Good Food is Everybody's Business
Terry’s Berries is a 25 acre organic farm located on the edge of Tacoma in the Puyallup valley where Terry and Dick Carkner have been farming for over 25 years. The Carkners are committed to growing high quality, fresh food for healthy people and to bridging the gap between the consumer and the farmer.
We are surrounded by a chemical bath that contaminates our food chain. Are these chemicals being tested, evaluated and regulated? Our Daily Poison demonstrates how relentlessly “Big Chem” poisons our plates.
We used to have 16,000 varieties of apples. What happened to them? Gary Nabhan, author and ethnobotanist, talks about preserving those that are left.
Have you heard the myth that we need industrial agriculture to feed the world? Can sustainably grown food deliver the quantity and quality we need – today and in the future? This Food MythBusters film answers these questions and more in under seven minutes.
Kelly Sanderbeck, Annual Fund Manager for PCC Farmland Trust, talks about the Trust and how they work with farms like Jubilee Biodynamic Farm, Carnation WA, to preserve farmland in Washington.
Long acknowledged as “the nation’s salad bowl,” California’s farm belt is facing some thorny challenges from our changing climate: rising temperatures, an uncertain water supply and more abundant pests that threaten multi-billion-dollar crops. The half-hour documentary Heat and Harvest, a co-production of KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, examines these threats and offers some potential solutions.
Sandra Matheson, farmer, educator, and retired veterinarian, talks about working with nature to leave the land in better condition. Her philosophy is to make “holistic” decisions that are socially, ecologically, and economically sound and balanced—and to help others do the same!
Jim Riddle is the Organic Outreach Coordinator for University of Minnesota – Southwest Research and Outreach Center. He answers the question: “What does it mean when produce and meat products are labeled organic?”
