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Hot topics in food and farming in Ontario, Canada and beyond. We draw on stories in Canada's agri-food community, research at University of Guelph, and global perspectives. The show celebrates the people, businesses, ideas, and research that shape the food we eat. Broadcast on radio Thursdays at 10 am on CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph, streaming live on www.cfru.ca, or on podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and many other platforms. Produced by Paul Smith.
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A practical panel on why climate finance depends on reliable agricultural data and stable rules.
Climate solutions in agriculture turn into a business problem when the people funding change cannot easily connect the data, claims, and verification needed to prove what worked.
Ralph Martin connects food security with freedom, corporate power, and the stories behind Canadian farming.
Food Farm Talk frames food systems as a question of appetite, power, and responsibility: what would it mean to move from excess toward enough?
A grounded look at agriculture as treaty promise, colonial pressure, and First Nations persistence.
Chief Cadmus DeLorme frames agriculture as part of a longer First Nations history shaped by Treaty 4, colonial dispossession, and the collapse of the buffalo.
A broad, practical panel connects food safety to infrastructure, technology, and the human choices behind resilient systems.
Water and food are treated here as one connected systems problem. In this World Food Day panel from the University of Guelph, Evan Fraser, Tongzhi Li, Hugh Simpson, and Lawrence Goodridge look at emerging research, best practices, barriers, and opportunities around food safety.
A grounded visit to an Ottawa farm where beds, chickens, composted manure, and wood chips support fertility.
An Ottawa farm comes through as a working example of regeneration rooted in daily choices: no-till growing, permanent beds, year-round chickens, composted chicken manure, and wood chips brought in through Chip Drop.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Food Farm Talk replays a November 14, 2023 Aerial Food Summit panel in Toronto on the business case for climate solutions in agriculture.
Ralph Martin says Canada wastes at least 40% of its food while organic farms average 20% to 25% lower yields, and he argues that waste reduction changes the food-security debate faster than chasing bigger harvests.
Food Farm Talk presents Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation describing Indigenous agriculture, Treaty 4, and colonial policies in Saskatchewan.
Lawrence Goodridge anchors the panel with 1.7 billion diarrheal illnesses, 1.6 million deaths, and nearly 600 million foodborne illnesses a year, then points to wastewater surveillance as near-real-time monitoring.
Just Food Community Farm in Ottawa is framed as an incubator of farms and farmers, and Food Farm Talk airs the final Stories of Regeneration episode there on December 18, 2023.
Food Farm Talk presents Craig Cameron and Peter Den Outsten of Peony Farms near Lacombe, Alberta, where the family raises forage-finished regenerative beef and grain crops.
Rebecca Harbut and Michael Bomford describe how Kwantlen Polytechnic University's farm in Richmond, British Columbia, uses education, research, and partnerships to advance regenerative agriculture.
Food Farm Talk presents Derek Leahy’s interview with Aaron Goddard of Snowy Mountain Farms in the Similkameen Valley, where about 70 fruit varieties support a farmers’ market harvest sequence.
Food Farm Talk broadcasts episode 57 of IFAD’s Farms, Food, Future, featuring Indigenous leaders Brijlal Chaudhary, Margaret Tunda Leopold, and Tanya Ulalia Martinez Cruz.
Rachel Lightfoot describes Lightfoot and Wolfville Vineyards, a fourth-generation family farm winery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.
Food Farm Talk’s “Sharing the Land” follows fifth-generation farmer Rebecca Fraser-Chiasson at Ferme Terre Partagée, a worker co-op near Rogersville, New Brunswick.
Food Farm Talk broadcasts a 2023 Arrell Food Summit panel on the business case for climate solutions in agriculture, recorded November 14, 2023, in Toronto.
Food Farm Talk presents Tannis and Derek Axton of Axton Farms near Minton, Saskatchewan, where a grain operation has added on-farm seed cleaning and flour milling.
Food Farm Talk presents an October 16, 2003 World Food Day panel at the University of Guelph on water's role in food systems.
Food Farm Talk features Blake Vince, a fourth-generation grain farmer near Merlin, Ontario, explaining how no-till, cover crops, crop rotation, and cattle support soil function.
An interview with Jim Tartuchuk, Executive Director of the Soil Conservation Council, discussing soil health and conservation in Canadian agriculture.
Chief Cadmus DeLorme discusses the history of Indigenous agricultural innovation and the impact of colonialism on First Nations agriculture in Western Canada.
Interview with Thomas Benjo about First Nations agriculture and Indigenous agricultural innovation in Canada.
Interview with Brent Preston about Farmers for Climate Solutions and new federal programs to help farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change.