Check out the short October 2025 Food Literacy Podcast. As always, be sure to check out the show notes for resources, including a link to the October 2024 episode. Most of this short episode is related to topics related to food as medicine, whereas the 2024 episode is garden-oriented. A checklist for October garden tasks is included in the show notes.I participated in the interview process for the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School project, Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Policy Project report. More on food and health, or if you wil,l food as medicine... Check out a bit of research on the MIND Diet as a potential way to mitigate dementia and Alzheimer's. Here is a link to information about the MIND Diet. I discovered an interesting though long podcast you may want to check out in chunks, The Most Honest Man in Nutrition Research. Nutrition research and information is often contradictory one influencer extols the wisdom of eating spinach and another claims that spinach is a diet no-no because of a compound called oxalates. What’s one to do? I could not miss at least a little bit of gardening information. Check out the link for a checklist of garden tasks for October. Also, if it is not available yet the Chicago Grows Food, October 2025 Lunch & Grow session featured Selma Sims from Gardeneers discussing how to shut down your garden and prepare for Spring 2026.Bonus Content: Want to Live Longer?...         Exposing the US Food Industry Contact Orrin Williams: [email protected] views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the OCEAN-HP, the CPHP, the CUT, or the RWH podcast series. The material and information presented here are for general information purposes only. While the podcast is about food literacy, we offer no health advice and encourage our listeners to seek guidance from their healthcare providers.

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