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Next time you swat at a fly, think of this: certain flies, and other insects, make the food you love possible: chocolate, apples, almonds, and berries. Insects play a role in the production of ice cream! This hour on Seasoned, we talk with journalist and author Oliver Milman about his book, The Insect Crisis. It鈥檚 a fascinating look at our interconnected fates and how the decline in the insect population should be a wake-up call to all of us who hold chocolate鈥攁nd life itself鈥攄ear. Plus, what happened when one reporter tried to eat 100% local for a week? It didn鈥檛 go so well. We talk with WBUR鈥檚 Andrea Shea about her hardcore locavore experiment. Finally, we鈥檙e highlighting the voices and experiences of five local BIPOC farmers. It鈥檚 part of a summer series on 海角换妻.

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Oliver Milman is the author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World.

Lyndal Stewart

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Andrea Shea (left) is a Senior Arts Reporter at WBUR. (She's with Wellfleet's assistant shellfish constable, John Mankevetch.)

Jesse Costa / Courtesy of Andrea Shea

Guests:

• : Science writer and the environmental correspondent for . He鈥檚 the author of .
  
• Andrea Shea: Award-winning public radio journalist. She is currently a at . Andrea is author of the essay, 鈥�.鈥�
  

Farmers profiled in the story, 鈥�BIPOC farmers in Conn. may be small in number, but they have plenty of stories to tell鈥� by Patrick Skahill and Mark Mirko:

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Azeem Zakir Kareem brushes gently past his wife, Sarah Rose Kareem, while the two tend to lettuce rows at their Windsor Locks farm.

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2 of 3  — Gently tapping the soil, X贸chitl Garcia nestles a tomato plant into a new bed at the Fair Haven community garden where she farms. 鈥淚 actually feel very proud having dirt on me,鈥� she said, 鈥淟ooking all sweaty and tired because this is all my passion and energy that's going into cultivating something."

Gently tapping the soil, X贸chitl Garcia nestles a tomato plant into a new bed at the Fair Haven community garden where she farms.

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3 of 3  — BIPOC Farming - Elizabeth Guerra and Hector Gerardo

Elizabeth Guerra and H茅ctor Gerardo look out over their homestead farm in Danbury.

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• Sarah Rose Kareem and Azeem Zakir Kareem: Co-founders of the in Windsor Locks, Conn.
  
• X贸chitl Garcia: Urban farmer at the Ferry Street Community Garden in New Haven, Conn.
  
• Liz Guerra and H茅ctor Gerardo: co-owners of , Conn.

This show was produced by Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Catie Talarski, Emily Charash and Katrice Claudio. Our interns are Anya Grondalski and Mira Raju.

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