Carrie Balkcom Is the Executive Director of the American Grassfed Association. AGA is the National, multispecies entity organized to protect and promote Grassfed and pasture based farmers and ranchers. AGA is the leader in pasture based production and the oldest grassfed certification in the United States. AGA certifies ruminants and...

Meet Sarah Teale, documentary filmmaker and founding member of Adirondack Grazers Cooperative, a group of beef producers from small to mid-scale, family farms in New York and Vermont that naturally raise and finish beef. The Co Op's mission is to maximize member revenue by developing sales in wholesale and specialty...

Quick service restaurants are one of the most interesting case studies in sustainability and sourcing - and Chipotle is arguably the best in the business. Tune in to a brand new episode of What Doesn't Kill You as Katy Keiffer chats with Chipotle Communications Director Chris Arnold. Chris oversees a...

Get ready to meet one of the hardest working people in institutional dining on a brand new episode of What Doesn't Kill You as Katy Keiffer is joined by Ken Toong, Executive Director of University of Massachusetts Amherst Auxiliary Enterprises (AE) for the past 15 years. AE is the umbrella...

Meet Sarah Teale, documentary filmmaker and founding member of Adirondack Grazers Cooperative, a group of beef producers from small to mid-scale, family farms in New York and Vermont that naturally raise and finish beef. The Co Op's mission is to maximize member revenue by developing sales in wholesale and specialty...

This week's featured farmer: Garl Germann, Montana Meat Collaborative, Bozeman, MT. Garl Germann was raised on a small family cattle ranch in the Madison Valley of Montana. Having seen the cattle market decline over the course of four generations of producing calves for public auction, in 2005 Garl and his...

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...

Nothing Urgent takes a somber tone this week; Derek Evers covers the recent shooting and subsequent closing of Big Snow Buffalo Lodge. Joining Derek is journalist Dale Eisinger, who recently reported on the incident in The Village Voice. Dale recounts the events of the shooting, and how it has affected...

Think a vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier? Think again! This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides is joined in the "Foodiness Fallout Shelter" by in-house nutritionist, Kristin Wartman. Find out why products like Vega-Links and Tofurky are worse for your health than their original counterparts. Do you know...

Mariana Cotlear is back from Silicon Valley's Hack// Meat (organized by Food+Tech Connect and sponsored by Applegate and GRACE Communications Foundation) hack-a-thon and is here to report her experiences on this HRN Community Session! Learn about the impetus for the event, and why scaling sustainable meat is important to the...