Agriculture

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Portland Fruit Tree Project and a Master Gardner Answers Your Questions about Fall Gardening

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
  On this encore presentation of The Dirg Bag Gene Bradley fills in as host for Glen Andresen, who is on break. Gene's guests will be Bob Hatton, program director of the Portland Fruit Tree Project, who will talk about their work in Portland, and Weston Miller, OSU Ext... Read more

Small Farms, New City, Big Hunger

Airs at: Wed, 07/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On this episode of the Food Show we'll be playing rebroadcasts of past interviews. Josh Volk has worked in small farming for years. Since this interview, he has written and released the book "Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less."  When I i... Read more

THE SAVE MOVEMENT

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
 Host Dab Steadman talks with two representatives of the local chapter of  "The Save Movement", Jocelyn Cole & Emily Rezentes, about their poignant form of activism:  "Bearing Witness" to the transport of farmed animals en route to the slaughterhouse.    Learn what it me... Read more

Big Dairy in Oregon

Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
In 2017, Lost Valley Farm opened in Boardman, Oregon. Lost Valley is a massive dairy, also known as a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). In the brief time it has been operating, the farm and it's owner, Greg te Velde, have had a number of legal issues and have... Read more

Dry Farming - A Time-Proven, Earth-Friendly Farming Practice

Airs at: Fri, 06/22/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
  Dry Farming is a long-proven method for growing crops with little to no irrigation.   It's a time proven method that could play a major role in today's world going through climate change.  What exactly is this valuable process, and why haven’t we heard about it?  Gues... Read more

Let's All Be Farmers

Airs at: Sun, 06/17/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Dr. Malik Burnett speaking about the social determinants of health, stigma, cultural competency, and medical cannabis; plus Tim Pate performs "Let's All Be Farmers". Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 4, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with these segments: 1. Joe Clement talks with IWW organizer Marianne Lebatt about solidarity unionism and taking direct action in the workplace. 2. Janet Bauer from the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with Laurie ... Read more

Hungry Oregonians

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Janet Bauer from the Oregon Center for Public Policy talks with Laurie Mercier about why so many Oregonians are food insecure, how the new farm bill threatens the SNAP program and the lives of 1 in 6 Oregonians, and what we can do to help insure more widespread access to... Read more

Capitalist Agriculture or Ecological Civilization

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks to Fred Magdoff, a soil scientist, on the multiple problems of capitalist agriculture and also the solutions, ecological agriculture and the sweeping changes necessary, sometimes called ecological civilization. Magdoff has written Building Soils for... Read more

Revolutions in Leadership and Economics: Conversations with Linda Kohanov and Anthony Flaccavento

Airs at: Tue, 06/05/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Anthony Flaccavento was my first guest ever on this program when it was called Religion For Life. I had him on again last year when we discussed his book, Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change. He has... Read more