An Organic Conversation

Angels in Patient Care: Restoring Beauty, Dignity & Health

The Lipstick Angels are an important non-profit providing non-toxic natural beauty treatments to cancer patients in hospitals, helping people feel a sense of self again by feeling beautiful during a vulnerable time.

Guest:
Renata Helfman, Founder & Executive Director, Lipstick Angels, Los Angeles, CA

Homemade Baby Food: Healthy Meals for the Youngest Years

New parents: tune in! This hour helps guide you while you wean from breast milk and transition into solid foods. Learn how to make homemade baby food and which nutrients your child will need through toddler days and into early childhood.

Guest:

Tamika L. Gardner, Author, 201 Organic Baby & Toddler Meals, Raleigh, NC

Five Superfoods: Boosting Health & Flavor

The most nutrient dense foods of all are often called superfoods. The AOC Team responds to an important topic that was requested by our listeners, focusing on the top five most nutrient dense foods. What are they? How can you eat them? When should you eat them? What do they do?

Guests: 

Team Organic: AOC Hosts, Helge Hellberg & Sitarani Palomar

Landfill Harmonic: A New Tone of Opportunity & Hope

In a celebration of the human heart, mind, and spirit, this hour looks at the documentary that tells the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay. Through the eyes of the young musicians, their teacher, and a carpenter who makes instruments from trash, we can all learn the lesson that coming from nothing is not an excuse to do nothing.

Guest(s):

Brad Allgood, Director & Editor, Landfill Harmonic, Los Angeles, CA 

Juliana Penaranda-Loftus, Producer & Co-Director, Landfill Harmonic, Los Angeles, CA

In Health We Trust: Fresh Food Access & Affordability for All

While it is the foundation for a healthy society, not every community has access to nutritious food and education about how to make better choices. This episode looks at important work being done by a non-profit organization in Philadelphia to help neighborhoods, schools, grocers, farmers, and policymakers work together to address the challenges of health and food security.

Guest:

Dwayne Wharton, Director of External Affairs, The Food Trust, Philadelphia, PA

Cheap Fashion: The Harm & Hidden Cost

As society transitions to more healthier choices for food, natural body care, and greener transportation, one area of daily life remaining largely unchanged is our clothing. This hour looks at the social, environmental, and economic costs of the apparel industry and ways we can start improving lives everywhere with the choices we make today.

Guest(s):

Elizabeth Cline, Author, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Brooklyn, NY

Foraging: Wild Edibles Outside Your Front Door

As Farmers Markets bustle with people and burst with produce, so does Nautre show her most abundant side. This hour is devoted to the identification of which wild foods you can include on your plate, how to prepare them, and the inherent benefit of deepening our own relationship to Mother Earth.

Guest(s):

Kami McBride, Author, The Herbal Kitchen, Vacaville, CA

The Great Outdoors: Camping Tips for the Whole Family

From food and water to shelter and equipment, this hour delivers tried and true tips from the AOC Team and its audience about how to make this summer's camping trips the safest, easiest and most enjoyable outdoor adventures yet.

Guest(s):

No Guest, AOC Hosts as experts

Brain Food: The Smartest Diet for Your Mind

Can the things we eat influence what or how well we think? This hour uncovers functional foods that support mood, memory, mental clarity, and brain health.

Guest(s): 

Rebecca Katz, Author, The Healthy Mind Cook Book, San Rafael, CA

Social Enterprise in Africa: Empowerment Through Mindful Business

Creating sustainable support for communities in need requires innovation, thought-partnership, and big hearts. Hear today about a non-profit that expanded the common model of giving to become the largest employer in a small town of Africa. 

Guest(s):

Zane Wilemon, Founder & Executive Director, CTC International, Austin, TX