One Bite is Everything

Dana DiPrima
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We talk about food like it's just dinner. It never is. One Bite is Everything explores the people, practices, policies, and power that shape what's on your plate. Through 150+ conversations with farmers, chefs, scientists, historians, and policy thinkers, each episode pulls back the curtain on a food system most of us navigate without really understanding. Real stories, real stakes, no lectures. These conversations don't stop at your headphones. They ripple outward through the For Farmers Movement, a weekly letter, and a community of eaters who are connecting more deeply with the farmers who make their food possible. One Bite is Everything airs every Thursday.

  1. 1d ago

    Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

    Who gets recognized for the work they do? Who gets invited into the conversation? And who has to fight for a seat at the table? At a dinner hosted by American Farmland Trust and Stone Barns Center at Blue Hill in New York City, Dana DiPrima met organic grain farmer Mary-Howell Martens, a woman who had quietly rearranged the seating chart to make sure she wouldn't be overlooked in conversations about the farm she and her husband had spent decades building. That encounter led Dana back to Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future, a collection of essays offering wisdom to the next generation of farmers. With the average American farmer now over 58, the question of who will farm next is increasingly urgent. But Mary-Howell's letter raises a more fundamental question: What does it really mean to choose farming as a way of life, and are we making that choice possible for the next generation? Drawing on Mary-Howell's remarkable farming history, the experiences of women participating in For Farmers Movement, and the timeless advice of poet Rainer Maria Rilke to "live the questions now," Dana explores the difference between doing meaningful work and being recognized for it. It's a conversation about farming, certainly. But it's also about the lives we choose, the expertise we overlook, the power of encouragement, and why making room for others matters in every profession. In this episodeThe dinner-party seating arrangement that inspired an unexpected friendship and a bigger conversation.Why American agriculture urgently needs a new generation of farmers.What Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens learned while transitioning more than 1,300 acres to organic production.The overlooked expertise of women in agriculture and what For Farmers Movement is learning from its applicants.How a simple Farmer Thank You postcard reminded a new farmer that her work mattered. Episode LinksLetters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future, published by Stone Barns Center (2017)Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens, Seneca Grain & Bean, organic farmers in New York's Finger Lakes regionFor Farmers Movement and its Farmer Thank You postcard program Eat like it matters. Because it does.

    Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

  2. Oct 22

    The Busyness Problem and What It Costs Us with Trinity Mouzon Wofford

    When did cooking dinner and sitting down to eat become luxuries we have to earn? Trinity Mouzon Wofford joins Dana DiPrima to challenge some familiar assumptions about food, time, and money: that farmers markets are too expensive, that cooking is another chore to squeeze in, and that being constantly busy means we’re doing something right. Trinity is the cofounder of wellness brand Golde and author of Eating at Home. From building a business with her husband to feeding their family in the Hudson Valley, she’s thinking carefully about what growth, well-being, and a good everyday life actually look like. We talk about how she learned to shop at farmers markets on a forty-dollar weekly grocery budget nearly a decade ago, why good ingredients can make cooking simpler, and what small businesses and farmers have in common when a surge of attention fades. Our conversation begins with her great-grandmother’s refusal to surrender the family home to urban renewal and leads to a question that touches all of us: what are we willing to make room for, and what do we risk losing when we don’t? In this episode: Why busyness has become a badge of honor.Making farmers markets part of everyday grocery shopping.Finding affordable staples beyond the market’s eye-catching extras.The difference between a burst of support and becoming a regular customer.How our food spending helps shape local economies and communities.Returning to the table without making dinner another performance. Find Eating at Home by Trinity Mouzon Wofford wherever you buy books. Explore For Farmers Movement and download the Farmers Market Field Guide at forfarmersmovement.com. Share this episode with someone who’s always too busy to sit down for lunch. And if you value One Bite is Everything, please leave a five-star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more people like you find the show. Hosted by Dana DiPrima. Co-produced by Sonia Dhillon. Sound editing and original music by Russell Chapa. Eat like it matters. Because it does.

    The Busyness Problem and What It Costs Us with Trinity Mouzon Wofford

  3. Oct 15

    Served as Punishment with Ear Hustle & Impact Justice

    What happens when someone else decides what goes on your plate every day, for years, and you have almost no power to change it? Ear Hustle cohosts and cocreators Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods join Dana DiPrima as guest cohosts for a conversation with Impact Justice’s Aishatu Yusuf and Alex Busansky about food in prison, the messages it sends about human worth, and the consequences that follow people home. Impact Justice’s James Beard Media Award-winning book, Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison, brings a largely hidden food system into view. Together, we explore what their research revealed and how fresh produce, better cooking, and partnerships with farmers can improve life inside. Nigel also shares her experience following a prison diet for Ear Hustle’s thirty-day challenge, while Earlonne brings his firsthand knowledge of eating and working within the prison food system. We discuss: • How food becomes an additional form of punishment. • What prison meals mean for health, dignity, and life after release. • What Ear Hustle’s thirty-day challenge revealed about choice and eating. • How Harvest of the Month, Chefs in Prisons, and growing food inside are creating change. Explore our guests’ work: • Ear Hustle: https://www.earhustlesq.com • Impact Justice and Eating Behind Bars: https://impactjustice.org Share this episode with someone who hasn’t thought about food in prison. And if you value One Bite is Everything, please leave a five-star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts to help more people find the show. Hosted by Dana DiPrima. Co-produced by Sonia Dhillon. Sound editing and original music by Russell Chapa. Eat like it matters. Because it does.

    Served as Punishment with Ear Hustle & Impact Justice

  4. Oct 8

    A Regenerative Playbook: Remembering What’s Been Forgotten

    I think this is at the heart of the regenerative movement: a going back. That's what I did to bring you this episode. I went back into some of the conversations I've had here and found three guests who said the same thing in completely different ways. Rick Clark is a fifth-generation farmer in Indiana. Adam Alexander is a seed collector in Wales, known as the Seed Detective. Chef Sean Sherman is an Oglala Lakota chef in Minneapolis. All three believe that the future of food depends on remembering what we've lost: in the soil, in the seed, and in our culture. In this episode: Rick tells the story of the spring rain that washed his perfectly worked field onto the road, and why the thing his father taught him wasn't how to farm, but how to think.Adam explains why seeds have memory, how farmers in Ethiopia have gone 800 years without famine, and why saving a single tomato seed makes it yours.Sean describes growing up on Pine Ridge without Lakota food, the beach in Mexico where everything changed, and how Owamni went from buying out of the back of a hatchback to helping build an Indigenous food economy. Farmer Spotlight: Caleb This episode launches the For Farmers weekly farmer spotlight, and those stories will be featured here on the podcast too. Our first spotlight is Caleb, a 14-year-old raising heritage Cayuga ducks in West Virginia. He is the youngest person ever to apply for a For Farmers grant. The For Farmers community fully funded his duck run in less than 12 hours. Now you can help with what comes next by shopping his wish list: [LINK] Find our guests Rick Clark: farmgreen.landAdam Alexander, the Seed Detective: The Accidental Seed HeroesChef Sean Sherman: Owamni, NATIFS (natifs.org), and the Indigenous Food Lab. His newest cookbook is Turtle Island. Mentioned in this episode Caleb’s wish listThe Tuesday 5:18 am letter One Bite Is Everything is part of Heritage Radio Network. Sound editing and original music by Russell Chapa.

  5. Oct 1

    What Farmers Really Mean to the People Who Know Them

    What does a farmer mean to a community? Ask the people who nominate them, and you'll hear about far more than food. You'll hear about the neighbor who lends a transplanter, the farmer who rebuilds after losing everything, the one who teaches kids where food comes from, and the one who holds a whole farmers market together. This episode began with a question. After I spoke at a conference in Massachusetts with Farming Falmouth, someone in the audience asked how more people could hear the stories inside For Farmers Movement nominations. So this week, I'm reading twelve nominations from 2026 out loud, in the words of the people who wrote them: customers, chefs, fellow farmers, friends, and family. Together, they paint a picture of what farmers mean across the country. Land finally owned after years without it. Sheep herded on ancestral ground in the Navajo Nation. An orchard replanted after a fire. A farm rebuilt after development took the original. A youth program graduate who came back to run the farm. And farmers who, in one nominator's words, "collaborate instead of compete." I also share why the For Farmers Movement exists. Many of the farmers who apply can't get loans or other grants. They don't have the collateral, they can't front the money for reimbursement-based programs, or they don't meet years-in-business requirements. My grants have none of those hoops. A nomination is often the first step that connects a farmer to funding, resources, and a network of people who want them to succeed. And it tells a farmer something every farmer deserves to hear: you matter to us. Farms featured in this episode Grounded Roots Farms, Rocky Mount, NCHoghan Yahzi Land Restoration Project, Ganado, AZThe Blooming Hands Collective, Niwot, COTwin Peaks Orchards, Newcastle, CAMack's Farm, Davie, FLCherry Rock Farm, Brandon, SDRiver View Land & Livestock, Crown City, OHGarden-Raised Bounty (GRuB), Olympia, WACremAree Goat Farm and Dairy, Pelham, NCMinerva's Meadow, State Center, IACape Cod Flower Truck, North Falmouth, MAHappy Bird Poultry Farm, Isle La Motte, VT What you can do in the next five minutes Tell a farmer what they mean to you. Nominate themShop a farmer wish listIf you know a nominated farmer, remind them that grant applications are due October 12, National Farmers DaySubscribe to my Tuesday letter, in your inbox every Tuesday at 5:18 AM OBIE Facts Top 3% of podcasts globally#22 on millionpodcasts.com's top 100 food podcasts#87 on their top 100 agriculture podcastsMore engagement than 88% of podcasts on SpotifyFive-star rating averageProud part of Heritage Radio Network Connect Instagram: @xoxofarmgirl Web: forfarmersmovement.com Sound design and original music by Russell Chapa.

  6. Sep 24

    The Loneliness Between Us: What Farmers and Eaters Are Both Missing

    The Loneliness Between Us From your plate to the rest of the world, One Bite Is Everything connects the food you eat to the people, policies, and stories behind it. This episode started with a letter exchange between Maria Rodale and Wendell Berry, and one line stuck out: "I think lonely people join movements." Through the For Farmers Movement, we have seen and heard about loneliness and isolation. In fact, it's at the heart of why the Movement started. This is an episode about two kinds of loneliness, and about what happens when the people growing our food and the people eating it actually find each other. Resources Listen to Maria Rodale on the pod. Maria Rodale on Substack Your Support for the Show Matters Liked the show? Leave a 5-star rating and review to help us bring you more incredible guests, conversations and listeners like you. Top reviews on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or you can leave your review here. Share it with others! Did you know that OBIE is shared more than 88% of all shows?! (Spotify wrapped 2025) You can share it from your listening app, or screenshot it and share it on your socials! Tag @xoxofarmgirl & use hashtag #OneBiteIsEverything Connect on Socials IG @xoxofarmgirl & Facebook One Bite is Everything From your plate to the rest of the world, One Bite is Everything explores the connections between food, health, community, the environment, and the economy. Through conversations with farmers, chefs, researchers, advocates, and food system leaders, host Dana DiPrima examines how food touches every aspect of our lives and why understanding our food system has never mattered more. OBIE Facts Top 3% of all podcasts globally Top 100 food podcasts (22) Top 100 agriculture podcasts (87) More engagement than more than 88% of all podcasts on Spotify Five-star rating average Part of Heritage Radio Network, home of the top voices in food Connect Follow Dana at @xoxofarmgirl and learn more about the For Farmers Movement at forfarmersmovement.com. Co-production for interview episodes by Sonia Dhillon. Sound design and original music always by Russell Chapa.

  7. Sep 17

    Rebel or Just Paying Attention? Farmer Scott Park Questions Everything

    What happens when a farmer stops doing things the way they've always been done and starts asking whether there's a better way? Scott Park began farming in California in 1974 with a degree in political theory, almost no agricultural training, and plenty to learn. More than five decades later, he's built a large-scale farming operation by questioning conventional wisdom, experimenting, paying attention, and learning to work with nature rather than against it. His new book, Growing Rogue: The Adventures of Changing How I Farm, draws on 53 years of meticulous daily records and a lifetime of trial, error, observation, and discovery. In this conversation, Scott and Dana explore the tension between maximizing yields and maximizing profits, why healthy soil can be a farmer's greatest ally, and what happens when agricultural advice overlooks the value of firsthand experience. They discuss cover crops, water retention, technology, the economics of changing farming practices, and the importance of thinking beyond a single growing season. Scott also makes a compelling case for why there is no universal recipe for farming well. What works on his California farm may not work somewhere else, but the underlying principles of observation, experimentation, adaptability, and long-term thinking can travel. This is a conversation about farming, but it's also about questioning assumptions, embracing imperfect progress, and having the courage to try something different. Scott's book: Growing Rogue: The Adventures of Changing How I Farm, published by Chelsea Green on September 29. Get involved: For Farmers Movement connects farmers and eaters through stories, grants, wish lists, and simple ways to support the people who grow our food. Visit forfarmersmovement.com . Subscribe to Bite Sized for Dana's weekly writing about food, farming, and the ways they connect to everything else. If you enjoyed this episode, give One Bite Is Everything five stars, leave a review, and share it with someone who might appreciate Scott's perspective. And, as always, eat like it matters. Because it does.

    Rebel or Just Paying Attention? Farmer Scott Park Questions Everything

  8. Sep 10

    It Ain’t Done Yet: The Processing Problem Washington Is Finally Paying Attention To

    For years, small livestock farmers and ranchers have been saying the same thing: access to processing is one of the biggest obstacles to getting locally raised meat to customers. In this episode of One Bite is Everything, Dana DiPrima revisits two earlier conversations that show just how long this problem has persisted. In 2022, Carrie Edsall of Black Willow Pond Farm described what happened when a processing appointment she had booked more than a year in advance disappeared while finished pigs were literally sitting on the trailer. Her story reveals how few alternatives many farmers have, why the right kind of inspection matters, and how quickly extra driving, lost time and unavailable appointments become real costs for a small farm. In a later conversation, local-food advocate Liz Reitzig explained the regulatory bottleneck behind some of those problems, including the distinction between USDA-inspected and custom-exempt processing and the proposed changes contained in the PRIME Act. Now, in September 2026, Washington is finally taking up many of the same issues. A September 4 executive order directs USDA to examine barriers to interstate meat sales, expand support for small and regional processors, increase participation in existing interstate inspection programs, address competition in livestock markets, and identify federal barriers affecting state-inspected and custom-exempt meat. But the executive order is not a finished solution. Some changes can be made administratively. Others may require changes to federal law. The PRIME Act remains before Congress. USDA has been given deadlines to study important barriers and make recommendations. And none of it matters ultimately unless policy changes translate into something tangible for farmers: more viable processors, more appropriate processing capacity, workable market access, and appointments when animals are ready. Farmers and ranchers have spent years pushing this issue into public view. Washington is finally paying attention. The deal isn’t done yet. In this episode Carrie Edsall of Black Willow Pond Farm on what happens when a processing appointment disappears, the hidden costs farmers absorb when processing is hours away, and why access to custom processing doesn’t necessarily allow a farmer to sell meat through the markets their business depends on. Liz Reitzig explains the processing “choke point,” the difference between USDA-inspected and custom-exempt processing, and what the PRIME Act seeks to change. Dana brings those earlier conversations into the current beef-processing debate, explains what the September 4 executive order does and does not do, and looks at the decisions still ahead for USDA, Congress, farmers and ranchers. Resources September 4, 2026 Executive Order: Promoting Fair Competition in Livestock Markets and Expanding Market Access for American Meat Producers The PRIME Act, H.R. 4700 USDA Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program USDA Strengthening Processing for U.S. Ranchers (SPUR) Program Original One Bite is Everything conversations with Carrie Edsall and Liz Reitzig One Bite is Everything From your plate to the rest of the world, One Bite is Everything explores the connections between food, health, community, the environment, and the economy. Through conversations with farmers, chefs, researchers, advocates, and food system leaders, host Dana DiPrima examines how food touches every aspect of our lives and why understanding our food system has never mattered more. OBIE Facts Top 3% of all podcasts globally Top 100 food podcasts (22) Top 100 agriculture podcasts (87) More engagement than more than 88% of all podcasts on Spotify Five-star rating average Part of Heritage Radio Network, home of the best voices in food Connect Get the story behind the story in Dana's Tuesday letter, delivered at 5:18 AM every Tuesday: subscribe here Know a small farmer doing great work? Nominate them here. Every episode lives at forfarmersmovement.com/one-bite-is-everything Follow Dana at @xoxofarmgirl Co-production by Sonia Dhillon. Sound design and original music by Russell Chapa.

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We talk about food like it's just dinner. It never is. One Bite is Everything explores the people, practices, policies, and power that shape what's on your plate. Through 150+ conversations with farmers, chefs, scientists, historians, and policy thinkers, each episode pulls back the curtain on a food system most of us navigate without really understanding. Real stories, real stakes, no lectures. These conversations don't stop at your headphones. They ripple outward through the For Farmers Movement, a weekly letter, and a community of eaters who are connecting more deeply with the farmers who make their food possible. One Bite is Everything airs every Thursday.

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  • Creator
    Dana DiPrima
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    189
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2026 One Bite is Everything
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