FERN Investigative reporter/editor Sam Fromartz on "The Search for the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey"
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Sam Fromartz is Editor in Chief of the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN). His interest in food isn’t limited to the academic or mud-raking, however. He grew up on the great rye breads made in his native Brooklyn and has been a devoted bread baker for decades. His passion for crusty artisan breads collided with his journalistic career several years ago to send him on a three year journey around the world in search of the perfect loaf.
What: Deep Roots Radio conversation with Sam Fromartz When: Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014, 9:00-9:30AM Central Time Where: Broadcast and streamed live from the studios of WPCA Radio, 93.1FM and www.wpcaradio.org
Sam Fromartz
A highly experienced, nationally-recognized and celebrated investigative journalist, Sam Fromartz is Editor in Chief of the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN). His interest in food isn’t limited to the academic or mud-raking, however. He’s been a devoted bread baker for decades. His passion for crusty artisan breads collided with his journalistic career several years ago to send him on a four year journey around the world in search of the perfect loaf.
The linkages between art, life and the land are deep and undeniable according to nationally- and internationally-recognized painter Gregg Rochester. With degrees and experience in the arts and psychology, Rochester creates oil painting that tap these ties and pull you into their agricultural landscapes. Join us tomorrow, on Deep Roots Radio, for our conversation.
What: Deep Roots Radio with Gregg Rochester
When: Nov. 29, 2014, 9:00-9:30AM Central Time
Where: Broadcast and streamed live from the studios of WPCA Radio, 93.1FM and wpcaradio.org
Growing agricultural tourism - good for farmers, good for visitors
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A well-established tradition in Europe, agricultural tourism is now growing rapidly in the United States. In this Deep Roots Radio interview, Steve Peterson, President of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association, describes the educational, entertainment and economic benefits of this sector.
He recommends farmers explore resources at luv-r-ag.com.
Similarly, if you want to visit to a local winery or micro-brewery, or find a weekend farm-stay, travelwisconsin.com.
Enjoying the warm at Bull Brook Keep
If you’d like to visit our sustainable grass-fed beef farm, Bull Brook Keep, just give a call, 651-238-8525. We’d love to walk our pastures with you, and explain why we’re committed to raising our herd on grass, and only grass. No grains. No growth hormones. No sub-therapeutic antibiotics. We hope you’ll visit.
Sylvia
Dr. Gail Hansen - on industrial ag and antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming
The numbers are shocking: according to Save Antibiotics, a health initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, 23 thousand Americans die every year because they don’t have the medicines they need to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Add to this an additional two million who are sickened.
Why is this happening? How did we get here?
According to Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming, industrial livestock production plays a big role. The animals crowded into feedlots by the tens of thousands are fed sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics in their feed rations. This practice helps create antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs. And that’s a health threat of crisis proportions.
This situation can be reversed, says Dr. Hansen, and the greatest influencers are consumers – you and me. How?
Listen to this live Deep Roots Radio interview with Dr. Hansen, expert in infectious diseases and the antibiotic resistant superbugs that threaten public health in the US and worldwide.
U of Guelph research links GMO crops to dramatic decline of monarch butterfly
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Dr. Tyler Flockhart, University of Guelph researcher
Earlier this month, the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) released a research report that ties the dramatic decline of the monarch butterfly to the pervasive use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) crops across the United States.
Monarch butterfly – a pollinator
In this Deep Roots Radio interview, researcher and co-author Dr. Tyler Flockhart describes how his team identified the industrial agricultural practice of planting and spraying GMO cropland as a dominant contributor to the 90% decline in the monarch butterfly population in the eastern United States.
I hope you find his remarks as interesting as I did. Let me know what you think.
Sylvia
For a copy of the report: http://ow.ly/xVA2c
