

Food Sleuth Radio
Melinda Hemmelgarn
Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
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Sep 17, 2015 • 28min
Douglas Gayeton Interview
Guest Douglas Gayeton, award-winning multi-media artist and mastermind behind the Lexicon of Sustainability, and Lexicon of Food, explains why and how he and wife Laura Howard-Gayeton, use language and graphics to transform our food systemLexicon of Food

Sep 10, 2015 • 28min
Diana Dyer Interview
Guest Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D. dietitian and organic garlic farmer reveals the single barrier preventing her from farming in her youth; she describes the soil-food web, the benefits of organic farming, and connects soil, plant and human healthDyer Family Organic Farm

Sep 3, 2015 • 28min
Katherine Pryor Interview
Guest Katherine Pryor, childrens book author and sustainable food systems educator returns to discuss the story behind her latest delightful book, Zoras Zucchini. Perfect for food literacy classroom activities and helping children appreciate gardenings power in building a healthy communityMeet Author Katherine Pryor

Aug 27, 2015 • 28min
Anna Lappe Interview
Guest Anna Lappe, sustainable food advocate, and co-author of Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food, reveals how industry front groups mislead, misinform, and twist how we think about food and farmingAnna Lappe

Aug 20, 2015 • 28min
Richard Bickel Interview
Guest Richard Bickel, international photojournalist, captures images of the Oystermen of Apalachicola, FL, and describes environmental threats to the region, its prized shellfish, people and cultureApalachicola Riverkeeper

Aug 13, 2015 • 28min
Bill Wilson Interview
Guest Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Birds and Beans Coffee, LLC, explains how shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee protects migratory bird populations, and our planetBirds and Beans

Aug 6, 2015 • 28min
Lani Malmberg Interview
Guest Lani Malmberg, gypsy goat herder, describes how and why she works with goats to provide a safe, natural, ecological answer to weed control and land restorationManage Weeds with Goats

Jul 30, 2015 • 28min
Sean Sellers Interview
Guest Sean Sellers, M.A., Senior Investigator/Monitor, Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota, FL, describes farm labor conditions in Immokalee Florida, and how farmworker standards, monitoring and education have advanced the human rights of farmworkers and supported ethical supply chainsFair Food Standards Council

Jul 23, 2015 • 28min
Jonathan Latham Interview
Guest Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor, Independent Science News, Ithaca, NY, questions the assumptions, narratives, and PR spin re food, agriculture, and biotechnologyIndependent Science News

Jul 16, 2015 • 28min
Louis Guillette Interview
Guest Louis Guillette, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Marine Laboratory, describes his research showing how environmental contaminants harm alligators and similarly, humansBeyond Pesticides