Feast Yr Ears Heritage Radio Network

This spring, HRN is hosting a 3-part event series at Farm to People in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This live recording is from March 8th, when Harry Rosenblum hosted the first of the series: "Fermentation Never Sleeps."

The panel discussion featured Holistic Health Practitioner and recipe developer, Lily Harris; Co-Owner of Fifth Hammer Brewing Company and Co-Host of HRN’s Fuhmentaboudit! Mary Izett; and the Founding Director of the Museum of Food and Drink Peter Kim. The conversation focused on the practical ways fermentation could be incorporated into our lives and each of the panelists shared their experiences and relationships with fermentation. The discussion ended with inquisitive questions from the fermentation-enthusiast-leaning audience members

Harry brought samples (krauts and Kvaas) for everyone to try while Farm to People offered a special bespoke menu featuring fermented food and ingredients for people who stayed to continue the discussion and the communing.

On April 12th, join us for Foraging Like a Local: A conversation about the edible landscape around us. The evening will highlight exciting ways to see, taste and experience the natural world whether among the concrete or the trees. Our host that evening will be Dana Cowin, host of Speaking Broadly and long-time former editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine. Dana will welcome Melissa Metrick, host of HRN's Fields, and Allie E.S. Wist, an artist-scholar and writer focused on the senses and the Anthropocene, to talk about the beauty and bounty of overlooked, sometimes maligned growing ingredients. Plus: how to prepare what we find, and how to think about the future through resilient, found foods.

For more information or to reserve tickets go to heritageradionetwork.org/eventseries

Lisa Held is the host of the Farm Report here on HRN. She's also a journalist covering Food Policy in Washington and beyond. To say that she knows about food and the big picture would be an understatement. Tune in for the final episode of Feast Yr Ears for a while to learn more about the farm bill, and how Lisa got her start and ended up where she is now.

Tom Dennen and his Wife Natalie met in Business School and landed in Rhode Island as the midpoint between their respective childhood homes in Philadelphia and Maine. When they were expecting their first child 6 years ago they started working on Bayberry Beer Hall, which opened in 2017, and while expecting their second in early 2020 they signed the lease on the space that has finally opened as Bayberry Garden.

The Dixon Family has been living in and around the Alaskan Wilderness for nearly 40 years. In that time they have created not one but 2 hospitality spaces, one on the water and one in the woods where guests can stay, learn, cook, and explore everything that our wildest state has to offer. Tune in to hear Kirsten Dixon tell her story and hear about their new book Living within the Wild.

Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway were liviing in New York in 2003 when they traveled the country to learn everything they could about raising goats and making cheese. After a year on the road they landed in Maine and have been running Ten Apple Farm ever since. After a few books about goat farming and cheese making they turned their attention last year to creating the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook which contains 200 recipes that celebrate Maine's culinary past, present & future. They also just launched a podcast about community cookbooks called Cooking is Community.

Elle Simone is a joy to speak with. Her story is one of resilience and change, embracing new opportunities with open arms and an open heart. Tune in to hear Elle and Harry catch up about Elle's work at America's Test Kitchen, both on screen and off, and how she went from Social work, to being houseless to the screen all along tuning in to the power of the universe. Don't forget to check out her new Podcast: The Walk-in