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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 185: Burlap & Barrel | 21 Apr 2025 | 00:46:00 | |
| Episode 184: Nasser Abufarha and Canaan Fair Trade | 17 Jun 2024 | 00:25:00 | |
| Episode 175: HEAL Food Alliance Takes On The Farm Bill | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:27:00 | |
| Episode 174: Phil Howard On Food Industry Consolidation | 31 Mar 2024 | 00:54:00 | |
| Episode 173: Who Wants To Kill The NLRB? With Professor John Logan | 24 Mar 2024 | 00:33:30 | |
| Episode 172: Grocery Update: Reinventing Retail and Food Processing | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:41:00 | |
| Episode 171: Austin Frerick Takes On The Grocery Barons | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:42:30 | |
| Episode 170: Magaly Licolli On Stopping Child Labor | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:22:00 | |
| Episode 169: Why Your Groceries Are So Damn Expensive | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:18:00 | |
| Episode 168: Matriark Foods Is Reinventing Food Processing | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:43:00 | |
| Episode 167: Common Ground | 12 Feb 2024 | 00:54:00 | |
| Episode 166: Why A Worker Cooperative “Works For All” | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:29:20 | |
| Episode 183: Peter Gialantzis of Pod Foods | 16 Jun 2024 | 00:34:00 | |
| Episode 165: Ellen Cassedy on “Working 9 to 5” | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:24:00 | |
| Episode 164: Trader Joe’s United Returns To The Checkout | 23 Jan 2024 | 00:41:20 | |
| Episode 163: COP28 Recap with Lauren Baker | 11 Jan 2024 | 00:19:00 | |
| Episode 162: Finnish Retail Cooperatives, with Ryan Cooper | 04 Jan 2024 | 00:36:00 | |
| Episode 161: Why Grocery Workers Oppose the Kroger-Albertsons Merger | 22 Dec 2023 | 00:54:00 | |
| Episode 160: Chloë Waterman On Reforming Public Food Procurement | 18 Dec 2023 | 00:54:00 | |
| Episode 159: Public Sector Food Supply Chains With Dr. Sarah Taber, Part 2 | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:54:00 | |
| Episode 158: Chef Ora Wise On Fighting Food Apartheid in Palestine | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:54:00 | |
Ora Wise is a Brooklyn-based chef, community organizer, cultural producer, and educator whose current work invests in community controlled and regenerative food systems. For over a decade, Ora focused on media-based education, including co-facilitating the Palestine Education Project's high school program Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture & Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine, serving as Youth Education Director for a progressive synagogue, and co-leading the Indigenous Youth Media Delegation to Palestine. In recent years, Ora founded The Dream Cafe, an experimental cooperative pop-up restaurant in Detroit as part of the Allied Media Conference and co-produced The Asymmetrical Table, a food sovereignty dinner series in downtown Manhattan centering the cuisine and activism of Palestinian women chefs. She currently co-directs the grassroots food justice collective FIG which operates political education and food distribution programs in partnership with frontline community organizations, farmers, and chefs. | |||
| Episode 157: Dr. John Fagan’s Concerning New Findings About “Animal Free” Dairy | 10 Nov 2023 | 00:35:15 | |
| Episode 156: Chef Reem Assil, Gaza and Hospitality For Humanity | 28 Oct 2023 | 00:42:30 | |
| Episode 182: The Regenerative Organic Certification | 20 May 2024 | 00:38:00 | |
| Episode 155: Talking Grocery and Public Food With Dr. Sarah Taber, Part One | 21 Oct 2023 | 03:15:00 | |
| Episode 154: Why Anchor Steam Should Become A Worker Owned Co-op | 28 Sep 2023 | 00:27:30 | |
| Episode 153: Kathy Finn of UFCW770 On Keeping Grocery Workers Safe | 14 Sep 2023 | 00:18:15 | |
| Episode 152: Cooperation Now More Than Ever: Grocery Cooperatives At Scale - Part 2 | 27 Aug 2023 | 00:47:00 | |
| Episode 151: Cooperation Now More Than Ever: Grocery Co-ops in the Age of Crisis - Part 1 | 22 Aug 2023 | 00:56:00 | |
| Episode 150: Kim Stanley Robinson | 03 Jul 2023 | 00:56:00 | |
| Episode 149: Urban Tilth | 16 Jun 2023 | 00:15:00 | |
| Episode 148: Advocates For Urban Agriculture (AUA) | 20 Apr 2023 | 00:36:00 | |
| Episode 147: Heather Terry of Goodsam Foods | 13 Apr 2023 | 00:32:00 | |
| Episode 146: How Can Grocery Prices Come Down? Inflation Update with Errol Schweizer | 10 Feb 2023 | 00:25:30 | |
| Episode 181: “Shoptalk #2”: Understanding Wholesalers | 13 May 2024 | 01:17:00 | |
| Episode 145: P. Wade Ross On Farming While Black In Texas | 02 Feb 2023 | 00:22:30 | |
| Episode 144: Grocery Inflation Update. | 27 Jan 2023 | 00:35:00 | |
| Episode 143: Ken Kolb on Retail Inequality | 23 Jan 2023 | 00:35:00 | |
| Episode 142: Professor Shane Hamilton | 19 Dec 2022 | 00:37:45 | |
| Episode 141: Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter and The Spirit of Soul Food | 30 Nov 2022 | 00:42:00 | |
| Episode 140: Grocery Update-Consolidation & Inflation | 08 Nov 2022 | 00:41:00 | |
| Episode 139: Dr. Ricardo Salvador | 05 Nov 2022 | 00:45:00 | |
| Episode 138: Starbucks Fires Award Winning Barista | 30 Oct 2022 | 00:18:00 | |
| Episode 137: Professor Marion Nestle | 27 Oct 2022 | 00:33:00 | |
| Episode 136: Matte Wilson on Indigenous Food Sovereignty | 24 Oct 2022 | 00:17:30 | |
| Episode 180: “Shoptalk”, with Co-Host Eve Cohen | 07 May 2024 | 01:11:00 | |
| Episode 135: Perteet Spencer of Ayo Foods on Collective Entrepreneurship | 05 Oct 2022 | 00:45:00 | |
Episode #135 Notes :30 Why did you start Ayo Foods? 4:00 On the reality of starting a startup food business. 6:45 The day to day of Ayo Foods. 10:00 On ‘The Ethnic Food’ aisle. 14:00 Retailers and supporting diverse entrepreneurs. 17:00 The economics of selling to distributors and retailers. 20:00 Closing thoughts. | |||
| Episode 134: Sarela Herrada of SIMPLi Foods on Building Regenerative Supply Chains | 26 Sep 2022 | 00:19:00 | |
| Episode 133: Why BCTGM Local 100G Workers Are On Strike At Ingredion | 14 Sep 2022 | 00:49:45 | |
| Episode 132: Roundtable Conversation on How Trade Spend and Slotting Fees Shape The Grocery Industry | 07 Sep 2022 | 00:51:00 | |