What the Field?! A podcast by CrowdFarming

Bold Bean Co.: Making Beans the Next Avocado Toast

Host Amelia interviews Amelia Christy Miller, founder of Bold Bean Co. and cookbook author, about making beans desirable as a fairer, more environmentally friendly and healthy staple. Miller recounts how her interest grew from discovering delicious jarred beans to working in food sustainability and learning beans’ roles in soil health, regenerative farming (nitrogen-fixing cover crops), food security, resilience across climates, and human health (fiber, gut microbiome, blue zones, steady energy). She explains Bold Bean Co.’s focus on premium jarred beans and baked beans, recipe-driven culture change (including “beanottos”), sourcing high-grade varieties (including British Carlin peas), and building farmer value. The conversation covers supermarket dynamics, category “premiumization,” pricing criticism, rejecting meat-replacement messaging in favor of uncompromising deliciousness, and her go-to “miso beans” dish, plus a recommendation to use the brand’s online recipes.

00:00 The Bean Origin Story
06:20 Why Beans Matter
13:15 Farmer Partnerships & Sourcing
21:13 Cracking the Supermarket Shelf
25:33 Beans as a Meat Alternative
29:11 Premium Pricing & Accessibility
36:17 Busting Bean Myths
39:32 Recommendations & Sign-off
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Dr. Jenny Goodman on Ecological Medicine, Pesticides, and Regenerative Farming

Dr. Jenny Goodman describes becoming disillusioned during clinical training because hospital medicine focused on symptom management with drugs, avoided “healing,” and ignored root causes and prevention, though she valued emergency care. After leaving practice, she taught medical sciences in alternative-medicine colleges and later found the British Society for Ecological Medicine in the late 1990s, leading her to a practice centered on nutrition and environmental medicine as applied biochemistry. She defines ecological medicine as treating the body as an interconnected ecosystem and as inseparable from Earth’s ecosystems, linking human health to farming and pollution. Goodman argues industrial monocrop agriculture, pesticides (including glyphosate), and synthetic fertilizers deplete nutrients, disrupt the microbiome, and contribute to neurological disease, cancer, endocrine disruption, and infertility, with possible multigenerational effects. She recommends organic food, water filtration, and detox strategies (vitamin C, vegetable juicing, Epsom salt baths, short saunas with wiping, targeted supplements, colonic hydrotherapy, and sprouting), and calls for policy changes supporting organic/regenerative farming and curbing junk food and pesticide use.
00:00 Meet Dr Jenny Goodman
01:07 Disillusioned on the Wards
03:16 Leaving Medicine Behind
04:44 Finding Ecological Medicine
07:26 What Ecological Medicine Means
10:12 Farming as Public Health
17:01 Organic on a Budget
20:48 Detoxing Pesticides Safely
23:59 Colonic Hydrotherapy Basics
24:52 Sprouting for Nutrient Boost
25:36 Filter Water for Detox
26:38 Avoiding Retox Sources
28:42 Pesticides and Disease Links
31:49 How Neurotoxins Disrupt Nerves
35:19 Cancer and Endocrine Damage
40:19 Why It's Still Legal
43:18 Glyphosate and the Microbiome
46:04 Building Change Through Schools
47:14 Practical Hopeful Wrap-Up
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What happened to our insects, and what can we do about it?

Current estimates suggest that Europe may have lost as much as 90% of its insects over the last century. Dave Goulson is a professor of biology at the University of Sussex and one of Europe’s leading experts on insect ecology. He has spent the better part of three decades studying bee populations, the drivers of insect decline, and the relationship between the way we farm and the health of the ecosystems that farming depends on.
His latest book, Eat the Planet Well, published this month, turns that lens onto our plates, examining the environmental and health costs embedded in the food we buy, and offering a clear-eyed guide to navigating a system that is, as he puts it, not one anyone would have designed from scratch.
In this episode of What The Field?!, we spoke to Dave about how insects underpin the food chain most of us take for granted, and about why the prognosis — despite everything — is not entirely bleak. There is, he argues, a great deal that individuals and communities can do, and insect populations, unlike pandas or rhinos, can recover quickly when given the conditions to do so.

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The meat debate is often stuck in extremes. In this episode, we spoke with farmers Benedikt Bösel (Gut&Bösel) and Alfonso Chico de Guzmán (La Junquera) about what it really means, in practice, to raise a cow — and to slaughter one. That uncomfortable line between integrating livestock to rebuild ecosystems… and killing and selling animals for profit.

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