Green Bites

Ellie O'Byrne
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Green Bites

A delicious fresh episode on Irish food sustainability dished up each week for everyone who loves food and cares about the environment.

  1. Taming the soybean

    28/12/2022

    Taming the soybean

    In ancient China, it was believed that the nutritional power of the mighty, protein-rich soy bean needed to be "tamed"....Tempeh, the Indonesian soy-based protein food, might be lesser known than Tofu, but it's one way of taming the golden bean. Vegan chef James De Burca launched De Burca's Tempeh in 2022, the first commercial Tempeh producers in Ireland. Using beans from France to produce Tempeh is one way of keeping food miles down while going plant-based, he says. James whips up a Thai Larb, Tempeh and Aubergine Involtini and Tempeh Bacon to prove its versatility.

    1h 7m
  2. Sustainable wines at The Wine Shed

    21/12/2022

    Sustainable wines at The Wine Shed

    Fionnuala Harkin runs a wine workshop in her husband's toolshed in West Cork. What is a sustainable wine: how is it grown, and what does it taste like? Join Ellie and Fionnuala to taste three organic and biodynamic wines from vineyards in Europe that are going the extra mile to protect their environment and farm in harmony with the natural world.

    1h 9m
  3. Microdairy

    16/09/2022

    Microdairy

    "Bigger farms and less farmers is where we’re heading; when you’ve no control over the price, all you can do is get bigger.” Meet Sinéad Moran of Gleann Buí farm in Co Mayo. Sinéad and her partner, Mick McGrath, started selling raw milk from their microdairy in 2021. Is there a model here that produces milk sustainably, supports a family and provides quality local food?

    41 min
  4. The Honey Episode

    02/09/2022

    The Honey Episode

    A visit to East Waterford Beekeepers' Association with Donal Lehane and a honey tasting in East Cork with Hanna Bäckmo: this episode is as sweet as it gets: beekeepers farm the skies and protect pollinators and their food sources. But what's happening to the native Irish Black Bee, and why is only 8% of the honey consumed in Ireland Irish honey?

    1h 16m
  5. What makes a sustainable kitchen?

    19/08/2022

    What makes a sustainable kitchen?

    What does a frozen avocado or a palm weevil grub taste like? Meet UK-based, Kerry-born chef and nutritionist Sadhbh Moore, whose book, Sustainable Kitchen, is out this year. What do we mean when we say "sustainable"? And where's the line when it comes to individual responsibility versus corporate or state level environmental actions?

    51 min
  6. Seeds are Stories

    11/08/2022

    Seeds are Stories

    Green Bites is back! In the first episode of Season Two, we meet Jason Horner, a market gardener who turned to growing seed in 2021 and became the Gaia Foundation's Irish Seed Sovereignty advocate: this episode spans two seasons of Jason's change in career. How has growing seed commercially worked out for him?

    55 min

  7. 30/10/2020

    Glyphosate

    While some EU countries are in the process of banning Glyphosate, the most used herbicide on the planet and the active ingredient in Monsanto's RoundUp, Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Teagasc, the Irish agricultural training and research body, say there's no alternative and that Irish farming is not sustainable without it. Ellie is joined by John Spink, Teagasc's head of Crops and Environment, organic farmer Ross Jackson who runs Lacka Lamb with his wife Amy and farms organic oats and barley, and NUIG researcher Dr Alison Connolly, who is conducting research into glyphosate exposure in Irish farming and non-farming families, for a look at the current state of play regarding the chemical which has been involved in several controversies including high-profile cancer lawsuits in the US and emerging evidence that glyphosate can have negative impacts on bee health.

    37 min

  8. 26/10/2020

    2020: Sugar in hindsight

    The closure of the Irish sugar industry in 2005 was a staggering blow to Irish food security. From being self-sufficient in sugar and molasses to importing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of these commodities per year, often from countries whose cheap production relies on horrendous working conditions on sugar cane plantations, it’s difficult to look back on the demolition of the industry as anything other than a retrograde step. Looking back on the salutary tale of the demolition of Ireland’s indigenous sugar industry, whose closure impacted 3,700 beet farmers and thousands of other jobs in light of recent concerns for food security raised by Brexit and the Covid Crisis, what can we learn? From compensation packages for Irish farmers to a particularly sweet deal for Greencore, the food company that shut up shop under pressure from an EU sugar reform scheme: Ellie is joined by Alan Navratil, a farmer whose family history is steeped in the story of Irish sugar, for a 2020 look at Ireland’s lost sugar industry.

    36 min
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A delicious fresh episode on Irish food sustainability dished up each week for everyone who loves food and cares about the environment.

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  • Creator
    Ellie O'Byrne
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Green Bites

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