Shows
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#15 - Terra Madre Americas: Segment 3: Free the Chicken: How Pastured Poultry is Joining the Regenerative Revolution with Caleb Barron & Tyler DawleyChicken is the most consumed meat in America, yet 99.9% is raised in factories that are hard on the birds & rural communities. Hear from two ranchers freeing their birds from confinement to create better tasting, healthier & humanely raised poultry while progressing toward a regenerative system
2025-11-2024 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#14 - Terra Madre Americas: A special weekly series, Segment 2: Regeneration & Resilience: Stewarding California Lands & Future with Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, CA Natural Resources AgencyWade Crowfoot leads California's Natural Resources Agency, which has been implementing a groundbreaking set of policies designed to end the 60-year-old conflict among agricultural and environmental interests in order to achieve an impressive set of ecological and rural economic goals
2025-11-1127 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#13 - Terra Madre Americas: A Special Weekly Series Segment 1: We're All Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf!Author & wild-farm advocate Dan Imhoff explores the challenge of embracing coexistence with predators when raising livestock in conversation with Montana ranchers Becky Weed & Malou Anderson Ramirez
2025-11-0445 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#12 - Old Salt Festival's Final Series Episode: Financial Innovations and the Regenerative RevolutionKat Taylor, Co-founder and Board Chair of Beneficial State Bank and Emma Ractliffe, Chief Investment Officer, World Within, share their innovative approaches to investing in the revitalization of rural enterprises, those central to the regenerative revolution underway.
2025-09-1736 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#11 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival #3: Anna Claussen, Ash Hanson & Matt Jorgensen Shine a Light on Agrarian Artists and CommunitiesAnna Claussen, Ash Hanson and Matt Jorgensen are three innovative social entrepreneurs we met at the Old Salt Festival, who work at the intersection of art, culture and enterprise. They tell their stories of how they are uplifting the creativity of rural people and communities.
2025-09-0356 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#10 - Congressmember Chellie Pingree, veteran member of the House Agriculture Committee, pulls no punches in unpacking the impacts of the new Administration on the federal policy gains made over the last 20 yearsA shocking sea change in food and agriculture policy is underway in Washington DC. Policies that were improving human health through better nutrition, rural economies, small and mid-scale growers have been decimated. Trade and immigration policies are harming the largest farms. The future looks bleak to many. But Maine's veteran of the House Ag Committee, Chellie Pingree shares her honest thoughts on what may lay ahead and how we can maintain the course toward a healthy, resilient and just food and farming system.
2025-08-2043 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#9 - What's Up with Food Justice in One of America's Wealthiest StatesAli Ghiorse, Christine Caruso and Vetiveah Immanuel, leaders in the in the movement for food justice in Connecticut, share their perspectives on what is working and what is still needed to make healthy affordable food available to all in a state with an incredible wealth gap.
2025-08-0642 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#8 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival, #2: The Human Health Benefits of Regeneratively Raised Meat with Dr. Stephan van VlietEpisode 2 of 4 of Old Salt Festival conversations features Dr. Stephan van Vliet, among the planet's leaders studying the impact of regenerative agriculture on nutrient density in meat.At the festival he shared the latest findings that confirm good ecological stewardship of pastures leads to meat that provides many more phytonutrients than meat from feed lots and animal factories. Phytonutrients are natural chemical compounds found in plants that support health by enhancing immune function, reducing inflammation, and protecting against chronic diseases.
2025-07-2933 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#7 - Voices from the Old Salt Festival E1: The Rich Diversity of Products & Services from Regenerative RanchesE1 of 4 features Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of the Range Revolution, the heirloom quality leather goods company, Sheldon Atwood, CEO of Western Ranchlands Corporation and Taylor Ophus, land steward at Mannix Ranch. They were three of the inspiring attendees of the 2025 Old Salt Festival in Montana, a June gathering of nearly 3000 ranchers, artisans, chefs, advocates and musicians dedicated to promoting land stewardship, regional food, rural communities and regenerative ranching
2025-07-1443 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#6 - Investigative journalist and author Michael Grunwald's new book ostensibly argues for industrial agriculture, but does it really?Feeding the world without killing it is easily said, but hard to do. Figuring it out is as important as producing energy without fossil fuel. Author Michael Grunwald has his views on how and I have mine. We seek to end the polarized views that dominate the cultural discussion on the challenge and find common ground among the so-called regenerative, organic, and industrial approaches.
2025-06-171h 02
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#5 - The Summer GenZ Team working for Roots of Change talks with new Co-host Coco Sanabria about their perspective on how food systems relate to their valuesGenZ, those in their 20s, are the future of the good food movement. They are clearly critical to the future of food. Flipping the Table's new co-host Coco Sanabria engages 3 of the 4 ROC Summer GenZ Team to explore their values around food and agriculture, their reasons for wanting to work on food systems with Roots of Change and the college food experience.
2025-05-2748 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#4 - The Spirit of Resilience: Farmer Stuart Woolf and His Vision for the FutureStuart Woolf, among California's largest farmers and Executive Chairman of Woolf Farming Company, has a vision for the heart of California's Great Central Valley. And agave, the hearty cousin of the tasty asparagus plant, is central to that vision. We talk of Stuart's interesting journey, his family's regenerative practices and his fascination with and enthusiasm for agave's resilience in a drying valley and its distilled spirits that could create a whole new industry in the Golden State.
2025-04-2152 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#3 - Finding the Radical Center: How the California Roundtable on Agriculture & Environment fostered trust and unleashed creative solutions at the intersection of agriculture and ecosystemsSix participants from the 20-year dialogue between aggies and enviros, known as the California Roundtable on Ag & Environment describe what it did, how it did it and why is made their lives as leaders and the state better.
2025-03-191h 12
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#2 - Helena Bottemiller Evich from Food Fix shares her views on Trump nominees RFK Jr. & Brooke Rollins and the striking possibility of realignment around food policy in Washington DCAfter 15 years on the federal food and agriculture policy beat, perhaps no other American of her generation has a better perspective on what might or might not happen under the new Administration. RFK Jr and the MAHA movement are having an impact. What could it all mean?
2025-02-1851 min
Flipping the TableS7 - Ep#1 -Food Fight author, Dan Imhoff, flips the table on our host Michael Reid DimockThe author, musician, homestead farmer, and host of the Full Expression podcast Dan Imhoff flips the table on Michael Dimock to explore the origins of Michael's interest in and career path within the good food movement.
2025-01-221h 06
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#11 - Diana Donlon of SoilCentric on why regeneration and history indicate a brighter futureDiana Donlon has cultivated, mentored and inspired a growing community of regenerative agriculture activists through her leadership of SoilCentric. She reveals how she remains optimistic despite the challenges ahead.
2024-12-1643 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#10 - Are Tariffs Good For American Agriculture?Are tariffs good for American Agriculture? It is a very important question given the new administration's pledge to add tariffs to imported goods. Hear a large-scale, no-till, commodity soy bean farmer, describe his experience and knowledge about the impact of tariffs on the nation's farmers. A special broadcast provided by Rodger Wasson from his show Farm to Table Talk.
2024-11-0149 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#9 - What do Ducati motorcycles and organic dairy farming have in common? Shelina Moreda, a fearless campaigner to save family farmsAnimal right activists placed the terribly written anti CAFO Measure J on the November 2024 Sonoma County ballot. It threatens the future of this small and mid-scale farming community and others like it across the nation. Professional Ducati motorcycle racer, organic dairy woman and Covergirl model Shelina Moreda is co leading a campaign to stop this misdirected measure while still keeping the dialogue open with her opponents.
2024-10-1551 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#8 - Cole Mannix, Old Salt Co-op, on improving the land and the lives of those who raise good meat for MontanansCole Mannix's family has ranched in the Black Foot Valley of Montana since 1882. Even with thousands of acres and hundreds of cattle, the return on investment is bleak. Learn how his family and four other ranches have come together to create the Old Salt Co-op and beef brand with two restaurants, online sales and an annual ranch event all in order to ensure these agrarian families thrive rather than just survive.
2024-09-1446 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#7 - Lisa Hamilton, Author of The Hungry Season & Deeply Rooted, on the Strength and Power of Uncommon AgrariansToday Michael talks with Lisa Hamilton, a great chronicler of uncommon agrarians, and the author of the new book, The Hungry Season. Agrarians are those who live from working in agriculture. With only 2.2 million agrarians are less than 1% of the US population. These few feed our nation and much of the world. An even smaller percentage of those few farm or ranch outside the mainstream, the conventional commodity system.
2024-07-1354 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#6 - Dairy in California: Opportunities and Challenges Today and TomorrowNutritionist and leader of the Dairy Council of California, Amy DeLisio, and 6th generation organic dairy farmer from Humboldt County, Cody Nicholson Stratton, dialogue with Michael around the opportunities and challenges related to nutrition and the environment faced by California's gargantuan dairy industry.
2024-06-1950 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#5 - Three Gen Zers speak their minds about food, farming and the futureIf you are hearing the news lately you know the campuses, now educating Gen Z, are rocked by angry students on both sides of the war in Israel. This is an energized group and may indicate a sea change in the level and type of activism in the country in the years ahead. In this episode we'll learn from three members of "Gen Z" if they believe the passions of their generation could also be felt intensely in efforts to change our food and farming system.
2024-05-2252 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#4 - From the rice fields of California one sees the future of agricultureTim Johnson CEO of California Rice Commission shares how rice growers are modeling the future of agriculture by delivering a fabulous array of ecosystem services, wealth creation and delicious, healthy food for California and the world.
2024-04-1653 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#3 - Alegria De La Cruz, a Weaver and a Warrior for Equity and JusticeAlegria De La Cruz has a history of creating spaces and moments for farmworkers and other historically marginalized brown and black people to fairly and wisely engage the powers that be: employers, judges and policy makers.
2024-03-191h 23
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#2 - Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott, an inspiring indigenous millennial working to heal our land through stewardshipAs 30-year-old Native American rancher, mother and nonprofit leader, Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott reflects the power of the millennial generation born between 1981 and 1996. Indigenous knowledge, the future of food and her role in the film Common Ground are deeply explored in this episode.
2024-02-2044 min
Flipping the TableS6 - Ep#1 - Rick Clark, a large-scale Midwestern regenerative organic farmer from Indiana, shares his story of transition away from conventional commodity agriculture to the center of the film Common GroundA 5th generation commodity crop farmer from Indiana, the Heartland of America, Rick Clark had an awakening during a one-inch rain event in 2007 that washed topsoil from his fields. That moment spawned a ten-year journey during which Rick created rich healthy soil that captures carbon and holds water, diversified his crops and increased his profits. This success placed him at the center of the film Common Ground. As the film says, Rick "cracked the code" of large-scale regenerative farming.
2024-01-1652 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#12 - Jim Kleinschmit of Other Half Processing and the Growing GRASS Climate Smart Commodities Partnership ProjectFarm boy and entrepreneur Jim Kleinschmit started a company called Other Half Processing to ensure that the hides and other byproducts from cattle and bison production are fully utilized. When USDA began its funding campaign to promote regenerative agriculture, he hatched an idea that has bloomed into a $35 million project to build lucrative markets in Europe and beyond for hides and more livestock byproducts.
2023-12-0552 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#11 - Will Harris Regenerates An Entire Community Through White Oak PasturesAfter decades of economic decline around the Harris family's farm, Will experienced an epiphany that led to a journey to what we now call regenerative agriculture. His story is about a pioneer's perseverance, love for animals, the land and a community. His example could transform rural America.
2023-11-1445 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#10 - Filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell share their story of the making of 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 and why regenerative agriculture must become the normJosh and Rebecca Tickell produced and directed the newly released film, Common Ground. It is a compelling look at the expanding acceptance of regenerative agriculture as an antidote to many of the challenges faced by farmers, ranchers, consumers and policy makers. Josh and Rebecca share about why they included a powerful diversity of voices and perspectives to compelling convey their hopes for regenerative agriculture. They describe it as a love letter to all our children as well as a call to the nation's farmers to embrace regenerative agriculture as the future.
2023-10-1746 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#9 - The long strange trip of Loren Poncia of Stemple Creek RanchHear how Loren Poncia, a former Monsanto sales rep, became a model regenerative rancher. He and his wife faced the omnivore's dilemma to transform the family dairy into a multimillion dollar iconic grassfed organic meat brand.
2023-09-1949 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#8 - The Good Food Movement Is Advancing More Quickly Each YearFor the 100th Episode of Flipping the Table, Michael shares his perception of the advances being made by those seeking a healthier, resilient and just food system. He makes the case for remaining optimistic about our future.
2023-08-2418 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#7 - What does grassfed meat really mean with Carrie Balkcom of the American Grassfed Association.Grassfed, grass finished, pasture raised are all terms you see on meat and dairy packages these days. But what do they actually mean? Can they be trusted? Michael dives into this question with Carrie Balkcom the executive director of the American Grassfed Association. AGA is the nation's singular independent certification program that confirms livestock are fed only their natural diet for their entire lives.
2023-07-1837 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#6 - Deep Connections: Healthy Soil Leads to Healthy Plants, Animals and HumansSpencer Smith is a self-described soil nerd who has raised livestock his whole life. He believes California is a great place to produce grass-fed beef. His goal as a consultant is to help livestock producers optimize the health of their land in order to ecologically, humanely and profitably manage businesses that deliver healthy food for humans.
2023-06-1347 min
Flipping the TableS5 - Ep#5 - Will California's Nutrition Incentive Program (CNIP) live on?Since 2016, California has provided $30 million in matching funds to attract nearly the same amount from the USDA in order to provide SNAP families with matching dollars to support their purchase of healthy fresh and organic produce. Minni Forman, Valeria Velazques Duenas and Shawn Harrison, who manage nutrition incentive programs in their communities, share their work and the impact of both CNIP and the Market Match promotion of incentives offered at over 200 farmers markets and farms stands in California.
2023-05-1837 minFlipping the TableS5 - Ep#4 - How Cliff Pollard and Cream Co, Inc. provide the missing middle link in creation of West Coast regional regenerative meat supply chainsIn the national effort to reanimate local and regional meat supply chains serving primarily organic and regenerative ranchers, the key is a what is known as a "cut and wrap facility." These are where animal carcasses are skillfully cut into steaks, chops and roasts and ground into burger and hot dogs sought by shoppers, restaurants and cafeteria food providers. Cream Co, founded by Cliff Pollard, fills this vital niche on the nation's west coast.
2023-04-0949 minFlipping the TableS5 - Ep#3 - Jacob Katz, senior scientist for the nonprofit California Trout, describes how flexible farmers are a solution to major endangered species problemsCalifornia has declared that species diversity is a major environmental goal. After 150 years of intensive agriculture, achieving that goal is a challenge. But there is a great example underway on the Sacramento River where endangered salmon are being saved by proactive rice farmers. The Nigiri Project reveals an approach that has implications for crop and livestock operations across the state and the nation.
2023-03-1449 minFlipping the TableS5 - Ep#2 - Leonard Diggs and the Regenerator Project on cultivating the next generation of women and BIPOC farmers and ranchersWe need more farmers and many of them must be women, Black, Indigenous and other people of color in order to sustain the nation's food abundance and heal the wounds of the nation's persistent racism. After a 35-year farming career, Leonard Diggs, a Black farmer from California's Great Central Valley, is fully engaged in supporting the emergence of that healing generation of new farmers.
2023-02-1449 minFlipping the TableS5 - Ep#1 - Food recovery at scale: Rick Nahmias on the birth and growth of Food ForwardFood justice and climate change demand an end to good waste. Food Forward in Los Angeles is the most impressive food recovery program we've ever seen. Founder Rick Nahmias shares the story of how he and his team have delivered over 1 billion servings of food to 150,000 people per day.
2023-01-1848 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#12 - A Look Back at the Roots of Change story in its 20th year of existenceFlipping the Table is a production of Roots of Change, a program of the Public Health Institute. Roots of Change has been a major catalyst in the growth and power-building of the good food movement. It was launched in 2002 and this episode features a conversation with 4 individuals who have been deeply involved in its founding and evolution and offer perspectives on what has worked and what has not.
2022-12-2055 minFlipping the TableS4 - Ep#11 - Update on the Achieving of Resilient Communities project and more with Maureen McGuire, CEO of Ventura County Farm BureauAfter talking about the day's farm tour on the Oxnard plain of Ventura County to educate CalPolySLO engineering students working to keep drinking water cool for farmer workers in hot fields, Maureen and Michael explore how to solve the many complex challenges faced by farmers in a time of intense political polarization, climate change and escalating prices.
2022-11-1550 minFlipping the TableS4 - Ep#10 - How Siskiyou County might save good ranches and healthy meat in the age of industrial concentration and climate change. A conversation with Grace Woodmansee and Tom TomichYou have probably heard how challenging it is to keep a farm or ranch alive in today's industrial food system. Low prices, high barriers to market entry and climate impacts are killing off the family ranches that are the primary sources of meat. Big corporations are capturing the vast majority of the wealth and impoverishing rural communities. Hear about one attempt to turn the tide in one of the most rural regions of California, which is home to many good people and beautiful ranches seeking more direct relationship to urban eaters.
2022-10-1156 minFlipping the TableS4 - Ep#9 - Woody Tasch, Slow Money and a Call to FarmsPerhaps no one has spoken so clearly about the problem of capitalism and its impact on our food system as Woody Tasch. He is the founder of the Slow Money Institute and the movement it supports. Hear about his latest written statement, A Call to Farms and the Beet Coin initiative launching on September 11, 2022.
2022-09-0543 minFlipping the TableS4 - Ep#8 - Carmen Snyder on the nation's first Farm Trails map and promotor of local small family farmsResilience requires access to local food. One model of how to sustain and promote local farms is Sonoma County Farm Trails. Launched in 1973, it is the nation's first community-based organization with such a mission. Carmen Snyder, executive director, shares its story and about its upcoming event: the Gravenstein Apple Fair.
2022-07-2647 minFlipping the TableS4 - Ep#7 - Regenerative farmer Craig McNamara, son of Robert S McNamara, architect of the Vietnam WarCraig shares his dramatic life journey from the JFK White House to a farm near UC Davis, the challenge of loving a complex father and how his farm brought healing inside and with the Vietnamese people.
2022-06-2158 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#6 - Dr. Steven Chen on food as medicine and the futureThe healing power of food has long been recognized by indigenous cultures and through much of human history. Yet only recently has modern western medicine begun to return to food as healing agent. Diet related disease and other factors ignited this change. Dr. Steven Chen from Alameda County's health system describes how produce prescriptions and medically tailored meals are moving front and center in the effort to heal our communities and create health equity.
2022-05-1744 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#5 - Two Young Regenerative Meat Producers Share Their Challenges and SolutionsGuido Frosini and Sarah Silva, members of the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative, tell us what production and processing challenges they face and how they are solving these challenges even amidst global warming.
2022-04-2655 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#4 - Three social justice leaders share their views on the struggle for Health Equity and Racial Justice FundCommunity food projects and much more would be funded if we can place the Health Equity and Social Justice Fund in the California Budget. Mar Velez, Rod Lew and Ron Coleman, three veteran policy campaigners leading the charge, describe the fund, its uses and how we plan to win the Governor's support.
2022-03-2233 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#3 - Let's Feed LA County team reveals the power of community based organizations in our challenging agePandemic, heat waves, fires and storms demand robust public health infrastructure that includes networks of well resourced community based organizations (CBOs). The Let's Feed LA County program that included 19 local organizations, Roots of Change, Center for Wellness and Nutrition and Wholesome Wave makes clear the need to permanently invest in CBOs on the frontline so they are ready when things get tough.
2022-03-0142 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#2 - Protecting Farmworkers by Achieving Resilient Communities, Part II with John KristMichael talks with John Krist, retired CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau, about the need and challenge of protecting farmworkers.
2022-02-1654 min
Flipping the TableS4 - Ep#1 - The ARC project, Part I with Maricela Morales of CAUSEA conversation with Maricela about the Achieving Resilient Communities project and her work with Central Coast Alliance for Sustainable Economy. Maricela is a social justice warrior and the project is a core initiative of Roots of Change and its partners at the Public Health Institute.
2022-01-1846 min
Flipping the TableEp#3 - Unprecedented funding for local, just and regenerative food and farmsCA movement leaders describe the $3.3 billion Resilient Food and Farm bond and budget request.
2021-05-1843 min
Flipping the TableEp#2 - Imhoff Archives with Temple Grandin, animal behaviorist.One of Dan's most challenging and interesting interviews with the renown animal welfare advocate and gifted autistic. Dr. Grandin has transformed livestock handling.
2021-04-0855 min
Flipping the TableEp#1 - Season 3 Opener with Tom Philpott, author of "Perilous Harvest"Michael and Tom discuss California's immense water problems and potential solutions. S3 E1 sets the stage for a great season of how CA is solving 21st century food system challenges.
2021-03-2355 min
Flipping the TableEp#27 - Naima Penniman, inspiring poet, is our Season II finale!Naima shares her path, her poetry and vision for a food system and society that is healed, just and regenerative. An inspiring end to Season II!
2020-12-2354 min
Flipping the TableEp#26 - Imhoff Archives with pioneering organic farmer Eliot ColemanDan Imhoff dialogues with Eliot Coleman, Maine's Four Season Farm founder, author and organic farming pioneer. Eliot shares what plants want, what growers around the world can teach, and how small farms can make money.
2020-12-101h 02
Flipping the TableEp#25 - Deborah Madison, the Queen of Greens shares her life.Author, educator, recovering Buddhist and model for a life well lived, Deborah shares her stores of a culinary and farm-centered cook's life, all from her memoir An Onion In My Pocket.
2020-11-2655 min
Flipping the TableEp#24 - Imhoff Archives with Wendell BerryWriter and activist Dan Imhoff speaks with farmer, poet and seminal writer Wendell Berry about the "oversimplification" of agriculture and all the resulting challenges.
2020-11-121h 04
Flipping the TableEp#23 - 3 Amigas Seek to Break a Meaty LogjamCelebrity chef & farmer Duskie Estes, rancher Kathy Webster and farmer Sarah Silva launched the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR C) to support local livestock producers providing safe, healthy meat to a growing market.
2020-10-2947 min
Flipping the TableEp#22 - Imhoff Archives Intro ShowWriter, farmer, activist Dan Imhoff wets our appetite for six conversations he recorded with the pioneers of regenerative and organic agriculture in the early 2000s. The Imhoff Archives will run once per month over the next 6 months.
2020-10-1548 min
Flipping the TableEp#21 - Christine Tran & the LA Food Policy CouncilThe new leader of the nation's largest and most impactful food policy council shares her lived experience and vision for LA's food future.
2020-10-0153 min
Flipping the TableEp#20 - Joe & Julie Morris talk grassfed beefThe future of a healthy and regenerative meat source is visible by looking at Morris Grassfed. A 30-journey to build a network of mutually beneficial relationships that are good for people, animals and the planet!
2020-09-1749 min
Flipping the TableEp#19 - Filmmaker Sanjay Rawal, describes his new film GatherNative peoples are rebirthing their food traditions to heal the impacts of the modern American diet and political and economic oppression. Sanjay's new film captures three inspiring stories of reclaimed food sovereignty.
2020-09-0350 min
Flipping the TableEp#18 - Soil advocate Diana Donlon describes power of soil and her workThe soil is a powerful tool for combatting climate change. Through her nonprofit, Soil Centric, Donlon builds support and pathways for everyone to join the campaign to build soil and capture carbon to create a healthier future.
2020-08-2053 min
Flipping the TableEp#17 - School Food's Future With Adam KesselmanThe leader of the Center for Ecolitercy provides a picture of their work to transform school meals and how they've adapted in the time of COVID.
2020-08-0648 min
Flipping the TableEp#16 - Final installment with J. Miakoda Taylor, on crossing the divides of race and privilege.We unpack the role of white fragility, its relationship to shame, numbness and rage and ways to "keep ourselves on the hook" as participants in the healing of the nation's deepest wound.
2020-07-231h 04
Flipping the TableIn a special "Beyond Your Table" podcast, Erin Fitzgerald of US Farmers and Rancher Alliance provides a pandemic update.This is a follow up to Michael's fall 2019 dialogue with Erin regarding her work to rally American food and agriculture to become climate heroes. He joins Rodger Wasson his colleague for the new podcast series "Beyond Your Table: From the Real Dirt to Common Ground." We explore the important question: can Erin rally the industry given the complexities and challenges upon us?
2020-07-0939 min
Flipping the TableEp#15 - Dr. Britt Wray on her new book "Generation Dread" re the impact of climate chaos and other crises on our psychesGlobal warming, Covid-19 and the murder of Black people is impacting the minds of humans planet wide. What can we do to deal with the stress and great fears before us? Britt offers hope and a path.
2020-06-2545 min
Flipping the TableEp#14 - Miakoda, a BIPOC-healer of racial divides, shares their experience of this dramatic moment.A dialogue on how sensations within the body and feelings allow those divided by race and privilege to find paths to healing the deep and historical national wounds that hobble us all.
2020-06-1155 min
Flipping the TableEp#13 - Gleaning: Ancient local solution to a current national challengeChef Duskie Estes and Melita Love of Farm to Pantry share benefits of gleaning to feed the hungry and end food waste
2020-05-2843 min
Flipping the TableEp#12 - Jack Algiere and the Stone Barns CenterA man on a mission to teach the art and advocate for a regenerative agriculture
2020-05-2149 min
Flipping the TableEp#11 - Thomas McQuillan, VP of Strategy, Culture & Sustainability at Baldor Specialty Foods.Based in the Bronx, New York. Baldor may be the most innovative food service distributor on the East Coast. You'll hear about their impressive food waste reduction programs and adaptation of their business during the pandemic.
2020-04-3039 min
Flipping the TableEp#10 - Jim Araby on the fate of frontline food chain workers in our time.Jim, a leader of the United Food & Commerical Workers Union, talks about how COVID and the current political dynamics may offer a better future for those who move the food from farm to table.
2020-04-1641 min
Flipping the TableEp#9- Tough impacts, good news and lessons learned from the front line of four California farms in this pandemic.Anya Fernald of Belcampo Meat Co. Chris Sayer from Petty Ranch, Don Cameron from Terra Nova Ranch Inc. and Judith Redmond from Full Belly Farm share how they are adapting, learning and finding opportunities in this crazy COVID time.
2020-04-0931 min
Flipping the TableEp# 8 - Allen Katz of NY Distilling Company, a man of great spiritsAllen Katz, a pioneer in the craft distilling world and the Slow Food movement shares his uplifting stories about how his work has brought pleasure and conviviality, while highlighting the small grain farmers of upstate New York.
2020-04-0253 min
Flipping the TableEP# 7 - Alice Waters, A Special EpisodeAn uplifting conversation re a healthier future for our kids
2020-03-2652 min
Flipping the TableA COVID CommentaryMichael's brief download as second week of shelter in place order begins
2020-03-2405 min
Flipping the TableEp#6 - Dave Henson of OAEC, on how the world will change, a timely conversation in the midst of a pandemic.With nearly 40 years of activism toward right relationship to nature and our fellow humans, few people in American have more perspective on change movements and the moment in which we live than Dave Henson, Executive Director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.
2020-03-191h 09
Farm To Table TalkBeyond Your Table – Michael R. Dimock and Rodger WassonThe real dirt to common ground is found \"Beyond Your Table\". It\'s a new podcast launched at the 2020 World Ag Expo in Tulare CA. Leading voices in the agriculture and food space found common ground on the future of agriculture from diverse perspectives. Podcasters and co-hosts, Michael R. Dimock of Flipping the Table and the advocacy group Roots of Change and Rodger Wasson of Farm to Table Talk engaged two of California’s most important farmers in a roundtable dialogue. Don Cameron President of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and VP and General Manager of TerraNova Ranch ...
2020-03-101h 26
Flipping the TableBeyond Your Table: A new podcast co-hosted by Michael Reid Dimock & Rodger WassonFrom real dirt to common ground, Michael & Rodger engage farmers on the cutting edge who deliver the world's best produce that meets the needs of our challenging time.
2020-03-101h 26
Flipping the TableEp#5 - Kathleen Finlay on our future farmerThe Glynwood Center's dynamic leader shares her strategy for creating viable regional food and farming economies.
2020-03-0544 min
Flipping the TableEp#4 - A conversation with award-wining author and science journalist Dr. Britt WrayHubris born of human ingenuity has unleashed myriad unintended consequences that now threaten life as we know it. Britt & Michael explore how her insightful work offers an antidote to the deadly hubris that ail our species.
2020-02-2052 min
Flipping the TableEp#3 - Belle Harlem is 250 square feet of delicious community successDarryl and Melissa Burnett built a thriving restaurant business designed to maximize neighborly intimacy in an age of fast food, large dinning rooms and mass marketing
2020-02-0651 min
Flipping the TableEp#2 - California's Secretary of Food & Ag Karen RossBalancing and sowing agreement among divergent forces, while still making change requires skill. Hear from a leader doing it.
2020-01-2345 min
Flipping the TableEp#1 - Peter Hoffman, NYC's most thoughtful activist chefChef Hoffman shares his unique culinary journey, including how he catalyzed farm to table in the Big Apple.
2020-01-0937 min
Flipping the TableEp#50 - Season I Finale - With snippets from memorable moments, we hear what Michael and Patrick took away from six of the 27 guests featured in season 1.Host Michael Reid Dimock and Producer Patrick Sexton look back on a great year of conversations about food, farming and the future. With snippets from memorable moments, we hear what they took away from six of the 27 guests featured in season 1.
2019-12-2419 min
Flipping the TableEp#49 - Erin Fitzgerald of US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance 2.0 is thinking big re ag's role in the climate crisis.Erin has immense faith in business and seeks to make ag the center of our economy and farmers the climate heroes of our time. We hope she can!
2019-10-1547 min
Flipping the TableEp#48 - Swedish millennial food activist, Elise Johanson, flips the table on Michael.Like Greta Thunberg, Elise is doing her part to save the planet. She came to California to learn about the food movement. It's a great episode if you want to know more about Roots of Change's work.
2019-10-0243 min
Flipping the TableEp#47 - Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint (winner of 2019 Basque Culinary World Prize)The dynamic couple behind the iconic San Francisco restaurant Mission Chinese share the story of how they came to collaborate with the State of California on a program that will make it easy for restaurant patrons to support farms and ranches that capture carbon in their soil.
2019-09-2447 min
Flipping the TableEp#46 - How to win the big one with Dr. D'Artagnan ScorzaA tax on sugary beverages could make food justice for all much more achievable. But Big Soda's money in politics makes passing the tax very hard. We think Dr. Scorza's approach is the only path to victory.
2019-09-1024 min
Flipping the TableEp#45 - Dueling podcasters: Rodger Wasson and Michael compare journeys and perspectives on agriculture.Native son of the Heartland Rodger Wasson, host of the Farm to Table Talk podcast, and Michael discuss their alternate paths, but common love of agriculture and food. Includes an interesting contrast in their views of a recent viral video from the traditional ag industry on its role in solving climate change.
2019-09-0338 min
Flipping the TableEp#44 - LA Food Policy Council Leader, Clare Fox, shares How They've Made Change HappenLA FPC is a leader in the nation. Its success comes from great leaders and community inclusion to set agendas and making community voices heard. It's an inspiring story and model for any community seeking health and justice.
2019-08-2759 min
Flipping the TableEp#43 A California lemon and avocado farmer, Chris Sayer, weighs in on this question: Is government the farmers' enemy?Chris Sayer shares the pleasures and perils of farming in Ventura County, including climate resilience, cannabis production, the cost and benefit of CA's regulations
2019-08-1350 min
Flipping the TableEp#42 - Michael's Final Thoughts Coming Out of Slow Food Nations in DenverMichael shares his history within Slow Food's leadership and some of his peak experiences during those years. He ends with some assessments about Slow Food's strengths and weaknesses and his hopes for the US organization.
2019-08-0614 min
Flipping the TableEp#41 - Slow Food Nations Special: Navajo Nation's Junk Food Tax Points The Way To Health EquityDenisa Livingston, Dine leader from New Mexico tribal lands, shares groundbreaking victory in taxing soda and junk food to help heal her people ravaged by Type II Diabetes. It's a brief and uplifting conversation!
2019-07-3015 min
Flipping the TableEp#40 - Marissa La Brecque & Jennifer Breckner - Slow Food Nations SpecialTwo veteran chapter leaders, Marissa La Brecque and Jennifer Breckner, share the highs and lows of movement leadership at the local level.
2019-07-2532 min
Flipping the TableEp#39 - Mecca or Wreaka: Facing the Bay Area Restaurant CrisisChefs Duskie Estes and Anthony Myint join a live audience of Millennials to talk about the challenges, opportunities and future of the Bay Area's culinary scene.
2019-07-231h 21
Flipping the TableEp#38 - Paolo Di Croce - On Slow Food's FutureIn its 30th year of existence, the Slow Food movement's main man, shares his story and that of the movement he shepherds globally.
2019-07-2253 min
2019-07-2110 min
Flipping the TableEp#36 - Special Report From Slow Food Nations - Part 1Big take away from the Leaders' Summit
2019-07-2004 min
Flipping the TableEp#35 - Kat Taylor - Play Big: A Powerful Woman With Multiple MissionsKat is out to transform critical sectors of society: agriculture, democracy, finance & philanthropy.
2019-07-1648 min