Explore innovative solutions and partnerships to end food insecurity.
Explore innovative solutions and partnerships to end food insecurity.
Iowa Stops Hunger
The Iowa Stops Hunger Podcast shines a light on food insecurity — and the Iowans working to end it. Through candid conversations and inspiring stories, each episode explores the causes and scope of hunger across the state and highlights how businesses, nonprofits and individuals are creating solutions to ensure every Iowan has enough to eat.
Host: Michael Morain
Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 1: Growing Food, Growing Skills
Iowa has some of the most fertile farmland in the world. Katie McVey with Central Iowa Shelter & Services explains how she makes the most of it — even in downtown Des Moines, where trainees cultivate crops and job skills at the same time.
Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 2: Nutrition Coaches
Knowing about nutrition and putting it into practice are very different things. Katie Hassler and Corey Lewis, two health coaches with Broadlawns Primary Care Clinic in Des Moines, explain how they help clients make better choices, even if they have limited access to healthy food.
Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 3: Spreading the Wealth
Iowa prides itself on feeding the world, but here at home, the benefits of that legacy aren’t shared equally. Shaffer Ridgeway from Southern Goods in Waterloo and Jonathan Lawrence from the Iowa Farmers Union and Eat Greater Des Moines explain how their programs are lowering barriers for farmers of color.
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