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Join us for an interview with Jane Owen. Jane is a senior editor at the Financial Times, and has extensively written on gardens, travel, and public spaces. In this interview, she reflects on beauty, and the latent artistry in our landscapes.
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Yale College graduate Jack Hedin grows organic vegetables on a 250 acre farm in Minnesota and writes for publications including the New York Times and Bloomberg. Join Hedin as he shares his path from Yale to organic farming and his mission for environmental and financial sustainability.
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Mark Rosati works to integrate a culture of American food hospitality at home and abroad. Hear him talk about how he sources delicious and sustainable food in a growing company that is fit to compete with the fast food monoliths.
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Eric Holt-Gimenez is the Executive Director of Food First, an organization out of Oakland, California that seeks to expose the root causes of hunger and inequalities in our current food systems. His work spans from agro ecology to political economy, and provides a valuable lens through which to imagine food systems that haven’t just been reformed, but transformed. Listen to Holt-Gimenez discuss the inequities in our current local and global food systems, the food movement’s relation to issues of justice, and his vision for more just food systems.
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Listen to Jean-Martin Fortier discuss micro-farming, young farmers, and what it takes to successfully operate a market garden.
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Listen to Jacques Pepin speak about sense, memory, his career as a chef, and the development of the American foodscape.
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Listen to writer Francis Lam talk about home, social justice, food writing, and immigrant cuisines.
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The Plunkett Foundation is a organization based in Oxfordshire, England. Their work helps predominantly rural communities set up and maintain multiple types of co-operatives: community shops, co-operative pubs, and community food enterprises amongst others. Peter Couchman is the CEO of the Plunkett Foundation, and has spend most of his working life in the co-operative movement.
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Chief marketing officer of Victor & Spoils, Andy Nathan, will share his experiences building the world’s first advertising agency based on crowdsourcing principles. Nathan uses marketing to create a healthier America. His most recent project pitted Kale against Broccoli in an effort to get more Americans to eat their (fad-free) vegetables. Hear him talk about his work, advertising culture,and conscious capitalism.
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Why is it that much of our best American-caught seafood is sent abroad while restaurants and supermarkets import more and more foreign seafood every year? Hear about the challenges facing local seafood from James Beard award winner Paul Greenberg.