One Bite is Everything

Dana DiPrima

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. 11h ago

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Sep 3

    Grounded Hope with Jack Algiere of Stone Barns: What Plants, Soil, and One Little Carrot Teach Us About Change

    Jack Algiere arrived at Stone Barns Center in 2003 as its very first employee, hired to build a greenhouse on a former Rockefeller cattle operation thirty miles north of Manhattan. More than two decades later, that greenhouse has never seen a chemical, the farm he built with chef Dan Barber and Blue Hill at Stone Barns has become one of the most influential in the country, and Jack has written his first book, Seeding Hope: What Plants Teach Us About Being Human, out now from Chelsea Green. In this conversation, Jack and I talk about the difference between repairing land and stewarding it, and why he walked onto that property thinking, don't mess this up. He tells the story behind the fence carrot, the tiny Mokum carrot Dan Barber asked him to pick smaller and smaller until it earned a place on the Blue Hill menu that it has held for 23 years. We dig into why flavor is the front door to changing the food system, why training brilliant young farmers isn't enough when there's no runway waiting for them, and why he believes change happens community by community, because local is a metric. And we talk about grounded hope, Jack's term for the understanding that this work is worth fighting for even if you know you won't solve the whole problem. In this episode How a plant scientist from a small farm on the Rhode Island coast ended up stewarding a Rockefeller landscapeWhat Stone Barns looks like today: 10 acres of organic vegetables, a half-acre soil greenhouse running year-round since 2003, orchards, grains, and a conservation plan across 1,500 acres of preserveThe fence carrot story, and what it says about the conversation between field and kitchenWhy annual production alone isn't sustainable, and how integrated systems with livestock and perennials restore landThe Leaf program, bringing plants, compost, and vegetable shares to community gardens in the BronxThe arc of change: reduce waste, substitute, change systems, build networks, then networks of networksWhy everyone, from journalists to gardeners to podcast listeners, has a role in fixing the food system Links from this episode Get the book: Seeding Hope: What Plants Teach Us About Being Human by Jack Algiere (Chelsea Green) Learn more about Jack's work: stonebarnscenter.org 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.

    Grounded Hope with Jack Algiere of Stone Barns: What Plants, Soil, and One Little Carrot Teach Us About Change

  7. Aug 27

    How a Wish List Changed Biscuitwood Farm

    Farmer Meg Despres of Biscuitwood Farm in Esperance, New York had a For Farmers Wish List that nobody had ever shopped. Not one item. So she left a comment on our Instagram asking a simple question: what can I do to make this list work for me? Here's what happened next. A few DMs, one small fix, a Tuesday morning letter, and a farm transformed almost overnight. Meg farms 50 acres in Schoharie County with a culinary focus: chef-quality vegetables, pastured eggs, black currant jam, and pierogi made from her own potatoes, a nod to her Polish roots. Her farm stand runs on the honor system with a free food pantry at its heart. She and her husband put everything they had into owning their land, and she tells us what it means to bootstrap a farm debt free, and why small farms can try things big farms never could. We recorded this conversation during a meeting of our For Farmers interns, so you'll also hear questions from Andrea and Raeesah on how to be a better farmers market customer and how a farm's challenges change over time. In this episode: Why a wish list is a story about a farm and what it needsThe nomination that made Meg weep (we have more than 1,900 of them)Imposter syndrome, 15 years inFarming debt free as a deliberate choiceSmall farms as the experimenters of agriculture Here's Meg's Wish List for Biscuitwood Farm if you'd like to contribute. One Bite is EverythingFrom 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 FactsTop 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 ConnectFollow Dana at @xoxofarmgirl and learn more about the For Farmers Movement at forfarmersmovement.com. Co-production by Sonia Dhillon. Sound design and original music by Russell Chapa.

    How a Wish List Changed Biscuitwood Farm

  8. Aug 20

    The Strange Economics Behind Your $8 Hamburger

    Beef is expensive. Cattle prices are at historic highs. Ranchers are finally getting paid more for their animals. So why is the U.S. cattle herd still the smallest it’s been in 75 years? Why are giant meatpackers losing hundreds of millions of dollars and closing plants? And why are smaller ranchers still struggling to find somewhere to process their cattle? In this solo episode, Dana follows the beef supply chain from pasture to meat counter to understand a moment when almost every part of the system seems to be telling a different story. Years of drought shrank the herd. Rebuilding takes time, land is increasingly expensive, New World screwworm has disrupted cattle movement from Mexico, and enormous processing plants built for volume are suddenly competing for too few animals. But there’s another beef system operating alongside that one. Small and midsized ranchers can have cattle and customers and still lack access to the regional processing they need. The result is a strange American beef paradox: too much processing capacity in some places, not enough in others, record prices for cattle, record prices for consumers, and plenty of pressure in between. It’s a story about beef, but it’s also about what happens when efficiency, scale and resilience aren’t the same thing. Learn more and support farmer grants at For Farmers Movement. Follow along @xoxofarmgirl.

    The Strange Economics Behind Your $8 Hamburger
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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
    186
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