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The Iowa Stops Hunger Podcast shines a light on food insecurity — and the Iowans working to end it. Through candid conversations and inspiring stories, each episode explores the causes and scope of hunger across the state and highlights how businesses, nonprofits and individuals are creating solutions to ensure every Iowan has enough to eat.

Episodes

  1. Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 7 - Helping Veterans Access Food

    FEB 13

    Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 7 - Helping Veterans Access Food

    Deb Fenton-Roe is a Wapello County Veterans Affairs Commissioner and co-coordinator of the Veterans Mobile Food Bank in Wapello, one of only two veteran-specific distributions in Iowa. As a United States veteran herself, she feels passionate about helping others who served to access benefits they need. She talks us through how she gets involved and how others can help veterans in their area.

    22 min
  2. Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 6 - The History of SNAP

    JAN 9

    Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 6 - The History of SNAP

    Iowa State University distinguished professor and historian Pamela Riney-Kehrberg talks through the history of food assistance in the United States. Over the years, different administrations have reshaped the original Food Stamps model into the SNAP system we know today.

    26 min
  3. Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 5 - Cornbelt Crustaceans

    JAN 9

    Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 5 - Cornbelt Crustaceans

    There’s just nothing like Iowa ... shrimp. Midland Co. founder Jackson Kimle in Ames explains how he plans to turn Iowa’s new shrimp farms into a jumbo business.

    15 min
  4. Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 4 - Local Crops, Global Roots

    JAN 9

    Iowa Stops Hunger: Episode 4 - Local Crops, Global Roots

    Through a program called Global Greens, Lutheran Services of Iowa helps hundreds of immigrants and refugees produce and sell many of the kinds of fruits and vegetables they enjoyed in their homelands. In this episode, a truly global farming team explains how the program just keeps growing.

    25 min
  5. Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 1: Growing Food, Growing Skills

    11/13/2025

    Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 1: Growing Food, Growing Skills

    Iowa has some of the most fertile farmland in the world. Katie McVey with Central Iowa Shelter & Services explains how she makes the most of it — even in downtown Des Moines, where trainees cultivate crops and job skills at the same time.

    15 min
  6. Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 2: Nutrition Coaches

    11/13/2025

    Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 2: Nutrition Coaches

    Knowing about nutrition and putting it into practice are very different things. Katie Hassler and Corey Lewis, two health coaches with Broadlawns Primary Care Clinic in Des Moines, explain how they help clients make better choices, even if they have limited access to healthy food.

    16 min
  7. Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 2: Nutrition Coaches

    11/13/2025

    Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 2: Nutrition Coaches

    Knowing about nutrition and putting it into practice are very different things. Katie Hassler and Corey Lewis, two health coaches with Broadlawns Primary Care Clinic in Des Moines, explain how they help clients make better choices, even if they have limited access to healthy food.

    16 min
  8. Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 3: Spreading the Wealth

    11/13/2025

    Iowa Stops Hunger - Episode 3: Spreading the Wealth

    Iowa prides itself on feeding the world, but here at home, the benefits of that legacy aren’t shared equally. Shaffer Ridgeway from Southern Goods in Waterloo and Jonathan Lawrence from the Iowa Farmers Union and Eat Greater Des Moines explain how their programs are lowering barriers for farmers of color.

    19 min
  • 8 Episodes

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The Iowa Stops Hunger Podcast shines a light on food insecurity — and the Iowans working to end it. Through candid conversations and inspiring stories, each episode explores the causes and scope of hunger across the state and highlights how businesses, nonprofits and individuals are creating solutions to ensure every Iowan has enough to eat.

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