DonnaLonna Kitchen Show

094: Wild Green Things, Brown Bread

Apr 18, 2024

Celebrating foraging and the first green things of spring: Donna and Lonna talk about motherwort, bluebells, nettles, ground ivy, linden flowers, the alder tree and dandelions.

Lonna bakes some yeast brown bread from the classic cookbook by Darian Allen. We learn about how to make comfrey tea plant fertilizer. Donna...

092: Spring Recipes, Gingerbread, Garden, Water News

Apr 4, 2024

Falling down a rabbit hole, a salute to snakes, Donna talks about eggs, Lonna talks about gingerbread, we talk about the fish kill on the Nishnabotna River in Iowa.

Lonna shares some spring suggestions for the garden and a reads a poem by Mary Oliver about a bear waking up after a long winter.

091: Workers that feed us - why we need immigrants

Mar 28, 2024

Dr. Jan Flora joins us at the DonnaLonna Kitchen table to talk about immigrant workers. Dr. Flora is professor emeritus at Iowa State University in the College of Agriculture. His recent opinion piece is entitled "Immigrants Serve the Common Good, Including in Iowa: Those are the Facts". We also talk about...

090: Iowa Eats Food & Drink Festival

Mar 21, 2024

DonnaLonna Kitchen talks to Cara Miller and Jay Goodvin from the Silos and Smokestacks organization about the upcoming Iowa Eats Food and Drink Festival.

This is the second year for the event. It will be held April 6, 2024 in Waterloo. Cara Miller talks about vendors, cooking demonstrations, and a pork cook-off. Jay...

089: Community service and good food at Mustard Seed Farm

Feb 29, 2024

Good things have been happening at Mustard Seed Farm since it began in 2008.

We talk with Alice McGary and Ami Adams about the MSF's commitment to community service, educational outreach and the growing of good food.

Mustard Seed Farm provides food for a local medical clinic, Food at First and Romero House, in Ames....