The Food Chain

Michael Olson hosts Michael Grunwald, Author of "We Are Eating The Earth"

Some say the big problem is not fossil foods, it’s the food we eat!  If what they say is true, we simply must ask:

 Are we really eating up the earth?

Topics include why author Grunwald would say, “We are eating the earth;” how the production of food causes so much of th...

Michael Olson hosts Bob Vergidis, Chief Visionary Officer, PointOfSale.Cloud

When, of a sudden, the $10 restaurant burger became a $20 burger, the battle for the remaining burger customers across the land became intense.  This leads us to ask:

What is today's recipe for restaurateur survival?

Topics include the ingredients needed to cook up a ...

Guests:  Greg Peterson, Founder & CEO, Urban Farm.org & Belle Star, Co-Founder, SeedSchoolOnline

In a deed, plant a seed, make a garden grow and transform the taste of city!  And so we ask: 

Where can one obtain seeds to transform the taste of city?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Greg Peterson, Founder & CEO of UrbanFarm.org and Belle Star, Co-Founder of SeedSchoolOnline, for a conversat...

Michael Olson with Gary Bascou, Co-Founder, Staff of Life Natural Food Market

Staff of Life is a locally-owned grocery store competing for consumer dollars in a market dominated by corporate giants.  And so we ask:

How does a local grocery store survive in a marketplace of corporate giants?

Topics include the culture that gave rise to “natural” and “organic” food markets; how those foods gave rise to Staff of Life Natural Foods M...

There was a time farmers grew food with shovels, hoes and horses.  As technology progressed, they used tractors, fertilizers and pesticides.  Today, farmers grow food by stringing together binary digits of “Yes” and “No.”  That leads us to ask:

Can software sustain and regenerate agriculture?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dan Ryan, CEO of CIBO Technologies, for a conversation about how digital softwa...

It lives alone, and mostly hidden, in its magic kingdom.  Its members are said to include the largest living organism on earth.   That so many down-to-earth people become its ardent devotees leads us to ask:

What is the magic of mushrooms?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Ian Garrone, CEO & Founder Far West Fungi, Moss Landing, CA, for a conversation about ...

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Patrick Montgomery, CEO & Founder, KC Cattle Company & Valor Provisions Cooperative, for a conversation about finding real value when buying meat.

Topics include how a small producer of meat competes against America’s Big Four producers; how a cooperative of like-minded producers can increase the ability of each to survive; and the value that may be found in grass...

Michael Olson hosts Tobias Yeh – Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Medicine and Author of Clinical Truths: How to Not Be Misled by the FDA, Big Pharma & Your Doctor, for a conversation about the use of statin drugs to manage cholesterol.

Cholesterol is the waxy stuff of life that floats through the rivers of our blood veins. To manage this flow of cholesterol, people take $16 billion of statin drugs eve...

There is, one hopes, a little call-of-the-wild left in all of us – even those of us who live in a concrete box stacked 40 stories high in a city sky!  That call leads us to ask:

Where can one get a good taste of wild meat?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Daniel Laggner, Owner & Butcher, Wild Stag Provisions, for a conversation about food that is as close to the wild as commercially possible.

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They live where we can’t see them for a very good reason! They come in the night – and during the day– to steal the precious fruits of our labor. Their unrelenting assault on our good nature leads us to ask:

How can we get that #%*%# gopher?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Thomas Wittman of Gophers Limited, for a conversation about controlling gophers in the farm and garden.

Topics include why gophers ...

Michael Olson hosts

Dr. Jacob Manlove, Assistant Professor of Ag Economics, Arkansas State University

MSN recently served up some news that caught my attention.  The headline read, “Venezuela triples wages but still not enough to buy food.”

The writer went on to say that Venezuela’s new minimum wage of seven million bolivares per month is not enough buy two pounds of meat.

Shortly after reading this story I enjoyed a leisurel...

Michael Olson host Nutritionist / Author Jill Troderman Some facts:  One in five children are obese.  Two in five adults are obese.  The rate at which we are becoming obese has doubled since 1990.  A question: 

What should we feed the family?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Jill Troderman, award-winning nutritionist and author of The Food Tree, for a conversation about how best to feed one’s family.

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Michael Olson with Executive Chef Avram Samuels, Director of Culinary and Food & Beverage Operations, Chaminade Resort and Spa, Santa Cruz, CA

In 1963, California native and World War II veteran Julia Child showed up on Boston’s PBS television to tout her book on French cuisine.  It took her over a decade to get off that station!  During that time, Child’s “The French Chef” changed America’s taste in food.  And so we ask:   

Wh...

A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM MICHAEL OLSON  

Yogi Berra once gave this piece of sage advise:  “When you get to a fork in the road, take it!”  And so we ask:

Which way should we grow our food:  our way or nature’s way?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dr. Felix Zu Lowenstein, farmer & author of Food Crash: Why Organic is the Only Way Forward, for a conversation about his insistence that growing food org...

According to a University of Minnesota survey, 75% of people trust farmers, but only 24% trust food.  That leads us to ask:

Why do so many people trust farmers, but so few trust food?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Dennis Bulani, 4rth Generation Saskatchewan farmer, CEO of The Rack Petroleum & Author About Food: What a Farmer Wants you to Know, for a conversation about the efficacy and safety of i...

Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson Infertility on the Menu

They say men today have 60% less sperm than their grandfathers, and if the decline is not reversed, the sperm count in American males will drop to zero by 2045.  That thought leads us to ask:

Can eating the wrong food cause our population to collapse?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Samantha LeJune, Researcher, Population Research Ins...

Food now travels a long way from where it was grown to where it is eaten.  Sometimes bad things happen to good food along the way.  This leads us to ask:

What happens when bad food gets eaten by good people?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Wiggs Civitillo, Founder & CEO | Starfish-Network, for a conversation about the tracking food as it travels the food miles from farm to fork.

Topics include why ...

Hippocrates is said to have said, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” What Hippocrates said so long ago leads us to ask: 

Which food makes the best medicine?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Carin Fortin & Delmar McComb, Owners and Farmers, Blossom’s Biodynamic Farm, for a conversation about the biodynamic growing of food that that is me...

Kaysea Clark, Owner & Farmer, Flowers by the Sea

They say “The eyes are first to feast!”  If such is indeed the case, we wonder, 

Which flower is best to feast on?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Kaysea Clark, Owner & Farmer, Flowers by the Sea, for a conversation about growing and selling flowers to enjoy with food.

Topics include Clark’s transition from gardener to farmer; why the technology...