Real Organic Podcast

Kendra Klein: Pesticides, Power, And The Future Of Organic

297: Kendra Klein, senior scientist at Friends of the Earth, has spent years investigating the health and environmental consequences of pesticide-dependent agriculture. S

László Barabási: The Nutritional Dark Matter in Our Food

296: László Barabási has spent much of his career studying complex systems, from cells to social networks. This lifelong body of work eventually led him to ask a simple q

Chuck Benbrook: What the Driscoll’s Lawsuits Reveal

295: Chuck Benbrook returns with a close look at several legal battles involving Driscoll’s and what they may tell us about the enormous influence of the country’s domina

Paul Hawken: Can Chemical Agriculture Feed the World?

294: Paul Hawken challenges the assumption that industrial agriculture is necessary to feed a growing world. His starting point is the land itself: if chemical farming ha

Liz Carlisle: Land Sharing Is How We Feed the Future

293: Author and agroecologist Liz Carlisle has spent years documenting farmers who are building food systems around diversity, resilience, and cooperation rather than ext

Chellie Pingree: Can Healthy Food Bring Left and Right Together?

292: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree has spent years working at the intersection of farming, food, health, and federal policy. She sees growing concern about pesticides and

Corinne Hansch: Small Farms Can Make a Great Living

291: Corinne Hansch and her husband Matthew Leon started farming during one of the hardest financial periods of their lives. Years later, Lovin’ Mama Farm has become a th

Zephyr Teachout: Reorganizing Food Systems For Real Food

290: Antitrust scholar Zephyr Teachout explains how monopoly power has reshaped food, retail, health care, media, technology, and nearly every other part of American life

Bonus: Introducing No Small Endeavor: “What If We Get Climate Action Right? feat. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson”

Today, we are sharing an episode from the Signal Award-winning and 2026 Ambie Award-nominated podcast No Small Endeavor. Hosted by award-winning teacher and Professor of

Teri McCall: Jack's Fight, Roundup, And The Supreme Court

289: Teri McCall joins us to reflect on the life she built with her husband Jack, a farmer, before his death from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She talks about the early Monsan

John Fullerton: Regenerative Economics For A Living World

Former Wall Street banker John Fullerton traces the personal journey that led him to question the foundations of modern economics, inspired by witnessing 9/11 in real tim

James Cassidy: Soil, Civilization + The Future Of Farming

#286: Soil scientist and educator James Cassidy explains why the ground beneath us is far more than a medium for growing crops. Soil stores water and nutrients, supports

Amy Westervelt: Think Tanks, Greenwashing + The War On Reality

#286: "Drilled" host Amy Westervelt shares her deep knowledge of corporate propaganda, climate politics, and how the hidden systems that influence our consent as a societ

Mark Doudlah: From Glyphosate + Cancer To Real Organic

#285: Mark Doudlah shares his story of being a proud chemical farmer who fully transitioned to organic after a devastating family loss. He reflects on his father’s cancer

Nicola Shirley-Phillips : Growing Organic in Jamaica

#284: Nicola Shirley-Phillips joins us to explore the crossroads facing Jamaican agriculture. She reflects on Ital food traditions, the spread of Green Revolution farming

State of Seed Ep 1: How Seeds Feed the World

We have a special episode to share with you this week from our friends at the State of Seed podcast, produced by the International Seed Federation and the podcast team at

Chuck Benbrook: The Supreme Court’s Big Win for Bayer-Monsanto

Chuck Benbrook returns for an urgent conversation about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Bayer-Monsanto and the wider consequences for public health, pesticide regula

Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Why The Fair Food Program Works

#282: Greg Asbed and Gerardo Reyes Chávez join us again for a deeper look at how the Coalition of Immokalee Workers turned one of the most exploited sectors of the food s

Laura Orlando: PFAS, Sewage Sludge, And Poisoned Farms

#281: Laura Orlando explains what happens when industrial waste and human waste are routed into the same sewage system and repackaged to be sold as something safe - valua

Pam Koch: Joan Gussow’s Nutritional Ecology Legacy

#280 Pam Koch reflects on what she learned from Joan Gussow, how Nutritional Ecology changed the way students think about food, and why Joan’s ideas feel even more urgent