Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living Podcast
1) Farmer and Academic Ike Leslie on “queering” the food system
This week on the show we’re questioning the traditions and assumptions around the role of family in farming. “When something goes wrong in the family relationship, it can really affect the farm busi...Show More
2) Growing community with New Farms for New Americans
“Many of the farmers talked about the ability to be out in nature with other members of their family and other members of their community and several of them also talked about the benefits of being ab...Show More
3) Eats Wild Episode 4: Beloved berries
“There's a different time…what I would say–like a lifely, real time, and to be able to have, at least moments, periodically, in our lives, where we're attuned to that. And the attunement sometimes is ...Show More
4) Sometimes home is a house—and other times, it's a soup
“You gotta take the phyllo dough, put it down on your station. One person takes the butter, garlic, lemon juice mixture, wipes it down. And then someone else spoons on the filling, and then they fold...Show More
5) Farming for seeds
“We have about a four acre parcel of land here that’s subdivided into a whole bunch of micro-plots, basically, where we can isolate, you know, the Black Strawberry Tomato, or the Chinese Wool Flower o...Show More
6) Italian savory pie connects family across the miles
“Cooking came to me a little bit later in life. Holidays in my family were always a really big deal, especially around the meals. The meals were the most important part of the holiday gathering. And I...Show More
7) Eats Wild Episode 3: Treasure hunting in the woods
“I’ve been mushroom hunting before and you'll kind of squat down and look in between all of the low plants, and then you move to the other side and you look on the other side and all of a sudden you s...Show More
8) Eats Wild Episode 1: Stalking the wild food experience
“And you’re stepping into–sinking really–into this clay that’s surrounding your feet, and there’s also some sticks in there, and you know, there’s bugs and spiders on the water…” This week on the sho...Show More
9) How to feed a giraffe–and other lessons from a zoo nutritionist
“So if you were a giraffe or an elephant you would go along in your world and you would consume things off of trees. And so we try to mimic, as best we can, what we call browse, which is edible tree m...Show More
10) What's the status of the people who grow our food?
“In the first Trump administration, about 350 thousand people from Central America or Mexico were given these H2A visas to come in temporarily with labor contractors. And many of them seem to have ove...Show More