Gary Cox, attorney with the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund joins us to discuss the Motion to Intervene that was filed in the Drake's Bay Oyster Farm case.

Luc Chamberland, local aquaculturist and restaurant owner of the Saltwater Oyster Depot. Luc also founded the community oyster farm, Pickleweed Point.

Dr. Geoff Shester of the Ocean Institute discusses their newly release report on Forage Fish.

Robin Carpenter invites Chef and food writer friends to join her in this "Just put the Darned Turkey in the Oven" Thanksgiving Special

Robin Carpenter is in conversation with Bruce Aidells, famed sausage maker, meat guru and cookbook author along with his wife Nancy Oakes, iconic San Francisco chef and founder of the James Beard Award Winning Boulevard. They share their meat secrets, disagreements and wonderful stories of life in the food lane. Bruce's bestselling The Complete Meat Cookbook was published in 1998 and in a little over a decade the world of meat in America took a dramatic turn. With the surge in availability of pasture raised and grass fed meats including a rise in popularity of lamb and goat - Bruce saw the need to help us all understand this brave new healthier world of meat and make sure it was delicious.  This fall his new The Great Meat Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat hit the shelves and we talked about the biggest surprises and hottest tips.

The Farm and Foodshed Report  introduces Juliet Braslow to our community! She is the new Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator for the University of California's Cooperative Extension of Marin County and replaces Steve Quirt who retired and was one of the original hosts of the Farm Report on KWMR.

In conversation with Dr. Corey Goodman about we discussed the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which two scientists and a medical communications consultant analyzed 2,047 retracted papers in the biomedical and life sciences. They found that misconduct was the reason for three-quarters of the retractions for which they could determine the cause
Dr. Casadevall and another author, Dr. Ferric C. Fang of the University of Washington, have been outspoken critics of the current culture of science. To them, the rising rate of retractions reflects perverse incentives that drive scientists to make sloppy mistakes or even knowingly publish false data.