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Sean O'Brien, owner of Pacific Coast Lumber visits with Tom Wilmer to share insights about the environmental advantages of utilizing windfall and fire damaged trees to mill beautiful wood for reuse.

Did you believe, like Fr. Ian did, that produce boxes are just fruits and vegetables just left over from mass-farming destined for the supermarket shelves? Well, the Playing With Food Team went directly to the farm and found out that this is not the model for your local produce box.

A Central Coast hobby farm is raising sheep and goats for high quality meat. Just south of Salinas, part way up a hill overlooking America’s Salad Bowl sits Turning Leaf Ranch. The Playing With Food Team was very interested in this small-scale animal husbandry and the flavors that result from it.

WWII came to the Central Coast with segregated 54th Coast Artillery and internment of Japanese residents.

Kim Altensburger and Don Simon take us on a ATV Gator tour through fields of grapevines in Augusta, MO.

Irish singer and balladeer, Frank Harte's presentation at the Elko Cowboy Poetry Festival back in 1998

Tom Wilmer met with National Park Superintendent Robin White in Little Rock, Arkansas. White shared her poignant thoughts about racism in America back in 2017—the conversation remains timeless.

The Peace Academy of the Sciences and Artssummer camp included preparing and sharing food. Having the kids playing with food was a small part of their week-long program. But like all the other elements of the program, the Peace Academy leadership knew that preparing and sharing food is a vital element in achieving their pillars and values.

Wandering through the Botanical Gardens was yet another eye-opening experience of just how much edible bounty there is here on the Central Coast.

Beer has been around for a long time, about 13,000 years. It’s since been refined into stouts, pale ales, hefeweizens, lagers and other classic styles. But recently, the craft beer explosion has led to some pretty interesting flavors: Belgian fruited beers, milk stouts, orange wheat, habañero IPA, chocolate stouts and many more. Central Coast Brewing in San Luis Obispo has a very popular Peanut Butter Stout. Playing With Food met up with George and Matthew at CCB to find out how a Peanut Butter Stout is made…and why.