Our own Alida Cantor talks about social justice, sustainable agriculture and the tensions and opportunities around them.

Then Alida talks to Tracy Perkins about women environmental justice leaders in the Central Valley.

Plus news!

Shermain Hardesty of the UC Small Farm Center on the Week of Blueberries, a series of events and workshops promoting blueberries as a specialty crop for California farmers.

Maggie Lickter reports back on her recent trip to the Kellogg Food and Society Conference in Arizona.

And Appropriate Technology workshops at this year's WEF! 

Local Food Week!

It's Local Food Week here at UCD! We're talking to Dani Lee from Students for Sustainable Agriculture about what's going on this week. 

Natalie talks to Liz Fitzgerald about the student-run Project Compost and Rory talks to Carrie Juchau about the Davis Farm to School Connection.

Mike Rosmann, ED of Agriwellness, talks about the state of mental and behavioral health support for farmers and ranchers in rural areas.

Jason Mark talks to Alida about his new book Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots.

Spring gardening in Davis! Davis gardener Patricia Carpenter gives us tips and advice about growing in Davis.

Tianna Dupont reports back on the SARE (Sustainable Agriculture and Education) conference.

Natalie Yahr talks to WEF gardeners about their role in this year's Whole Earth Festival. 

Tianna talks to Aaron Hienrich about building conposting toilets on the UC Davis campus as well Engineers Without Borders' project to build them in Uganda.

News! - We catch up on all the ag-related stories in the news.  

Antonio Roman-Alcala and Jesse Sabin give us a picture of the sustainable ag movement in California as they have experienced it traveling the state shooting their documentary, In Search of Good Food.

 Steve Cullman is a visiting scholar from Cornell and a research fellow from the Land Institute in Salina Kansas talking all about the possibility and benefits of a perennial grain cropping system.

Trina Filan, UCD Geography grad student, talks about her studies and research on women and agriculture.

Natalie Yahr interviews Liz Fitzgerald about her recent travels in India, which included a stay at Vandana Shiva's research farm, as well as work on other farms and ag projects. 

Jo Ann Baumgartner, director of Wild Farm Alliance, talks about how farms can work to protect and promote biodiversity.

Ethan speaks with Mark Lundy about the Michigan-based animal traction education and promotion non-profit organization, Tillers International, and local efforts to develop a similar program here in Davis.

Special annoucements about Focus the Nation and news  of the developments in the Florida tomato pickers' campaign for better pay.

Jose Martinez, Executive Director of the Food Bank of Yolo County, talks to Rory about how food banks around the country are faring in the currently difficult economic climate.

We present some important news stories, including news of an upcoming FDA ruling on cloned animals in the food supply. 

Jerry Miller of Farmersonly.com, the online dating website for farmers and ranchers, tells us about why farmers have special dating needs and shares some success stories with Rory.

Tianna talks to the UCD chapter of Engineers Without Borders about their current and past projects in Uganda. 

Plus news about the EPA's recent rullng on methyl iodide. 

Rory O'Dwyer and Rex Dufour talk about ATTRA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, and the recent funding cuts they've experienced.

Tianna Dupont talks to Alan Forkey from the National Resource Conservation Service and Sid Staunton, an innovative farmer from Tulelake, about a Conservation Innovation Grants program called the Walking Wetlands Project. The Walking Wetlands project is a partnership between local farmers and agencies including the NRCS National Resource Conservation Service to preserve the economic viability of their farms while increasing access to wildlife habitat for migrating water fowl. As part of the walking wetlands project cropland is flooded on a seasonal basis. Flooding provides habitat to water fowl and helps farmers improve soil quality and manage pests and disease. 

Lloyd Johnson, a local grower, talks to Tianna Dupont about his farm and the crops he grows, how he got his start farming and the realities of being a small farmer.

Luis Sierra interviews Francisco Dominguez, a Sacramento-based photographer and art educator, about his work. Dominguez's exhibit The Immigrants' Rights Movement is currently on display at Shields Library as part of the Devil's Highway Campus Book Project.