The Lewellings: Icon of Napa Valley (Part 5)
What happens when your orchards begin to rot, your industry collapses, and California starts beating you at your own game? If you're Seth Lewelling, you plant harder - and you get political with your ...
12 Aug 202546min
The Lewellings: California Calling and Free Love (Part 4)
California, 1853. Henderson Lewelling sets off to sell apples and ends up sparking a revolution.In this fourth episode of our multi-part series, John and Patrick trace the astonishing rise of the Lewe...
5 Aug 202554min
The Lewellings: Planting Pacific Roots (Part 3)
It’s 1848, and amid the towering firs and scorched stumps of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, a revolution in American agriculture quietly takes root. In this third installment of our epic Lewelling saga, ...
29 Jul 20251h
The Lewellings: On The Oregon Trail (Part 2)
What kind of person looks at the treacherous Oregon Trail and says, “You know what would make this even harder? Let’s drag 700 fruit trees with us”?In this episode, John and Patrick continue the epic ...
22 Jul 202553min
The Lewellings: Nurserymen Abolitionists (Part 1)
How did a quiet Quaker family from North Carolina - devout, disciplined, and disinclined to dance - go on to revolutionize the fruit industry of the American West? Who were the Lewellings, and how did...
15 Jul 202552min
The Sullivan Expedition: Genocide and War on Native Crops
In the shadow of revolution, a campaign of quiet devastation unfolded. While Washington’s Continental Army fought British redcoats along the eastern seaboard, a very different war was being waged in t...
8 Jul 202559min
The Fascist Origins of Organics
The rise of the organic movement is often remembered as a peaceful revolution - a return to the earth, to purity, to harmony with nature. But its true origins tell a far darker tale. Born not in the f...
1 Jul 202555min
Fruitful Flags (Livestream)
From the sun-soaked pineapple fields of Puerto Rico to the grapevines that shaped Puritan Connecticut, from Madrid’s legendary El Oso y el Madroño to Grenada’s fragrant nutmeg empire, symbols of fresh...
24 Jun 202549min
