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Rootstock Radio

Rootstock Radio celebrates the changemakers who are working to restore and revitalize our broken food and farming system. We balance the doom-and-gloom with real-life solutions for contributing to a s... Read more

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Inside the Coffee Industry with Kickapoo Coffee

Inside the Coffee Industry with Kickapoo Coffee

The second installment in a three-part series on tea, coffee and chocolate, TJ Semachin and Caleb Nicholes, co-founders ... Read more

16 Jul 2018

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Seed Stories with Diane Ott Whealy of Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Stories with Diane Ott Whealy of Seed Savers Exchange

Guest host Anne O'Connor speaks with co-founder and vice president of Seed Savers Exchange, Diane Ott Whealy, about seed... Read more

21 Sep 2015

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Pioneering Organic with George Siemon, Organic Valley CEO

Pioneering Organic with George Siemon, Organic Valley CEO

Rootstock Radio is starting off 2018 with a very special guest: George Siemon, Organic Valley's CEO. George, who was bor... Read more

1 Jan 2018

28mins

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Andrew Kimbrell of Center for Food Safety (Part 2)

Andrew Kimbrell of Center for Food Safety (Part 2)

In part 2 of our conversation with Andrew Kimbrell, we hear more about the new GMO labeling legislation called the DARK ... Read more

26 Oct 2015

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Animal Welfare in Organic Agriculture

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"The US is quite different from a lot of the other Western countries in the world in the fact that there aren't that man... Read more

12 Feb 2018

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Jeff Moyer of the Rodale Institute

Jeff Moyer of the Rodale Institute

Jeff Moyer executive director of the Rodale Institute discusses Rodale's on-going 30-year study which has revealed that ... Read more

7 Mar 2016

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Raj Patel: Capitalism is Catching Up to Us

Raj Patel: Capitalism is Catching Up to Us

"Cheap things can never stay cheap for long, in the end those costs always catch up with you," says the award-winning wr... Read more

2 Apr 2018

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What Makes Life on an Organic Farm Beautiful

What Makes Life on an Organic Farm Beautiful

Regina Beidler calls herself an "accidental farmer," but her commitment to organic agriculture, sustainability, rural co... Read more

31 Jul 2017

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Connecting Nutrition and Food with Dr. Joan Dye Gussow

Connecting Nutrition and Food with Dr. Joan Dye Gussow

Dr. Joan Dye Gussow, professor, author, food policy expert, environmentalist and gardener, illuminates the connection be... Read more

29 Jan 2018

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Wanted: Regenerative, Renewing, Resilient Agriculture

Wanted: Regenerative, Renewing, Resilient Agriculture

Fred Kirschenmann is a man of many talents: professor, TEDx speaker, organic farmer, author, James Beard Leadership awar... Read more

4 Sep 2017

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Faye Jones of MOSES Organic Farming Conference

Faye Jones of MOSES Organic Farming Conference

For 27 years, the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) has offered farmers, consumers and the general p... Read more

22 Feb 2016

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Perennial Crops: A New Solution for Sustainable Agriculture

Perennial Crops: A New Solution for Sustainable Agriculture

Fred Iutzi, president of The Land Institute, shares the importance of developing perennial food crops to our food system... Read more

17 Apr 2017

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"Embracing Complexity": Author Raj Patel & Organic Valley's Jerome McGeorge

"Embracing Complexity": Author Raj Patel & Organic Valley's Jerome McGeorge

Award-winning author and academic Raj Patel and Organic Valley's own "Kickapoo scholar" Jerome McGeorge chat about some ... Read more

16 Nov 2015

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Food as the "Great Equalizer" with Malik Yakini

Food as the "Great Equalizer" with Malik Yakini

Detroit food activist Malik Yakini views the good food revolution as one piece of the larger movement for freedom, justi... Read more

16 Jan 2017

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Ceres Community Project: Food that Heals and Empowers

Ceres Community Project: Food that Heals and Empowers

This week on Rootstock Radio, we're talking with Cathryn Couch, founder and director of the Ceres Community Project, whi... Read more

11 Sep 2017

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Hippies, Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs & Revolutionaries

Hippies, Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs & Revolutionaries

Jonathan Kauffman is a San Francisco-based writer who’s made food the subject of his career. For eleven years he reviewe... Read more

20 Aug 2018

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A-Dae Romero Briones: The Revival of Agriculture in Indigenous Communities

A-Dae Romero Briones: The Revival of Agriculture in Indigenous Communities

From bringing awareness to the strengths that indigenous populations can draw on -- a long history of working with the l... Read more

10 Dec 2018

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The Sioux Chef: Cooking with Wild Foods & Cool Heirloom Crops

The Sioux Chef: Cooking with Wild Foods & Cool Heirloom Crops

Cattails, cedar maple tea, and cooking with many other indigenous ingredients is a normal thing for "The Sioux Chef" Sea... Read more

17 Jul 2017

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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern: Racial (In)Justice, Immigration and Labor in the Food System

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern: Racial (In)Justice, Immigration and Labor in the Food System

Can you understand something like food without considering politics, economics and social conditions? Professor Laura-An... Read more

4 Mar 2019

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Dr. John Ikerd: An Economist’s Take on Efficiency in Agriculture

Dr. John Ikerd: An Economist’s Take on Efficiency in Agriculture

Dr. John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Missouri, talks about :  H... Read more

22 Oct 2018

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