Farming for Health Podcast #18: Eric Perner

by Chef's Garden | Apr 9, 2024 | Podcasts

As a young kid growing up on a small cattle farm, Eric Perner already possessed a passion for conservation. He appreciated nature and its inhabitants in his eco-region, including quail, butterflies, and much more. As a young man, he saw how humans devastated the...

Farming for Health Podcast #33: Amanda Harris

by Chef's Garden | Apr 7, 2024 | Podcasts

In our final episode of Farming for Health, permaculture designer and teacher Amanda Harris shares her experiences and philosophies with listeners—with her story starting several years ago. At that time, Amanda was already applying permaculture principles in Nepal...

Future of Food: How Regenerative Agriculture is Shaping a Healthier Tomorrow

by Chef's Garden | Mar 19, 2024 | Agriculture

At the risk of oversimplifying the history of regenerative farming, people farmed the same way for countless generations, and even though they wouldn’t have called what they did regenerative farming, they used techniques that dovetail with this agricultural...

Farming for Health Podcast #32: Kevin Boehm

by Chef's Garden | Mar 11, 2024 | Podcasts

When James Beard Foundation Award-winning restaurateur Kevin Boehm is asked to describe BIÂN—the private club where he serves as chairman—he shares that it’s hard to capture its essence in just a couple of sentences. That’s because there really isn’t anything else...

Farming for Health Podcast #31: Chef Reem Assil

by Chef's Garden | Feb 26, 2024 | Podcasts

In this fascinating interview, Chef Reem Assil shares her story: from living in Oakland, California, where she felt like a stranger in a strange land because of her Palestinian-Syrian heritage, to winning a prestigious award for her cookbook, Arabiyya—and plenty in...