Growing Pains: Organics Come of Age

Organic agriculture has grown up.  A once-marginal movement of plucky and slightly eccentric home gardeners has bloomed into mega-farms that ship around the world selling at premium prices.  In this program we’ll examine both ends of the organic industry food chain — a mid-size organic farming family and the world’s largest organic food retailer.  We’ll see what growing mainstream has done for – and to — organic farmers, and what remains to be done to give farmers and consumers the sustainable food system we urgently need.

Guests:

Blake and Stephanie Alexandre, Alexandre  Family Dairies

Walter Robb, Co-CEO, Whole Foods


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