What sense does it make when fresh strawberries grown in Pennsylvania are trucked westward to grace San Francisco fruit salads while California strawberries are shipped eastward to garnish New York desserts? Join us as we hop aboard the movement to buy and eat locally produced food, boosting the fortunes of local farmers and reducing our carbon footprints in the process.
This program was funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Jessica Prentice, Food Activist and Author
Diana Endicott, Kansas Farmer, Owner of Rainbow Farms
Patty Cantrell, Entrepreneurial Agricultural Director for the Michigan Land Use Institute
Alisa Smith, Co-Author of 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
Anthony Flaccavento, Creator Appalachian Sustainable Development
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Tammy Rae Scott, Kara Hochner
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: open- "A Small Farm in Kentucky" by John Anderson, KOCH Records; welcome- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; bridge 1- "Folk Vibe #1" by Tananas, ATO Records; break 1- "The Farm" by Jefferson Airplane, BMG Music; break 2- "Sweet Potato" by Celia, Love-O-Rama Records; bottom of the hour billboard- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 3- "Farm" by Immigration Movers, courtesy of Immigration Movers; close and credits- "A Small Farm in Kentucky" by John Anderson, KOCH Records.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
Food activist Jessica Prentice is the author of Full Moon Feast. Prentice strives to provide a model for how communities can come together and survive on locally grown food. Prentice helps to cook for the worker-owned cooperative, Three-Stone-Hearth.
Diana Endicott returned to her roots in Kansas to start Rainbow Farms where her goal was to make her farm self-sustaining while marketing her crops to local vendors.
Patty Cantrell assists local family farms expand local food choices by helping them to become economically more efficient through the Michigan Land Use Institute. Cantrell dedicates her work to encourage community facilities, such as schools and hospitals to buy locally grown food.
For one year journalist, Alisa Smith only ate food that was grown in a 100 mile radius of where she lived. This inspired her book 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change that she wrote with James MacKinnon.
Anthony Flaccavento was inspired to start Appalachian Sustainable Development when he began to help tobacco farmers’ transition to organic produce because tobacco was no longer a cash crop.
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