Real Organic Podcast

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

Zephyr Teachout: Organic's Deal With The Devil

#279: Zephyr Teachout uses the question of organic integrity to explore a larger political problem: what happens when concentrated private power reshapes public rules whi

Austin Frerick: Food Barons - Live At Churchtown

#278: Austin Frerick takes the stage at our annual Churchtown Dairy event to explain why today’s food economy looks less like a functioning market that benefits farmers a

Lindsey Lusher Shute: GrownBy + The Future Of Farmer-Owned Tech

#277: Lindsey Lusher Shute returns to connect the dots between young farmer organizing, land access, and the practical tools farms need to survive. She shares how Hearty