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Earth Eats

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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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Latest episode

Oct 14, 2025

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Episodes

The future of farming must be inclusive 17.06.2022

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.

When you’re craving Indonesian food, you might have to make it yourself 09.06.2022

A conversation and kitchen session with Melati Citrawireja of Three Salted Fish.

The Hoosier Young Farmers Podcast–a special presentation on Earth Eats 03.06.2022

Hear the voices of farmers across the state talking about their farming lives and the challenges they face.

“It all started with soup,” Polish volunteers nourish Ukrainians fleeing war 27.05.2022

A conversation with Elizabeth Dunn about volunteers at the Polish-Ukrainian border who were the first to provide aid to refugees.

Queering the food system with Ike Leslie 20.05.2022

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.

Earth Eats presents: Hot Farm--a podcast with Eve Abrams 12.05.2022

A special presentation from the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) of a podcast on farming and climate change.

Palm oil is everywhere–what can it tell us? 06.05.2022

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?

Brick Kyle has fun with his food, and Katie Martin works for justice in the charitable food system 29.04.2022

A local artist and baker takes up a new hobby, and a food bank director brings new tools to address hunger.

One chef, two authors, an anti-racist toolkit and a flower fritter recipe 23.04.2022

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.

Understanding the past and considering the future of the restaurant 16.04.2022

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.

The deep roots of regenerative farming are found in communities of color 09.04.2022

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.

Campus dining in a pickle--plus artichoke pickle poetry, a pickled carrot recipe & more 01.04.2022

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.

Ask Frances Moore Lappé what’s changed since her 1971 groundbreaking book 25.03.2022

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.

Celebrate the Persian New Year with this special dish 18.03.2022

Ash-e Reshteh features bright green herbs and greens, making it a suitable dish for celebrating Navruz.

Emily Broad Leib has an expansive view of food safety 11.03.2022

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.

A conversation on the importance of food traditions in times of war and dislocation 05.03.2022

The 2008 Russian war with Georgia holds some striking similarities with today’s conflict in Ukraine.

These farmers are restoring biodiversity on their patch of Southern Indiana land 25.02.2022

A conversation with two livestock farmers focused on treating the animals well, and nourishing the land.

Mushrooms are trending and so is gardening 19.02.2022

Solful Gardens in Indianapolis makes home gardening more accessible--and foragers, farmers and chefs are excited about edible mushrooms.

Myths about farming attract new growers; making a profit is a challenge 11.02.2022

Farm life still manages to attract young people, but they often come to the land with unrealistic expectations.

This geography professor teaches about food and place 05.02.2022

A conversation with Olga Kalentzidou on the complexity of food geographies.

Stewarding the land for the next generation 28.01.2022

Planting trees and building soil don’t always reap instant rewards–and maybe that’s the point.

Groundwork Indy helps to build personal and community resilience through garden and conservation work 21.01.2022

Join us for a community garden tour and conversation with Phyllis Boyd, former director of Groundwork Indy

Keitlyn Alcantara studies foodways as tools of empowerment 14.01.2022

An anthropologiical bioarcheologist studies precolonial burial sites to understand Indigenous foodways of the past and present.

Terre Haute is hot–-with two new food startups featuring fermentation 07.01.2022

Hear the story of gardener-turned-bread-baker, Candace Minster, plus a new kombucha bar in Twelve Points.

Carey Gillam tells the story of an ordinary citizen taking on Monsanto 31.12.2021

A conversation with award winning journalist Carey Gilliam who covered the case of Lee Johnson vs. Monsanto.

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