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Real Organic Podcast

Farmers interview scientists, activists, politicians, and authors engaged in protecting USDA organic food against an active corporate takeover. Real Organic Project released its add-on food label in stores and markets in 2021, and is focused on introducing eaters across the United States to our movement and its allies. In this podcast series, you'll meet the best organic and regenerative farmers around, as well as journalists, climate experts, policy makers and chefs (Dr. Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Leah Penniman, Bill Mckibben, Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and Eliot Coleman - to name a few!) who support our mission and have lent their voices a...

Glenn Elzinga Pt 1: Good Grazing On Public Lands

66 hours 51 mins; May 30, 2024

Kat Taylor: Funding The World We Want

44 mins; May 23, 2024

Hans Herren: Controlling Pests With Biology

81 hours 7 mins; May 15, 2024

Alice Waters: Organic Food In Our Schools Now

80 hours 9 mins; May 09, 2024

Barbara Gemmill-Herren: Big Chem's Eyes Are On Africa

60 hours 8 mins; May 02, 2024

Zephyr Teachout: Today's Antimonopolist Movement Has Legs

65 hours 31 mins; April 23, 2024

Hugh Kent: How The USDA Supports Bad Agriculture

54 mins; April 16, 2024

Seth Godin: No Society Thrives With Monopolies

37 mins; April 08, 2024

Allan Savory: Desertification's Causes, Problems + Solutions

74 hours 41 mins; April 02, 2024

Austin Frerick: Modern Day Robber Barons Rule Our Food

83 hours 48 mins; March 26, 2024

JM Fortier: Envisioning A Hyper Local Small Farm Revolution

74 hours 56 mins; March 19, 2024

Zephyr Teachout + Dave Chapman: Live Panel w/ Matt Sheffer At Churchtown Dairy

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2024

Dave Chapman + Anna Jones-Crabtree: Notes For The Climate Underground

31 mins; March 05, 2024

Eliot Coleman: Denying Our Understanding Of Real Organic Practices Robs The World

63 hours 14 mins; February 27, 2024

Errol Schweizer: Consolidation, Greenwashing, And The Growing Myth Of Local Food

64 hours 12 mins; February 19, 2024

Vandana Shiva: False Claims Of The Green Revolution, Then And Now

46 mins; February 13, 2024

Tim Bowles: Climate Smart Agriculture Includes Tillage

63 hours 57 mins; February 06, 2024

Tim Bowles Part 1: Digging Into The Rhizosphere

46 mins; January 30, 2024

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin: The Need For A Real Regenerative Movement

23 mins; January 23, 2024

Patrick Holden: Organic Needs Top Down, Bottom Up, And In-The-Middle Action

69 hours 9 mins; January 16, 2024

Francis Thicke: A Journey To Real Organic

23 mins; January 09, 2024

Alan Lewis: Food System Betrayal

22 mins; January 01, 2024

Ben Dobson: The Politics Of Farming For Climate

22 mins; December 25, 2023

Dave Chapman and Eliot Coleman: We Did It Before, We Can Do It Again

47 mins; December 19, 2023

Karl Hammer: Imagining A Photosynthetic Food System

64 hours 8 mins; December 12, 2023

Zephyr Teachout at Churchtown: Break'em Up

25 mins; December 05, 2023

Kristin Kimball: The Small Farm Revolution Needs Activist Eaters

26 mins; November 28, 2023

Linley Dixon: Saving Organic: The First Five Years of The Farmer-Led Real Organic Project

26 mins; November 21, 2023

Iriel Edwards: Why Is Race In This? USDA Discrimination, Land Access, And Collective Liberation

16 mins; November 17, 2023

Dan Barber: The Power Of Deliciousness

28 mins; November 14, 2023

Hugh Kent | Breaking Their Own Laws: Hydroponics And The Farce Of USDA Organic integrity

26 mins; November 10, 2023

Joan Gussow: Last 50 Years Brought More Foods And Less Choice

66 hours 54 mins; November 07, 2023

Glenn Elzinga: Why Cattle Are Ruining Our Public Lands In Spite Of A Better Way

21 mins; November 03, 2023

Tom Willey Part 2: Working Towards A Permanent Agriculture

37 mins; October 31, 2023

Tom Willey: Merging Chemical-Regenerative With Organic

35 mins; October 24, 2023

Dennesse Willey: When Organic Was Easy To Sell

66 hours 33 mins; October 17, 2023

Bryan O'Hara: Organic No-Till Vegetable Farming

56 mins; October 10, 2023

Jeff Moyer: Organic Is, Was, And Should Be The Foundation of Regenerative

65 hours 47 mins; October 03, 2023

Steve Ela: Diversifying Crops, Sales Channels, And Research Dollars

62 hours 16 mins; September 28, 2023

Hannah Smith-Brubaker: Growing On-Farm Organic Research

58 mins; September 19, 2023

Jim Riddle: Lobbyists Not Farmers Have Access To USDA

41 mins; September 12, 2023

Dru Rivers: An Organic Activist's Manifesto

25 mins; September 05, 2023

Mark and Kristin Kimball: Holistic Farming Goes Beyond Food Production

50 mins; August 30, 2023

Peter Donovan: RedirectingThe Carbon Conversation Towards The Water Cycle

65 hours 14 mins; August 22, 2023

Zach Cannady: Farming To Strengthen Your Local Food Shed

47 mins; August 15, 2023

Dave Mortensen Part 2: Big Ag's False Claims Of Environmental Consciousness

58 mins; August 09, 2023

Dave Mortensen Part 1: Today's Drastic Rise Of Biocides

57 mins; August 01, 2023

Dick Schwartz: Internal Family Systems + Social Activism

47 mins; July 25, 2023

Hans + Barbara Herren: Our World Doesn't Need Pesticides

46 mins; July 18, 2023

Steffen Reese: Spreading Organic Across The Globe

62 hours 27 mins; July 11, 2023

Kellee James: Trends And Challenges In The Organic Marketplace

56 mins; July 04, 2023

Scott Park: Can Organic No-Till Vegetables Be Grown At Scale

25 mins; June 27, 2023

Phil Foster: Organic No Till Experiments On California Veg Farm

43 mins; June 20, 2023

Miguel Altieri: Agroecology As Science And Social Movement

65 hours 55 mins; June 12, 2023

Helen Atthowe: No-Till, No-Spray, Ecological Farming

40 mins; June 06, 2023

Jake Guest: The Antiwar Movement's Influence On Organic

57 mins; May 30, 2023

Alan Lewis: SocioEconomic Fallout Of Farmers Vs Chem Companies

57 mins; May 23, 2023

Ben Dobson: Beware The Regeneration Of The Corn And Soy Model

63 hours 28 mins; May 16, 2023

Sarah Wiener: EU's Farm To Fork Aims To Increase Organic Acreage

56 mins; May 09, 2023

Michael Pollan: Does The US Need A Third Kind of Agriculture?

47 mins; May 02, 2023

Ariel Pressman: Free Certification + High Standards at Real Organic Project

62 hours 16 mins; April 24, 2023

Melissa Aronczyk: How Corporate Public Relations Coopts Environmental Sustainability

64 hours 12 mins; April 17, 2023

Eliot Coleman: Why Chemical Companies Trash Talk Organic

70 hours 58 mins; April 10, 2023

Charlotte Vallaeys Pt 2: Why Organic Is Worth Fighting For

55 mins; April 05, 2023

Hugh Kent: Blueberries Are The Canary In The Coal Mine

30 mins; March 28, 2023

Charlotte Vallaeys Pt 1: The Pitfalls Of Outcome Based Agriculture

42 mins; March 21, 2023

Will Brinton Pt 2: Can Carbon Sequestration Ever Outpace Emissions?

44 mins; March 14, 2023

Will Brinton: Carbon Sequestration Is All About Plants, Not Soil

44 mins; March 07, 2023

Linley Dixon: Why Chemical Companies Attack Organic But Join Regenerative

27 mins; February 28, 2023

Emily Oakley: Growing Fertility On The Farm

64 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2023

Larry Jacobs: Choosing Biocontrols Over Pesticides In Mexico

57 mins; February 14, 2023

Liz Carlisle Pt 2: Healing Grounds And Reciprocal Relationships

38 mins; February 06, 2023

Liz Carlisle Pt 1: Agroecology And The Green Revolution

43 mins; January 31, 2023

Vandana Shiva: The Poison Cartel Should Get Their Own Label

57 mins; January 24, 2023

Paul Hawken Pt 2: In Favor Of Complex Systems

37 mins; January 14, 2023

Paul Hawken Pt 1: Social Dynamics Of Food, Farming, and Climate Change

48 mins; January 10, 2023

Javier Zamora: Helping Farm Workers Succeed In California

40 mins; January 02, 2023

Ronnie Cummins: Connecting Organic Food + Climate Activism

55 mins; December 27, 2022

Dru Rivers: Organic As A Farmer To Farmer Movement

36 mins; December 20, 2022

Zach Wolf Pt 2: The Basic Rights Of Eaters

41 mins; December 12, 2022

Zach Wolf Pt 1: Understanding On-Farm Carbon Cycles

46 mins; December 06, 2022

Gary Hirshberg Part 2: Saving Organic Family Farms

48 mins; November 29, 2022

Gary Hirshberg Part 1: Northeast Organic Dairy Farming Movement

46 mins; November 22, 2022

Hugh Kent: The Broken Business Of Blueberries

34 mins; November 15, 2022

Dan Barber Interviews Dave Chapman At Stone Barns

34 mins; November 10, 2022

Guy + Matt Choiniere: Embracing Generational Changes On The Farm

63 hours 8 mins; November 08, 2022

David Zuckerman: Vermont's Political Farmer

48 mins; November 01, 2022

Davey Miskell: Keep The Soil In Organic

70 hours 30 mins; October 25, 2022

Lisa Stokke: Food Democracy Now! And Forever

48 mins; October 18, 2022

Hydroponic Debate: ROP's Dave Chapman Takes On The OTA

56 mins; October 11, 2022

Liz Henderson: Radical CSAs And Fair Wages For Farm Labor

43 mins; October 04, 2022

Eliot Coleman, Dave Chapman, And Jack Algiere At Stone Barns

44 mins; September 27, 2022

Jack Algiere: Modeling A Food System That Inspires

58 mins; September 20, 2022

Jesse Cool: The Customer Always Comes Last

60 hours 21 mins; September 13, 2022

Scott Park: Why Don't More People Farm Organically?

33 mins; September 06, 2022

Doug Crabtree: Thoughtful Tillage Is An Important Tool

57 mins; August 29, 2022

Ed Maltby: Organic Dairy Contracts Create A Code Of Fear

58 mins; August 23, 2022

Rosie Burroughs: A Call For Transparency + Fair Prices In Dairy

48 mins; August 16, 2022

David Weinstein: Owning And Fixing The Shortcomings Of Organic

54 mins; August 09, 2022

Bob Quinn Pt 2: Lack of Research Dollars + Incentives Plague Organic

51 mins; August 02, 2022

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