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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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Bonus episode: Interview with Nickole Keith and Kevin Harris of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi
In the fall of 2024 Kayte had the chance to talk with Nicole Keith, Food Sovereignty Coordinator of the Nottawasepi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (also known as NHBP) and Kevin Harris, Culture…
S2025E40 Eats Wild Episode 9: Traditional, wild-foraged foodways
“Wild rice camp started a long time ago. It actually started thousands of years ago, with our ancestors having a real-time lifeway.”We have a jam-packed show for you today featuring traditional…
S2025E39 The right tools for the job
This week on the show, we focus on tools of the trade. Muddy Fork Bakery upgraded their mixer and it turned out to be a game changer. Hot sauce production is made easier with a hand crank food mill.…
S2025E38 Eats Wild Episode 8: Nuts, beans, berries and orange globes–the trees share their bounty in the fall
“Sniff it! If they’re smelly, I mean stinky, then it’s not persimmon…”This week on Earth Eats Eats Wild, we explore the fruits of fall…and the nuts and even beans!Forager Chef Alan Bergo fancies the…
S2025E37 Eats Wild Episode 7: Acorns are not just for squirrels
”Acorns are, I mean, they're everywhere. They are incredibly abundant and they've been a really important food source for humans in essentially every region of the planet that had oak trees–which is…
S2025E36 High school gardens offer a tangible way to make positive change
“For me it feels like we live in an age where you look on the news and it just feels like everything is going wrong. And so gardening feels like a small way we can have an actual, tangible, positive…
S2025E34 Art, food and figs
“And a man on his way to work hops twice to reach, at last, his fig which he smiles at and calls ‘baby.’ ‘c’mere baby,’ he says, and blows a kiss to the tree.”This week on the show, in honor of…
S2025E34 Small scale dairy farming is a labor of love
“I remember in Covid, Sara, she went to the grocery on her way home, on a Friday, to get milk and some other things--basically when Covid was shuttin’ everything down–and there was chocolate almond…
S2025E33 Food, weight, wellness and race–Jessica Wilson rewrites the story
“Speaking directly to Black women and wanting Black women to know that their bodies are not the problem. The way that our bodies are treated and problematized and pathologized, we’re often taught…
S2025E32 Are we all made of palm oil?
“When you begin to zoom out, you realize that in fact palm oil is all around us, and the world, in a strange way, is made of palm oil; and we’re all, in a certain way, made of palm oil–in the sense…
S2025E31 A chef for a fly
“Bloomington is known in the science world--if you say Bloomington, people think fruit flies.” This week on our show, we tap into the Earth Eats archive, for one of my very favorite stories. It’s…
S2025E30 Home is where the sheep are
This week on our show we listen back to a favorite episode featuring the story of a young farming family with a flock of sheep, on a quest for farmland of their own. We’ll learn about their dreams…
S2025E29 Conversations on leaving a land legacy
“I think our approach is: making it better–improving the land every time we have a chance. We are benefited by the sweetness of the maple, right? So, that’s a source of sweetness for us and for the…
S2025E28 Art.Sushi.Cake
"We get into a question based on life experience, based on the thoughts that have surfaced for everybody, what if anything are you wondering. What questions come to mind?"On this week’s show we talk…
S2025E27 Eats Wild Episode 6: Building relationships with plants
“Throughout industrial history, the idea behind weeds is very political and it's very constructed. They are only weeds because they get in the way of ideas of how you think that a well kept clean,…
S2025E26 Eats Wild Episode 5: Foraging for flavor and for mental health
“I am a human who yearns to remember that she is part of nature, in a way that I think our culture is trying to make me forget.”This week on the second SUMMER episode of our Eats Wild series, we head…
S2025E21 What can yerba mate tell us about ourselves and the world around us? [replay]
“Studying food is a way to study how we are connected to the world of life around us. Whatever we think about humans being so cerebral, so intellectual–it really breaks down because we are a part of…
S2025E24 Geography of taste [replay]
“There is a beautiful Hindustani saying, ‘Kosa kosa per pani badle, chare kosa per vani,’ which means "Every two miles the water changes, and every four the language." So that, in fact, is the…
S2025E23 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…
S2025E22 From Diet for a Small Planet, to the future of our Democracy
“I often say that the only choice we don’t have in such a connected world, the only choice we don’t have is whether to change the world--because every act we take and don’t take is sending out…
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