Earth Eats

EARTH EATS

Earth Eats is a weekly podcast, public radio program and blog bringing you the freshest news and recipes inspired by local food and sustainable agriculture. You can learn more by visting: https://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/

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“I knew that this was gonna be a little bit of an adventure, because I’ve never done this before. And so, I’m sure I’m gonna make some stupid mistake that your listeners are gonna be laughing at me while I’m doing this.”

From WFIU in Bloomington Indiana, this is earth eats and I’m your host Kayte Young

This week on the show, just in time for the hot pepper harvest, we revisit a story from 2019 about a novice hot sauce maker and one from 2020 about tasting the hottest of the hot peppers. Plus, a piece about lab studying home sourdough starters and a new story from Harvest about. All that just ahead stay with us.

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Adventures in hot peppers

“I knew that this was gonna be a little bit of an adventure, because I’ve never done this before. And so, I’m sure I’m gonna [...]

May 2, 2025

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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, [...]

May 1, 2025

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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 [...]

April 18, 2025

Indiana Public Media

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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 [...]

April 11, 2025

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Eats Wild Episode 2: Wild food is all around us

“She introduced me to Susan Weed’s books, and chickweed is in one of the herbal healing books. And it’s talked about as this star-shaped plant [...]

April 4, 2025

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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 [...]

March 28, 2025

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Flexibility and improvisation make community meals delicious

“I had six different people’s donations of basil in my dish yesterday, and that’s what made it work.” This week on the show, we talk [...]

March 21, 2025

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Seven mega-companies have an out-sized role in our food system

“At least a hundred years ago, the last robber barons, we got nice libraries out of it. This one, it’s like ‘oh, what is the [...]

March 14, 2025

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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 [...]

March 7, 2025

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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 [...]

February 28, 2025

Indiana Public Media

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