Food Freedom Radio – January 11, 2025

Embodied Permaculture with Dan McTiernan of https://earthbound.fi/ Oxford 2024 Word of the Year was Brain Rot. Let’s envision a better word for 2025. Thrutopia – Not utopia or dystopia but Thrutopia. How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? First we need to be in our bodies. On today’s…

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Food Freedom Radio – December 21, 2024

Host Laura Hedlund talks about the winter solstice with Liz Johnson from Magus Books and Herbs and Steven who tells us about this winter solstice event: https://givebutter.com/qx1HCT

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Food Freedom Radio – December 7, 2024

This week’s show features Eric Lee-Mäder author of The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology and Christopher Stein with Twin Cities Eco-Rotary to talk about connections between Milkweed and Monarchs.

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Food Freedom Radio – November 23, 2024

To start the show Laura Hedlund is joined by Dr. Ganga Hettiarachchi, Soil & Environmental Chemistry proefessor at Kansas State. She is one of the world’s leading scientists in the fields of trace metal and nutrient chemistry in soils. Then Laura is joined by herbalist Liz Johnson from Magus Books and Herbs as they talk…

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Food Freedom Radio – November 16, 2024

Host Laura Hedlund is joined by Natalia Mendez, Director of Marketing and Communications at Seward Community Coop. They talk about how Seward Coop can help you prepare for Thanksgiving!

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Food Freedom Radio – November 2, 2024 – Music, Democracy and Freedom

Music, Democracy and Freedom – a spiritual conversation as host Laura Hedlund talks about Bad Bunny and his impact on the election with three guests: Stephen Adubato is contributor to The Bad Bunny Enigma: Culture, Resistance, and Uncertainty and a journalism fellow at COMPACT Magazine and a professor of philosophy in NYC. Lee Hawkins is…

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Food Freedom Radio October 25 2024

Featured on this week’s show hosted by Laura Hedlund: The Metro Food Justice Network believes, “TOGETHER WE CAN MOVE AT THE SPEED OF TRUST” featuring the voices of DeVon Nolen, Allyson Green, Melvin Giles, Timothy Page, Sairoong Brunner and Lataijah Powell More info at: https://mfjn.org/

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Food Freedom Radio – October 19, 2024

Laura Hedlund is joined by John Peterson of Ferndale Market, a 3rd generation family turkey farm that raises free range turkeys. Order your Thanksgiving turkey today at https://ferndalemarket.com/

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Democracy Special Ep. 3 with Shea Hansen and Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera

Part 3 of 3 of our Democracy special hosted by Laura Hedlund features: Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera  Executive Director for Common Cause Minnesota; Lilly Sasse Director of  We Choose Us Minnesota Action and Shea Hanson ACLU Let People vote and People Power talk about election integrity and lifting up free and fair elections.

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Democracy Special Ep. 2 with Shea Hansen and Bruce Klopfleisch

In part 2 of 3 of our Democracy special series hosted by Laura Hedlund she speaks with Shea Hansen and Bruce Klopfleisch. Bruce hosts Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch Sundays at 5 PM on AM950.

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Democracy Special Ep. 1 with Joseph Cummings and Shea Hansen

This is the first episode in our three part series on protecting Democracy and highlighting the history of elections in America. Each episode will feature a variety of guests to help guide you through our electoral process.

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Food Freedom Radio – September 28, 2024

Laura Hedlund is joined by Calvin Manduna, Senior Trade Policy Analyst IATP Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He talks about Climate Change and the Global food system  and a new report  https://www.iatp.org/climate-change-risks-food-trade.

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Food Freedom Radio – September 14, 2024

Laura is joined by Jeannine Davison with https://amai.earth and Sue Marshall with https://netzro.us to tackle the problems of food waste, plastics and the climate crisis one cup at a time.

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Food Freedom Radio – September 7, 2024

Katie Puffer talks about the Monarch Festival happening this weekend. Dr Abby Gold and Laura talk about the recent report saying the majority of American Baby and Toddlers fail international nutrition and labeling standards – www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/16/2782

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Food Freedom Radio August 10 2024

Description: Host Laura Hedlund plays back clips of the 2018 Governor’s forum hosted by the Farmers Union. It features then Congressman Tim Walz, a few months before he was elected Governor. Just before those clips, Laura also speaks with Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union.

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Food Freedom Radio – July 20, 2024

This week host Laura Hedlund is joined by Scott Elkins, executive director of the Land Stewardship project. They talk about their potluck taking place July 25 at their Minneapolis office and other topics! Learn more at landstewardshipproject.org.

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Food Freedom Radio – May 11, 2024

Host Laura Hedlund highlights Project Sweetie Pie (https://www.projectsweetiepie.org/) with Catherine Fleming, Laura Orland and Parker Rechsteiner. Then Laura is joined by Liz Johnson of Magus Healing Center to talk about working with plants (https://www.magusbooks.com/healing_center.asp).

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Food Freedom Radio – April 20, 2024

For this week’s show we talk about Seward Coop’s CSA Fair with three guests: Natalia Mendez with https://seward.coop Jacob Daniel Farms with https://jacobdanielfarms.square.site Amber Kersting with https://www.farmertofarmer.org

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Food Freedom Radio – March 16, 2024

Host Laura Hedlund is joined by two guests this week: Jenny Hotz of Green Earth Growers and Lois Braun, a Research Scientist in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota.

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Food Freedom Radio – February 17, 2024

Author of BARONS, Money, Power and the Corruption of America’s Food System https://www.austinfrerick.com on first half of the show and on the second half farmer Troy Benjegerdes and Laura talk about recent court case and EPA actions regarding Dicamba

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Food Freedom Radio – February 10, 2024

A Cultural Corridor focused on Food in North Minneapolis!  Michael Chaney and Catherine  Fleming of https://www.projectsweetiepie.org/  talk about the  Niagara Farm/Umbuntu Gardens, NorthStar Urban Farm & Food Corridor, Big Green, People’s Garden Initiative, Foster Green, 2031 Green Global Expo

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Food Freedom Radio – December 16, 2023

Host Laura Hedlund is joined in the first half of the show by Sina Pleggenkuhle, engagement & inclusion director of the Minneapolis Farmers Market. In the second half of the show we welcome author Austin Frerick, who wrote the book, “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry.”

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Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT Investing in organic farmland

“Iroquois Valley has built a portfolio of more than 110 farmland investments, impacting over 30,000 acres across 20 states. More than extractive investment, this Farmland REIT seeks to the broken food system and begin the healing process for the next generation of farmers and responsible investors. Farmer Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin shares how vital Iroquois Valley has…

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Pizza for All – Clo Clo Vegan Foods Entreprenuers create allergy-friendly food brand

The Hinnenkamps were not planning to start a food business. Then their child was diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis – a serious food allergy. Clo Clo now offers frozen pizza good for all – Vegan, gluten-free, non-gmo and allergy-friendl. More at: https://clocloveganfoods.com/

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Food Freedom Radio – June 17, 2023

Lucinda Winter executive director sustainable farming association  https://sfa-mn.org  and Marjorie Hegstrom  with www.greenlandsbluewaters.org  Talk about River Days of Action Friends of the Mississippi River, “clean water crops” food resource list:  https://fmr.org/updates/water-legislative/where-buy-food-drinks-made-clean-water-crops River Days of Action “Universal Action” on the farm bill:  https://1mississippi.org/riverdays/#action

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She Kindness for the Week of 5/19/23

Welcome to our SHE Kindness Campaign! This is the focus of our new Alliance for Sustainability, what we will be integrating into all of our work moving forward. You can read more about our full vision for SHE Kindness in our Greenprint. Our SHE Kindness Campaign will embed our co-created, comprehensive and integrative understanding of…

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She Kindness for the Week of 5/12/23

Welcome to our SHE Kindness Campaign! This is the focus of our new Alliance for Sustainability, what we will be integrating into all of our work moving forward. You can read more about our full vision for SHE Kindness in our Greenprint. Our SHE Kindness Campaign will embed our co-created, comprehensive and integrative understanding of…

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Food Freedom Radio – April 15, 2023

With Michael Chaney Project of Sweetie Pie, Jasmira Colon and Didier Bolanos Gonzalez  Climate Community Liaisons for Hennepin County’s new Department of Climate and Resiliency, Didier Bolanos Gonzalez  Climate Community Liaison, and Liv Jascor of the University of Minnesota Extension

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Food Freedom Radio – March 25, 2023

Forever Green Bio-economy Dr Nick Jordan professor of agronomy and co-director of https://forevergreen.umn.edu/talks about how perennials like Kernza, woody crops like Hazelnuts as well as annual cover crops can transform American Agriculture

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Food Freedom Radio – January 28, 2023

Are we outsourcing our food? Host Laura Hedlund shares info about https://www.austinfrerick.com and Lori Stern with https://marbleseed.org discusses the problems of concentration in the US food system.

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Food Freedom Radio – December 31, 2022

Ukrainian and sustainability consultant Klaudia Shevelyuk  discusses https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org  and https://www.undp.org/facs/conscious-food-systems-alliance    Host of AM950’s Being Curious  (Sundays 2-3 PM). Then Kelly Wagner joins Laura Hedlund to talk about food, consciousness and war.

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Food Freedom Radio – November 19, 2022

Food Freedom – Host Laura Hedlund is joined by John Peterson with https://ferndalemarket.com and farmer DeAnna Lozensky with http://www.guardiangrains.com.

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