In this episode, Clark Wolf and Daedalus Howell consider the humble grape—from old-fashioned varieties bursting with flavor to novelty cultivars engineered to taste like cotton candy. Along the way, they invoke Luther Burbank, question the hidden costs of cheap food and make a case for paying farmers what good ingredients are actually worth.
Then, Clark recounts the tangled history of some local farmers markets and looks ahead to the Farmers Lane market’s move to the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Rosa. Also discussed: produce-stand etiquette, the perils of suing a farmers market and why no one needs a “support emu” among the zucchini.
