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REAP/SOW

REAP/SOW

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Dispatches from the frontlines of food, farming, and the environment. From the Food & Environment Reporting Network, the producers of Hot Farm, REAP/SOW brings you narrative and investigative reporting that examines the consequences of what we choose to eat and why. Currently featuring BUZZKILL, a six-part series on the pollinator crisis

2025 FERN Social Sciences
Episodes
  • “What can we do to reduce food waste?” from Second Nature podcast

    “What can we do to reduce food waste?” from Second Nature podcast
    Feb 17 2026

    A third of the food Americans produce goes to waste, and a shocking amount of that waste happens in our own homes. But reducing food waste is possible, if we make a few simple changes. In this episode, which comes to REAP/SOW courtesy of Second Nature, reporter Katelan Cunnigham talks to plastic-free, low-waste chef Anne-Marie Bonneau about how she limits food waste. Surprise: food delivery isn’t as bad as you thought when it comes to waste.
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    42 mins
  • Reporter Michael Grunwald tells us why he has hope for our food system future

    Reporter Michael Grunwald tells us why he has hope for our food system future
    Feb 10 2026

    Our guest on this episode is Michael Grunwald, a journalist and the author of We are Eating the Earth: The race to fix our food system and save our climate. He’s also well-known for his opinion columns in The New York Times, and his writing often takes on, well, the sacred cows of the progressive environmental movement — CAFOs, chemicals, veganism, and more.
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    35 mins
  • The Food Babe dishes on MAHA’s next moves

    The Food Babe dishes on MAHA’s next moves
    Jan 27 2026

    Helena and Theodore are joined by Vani Hari, “the Food Babe,” a New York Times Best Selling Author, wellness entrepreneur, and social media influencer. This is a wide-ranging conversation, on Roundup, the new dietary guidelines, and why Hari wishes she’d been nicer to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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    54 mins
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