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Good Food

The Farm Show

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jan. 13, 2018 Food & Drink

Farmers serve as the backbone of our society.

A farmer inspecting weeds. Photo taken by USB.

From this Episode:

Farm bill 101

The federal Farm Bill is up for renewal in 2018. Journalist Leah Douglas offers a primer on the Farm Bill’s history and contents and how it shapes the farming system we...

6 min

'This Blessed Earth'

Journalist Ted Genoways , himself the great-grandson of a Nebraskan seed corn producer, spent a year with a farming family to tell the story of modern farm life and its...

7 min

FDR's great wall of trees

During the Dust Bowl, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt allocated $15 million for the planting of trees to ameliorate the damage. Three quarters of a century later, the...

7 min

Examining farmer suicides

The rate of suicide among America’s farmers is more than double that of its veterans. Why don’t we hear more about it? Debbie Weingarten reported on the crisis for The...

8 min

A radical new farm bill

Journalist Leah Douglas returns to explain a radical proposal to revamp the Farm Bill , led by Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer.

10 min

Small farming

Food and science journalist Tamar Haspel contends that small, organic farming isn’t enough to fix a broken system. Instead, she says that system’s inefficiencies need to...

12 min

Market Report: Farmers on farming

We visit the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market to hear from local farmers about the issues they would like to see addressed in the 2018 Farm Bill.

6 min

Credits

Host:

Evan Kleiman

Producers:

Nick Liao, Rosalie Atkinson, Joseph Stone, Laryl Garcia

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