan growers are…
S4E7 How the MAHA Commission’s strategy doc was a win for Big Ag
The MAHA Commission has made big promises about what it would do to fix the nation’s food system and health. Its new strategy document includes 128 proposals for change – but little evidence that…
S4E6 The U.S. has lost 1.2 million immigrants since January. What happens now?
The impact of the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown is starting to show up in new preliminary census data, and that poses major problems for all parts of U.S. society, but particularly in…
S4E5 What happens if RFK Jr.’s radical reinvention of the food system…isn’t so radical?
In this episode, Helena and Theodore talk about the MAHA commission’s leaked strategy report. Turns out that there’s more talk than action. Also: a former FDA chief challenges RFK Jr. to put up or…
S4E4 What makes MAHA so popular?
In this episode, Theodore and Helena discuss why the (non-vaxx) ideas of the MAHA movement are popular, but the movement itself is less so.. That split presents a major problem for Democrats, who…
S4E22 Small town's residents find common ground at the Grange
In this episode, FERN contributor Lisa Morehouse reports on the Anderson Valley Grange Hall in California’s Mendocino County. She finds an organization, and a community, trying to adapt to a changing…
S1E3 Did Coca-Cola really say it was going to switch to sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup?
The major companies that produce and sell ultraprocessed foods are making big changes, or at least they are promising to. The Trump administration has celebrated “wins” over companies as varied as…
S1E2 How bad are the SNAP cuts in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Act?
Helena and Theodore explain why Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski flipped to cast the deciding vote on Trump’s Big Beautiful Act: an exemption that rewards her state’s highest-in-the-nation SNAP error…
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REAP/SOW has published 58 episodes since March 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
REAP/SOW is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.
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