On September 23, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization is hosting the first UN Food Systems Summit, with a goal of “setting the stage for global food systems transformation.” In this episode,

Journalist H. Claire Brown comes in to discuss the implications of her NY Times article on how weeds are outpacing science by half a decade. What will that mean for farmers? What will it cost consumers?

Author Nicolette Hahn Niman comes back to talk about her revised and expanded, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat.

“Regenerative Agriculture Needs a Reckoning,” wrote Joe Fassler, Deputy Editor of The Counter.

Today our guest Caroline Hostettler, introduces to the CTC audience what it means to participate in the Adopt an Alp program. Plus,  she explains the importance of the craftsmanship behind these cheeses.

Cover crops are good for soil health, water quality, and climate resilience, and while more farmers are planting them compared to a decade ago, the number of covered acres is still miniscule compared to the amount of cropland that goes bare each winter.

This week on Time For Lunch, Hannah and Harry are getting down and dirty in the smell, but essential world of composting. We hear from Jayne Merner Senecal of Earthcare Farm who is an expert on turning kitchen scraps into gardening gold.

When we talk about agriculture in the U.S. there is often an archetypical  American farmer that comes to mind. Perhaps they’re in overalls, maybe a cowboy hat, but they’re almost always white. The white farmer trope has become a fixture in America’s invented agricultural past.

This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies  hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Paula Johnson.

After observing how much the quality and variety of produce sold in grocery stores differed in neighborhoods across St.