HRN is spotlighting Michigan's overlooked food scene- starting with Detroit! Hear Chef James Regato of The Root Restaurant & Bar talk about the food landscape in the Motor City. How do local ingredients combine with ethic traditions to make something unique?

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks gets hyper-local with Ben Flanner of the Brooklyn Grange! The Brooklyn Grange hosts two rooftop farms in Queens and Brooklyn and produces vegetables for local markets.

Rachel Laudan is taking a culinary approach to world history in her book, Cuisine & Emire! This week on A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio talks with Rachel about the influences of medicine, politics, and religion on cuisine throughout the ages.

Today on Good Food, Daniel Meyer is talking health promotion and grassroots organizing with Nancy Heuhnergarth of the New York State Healthy Eating & Physical Activity Alliance and writer for Huffington Post.

On this edition of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking about the role of immigration in agriculture and our food system. Michel invites two people who work with immigrant and refugee populations onto the show- Larry Laverentz and Ellee Igoe.

Alyssa Viars developed her interest in food and agriculture issues, especially as they relate to policy, nutrition, and the environment, during her studies at American University and the University for Peace working towards an M.A. in Global Environmental Policy.

Beverly Bell discusses food sovereignty in the book she co-authored, Harvesting Justice. This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks with Beverly about the need to democratize the food system so it serves social interests and not those of corporations.

Roger Doiron is founder and director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based nonprofit network of over 25,000 individuals from 100 countries who are taking a hands-on approach to relocalizing the food supply.

Heather Paxson views cheese through an anthropological lens in her book, The Life of Cheese. On this week's Cutting the Curd Book Review, Diane Stemple invites Heather into the studio to discuss cheese- from its creation to its consumption.

Common Threads is connecting families to food in low income neighborhoods. Tune into this HRN Community Special to hear Erin Fairbanks talk with Linda Novick O'Keefe, the CEO of Common Threads.