Sari Kamin speaks with Kate Marshall, Acquisitions Editor for Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Studies at the University of California Press, at the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference. Tune in for a conversation about the process of bringing on new food studies authors and media’s role in creating food communities.

This week on The Farm Report host Erin Fairbanks sits down with Dennis Derryck, Tusha Yakovleva, and Sabrina Wilensky of Corbin Hill Farm, which is a for-profit social venture that is trying to re- imagine the relationship between communities, farmers, and investors. Their business model, called farm-sharing, is different than a CSA and allows them to reach out to low-income communities living in “food deserts” in the Bronx and Harlem and provide fresh produce sourced from rural communities in New York State. Tune in for conversation spanning risk management in farms to how academia is helping change the food world. This episode is sponsored Jones Family Farms.

On this week's episode of Meet Your Maker, Rachel Wharton is joined in the studio by Lauren Utvich and Marshall Louis Reaves of Farm to Baby baby food in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Farm to Baby makes subscription-based, fresh, and seasonal baby food purees with fruits, vegetables, and tubers from local farms that are delivered throughout the city by bicycle couriers. Hear about how Marshall and Lauren's respective backgrounds in molecular biology and culinary studies influenced them to start making nutritious baby food. How do Lauren and Marshall know if they're baby food is delicious? Well, they eat it themselves, and they also have a test baby that helps with recipe development! Hear about their cooking methods, and how they package their baby food. Farm to Baby aims to develop your baby's palette, so they will enjoy a lifetime of delicious fruits and vegetables! This episode has been brought to you by Fairway Market.

"Vitamin C, foliate, vitamin B1- these things that are really important for an infant- they're just cooking them out of the food." -- Marshall Louis Reaves on Meet Your Maker

"If we are what we eat, then a lot of babies in America today are apples, mangoes, and bananas. The parents are under the impression that they're giving their babies a well-balanced diet of green vegetables, and it's not always the case." -- Lauren Utvich on Meet Your Maker