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Missouri Organic Association: Into the Future with New Ideas
Missouri Organic Association has recently received the gift of buildings for offices in Hartsburg. Their new Boone County location will benefit farmers and other food ...
The Archives: Wood Stove Safety, Natural Dyes and More!!
KOPN community radio has been around since 1973, so the archives provide a treasure trove of information, much of it passed from person to person in interviews before ...
Iowa's Art Cullen: Editor of the Storm Lake Times
Art Cullen and the Storm Lake Times made history a few years ago when the small-town newspaper won a Pulitzer for editorial reporting. In a state where conservative va...
Chatting with Howie Shucard, award-winning dog trainer
Howie Shucard of Ashland, Missouri, is an award-winning dog trainer specializing in curing aggression problems. Especially important during lockdowns, he wants all dog...
Opponents of Cooper County Cafos and Dr. Elliott Murphy
This program, which aired on July 8, 2020, begins with regular feature, "Agriculture in the News," focusing on land grabs by investment firm TIAA in Brazil. Then, the ...
July 15 2020 BONUS Interview Material
The interview went longer than the episode could contain. This bonus episode is provided in order to share with you everything that Dr. Lawrence shared with us.
July 15 2020 Interview with Dr. Robert Lawrence about public health risks that CAFO's create.
Josh interviews Dr. Robert Lawrence who shares stories about health studies and crisis that have occured as a result of CAFO presence in a community.
July 1, 2020: Discussion with Nadia Navarette Tindall about foraging, growing and eating native plants
Josh and Nadia Navarette Tindall discuss several native plants available for consumption and planting in home gardens.
Big win! Victory Against the E.P.A. on the Dicamba Issue!
Steve Smith is Agriculture Director of Red Gold Tomatoes and has led the charge against the overuse of chemicals on farm fields. In this conversation he talks about th...
An Introduction to Rodale Institute in Iowa
Rodale Institute was the first farming organization to experiment and promote organic principles. Indeed, Rodale was the inventor of organic farming, insisting that th...
Growing Hemp in Mid-Missouri
In 2017, the Missouri State Legislature passed a law allowing the cultivation of hemp in Missouri. Dan Kuebler of the Salad Garden in Boone County is one of the early ...
Pete Buttigieg at the Iowa Farmers Union Annual Meeting
"Mayor Pete" admits that he is from an urban background, but adds that his young life was much like that of rural youngsters who grow up thinking "success is getting o...
Cory Booker at Iowa Farmers Union
Cory Booker is from New Jersey, but he has family in Iowa and he has studied issues in rural America hard, even traveling across the midwest and visiting farms to lear...
Amy Klobuchar at the Iowa Farmers Union
Amy Klobuchar has received the Farmers Union Golden Triangle award several times in gratitude for work she has done for family farms. A Minnesotan, in her speech she t...
Bernie Sanders at the Iowa Organic Association Conference
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders laid out plans for USDA under his administration, including ideas like reinstating Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) which is nec...
Conversation with Stephen G. Jeffery, attorney
Farm and Fiddle hosts Rhett Hartman and Margot McMillen begin the conversation with Steve Jeffery with the questions, "what is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation"...
Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center: A mid-Missouri Pioneer
Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center was an early entry into the magic of horse therapy for people of all ages, with all kinds of needs. In this episode, founder Kare...
Wood Hat Distillers: Missouri heritage corn, Missouri barrels, Missouri water, Missouri whiskey
Agronimist Gary Hinegardner spent a career studying heritage corn types--corn that tastes good even though it might not yield as high as commercial hybrids. Then, he w...
A conversation with Josh Stevens, forester
Josh Stevens, forester, talks to Rhett Hartman about forest products--medicinal, food and wood--and how to manage them in Missouri forests. It turns out that, besides ...
Susan Williams and Tena Potts: she-roes won't give up the fight against factory farms
When Cooper County neighbors heard that a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) had requested licensing in their community, a citizens' group was quickly formed...