Preserve the flavor of summer in a jar
If you love the taste of homegrown midwest tomatoes, now is your chance to learn how to capture that goodness to enjoy all winter long.
Sep 09, 2022•51 min
Earth Eats
Earth Eats is a show about food and farming. It’s storytelling, recipes, farm visits, and kitchen sessions. We have conversations with scholars, chefs, growers, and food justice activists. We hear from authors, artists, scientists, poets, and people who love to eat. Earth Eats is a production of WFIU Public Radio and Indiana Public Media.
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Episodes
Caring for your land when it’s not really your land [replay]
Planting trees and building soil doesn’t always reap instant rewards–and maybe that’s the point.
Sep 02, 2022•52 min
Meet the guy who cooks for 31 million–luckily his guests don’t eat much [replay]
Take a peek inside the fruit fly kitchen on the Indiana University campus.
Aug 26, 2022•51 min
Making the invisible visible: our food system’s dependence on the labor of forced migrants
A conversation with Elizebeth Cullen Dunn on the elements of our food system that most of us prefer to keep hidden from view.
Aug 20, 2022•51 min
The agrarian dream may be calling–but is it practical?
Farm life still manages to attract young people, but they often come to the land with unrealistic expectations.
Aug 11, 2022•50 min
Black farmers in the Midwest look to history for inspiration moving forward
Hear stories about Black farmers in Ohio, and Indigenous wild rice cultivation in Minnesota lakes.
Aug 05, 2022•51 min
Crafting menus at the Community Kitchen
Heather Craig sees the community kitchen as a bridge rather than a net.
Jul 29, 2022•51 min
Crafting menus at the Community Kitchen
Heather Craig sees the community kitchen as a bridge rather than a net.
Jul 29, 2022•51 min
A gardener, a baker and a brewer walk into a bar…
Hear the story of gardener-turned-bread-baker, Candace Minster who sells her bread to a kombucha bar in Twelve Points.
Jul 22, 2022•52 min
Keitlyn Alcantara on Indigenous foodways of the past and the present
Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.
Jul 13, 2022•56 min
Goods for Cooks is a “mom and pop” kitchen supply shop run by a brother and sister
Siblings Sam Eibling and George Huntington keep up with the latest trends, while maintaining that old-school personal touch in their independent store–filled with cooking equipment, tableware and specialty food items.
Jul 08, 2022•51 min
Earth Eats Presents: The Hoosier Young Farmers Podcast, Part II
What is the role of community in the life of a farm? How do farmers strike a work/life balance? Explore these questions and more on this special episode.
Jul 01, 2022•51 min
An Indiana bakery with a history, looks to the future
When Brittany Kiel took over the family bakery, she wanted to make changes to reflect her own passions. Honoring tradition is also important to her, so she’s striking a delicate balance.
Jun 24, 2022•50 min
The future of farming must be inclusive
The National Young Farmers Coalition centers racial equity and is no longer a white-led organization. Catch our conversation with Michelle Hughes, about the organization's transformation, on this episode of Earth Eats.
Jun 17, 2022•51 min
When you’re craving Indonesian food, you might have to make it yourself
A conversation and kitchen session with Melati Citrawireja of Three Salted Fish.
Jun 09, 2022•51 min
The Hoosier Young Farmers Podcast–a special presentation on Earth Eats
Hear the voices of farmers across the state talking about their farming lives and the challenges they face.
Jun 03, 2022•51 min
“It all started with soup,” Polish volunteers nourish Ukrainians fleeing war
A conversation with Elizabeth Dunn about volunteers at the Polish-Ukrainian border who were the first to provide aid to refugees.
May 27, 2022•51 min
Queering the food system with Ike Leslie
To queer something is to ask questions about what gender and sexuality have to do with the topic at hand. Here, we are looking at food and farming.
May 20, 2022•51 min
Earth Eats presents: Hot Farm--a podcast with Eve Abrams
A special presentation from the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) of a podcast on farming and climate change.
May 12, 2022•2 min
Palm oil is everywhere–what can it tell us?
What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap food production?
May 06, 2022•51 min
Brick Kyle has fun with his food, and Katie Martin works for justice in the charitable food system
A local artist and baker takes up a new hobby, and a food bank director brings new tools to address hunger.
Apr 29, 2022•51 min
One chef, two authors, an anti-racist toolkit and a flower fritter recipe
This week on Earth Eats learn how to make delicate (and decadent) fritters from the flowers of the Black Locust tree. Plus, interesting conversations with authors, chefs, foragers and more.
Apr 23, 2022•51 min
Understanding the past and considering the future of the restaurant
Historian Rebecca Spang has just been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022. We give a second listen to an Earth Eats interview from 2021.
Apr 16, 2022•51 min
The deep roots of regenerative farming are found in communities of color
Liz Carlisle’s new book explores the origins of the farming practices we need today–-in order to reduce the devastating effects of agriculture on our planet’s climate.
Apr 09, 2022•51 min
Campus dining in a pickle--plus artichoke pickle poetry, a pickled carrot recipe & more
Lower midwestern states are producing more maple syrup, Black farmers are finding their way into the hemp industry–these stories and more on Earth Eats this week.
Apr 01, 2022•52 min
Ask Frances Moore Lappé what’s changed since her 1971 groundbreaking book
It started as a one-page handout and grew into a multi-million copy best seller. Lappé shares the origin story of Diet for a Small Planet, and where the work has taken her.
Mar 25, 2022•51 min
Celebrate the Persian New Year with this special dish
Ash-e Reshteh features bright green herbs and greens, making it a suitable dish for celebrating Navruz.
Mar 18, 2022•50 min
Emily Broad Leib has an expansive view of food safety
Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address the most important factors in our food system.
Mar 11, 2022•51 min
A conversation on the importance of food traditions in times of war and dislocation
The 2008 Russian war with Georgia holds some striking similarities with today’s conflict in Ukraine.
Mar 05, 2022•51 min
These farmers are restoring biodiversity on their patch of Southern Indiana land
A conversation with two livestock farmers focused on treating the animals well, and nourishing the land.
Feb 25, 2022•52 min
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