Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living

When the government subsidizes corn, it effectively subsidizes dairy, too. Government nutrition programs push dairy as a major protein source, even when it doesn't make sense for most Americans.

A conversation with Angela Babb on the history of the US Farm Bill and how government nutrition assistance programs originated within farm policy.

The stories we tell ourselves about hunger shape our approach to solutions. Is it time to challenge the long standing narratives surrounding food insecurity?

Researcher and author Raj Patel contributed an essay to "Letters To A Young Farmer." This week, Megan Betz speaks with him about alternatives to private ownership of land.

Fresh mushrooms from a local grower find their way to a hot grill, and we visit with Food Historian, Simone Cinotto to talk Slow Food, and cooking in class.

On this week’s show we take a look at farmland transitions. As the farming population ages, who will take reins? We’ve got farmers hanging up their hats, with no one to take over the family farm, and we’ve got young people, anxious to get started farming, with no land to call their own. We sit […]

Of all the toppings Sazon offers for their tacos, the pickled onions are the most striking. Hot pink in color, with an equally bright flavor, it's a crucial element in The Yucatan's signature taco style.

Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon talks with Earth Eats about what today's food movement might learn from the work of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

With a flawed emergency food system, people have to get creative to move nutritious, fresh, local food to the people who need it.

Willy Palomo shares recipes, stories and a poem from his Salvadoran roots and his complicated identity.

A small restaurant swims against the tide as a gratuity-free house, then finds itself needing to back-pedal.

What's it take to scale up production in a small bakery--in a hurry?

The more connected you are to your neighbors, to your community, the less likely you are to experience food insecurity. Why is that?

The stories we tell ourselves about hunger shape our approach to solutions. Is it time to challenge the long standing narratives surrounding food insecurity?

Radish roots and radish greens, radish cooked and radish fresh--Chef Llewellyn shares a soup that is more than the sum of its parts.