Good Food
The Farm Show
Farmers serve as the backbone of our society.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenA farmer inspecting weeds. Photo taken by USB.
In this episode
7 storiesFarm bill 101
The federal Farm Bill is up for renewal in 2018. Journalist Leah Douglas offers a primer on the Farm Bill’s history and contents and how it shapes the farming system we have.
Read the story6 min'This Blessed Earth'
Journalist Ted Genoways , himself the great-grandson of a Nebraskan seed corn producer, spent a year with a farming family to tell the story of modern farm life and its challenges.
Read the story7 minFDR's great wall of trees
During the Dust Bowl, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt allocated $15 million for the planting of trees to ameliorate the damage. Three quarters of a century later, the ‘Great Plains Shelterbelt’ is now under threat.
Read the story7 minExamining farmer suicides
The rate of suicide among America’s farmers is more than double that of its veterans. Why don’t we hear more about it? Debbie Weingarten reported on the crisis for The Guardian .
Read the story8 minA radical new farm bill
Journalist Leah Douglas returns to explain a radical proposal to revamp the Farm Bill , led by Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
Read the story10 minSmall farming
Food and science journalist Tamar Haspel contends that small, organic farming isn’t enough to fix a broken system. Instead, she says that system’s inefficiencies need to be addressed from within.
Read the story12 minMarket Report: Farmers on farming
We visit the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market to hear from local farmers about the issues they would like to see addressed in the 2018 Farm Bill.
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