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Episode 07: Tia Keenan

A conversation with a cheese writer and community organizer about dairy production, anti-capitalist food systems, and her backyard chickens.

Episode 03: Getting Dirty

Are our lives too clean? Soil’s role in the biggest pandemic you’ve never heard of, and soil as a source of miraculous medicines.

Episode 06: Leah Kirts

A food writer and nutrition educator talks about her upbringing in rural Indiana, her time in the NYU food studies master’s program, and teaching kids about veganism.

Episode 05: Nadya Agrawal

The founder of Kajal magazine talks about what made her become vegan, how veganism can better connect with other social justice movements, and more.

Episode 02: The New Dust Bowl?

In this episode, we dive into the story of the Dust Bowl, which decimated 250,000 square miles of land in the United States in the 1930s —and Hugh Bennett, the man who saw it coming.

Episode 04: Lukas Volger

The cookbook author and editorial director of the queer food journal Jarry Mag discusses his 60 percent vegetarian diet, cookbooks, veggie burger lines, and more.

Episode 01: Look Down

Life depends on a thin layer of soil, wrapped around the planet like the skin of an apple.

Episode 03: Gabriel Hernandez

The chef of Verde Mesa in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, discusses the connotations of “vegetarian,” the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and the island’s beet resurgence.

Episode 02: Lagusta Yearwood

The owner of the chocolate shop Lagusta’s Luscious and its sister café, Commissary, discuss veganism’s oversights, sliding-scale soup, and anarchist business practices.