From Veggie Vouchers to Vertical Farming, Talking Solutions with Civil Eats
That's a wrap on season 1! In this episode we bring back Civil Eats' contributing editor Twilight Greenaway to talk about solutions big and small, the right way to talk about food access issues, and w...
5 Dec 201828min
SNAP, the Farm Bill, and More with The New Food Economy's Claire Brown
Food policy and environment reporter Claire Brown's first job in food was helping SNAP recipients use their benefits at New York farmers markets, so we invited her on to talk about everything from SNA...
28 Nov 201831min
A Detroit Food Pantry Giving People Choices, Stability, and Dignity
In this episode we head to Detroit with WDET reporter Taylor Wizner to check out the Broadmoor Food Connection, run by Reverend Roslyn Bouier. Its client-choice model gives people struggling with food...
14 Nov 201825min
Community Coalition of South Los Angeles on the Intersection of Food Access, Transportation, Discrimination, Health, and Poverty
The Community Coalition of South Los Angeles, or Coco South LA, is known for looking at the complex web of factors behind community issues, and their approach to food is no different. In this episode ...
7 Nov 201817min
Food Is Medicine
Last year California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill providing $6 million over three years to the Food Is Medicine pilot. The pilot will provide medically tailored meals for 1,000 Medi-Cal patients...
24 Okt 201810min
The Intersection of Colonization and Food Sovereignty for the Navajo Nation
Indigenous people in the U.S. are up to 400% more likely to experience food insecurity, according to the USDA. That's by design. A key aspect to colonization has always been to erode food sovereignty,...
17 Okt 201838min
Rethinking "Poor People's Food" in Appalachia
Chef and farmer Mike Costello, from the 100 Days in Appalachia project, joins us to talk about re-imagining Appalachia's food history and how the stories we tell about the we eat impact access and hea...
10 Okt 201829min
The Link Between the Opioid Crisis and Food Insecurity in Dayton, Ohio
West Dayton recently lost the last of its grocery stores. Its food pantries are serving several hundred families every week, many of them grandparents raising grandkids orphaned by the opioid epidemic...
3 Okt 201825min
