Jun 2, 2026
Anthropologist Ashanté Reese's new book explores Black community gatherings—and the nourishment, fellowship, and strength they cultivate. Reese is an anthropologist, author, and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches and writes about food...
May 19, 2026
Mimi Casteel grew up on a vineyard in northwestern Oregon, where her family made wine as much for the passion as for the livelihood. She left home to study forestry and worked as a botanist for the forest service, but the pull of agriculture brought her back to the family farm, where she introduced regenerative...
May 12, 2026
Six college students are bicycling from Washington State to Washington, DC, stopping at farms, restaurants, truck stops, and classrooms along the way, and asking, "What is the future of food?" In this podcast we talk two of them, Augusta Halle and Molly Moore. Their plans are to make a portrait series and short...
Apr 28, 2026
Anthropologist Andrew Flachs's new book
explores the food system through the lens of values like soil
health, human health, biodiversity, and rural communities—not just
profits and yields.
In his new book, Feeding the World as if People Mattered: How
Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields, he shows how we
could, by...
Apr 14, 2026