Food Farm Talk

Food Farm Talk – Curated Podcast Episodes from 2025

Food Farm Talk is a radio show on CFRU 93.3 FM at the University of Guelph, airing every Thursday at 10am, and a podcast.

We play our own shows and episodes from other food and farming themed podcasts made in Canada and beyond.

Listed below are the episodes for 2025 so far.  Link for more information.


NOVEMBER


November 20 – Life stories from Suriname and Ethiopia – Food. Farms. Future.  podcast, International Fund for Agricultural Development

 


November 13 – The Work of Katoyiss – Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast.


November 6 – The Cool Farm Tool – The Canadian Podcow podcast


OCTOBER


Oct 30 – Generations of No-Till on the BayThe Soil Network podcast


Oct 23 – Understanding the dates on our food and  The food safety puzzle: piecing together an outbreak investigation, from Inspect and Protect podcast.


Oct 16 – Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, New Books Network podcast.


Oct 9 – Restoring the Margins: Prairie Precision Sustainability Network, Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast.


Oct 2 – Getting ready for the Avian Influenza HPAI in Dairy,  Canadian Podcow podcast.


SEPTEMBER


Sept 25 – Kainai First Nation Self Sufficiency, Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast


Sept 18 – Weathering the future, Farms, Food, Future – International Fund for Agricultural Development podcast


Sept 11 – Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness, New Books Network podcast


Sept 4 –  Farming the Slopes: How the Honey Family Makes No-Till Work in Norham, Northumberland County – Crop Chats, Soil Network podcast


AUGUST


Aug 28 –  The Business Case for Climate Solutions in Agri-food – A Summer Rewind episode


Aug 21 – Food Security: From Excess to Enough – A Chat with Ralph Martin – A Summer Rewind Episode


Aug 14 – First Nations, Agriculture, and Colonialism with Cadmus Delorme – A Summer Rewind Episode


Aug 7 – Water is Food – Emerging Knowledge – A Summer Rewind Episode


JULY


July 31 – Winning with Notill – Scaling No-Till Without More Equipment: Mark Burnham on Soil, Slopes & Sustainability – Soil Network podcast


July 25 – Dairy Cow Behaviour & Welfare – Canadian Podcow


July 17 – Mango: A Global History – New Books Network podcast


July 10 – Farmland Access Conversations: Finding Hope in Unique Stories. Sow and Grow podcast


July 3 – “30 Years of No-Till on Heavy Clay with Nick Stokman“, Soil Network podcast.


JUNE


June 26. “It’s time to buy Canadian!” and “The European Perspective on Dairy“, The Canadian Podcow podcast.


June 19 – Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada, New Books Network podcast.


June 12 – Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet. New Books Network podcast.


June 5 – Beyond Private Ownership: Where does the farmland access conversation need to go? Sow and Grow Podcast.


MAY


May 29 – Making No-Till Work with Livestock & Manure: Swain Beef’s Honest Approach, Soil Network Podcast


May 21 – From farm to table: Celebrating a decade of Recipes for Change, International Fund for Agricultural Development

 


May 15 – Are crickets the new tofu? and I found a bug in my food! – Inspect and Protect podcast


May 8 – Dairy supply management in changing world – Canadian Podcow 


May 1 – Farming on Public Lands – Sow and Grow podcast


APRIL


April 24 – Hunco’s No-Till Setup: Real Talk on Planters, Upgrades & Strategy, Winning with No-till Series, Crop Chats, Soil Network Podcast.


April 17 – Shaping the Future of Food in 2025 – International Fund for Agricultural Development.

 


April 10 – Breakfast Cereal: A Global History, New Books Network.


April 3 – Farmland Access Stories, Sow and Grow podcast.


MARCH


March 27 – The Earth’s invisible climate warriors. Farms. Food. Future. from International Fund for Agricultural Development.

 


March 20 –  Best Management Practices to Mitigate Emissions on Dairy Farms, The Canadian Podcow


March 13 – Mmm… Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat. New Books Network.

 


March 6 – Boosting sustainable farming in Amazonia with native bamboo – Farms. Food. Future. from International Fund for Agricultural Development.

 


FEBRUARY


Feb 27 – Farmland Access: What’s the deal with Quebec? – Sow and Grow

 


Feb 20 – Globalizing the soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950 – New Book Network


Feb 13 – Leveraging proAction on Dairy FarmsCanadian Podcow


Feb 6 – Greening the Sahel – Farms. Food. Future. from International Fund for Agricultural Development

 


JANUARY


Jan 30 – Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity – New Books Network


Jan 23 – Highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI in livestockCanadian Podcow

 


Jan 16 – Bridging the nutrition gap in Africa – Farms. Food. Future. from International Fund for Agricultural Development

 


Jan 9 – Why is competition so hard to find in Canada?  – The Big Story


Jan 2 –  Why Land Access?Sow and Grow


 

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