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Episode 1: Oysters and Aquaculture
Oysters: Discussion about oysters, aquaculture and an overview of the industry in the region. Speakers include an award-winning Chesapeake Bay journalist, an aquaculture practitioner, and a bioengineer...
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Episode 10: The South You Never Ate: Virginia’s Eastern Shore
The 10th program in the ORIGINS series features a conversation with Bernie Herman, the department chair and George B. Tindall Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel...
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Episode 11: The Local Pantry: Oil, Vinegar, and Salt
The 11th program in the ORIGINS series is about locally made items for your pantry – salt, vinegar and cooking oil. All three makers are working in the Chesapeake watershed area. We are pleased to...
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Episode 12: So…Was It the Chicken or the Egg?
The 12th program in the ORIGINS speaker series features a conversation with 3 local chicken farmers from Maryland and southern Pennsylvania. Andrew McClean is the owner of Relief Farms, based in Queen...
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Episode 13: Women Who Farm
In this episode of ORIGINS, we’ll take a closer look at women who have chosen farming as a career and as a way of life. According to the Maryland state census in 2012, there were 2,296 women farm...
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Episode 14: A Look at Local Orchards & Fruit Trees
In this episode of ORIGINS, we take a look at local orchards, orchardists and a cider distillery. Our first panelist is Ben Wenk , the seventh generation partner/manager at Three Springs Fruit Farm...
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Episode 15: 2nd Anniversary of ORIGINS
ORIGINS is celebrating its 2nd anniversary with a one on one conversation between Chef Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore and Rona Kobell, an environmental reporter. Rona Kobell is a...
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Episode 16: Distilling it Down: Spirits in the Mid-Atlantic
Our four panelists are Janna Howley, Director of Operations, Grow and Fortify: Alex Weiss, Sales Director, Caledonia Spirits; Monica Pearce and Kyle Pfalzer, co-owners and founders of Tenth Ward...
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Episode 17: Reading, Writing and Arugula: A Look At Local School Farms
Panelists: Beth Mathie, Farm Educator, Great Kids Farm Sharon Hood, Director of Roots Farm at McDonogh School Dan Schocor, Executive Director of Green Street Academy Eric Oberlechner, Farm Director,...
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Episode 18: Too Many Cucumbers – Preserving, Pickling and Fermenting
Our panelists include Sarah Gordon and Sheila Fain, owners and founders of Gordy’s Pickle Jar; Meaghan and Shane Carpenter, the owners and founders of Hex Ferments; and Lauren Sandler, the Director of...
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Episode 2: Maryland Produce
Local Produce: Discussion about local produce and how the Baltimore City School System is incorporating produce into their lunch programs. The Baltimore City Food Policy Director speaks about the work...
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Episode 20: Let’s Have That GMO Conversation! with McKay Jenkins
McKay Jenkins has been writing about people and the natural world for 30 years. His new book is Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet (Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017)....
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Episode 21: Coffee: A View from Two Continents
Tonight’s episode will take a look at coffee, the drink that fuels most us every day. Our panelists are Miguel Mateo, Getu Bekele and Lenore Yerkes. Miguel is the sales and export manager for Manos...
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Episode 22: Michael Twitty
Michael is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of AFROCULINARIA, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacies. He has been honored by...
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Episode 23: Natural Sweeteners
Our discussion tonight will be on natural sweeteners. We are delighted to welcome Joseph and Margaret-Ann Burkholder, who are the owner/farmers of Compass Winds Sorghum, based in Dayton, Virginia,...
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This ORIGINS episode will be about the future of fish farming as well as its current status. Our panel consists of Jillian Fry, TJ Tate, Mark Ely and Jesse Blom. Jillian Fry directs the Seafood, Public...
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Episode 25: Foraging
This episode will be on foraging in the mid-Atlantic area and features two longtime foragers, Jeff Long and Tom Mueller. Jeff has been an amateur mycologist for 30 years. He has been foraging mushrooms...
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Episode 26: The Economics of Sourcing and Buying Locally, Part I
The intent behind ORIGINS, a speaker series, was to highlight the farmers, fisherman, producers, and makers behind the local food movement in the Mid-Atlantic region. Spike Gjerde started his first...
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Episode 27: The Economics of Sourcing and Buying Locally, Part 2
This episode of ORIGINS continues the conversation we started on Thursday, September 20th about the economic impact of buying and sourcing food locally. Last week we heard from Scott Nash, the CEO and...
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Episode 3: Farmer to Butcher to Consumer
Discussion about the economics of producing high quality pork and beef on local farms. Speakers include a butcher, a processor, Heritage pig farmers and the director of a grass-fed beef farm operation.
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Episode 4: Drink Local
Local Beer and Wine: Discussion about the rise of the Maryland wine and beer industry. Speakers include the Director of the Maryland Wineries and now Breweries and Distilleries, a brewer and local hops...
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Episode 5: Maryland Cheese – Cow, Sheep & Goat
Local Cheese: Discussion about local Maryland cheese featuring 3 artisanal cheesemakers representing 3 different animal sources — cow, sheep and goat. And the cheese buyer and ACS Certified Cheese...
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Episode 6: The Importance of Bees, Honey and Pollinators
Discussion about pollinators and honeybees and their critical role in our food production. Panelists include Dr. Dennis van Englesdorp, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of...
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Episode 7: A Conversation with Dr. William Woys Weave
A conversation with Dr. William Woys Weaver, an international food historian, author, teacher, gardener, and epicure. Dr. Weaver is the founder of the Roughwood Seed Collection, which houses over 4000...
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Episode 8: Baking & Local Grains
The 8th program in the ORIGINS series is about sourcing and baking with local whole grains. We are pleased to welcome Heinz Thomet from Next Step Produce in Newburg, who along with his wife Gabrielle,...
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Episode 9: Sustainable Seafood in the Chesapeake Watershed
The 9th program in the ORIGINS series is about sustainable seafood. With the Chesapeake Bay at our doorstep, it is important to note that the Chesapeake Bay provides 50 percent of the total blue crab...
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Episode 29: Building a Healthy Food Retail Environment: Strategies to Improve...
Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally...
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