As extreme weather events become increasingly common, how will apples fare? Will the taste of cider evolve? We return to the labs at Cornell University to get a crash course from our favorite pomologist in apple genetics, biodiversity, and climate change. Find out how studying (and growing) historic apple varieties...

It's turkey time on The Main Course! Patrick Martins calls Emily Cumbie-Drake, Sustainability Programs Coordinator at Emory University, to talk about their food purchasing practices. Emory has a food purchasing goal of 75% local or sustainable products by 2015; what kind of coordination is involved in organizing such a feat...

Learn about the Maine blueberry industry on this week's episode of The Farm Report with Professor David Yarborough! Erin Fairbanks chats with David via the phone lines to discuss the differences between wild and cultivated varieties of blueberries. Tune in to learn how Maine growers manage pests and weeds, and...

Kansas City and its surrounding towns are at the center of animal genetic diversity in the food movement. On this week's installment of The Main Course, Patrick Martins talks with Jonathan Justus, the chef at Justus Drugstore. Tune in to hear Patrick talk about the food landscape hundred of years...

Annual porkfest, Cochon 555, kicks off its 5th anniversary of celebrating heritage breeds in New York on February 10, with all female chefs: Alex Guarnaschelli (Butter, The Derby), Missy Robbins (A Voce), Shanna Pacifico (Back Forty West), Elizabeth Falkner (Krescendo) and Leah Cohen (Pig and Khao) will compete to be...

This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is geeking out with Dr. Charles Benbrook. Dr. Benbrook is a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University. He is the program leader of "Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health."...

On this very special episode of Taste Matters, Karen Karp sits in for Mitchell Davis as he organizes the 3rd annual James Beard Foundation Food Conference. Karen is joined in the studio by living legend Wendell Berry: farmer, economist, writer, and agronomist. Wendell is visiting New York City to receive...

Welcome to another episode of The Main Course! Patrick Martins rushes to Roberta's through Brooklyn traffic to talk with Thomas Odermatt of RoliRoti gourmet rotisserie. Thomas has been slow cooking chicken, pork shanks, and loins on a rotisserie for over ten years. Hear how Thomas has been inspired by his...

Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez are back from Harvard to help you in the kitchen on this week's Cooking Issues! Dave is gearing up to visit some world-class orchards across the pond with Harold McGee, but not before answering some listener questions. Hear Dave talk about the differences between the...

Sebas­t­ian Aguilar is the Farm Pro­gram Direc­tor and Course Instruc­tor at the Greenbank Farm Training Center. He and his wife have three chil­dren and have been man­aging organic veg­etable farms for the past 14 years in New Mexico, Wiscon­sin, and Wash­ing­ton State. Sebastian's pas­sions for top-quality produce, healthy soils, bio­dy­nam­ics...