Rodger Wasson, legendary voice of American food and farming, invites us to his virtual table where he talks to experts around the world about everything from food production and cooking to soil and the future of the planet
Farm to Table Talk
DC Central Kitchen combats hunger and poverty through job training and job
creation in Washington DC, providing hands-on culinary training for individuals facing high barriers to employment while creating living wage jobs and bringing nutritious, dignified food where it is most needed. Social ventures include serving scratch-cooked farm-to-school meals in DC schools, delivering fresh, affordable produce to corner stores in neighborhoods without supermarkets, and operating fast-casual cafes throughout the District of Columbia. Mike Curtin, CEO of DC Central Kitchen views food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds and build communities. www.dccentralkitchen.org
Ariane Daguin is the founder of D’Artagnan and the visionary behind the new All For One One For All (AOOA) Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley.Known as the “Mother of Farm-to-Table” in America, Ariane has spent decades shaping how we source, prepare, and think about our food. She introduced organic, humanely raised
meat to top chefs across the U.S. and is now fully immersed in regenerative farming, community-based agriculture, and field-to-table education. Raised in a French culinary dynasty, daughter of a Michelin-starred chef, and now a farmer-distiller—Ariane brings tradition and transformation, ethics and flavor to Farm To Table Talk. www.alloneoneall.com www.dartagnan.com
What happens when an Amish farmer in the world’s 4th largest Amish
community, farming with horses, recognizes that overdosing with chemical “solutions “is killing the soil? When that Amish farmer is John Kempf it leads to fresh eyes for actions that can bring soil back to life. In Europe for hundreds of years Amish farmers were known for resuscitating impoverished land and today’s solutions will grow to include AI and resilient microbial communities. John Kempf hosts the Regenerative Ag Podcast and has established Agronomic consulting, with fresh eyes. www.advancingecoag.com
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here is Organic and there is beyond Organic to regenerative organic, including soil health, animal welfare and social. 
California Certified Organic Farmers, CCOF, advances organic agriculture for a healthy world: advocating for organic policies, supporting the growth of organic through educationand grants and providing organic certification. A nonprofit organization governed by farmers and founded in California over half a century ago, today it serves North America and beyond with the support of consumers and policymakers. Kelly.Damewood is the CEO of CCOF. Kelly has managed a small orgnaic farm before law school and ultimately becoming CCOF’s policy director, she has,spearheaded key initiatives such as passage of state legislation to improve an outdated regulatory program for organic farmers and creating a groundbreaking project to drive organic
production and consumption in California. Kelly holds a Juris Doctor degree from Vermont Law School and a Master of Laws degree in agricultural and food law from the University of Arkansas School of Law. www.ccof.org
Food is life but our food system isn’t helping. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine—it’s now generating obesity, ill health, and premature death. We need to transform it into one that can nourish all eight billion of us and the planet we live on. That is the story learned in Food Fight by Stuart Gillespie. Dr. Gillespie has been fighting to transform our broken food system for the past 40 years. Stuart has been at the helm of the IFPRI’s Regional Network on AIDs, Livelihoods, and Food Security, has led the flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health research program, was director of the Transform Nutrition program, and founded the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions into public food policy. His work has driven change across all frontiers, from the grassroots to the political.FOOD FIGHT shines a light inside the black box of politics and power and, crucially, maps a way toward a new system that gives us hope for a future of global health and justice.
Farmhand supports CSA farmers and this podcast: farmhand.partners/farmtotabletalk
The long-anticipated MAHA Report : “Making our children healthy again” is published. In the preamble it claims “to be a call to action, presenting the stark reality of American Children’s declining health, backed by compelling data and long-term trends.” It unpacks the potential dietary, behavioral, medical and environmental drivers behind the crisis. Rodger Wasson and Callie Eideberg of the Vogel Group studied the report and discus the implications to the food industry in this episode of Farm To Table Talk. Callie Eideberg is a well-regarded policy expert on agriculture, land conservation, water policy and environmental issues, known for her ability to work with both political parties. Before joining the Vogel Group she served as Senior Professional Staffer to Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.
Agriculture, from farms to tables, have voices to be heard. Farm To Table Talk host Rodger Wasson brings his own voice to the table with farmers, chefs, policy makers, innovators and dreamers with conversations that offer ideas and inspiration to the food system . The table turns in this conversation as Rodger is a guest on Capri Cafaro’s Eat Your Heartland Out podcast on the Heritage Radio Network sharinghis
journey from farm to work for and with large, small, local and community farmers raising livestock, grain, produce, nuts and hopes. Farmhand supports this podcast: farmhand.partners/farmtotabletalk
Farmers work too hard for what they earn. They need to earn more and work less for their way of life that should be profitable. Small farms are critical to 
local communities and food systems, but are especially outmatched by the resources available to larger farms — technology, equipment, sales and marketing teams, and back office staff. So in partnership with local farms in Sonoma County California, Ari Memar founded Farmhand to level the playing field by equipping farmers with the technology and services to win back local share of the food dollar and support a thriving local food system. www.farmhand.partners/farmtotabletalk
The food system is extremely inefficient with 237 million tons going unsold or uneaten.–becomingfood waste, which goes t to landfill, incineration, or down the drain, or simply left in the fields to rot. That’s almost 120 billion meals’ worth of food that goes unsold or uneaten each year, roughly 1.4% of U.S. GDP. The impacts on climate and environment are also enormoussince food that is never eaten still requires resources to grow, harvest, transport, cool, cook or otherwise prepare—even when it ends up in land fills. Minnie Ringland is the Manager of Climate & Insights for www.reFed.org. 
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To be a good Doctor and to do good health you really need to understand farming and agriculture, because good farming also equals good health and overall wellness, once said Wendell Berry. Dr. Camilla Petersen owns her own concierge medical practice in Missoula Montana where creating good health starts with what we are putting into our bodies. Camilla is a ND, MD, FAAFP who grew up in the Ukraine and has practiced in Africa, South America, New Zealand, all over the USA and now in Missoula Montana where she is also a wife, mother of two, member of the Montana Medical Board, and a business owner.
www.petersenconciergemedical.com
