Local Agriculture and Sudden Oak Death - Greg Gilbert

This week, Oiko explores environmental impacts of agriculture and what we can do to lessen our carbon footprint by changing our diet. Ronald Donkenvoort, farming for over thirty years, gives us a glimpse how farming has changed over time, while Rebecca King talks about the unique challenges of being a sheep dairy in a changing climate. Anthony Tomaso, a beekeeper, tells us the health benefits of local honey. Ian O'Hollaren takes us underwater to taste seaweed, nutritionally dense and great for the environment. Our second segment talks with Greg Gilbert, plant pathologist, about the deadly plant disease Sudden Oak Death and the havoc it's wreaking on Californian forests.