You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only this is episode 157 and today I am happy to bring you an

interview with Dr Sarah Tabor she's a scientist she's an expert in sustainable agriculture

she does inspections she does consulting and she's got a lot of cool

stuff to teach us about food safety, sustainability, and you might learn some pretty interesting

counterintuitive stuff here. For example, how she feels about farmers markets,

the artisanal movement, who should shoulder the burden for making agriculture more sustainable,

and get behind the process of how she goes about her work and how she

notices when things might be a miss on a particular farm. It's very interesting and let's get right over to it. I'm joined by Dr. Sarah Tabor. How you doing?

So good, how are you?

I'm doing great. I'm really excited to talk to you. I love the name of your podcast, to Tabor it's it's

Thank you it was someone else's idea but you know it's it's good to recognize when it happens

right yeah okay you're you're very fair you got to give you know credit it's due, but I thought it was hilarious.

And also I'm excited to talk about sustainable agriculture and all that.

But first, I'm wondering if you could give the listeners a bit of your background, a bit of a introduction to who you are.

Sure. So I'm Dr. Sarah Tabor. I'm a crop scientist and I originally got into crop science on on account of I love plants

They're they're nice

They're quiet they're chill you know like they they just want to do what they're going to do except that Venus fly trap that's the only one that's really you know they do what they're going to do. Except that Venus Fly Trap, that's the only one that's really...

You know they do what they want to do too.

They know what they're about and they just do it.

So that was kind of what I got into it for was just really, I really like plants and then come to find out you get a little further into it professionally and you realize that in order to take care of the plants you have to take care of the people who take care of the plants.

So you get into something because you like plants and it all winds up being people.

So that's life, right?

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