Stacey Ornstein is teaching kids how to cook and eat healthy food with her new initiative, Allergic to Salad. This week on Good Food, Daniel Meyer invites Stacey into the studio to talk about working with young children in the kitchen. Find out where Stacey holds her classes, and how Allergic to Salad receives its funding. Tune in to hear some of Stacey's stories from the classroom, and how some of her students' culinary skills are surpassing those of their parents! Why are so many children in New York City unfamiliar with fresh ingredients? Learn more about the phenomena of 'food deserts', and why Stacey believes that reforming food policy will help our grocery store shelves. Hear Stacey talk about 'picky eating', and why kids tend to have very particular diets. This program has been sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. Thanks to The California Honeydrops for today's music.

"I really don't believe in kids' menus. Kids should be eating the same things that adults are eating, but in smaller portions." [9:10]

"When you're working with kids, everyday something hilarious happens." [14:30]

"I would love to see subsidies in this country change. Most of the stuff on our grocery store shelves is not food." [20:40]

-- Stacey Ornstein on Good Food

Coffee, bananas, chocolate, and tea- and it's all fair trade! This week on Meet Your Maker, Rachel Wharton and John Taggart are speaking with Rodney North, "the Answer Man" for Equal Exchange. Tune into this episode to learn about the roots of Equal Exchange twenty-seven years ago in Latin America! Learn how Equal Exchange and other fair trade organizations provide alternative market avenues for for small producers all over the world. How has the idea of fair trade spurred change in the conventional market? Fair trade ideas have proven to be risky in Laten America; how does subverting the commercial status quo endanger farmers? Find out on this week's episode of Meet Your Maker! Thanks to our sponsor, Whole Foods Market.

"If you don't know the issues, or the stories behind the products, then you can't act- so we were trying to change that." [13:25] -- Rodney North on Meet Your Maker

Gavin Raders is a co-founder and Executive Director of Planting Justice, a social justice activist, and a permacuture demonstrator/teacher. He dedicates his time to practicing permaculture wherever he can, having gone through extensive training with some of the most inspiring and effective permaculture teachers in the world: Geoff Lawton, Penny Livingston-Stark, Brock Dolman, Darren Dougherty, and Nik Bertulis. Before his stint as an intern at the Regenerative Design Institute, he studied cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley, and organized on a range of anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental and human rights issues both on campus and off. He has knocked on nearly 30,000 doors in California, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada as a community organizer with Peace Action West. He comes to permaculture and ecological design through a social justice framework which recognizes the right of all people to peace, security, housing, healthy food, clean water, jobs and healthcare, and the rights of future generations to a just and livable world. For this to happen, he believes that Americans need to understand and respect the intimate connection and the shared fate we have with all people and all life on this planet, and organize effectively on the local level to come up with replicable and effective solutions to the range of hardships and oppressions we currently face. When families, communities, bio-regions, and nations work with nature instead of against her to provide their own sustainable food, water, and energy, this not only makes us more resilient, but also makes us less likely to violently take what they need from someone else. He is still riding on the inspiration and jolt of passion he experienced in India, studying and advocating for the right to water and against its privatization by massive water corporations (such as Coca-Cola). Thanks to our sponsor, Hearst Ranch.

"We have a great deal of power to change our environment and the things that serve us." [8:20] -- Gavin Raders on Greenhorn Radio