Recent Interviews and Reviews of Watershed Media Projects

Food Fight: A Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill

Wendell Berry: Dan Imhoff has an in-depth conversation with Wendell Berry about the health of our land, our people, our food system, and our democracy . (mp3 audio file, 83mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: Dan Imhoff talks with Eliot Coleman, farmer, author, agricultural researcher and educator, and proponent for organic farming, about cold weather growing techniques for producing crops year-round. (mp3 audio file, 86mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Show: A second interview with Rowan Jacobsen about his newest book, The Living Shore, about our ancient connection to estuaries, and their potential to heal the oceans, that will be published in September. Visit the book’s web site for more information. (mp3 audio file, 54mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: A conversation with Rowan Jacobsen about his book Fruitless Fall, about Colony Collapse Disorder. (mp3 audio file, 83.5mb, 1 hr)

College of Scholastica’s "Future of Food Lecture Series": Dan Imhoff lectures on food and farming. (Flash video, 340 mb, 1 hr 38 min)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: Dan Imhoff interveiws author Ann Mendelson about her new book Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages. (mp3 audio file, 56mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: Dan Imhoff interveiws Temple Grandin, author, and professor at Colorado State University. She lectures widely on animal science and autism, and has spearheaded reform on the quality of life and the humaneness of death for farm animals. Ms. Grandin discusses her new book Animals Make Us Human. (mp3 audio file, 55mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: Dan Imhoff interveiws Gary Nabhan, ethno-botanist, conservationist, farmer, and essayist, about his recent book Where Our Food Comes From and other recent work. (mp3 audio file, 78mb, 1 hr)

Farm and Garden Radio Show: In the first segment of this show, Dan Imhoff talks to Sophia Bates about her two-year apprenticeship on a horse-powered vegetable farm in Maine. Dan discusses the industrialization of pre-packaged leafy greens in the Salinas Valley with JoAnn Baumgartner in the second segment of the show. (mp3 audio file, 56mb, 1 hr)

Slow Food Nation: Dan Imhoff will be taking part in Slow Food Nation’s Food for Thought panel series, and is co-author of the Vision Statement for Agriculture and Food Policy for the 21st Century, being presented at SFN August 28, 2008. Paula Crossfield spoke with Dan recently and asked him some questions about his work and his upcoming participation in Slow Food Nation. Read Part 1 of the interview, followed by Part 2.

FOOD NEWS: The Farm Bill. This is an extended conversation with Dan Imhoff, about the importance of the federal Farm Bill legislation, and its effect historically upon our national food production, and public health.

Farm Policy for Dummies (Like Me)
A review from Minnesota gives Food Fight a thorough read and high marks for content, readability, and graphic presentation.

Bellies Up
The country’s leading on-line sustainable agriculture journal reviews Food Fight and finds a belly full to chew on.

Don’t Let Conservation Buy the Farm
Blogger Kerry Trueman says it very well: what could be a better use of taxpayer Farm Bill dollars than effective conservation programs?

 

Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World

 

Sierra Magazine reviews Paper or Plastic
“Daniel Imhoff packs his book with thoughtful analysis, innovative solutions, and surprising facts — for example, 10 percent of all lumber cut in the United States is used to make shipping pallets.”

A Question on Earth Day: Paper, Plastic or Neither?
Science Friday host Ira Flatow interviewed Dan Imhoff on Earth Day 2005 just before the official release of Paper or Plastic. (mp3 audio file, 16.56 minutes)

The Beyond Organics Radio Show
Dan Imhoff along with Ben and Jerry’s Andrea Ash and the City of San Francisco’s Jared Blumenfeld unwrap the packaging dilemma on this one-hour radio program. (mp3 audio file, 50 minutes, 35.2mb)

Daily Grist writer Michelle Nijhuis reviews Paper or Plastic
“Green Living and Paper or Plastic give shoppers cause — and pause.”

In her review, “Some Serious Trash Talk,” Santa Fe New Mexican journalist Barbara Riley takes a heart-felt look at the issue of packaging in our society.

 

Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches

Food Chain Radio - Interview
Food and farming radio host Michael Olsen engages Dan Imhoff and Wild Farm Alliance director Jo Ann Baumgartner in a conversation about the importance of conservation-based agriculture. (mp3 audio file, 1 hour)

Seeds of Change eNewsletter - Book Review
A recent review of Farming with the Wild, May 2005, by long-time Seeds of Change photographer and field reporter, Scott Vlaun.

Seeds of Change eNewletter - Interview
A wide-ranging interview with Dan Imhoff by reporter Scott Vlaun of Seeds of Change, May 2005.

Farming with Nature
Review of Farming with the Wild within a profile of exemplary Arizona conservation rancher Mac Donaldson by Tim Vanderpool of the Tucson Weekly, March 18, 2005.

 

Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood

Listen to “This Green House,” a Living on Earth interview with Dan Imhoff about Building with Vision. (mp3 audio file, 4 minutes)

 

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