Michael Phillips, author of The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way
The Biodynamics Now! Podcast Episode 4: Michael Phillips
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Biodynamics Now! Podcast Episode 3: Dr Alan Kapuler
Dr Alan Kapuler, Public Domain Plant Breeder (Scott Vlaun)
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Public Domain Plant Breeding by Dr Alan Kapuler, PhD.
Alan Kapuler is considered by many to be the founding father of the organic seed movement. He was the first Research Director of Seeds of Change and, along with his wife Linda and his three daughters Kusra, Elyria, and Dylana, has been saving seeds and breeding plants for over thirty years. His Peacevine Cherry tomato, Rainbow Inca Corn and other varieties have become known throughout the world. (From an interview by Scott Vlaun) Continue reading
Biodynamics Now! Podcast Episode 5: Charles C. Mann, author of “1491″ and “1493″
- Charles C. Mann, author of “1491″ and “1492″
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We’ll discuss new revelations in terra preta and how small islands off the coast of Peru gave birth to today’s high input agriculture and many other things about the New World created by Columbus.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Biodynamics Now! Podcast Episode 6: An Interview with Dr. Thomas Cowan, author of The Fourfold Path of Healing
Anthroposophic Physician Dr Thomas Cowan
We’ll be interviewing Dr Cowan on February 6. Now is the time to send us questions to ask him during the interview. (Best done by using the “Podcast” menu above or the ‘Comment’ panel below.)
Dr. Tom Cowan discovered the work of the two men who would have the most influence on his career while teaching gardening as a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, South Africa. He read Nutrition and Physical Degenerationby Weston Price, and a fellow volunteer explained the arcane principles of Rudolf Steiner’s™ biodynamic agriculture. These events inspired him to pursue a medical degree. Tom graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 1984. After his residency in Family Practice at Johnson City Hospital in Johnson City, New York, he set up an anthroposophical medical practice in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Dr. Cowan relocated to San Francisco in 2003. Continue reading
Biodynamics Now! Podcast Episode 2: Sally Fallon Morell
Publishing Date: January 12, 2012 • Available Now on iTunes
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Educator, advocate and activist, Sally Fallon Morell has probably been responsible for more healthy children in this country than any other single person. A generous and selfless evangelist for Traditional Foods, Ms Morell has created a world-wide organization to promote the distribution of knowledge of about sourcing and using Real Foods. Journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, mother, homemaker, advocate and community activist, Sally Fallon Morell is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Continue reading
The BDNow! Podcast Episode 1: Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin, author of FOLKS, THIS AIN’T NORMAL, at Polyface Farm
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- On the evening of December 22 (correction: the interview is now rescheduled to December 27), we’ll tape an hour long interview with Local Food/Real Food production innovator and mentor of thoursands of ecological farmers, the self-described “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer,” Joel Salatin, about any and all topics pertaining to food from how to produce it to how to assure we have access to it in its purest form. (The podcast will be available here and through iTunes by noon on Thursday, January 6, 2012.)
- You can ask Joel a question for this forthcoming interview by going to the “Podcast” menu above and choosing the “Ask a Question” sub menu. We’ll try to bring all questions to him on the evening of the 22nd. (No need to ask a question after December 22.) (Now rescheduled to a December 27 deadline.)
- If you haven’t read Joel’s newest book yet, you should get hold of it. It’s truly a deluxe publication: over 350 pages long (each one containing both facts and informative humor), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket and, unlike many books in the Health and Wellness genre, has an index! It’s a delightful, informative and entertaining read that makes clear the precarious situation we Americans have worked our way into by supporting a food system based on personal convenience and corporate profitability. Unlike many books on this topic, this book gives concrete ways and simple steps that every family can use to improve the quality of their nutrition and promote a higher level of household food security as a hedge against the insecurities of the weather, mainstream economics, and politics.
- While Folks, That Ain’t Normal is written for people who are just beginning to join the Local Real Food choir, I have to admit that although I have a lifetime of farming experience I gleaned a lot of practical knowledge from this easy-to-read book, from firewood gathering to old time hog butchering. Although our flock of heritage laying hens is around 200 strong, after reading Joel’s book, I’m pretty much convinced that I’m not practicing appropriate culinary ecology by not having a few in my backyard to eat table scraps as efficiently as possible and reduce the theoretical carbon food print of our breakfast eggs. Continue reading