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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. Read More »

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Palm oil is everywhere–what can it tell us?

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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?

A collage of 5 strips of art photos with very colorful, richly detailed still life arrangements of desserts, drinks, glasswear and figurines.

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

Abel Garcia in a red sweatshirt standing in front of a wooden display of colorful bottles of spirits

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.

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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.

portrait of Latrice Tatsey next to a portrait of Liz Carlisle

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.

Alexei Liebrum eating a meal at table with wooden top, in a large, well lit dining hall

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.

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How much "real food" can you find on the road?

Kayte Young and Payton Whaley sitting in the back of an SUV with a disposable food container with food

Earth Eats host, Kayte Young, hits the road with Payton Whaley, host of Fly Over Culture, to find something decent to eat from area gas stations.

The Ramadan fast is usually followed by a feast. In Hyderabad, India, that feast is dominated by haleem, a meat and lentil stew pounded into paste and flavored with rose petals, cinnamon and cardamom.