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The Unaddressed Crisis in Agriculture

Neither the media nor policymakers are sufficiently focused on an existential crisis in American agriculture. Farmers and ranchers are an endangered species. As we do for wolves, salmon and whales, […]

S5 – Ep#1 – Food recovery at scale: Rick Nahmias on the birth and growth of Food Forward

ROC Celebrates 20 Years of Growing the Good Food Movement & Making Change, 2002-2022

The final Pulse and Flipping the Table podcast of 2022 look back on what the ROC team has learned about movement building to make change. Twenty years is a long […]

S4 – Ep#12 – A Look Back at the Roots of Change story in its 20th year of existence

S4 – Ep#11 – Update on the Achieving Resilient Communities project and more with Maureen McGuire, CEO of Ventura County Farm Bureau

Please Think of Us in This Season of Giving

­­­­­I recently reviewed my Facebook posts from the beginning of the Trump era in late 2016. I was struck by two things. First, the movement to create a just, healthy […]

On Bias and Rationality

Guest blog by Maureen McGuire, CEO, Farm Bureau of Ventura County. Published with permission.  Instead of the typical motivational poster, I have an infographic of 188 cognitive biases hanging on […]

S4 – Ep#10 – How Siskiyou County might save good ranches and healthy meat in the age of industrial concentration and climate change. A conversation with Grace Woodmansee and Tom Tomich.

Success All Around in California’s Budget and Promising Developments in DC

Extreme drought, heat, fire, superstorms and malnutrition abound. Luckily governments at all levels are slowly building up steam to address these threats born of climate change, racism and poverty. I […]

S4 – Ep#9 – Woody Tasch, Slow Money and a Call to Farms