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Podcast: What Doesn't Kill You
Episode: Episode 86: The Business of Farming with Tom Philpott
Description: Tom Philpott is a food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones and the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. For five years, Philpott served as a columnist, food editor, and senior food writer for the online environmental site Grist. His work on food politics has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Orion, OnEarth, Gastronomica, and the Guardian, and he has been interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Before moving to the farm in 2004, Philpott worked as a financial journalist in Mexico City and New York, most recently writing...