Food is Your Best Medicine - with Katie Welch

There's a revolution happening at the nexus of food and medicine.

This week on Green Street Patti and Doug talk about the EPA’s decision to exempt 50 of the country's most toxic chemical manufacturing plants from meeting air emission guidelines, and the growing threat of a flesh-eating bacteria moving up the Eastern US coastline due to climate change. Then Katie Welch, Executive Director of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, talks about the organization’s leading role in the food revolution, promoting nutritious food as a key ingredient to protect public health. 

Food is Your Best Medicine with Katie Welch

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Links from the Interview

The website of the Teaching Kitchens Collaborative: https://teachingkitchens.org/

Links from the News:

The EPA is exempting polluters from air emission standards meant to protect people: https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/community-health-and-environmental-groups-sue-to-stop-trump-administrations-toxic-air-pollution-exemptions

The flesh eating bacteria working its way along the Atlantic coast: https://apnews.com/article/vibrio-vulnificus-flesh-eating-bacteria-ad470f8d062303510e1adaae22440b04

Books to Read:

The Serviceberry; Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-serviceberry