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From the industry’s painful beginnings when enslaved people worked for no wages—just tips—to the inappropriate behavior and abuses of power, come with us as we explore the history and legacy of the restaurant industry. We then visit one restaurant designing an entirely new, equitable model from scratch. 

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Our Moderator Emily gives hard-hitting stories of food in the news to our panelists and they discuss their attitudes and opinions in our Weekly Baste Segment. This week we discuss the Impossible Burger, congestion taxes, brick & mortar book shops, women in hospitality and Duchess Meghan Markle. Our guests for The Weekly Grill are Erin Fairbanks and Lizzy Young. Erin Fairbanks is a partner at GROUT, a project development consultancy delivering resources needed to convert an idea, thought or plan into an actual project with the potential to deliver impact and create new value for society. She is also a co-founder of Women in Hospitality United and the founder of BKBF Productions and Ladies Night, a monthly event bringing women together to explore leadership and workplace empowerment. Her primary areas of interest are: women’s empowerment, sustainable food systems, racial justice and palliative care. Erin was also the Executive Director of Heritage Radio Network from 2012 to 2016. Lizzy Young founded lizzyoung bookseller in January 2012. She was previously an assistant editor at Gourmet Magazine and a pastry chef before ending up in the rare book world. She believes that culinary books give you a window into the cultural narrative of the specific time and place in which the book was composed and you can currently find her minding her “brick & mortar" book shop, Lizzyoung Bookseller, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

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Why build a massive vault into permafrost on a remote island between Norway and the North Pole? To safeguard sorghum and sweet potatoes, of course. On this episode, host Lisa Held sits down with executive director Marie Haga and Tender Greens founder Erik Oberholtzer to talk about the Crop Trust’s new Food Forever program, an initiative designed to educate people around the world about the importance of crop diversity for the long-term stability of the world’s food supply. They discuss why agricultural biodiversity is disappearing, why the loss of crops is catastrophic, how farmers, chefs, and eaters can participate in saving crop diversity, and how saving seeds in the vault is “the ultimate insurance policy.”

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On this special episode of The Farm Report, outgoing host Erin Fairbanks hands the reins to Lisa Held, who will be taking over the show this fall!

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The latest episode of Inside Julia’s Kitchen features thought leader and community organizer Erin Fairbanks. Erin is also a member of the Foundation’s Advisory Council. Todd and Erin discuss female leadership and get a status report on the #MeToo movement in the food world. Plus, Erin shares her #Juliamoment.

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We’re honored to welcome our dear friend, Be Kind Be Fierce founder — and former executive director of Heritage Radio Network! — Erin Fairbanks back into our cozy shipping container behind Roberta’s. She sits down with Taylor Chapman, Senior Vice President of NationSwell Council on this week's episode of Recommended Reading. Stay tuned as they discuss all the things they are reading, eating and listening to.

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Inspired, Ignited and Inclusive: We break bread (well, Roberta's pizza) with Atara Bernstein of Pineapple Collaborative and Erin Fairbanks of Be Kind Be Fierce — two initiatives that support, empower and create a safe community space for women in hospitality.

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This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks takes a trip north to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, where she sits down with Brad Matthews and Jeffrey Minard to talk about how they make purchasing decisions for the school.

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In this first half of this episode of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks speaks with Becca Rimmel, co-manager of the Ithaca Farmers Market. Becca's experience as a professional naturalist led her to begin questioning the origin of the food on her dinner plate, and how food choices affected the landscape around her. Through this curiosity, she began exploring her own bio regional food system, completing her Masters in Sustainable Food Systems from Green Mountain College in 2016, and beginning as the manager of the Ithaca Farmers Market shortly after. When she’s not managing the Ithaca Market, she’s working to build her own business, Bottomland Farm.

After the break, we hear a recording from Erin's visit to Fishkill Farms in September. Owner/operator Josh Morgenthau walks us through the history of his family business.

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On this week's episode of The Farm Report, June Russell joins host Erin Fairbanks to share a bit of what's exciting in the world of grains. June Russell is the Manager of Farm Inspections and Strategic Development for Greenmarket, a program of GrowNYC. Greenmarket is the largest network of farmers’ markets in the country with fifty five locations within the City’s five boroughs. It provides retail outlets for nearly two hundred and thirty local farmers, fishers, and bakers who sell what they grow, raise, catch, and bake themselves.

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The 21st century food pantry uses modern computer technology, advanced software and basic hardware to create an efficient and empowering distribution system for food banks and emergency food programs. St. John’s Bread and Life, one of the largest providers of emergency food and social services in New York City, has been developing their Digital Choice Food Pantry since 2008. Its success has created interest and demand from other emergency food providers to lean how to bring their programs into the 21st century. Joining us on this episode: Tony Butler, Executive Director St. John’s Bread and Life. Erin Fairbanks, host of The Farm Report and creator of BKBF Productions.

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On an all new episode of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by farmers Steve Burnett and Austin Maness.

Steve Burnett is an extremely well-respected organic farmer of Burnett Farms in Delaware County, an active member of the community, and an advocate for the county, the region and farming in general. A marketing ex-pat from NYC, Steve has been described as a true ambassador for the county, with endless reasons to support local farmers & producers and, most importantly, enjoy all the agritourism that the Great Western Catskills has to offer.

Austin Maness is the COO of Harvest Returns, a one-stop shopping site for agriculture investors and farmers who need to raise capital. In his role, Maness manages all facets of the company’s logistics, deal flow, and human resources.

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This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by Aislynn Campbell, Executive Director of GROW Local South Texas, Sue Beckwith, Executive Director at Texas Center for Local Food, Justin Butts of Four String Farms, and Nicole DeMeo, COO & spokesperson for Barnraiser.

Barnraiser is a social marketplace that makes it easy to discover, share, and fund online, the people changing how we farm, eat and live. They are hosting a major crowdfunding campaign for Texas Center for Local Food along with seven partner organizations to aid in the relief and recovery for farmers and ranchers impacted by the massive disaster caused by Hurricane Harvey.

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On the season premiere of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by Loren Cardeli, president and founder of A Growing Culture, an organization that supports smallholder farming across the globe through research, collective learning, and advocacy.

Loren is a leader in a small but growing movement of farmer-centric organizations. He believes the key to sustainability lies in returning small-scale farmers back to the forefront of agriculture. Along with his colleagues in the movement, he promotes farmer-led research, extension, and outreach, helping to create sustainable, self-driving futures.

On an all new episode of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by Susan Streit Sherman. Susan is the author of the blog Crate Cooking, a journal of how she seasonally shops, cooks and eats in the small Greenwich Village studio apartment she shares with her husband and young daughter. She has worked as a private chef, a line cook, an assistant food editor at Martha Stewart, recipe tester, farm inspector, food stylist, and teacher, just to name a few.

Tune in to the second episode of The B-Side where we talk with some of our favorite fighters about how their culinary lives impact their competitive performance in combat sports. In this episode, co-hosts Erin Fairbanks of the Farm Report and Jennifer Leuzzi of Tech Bites talk to private executive chef and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Dana Minuta and retired professional Muay Thai champion, author and trainer Chris Romulo, aka Crom. Hungry for more? Check out Tech Bites Episode 40: The B-Side Fighting Foodies #1.

This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by Gabriele Ludwig, Director of Sustainability & Environmental Affairs for the Almond Board of California. In her current position, she has been instrumental in the development of the California Almond Sustainability Program, and continues to encourage a diverse range of research on almonds and environmental issues.

On the season finale of The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, and author of the new book The Whole Foods Diet. Mackey's mission in writing it, along with Drs. Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman (the bestselling authors of Forks Over Knives), was to distill the huge body of science, research, and advice into one undeniable consensus: that a whole foods, plant-based diet is the optimum plan for health and longevity.

This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is joined by "Gangsta Gardener" Ron Finley an environmentalist & entrepreneur Nell Newman.

Ron Finley is a creative phenomenon: a gangsta horticulturalist, with a strong vision for community gardening and the eventual creation of "a school of nourishment and change." Nicknamed the “Gangsta Gardener” and the “Renegade Gardener”, Ron Finley planted organic vegetables in the parkway in front of his South Los Angeles home and a revolution was started. Ron’s belief that gardens build communities has blossomed into a quest to change how we eat and the eventual founding of the Ron Finley Project, an organization dedicated to changing culture and growing people.

Nell Newman co-founded Newman's Own® Organics: The Second Generation® with her father, Paul Newman in 1993. An ardent supporter of sustainable agriculture, Nell is a sought after speaker and has participated in numerous panels, sharing her commitment to organic food and products made from organic ingredients. Nell established the Nell Newman Foundation in November of 2010 with the goal of carrying on her father's legacy of charitable giving, coupled with her passion for the environment. She pursues many philanthropic opportunities in the world of sustainable agriculture and conservation – including helping Ron Finley raise money to build an urban garden in South Central L.A.

This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks welcomes John Flahavan, the sixth-generation CEO of Flahavan's Irish Oats. The first family connection to the Flahavan’s name can be traced back to about 1785 when Thomas Dunn took over the mill. Dunn was the great-great-great-grandfather of John Flahavan who is the Managing Director of the company today.

After the break, we're joined by Meryl Williams, star of the forthcoming short film Biophilia. Meryl plays the lead role of Rachel, an herbalist/farmer who convinces her boyfriend to leave Brooklyn and make a go of farming on his family's abandoned sheep ranch, but things don't go well and she finds herself increasingly isolated under his controlling influence. When an animal dies under her watch, she is forced to take care of it alone and in so doing, grows a thicker skin.