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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What happens when a farm grows to the point where the farmers can no longer do everything themselves? Maria Zordan and Max Morningstar own MX Morningstar Farm in Claverack, New York, where they grow about 40 acres of certified organic vegetables and operate a year-round farm store. Their business also reaches far beyond the farm through wholesale accounts, restaurants, distributors, other farms and CSA customers. In this episode, Maria and Max take us inside the less visible work of building a farm that can last. We talk about the transition from farmer to business owner and how they knew it was time to step away from some of the day-to-day production. Max explains how he thinks about delegation and why an owner's time should be spent solving the problems that don't have obvious answers. Maria talks about the growing complexity of managing employees, regulations, wholesale accounts and retail while still keeping a hand in production. We also get into the realities of selling local food. Restaurants may want to buy directly from farms, but consistency, volume and delivery can make those relationships difficult for both sides. Maria and Max explain how distributors, wholesale buyers, other farms and their own farm store help create a system that actually works. It's a practical conversation about growth, efficiency, hiring, infrastructure and what it takes to turn a farm into a durable business that can employ people, raise wages and keep moving forward. In this episode: How MX Morningstar Farm grew from leased land into a 40-acre vegetable operationWhen farmers need to start thinking like business ownersHow Maria and Max decide what to delegateWhy efficiency matters as a farm growsThe complicated reality of selling directly to restaurantsWhere distributors fit into a strong local food systemHow their farm store changed the businessGrowing a farm in a way that creates jobs and supports higher wagesWhy, as Max says, running the business “never ends” About Maria Zordan & Max Morningstar Maria Zordan and Max Morningstar are the owners of MX Morningstar Farm, a certified organic vegetable farm in Claverack, New York. The farm grows approximately 40 acres of vegetables and sells through wholesale channels, restaurants, distributors, CSA and its year-round farm store in New York's Hudson Valley. https://www.mxmorningstarfarm.com 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.

We're told the food supply is safe. And often, it is. But safe is a bigger word than it sounds, and it rests on things most of us never see. This episode looks at three outbreaks unfolding right now: Cyclospora in the lettuce, a parasite so hard to detect that the case was built on interviews, not lab testsNew World screwworm, a flesh-eating pest eradicated 60 years ago, now back in TexasH5N1 bird flu, which leapt from poultry into dairy cattle and now turns up in the milk supply Every reassurance depends on people testing, tracing, and watching, and those people (and their jobs) are disappearing. It's part of why a shorter supply chain is a more transparent one, the small, local, diversified farms that make our food easier to see, and to trust. Food is never just about food. 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.

What if the future of food depends less on winning arguments and more on rebuilding trust? Maria Rodale has spent a lifetime at the heart of the organic movement, carrying forward the work of one of agriculture's most influential families. But in this conversation, she looks beyond labels and certifications to something deeper: the relationships, compassion, and storytelling that create lasting change. Together we explore why facts alone rarely change minds, how trust has become one of the most valuable ingredients in our food system, what regenerative and organic mean in today's landscape, and why movements only succeed when people choose to move forward together. From the future of farming to the power of sharing a meal, this conversation offers a hopeful vision for how farmers, eaters, and communities can build something better together. In this episode: Why Maria believes the future isn't organic versus conventional, but finding ways to move forward together.The surprising role that storytelling plays in changing hearts and minds.Why trust has become one of the most important currencies in our food system.How the organic movement can inspire without relying on fear.The challenges and opportunities surrounding regenerative agriculture.What consumers can do every day to support healthier farms, healthier communities, and healthier food.Why compassion may be the missing ingredient we've been overlooking all along. 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.

What do elite athletes, gardeners, and small farmers have in common? According to UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich, more than you might think. Known to many as the first-ever UFC Welterweight Champion and the coach behind 12 MMA world champions, Pat has spent the last four decades researching a different kind of performance: the connection between soil health, nutrient density, and human health. In this conversation, we explore why healthy soil may be the foundation of healthy food, why Pat believes biology beneath our feet deserves as much attention as nutrition on our plates, and how gardeners and homesteaders can begin rebuilding depleted soils. Along the way, we discuss regenerative agriculture, forever chemicals, compost, microbial life, and why meaningful change often starts in our own backyards. Whether you're a farmer, gardener, or simply someone who cares about where your food comes from, this episode offers a fascinating perspective on the invisible systems that support all life. In this episode we discuss:Pat's journey from UFC champion and coach to soil health educatorThe relationship between soil biology and human healthWhy nutrient density starts long before food reaches your plateRegenerative agriculture and where Pat believes it can go furtherForever chemicals, glyphosate, and rebuilding depleted soilsCompost, microbes, and the role of biology in healthy ecosystemsWhy Pat focuses on helping gardeners and homesteaders create change from the ground upWhat healthier soil could mean for healthier communities About Pat MiletichPat Miletich is a UFC Hall of Famer, the first-ever UFC Welterweight Champion, and founder of Miletich Fighting Systems, where he coached 12 mixed martial arts world champions. Today he is the founder of Soil Saviors, an organization dedicated to helping gardeners, homesteaders, and land stewards restore soil health through education and biological approaches to growing nutrient-dense food. ResourcesLearn more about Soil Saviors: https://soilsaviors.org 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.

On June 25th, President Trump signed an executive order advancing regenerative agriculture. The same afternoon, the USDA quietly finalized a Regenerative Feedstock Rule that lets industrial corn claim the regenerative label to sell more ethanol. Sixty-eight percent of corn farmers already qualify, which means almost nothing has to change in the field. The word is doing the work. In this solo episode, Dana traces how a term that small farmers built with cover crops and real soil work got picked up and handed to industrial corn. Then she goes back fifty years to explain how we got here, starting at the gas pump. How ethanol is made, why we grow so much corn, the dead zone the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, the war in Iran driving it all forward, and who actually pays the price. It's never just about food. 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.

David Wise grew up on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota, where food followed the seasons and knowledge of the land was woven into daily life. Today, as the founder of Native Wise, he raises bison, harvests manoomin, or wild rice, and produces maple sugar, maple syrup, and honey. But his path to this work was anything but straightforward. In this episode, David joins host Dana DiPrima to talk about growing up Ojibwe, the knowledge passed through his family, his years working in forestry, conservation, and with the USDA, and the extraordinary story behind bringing bison back to his family ranch. They talk about the cultural and ecological importance of manoomin, why naturally growing wild rice is so dependent on clean water and healthy ecosystems, and what is lost when communities are separated from traditional foods. David also shares the practical realities of building Native Wise today, from growing a bison herd and creating markets to processing, supplying restaurants, and raising the next generation inside the work. It is a conversation about food, land, culture, community, and what it means to carry knowledge forward. It is also full of great stories, including a bull named Renegade, tipping canoes during wild rice harvest, and a truly staggering order for bison hot dogs. In this episode: Growing up with seasonal food on the Fond du Lac ReservationThe knowledge David inherited from his familyHis work in forestry, conservation, and Native agricultureThe story behind bringing bison back to the ranchManoomin, traditional wild rice harvesting, and clean waterThe connection between traditional foods and healthBuilding Native Wise and creating markets for Indigenous foodsRaising bison on grass and building processing infrastructureSupplying chefs and restaurants, including Sean ShermanPassing knowledge and responsibility to the next generation About David Wise David Wise is the founder of Native Wise, an Ojibwe-owned farm and food business based on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota. His work centers on bison, manoomin, maple products, honey, and foods rooted in the land, culture, and traditions of his community. 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.

What if the best bakery in town isn’t really in the bread business? Jonathan Bethony, founder of Seylou Bakery in Washington, D.C., has built one of the country’s most respected bakeries around a simple but profound idea: every loaf begins long before flour reaches the mixing bowl. It begins with healthy soil, thoughtful farmers, heritage grains, and relationships built on trust. In this episode, Jonathan shares an extraordinary personal journey that spans the Adirondacks, Senegal, Washington's Bread Lab, and ultimately the creation of Seylou. Along the way, we explore how faith, service, and curiosity shaped his approach to baking and why he believes a bakery can become a place that reconnects people not only with their food, but with one another. In this episode: Why Seylou is “more than a bakery”How regional grain farmers are rebuilding local food systemsThe importance of fresh-milled whole grains and heritage wheatWhat regenerative agriculture means from a baker’s perspectiveThe unexpected journey that took Jonathan from music to Senegal to bakingHow partnerships between farmers and bakers create better food for everyoneWhy slowing down and knowing where our food comes from mattersThe role connection plays in building healthier communities through food About Jonathan Bethony Jonathan Bethony is the founder of Seylou Bakery in Washington, D.C., where every loaf is made with freshly milled whole grains sourced directly from regional farmers committed to regenerative agriculture. A former baker at the Bread Lab, Jonathan has spent his career exploring the relationship between grain, farming, nutrition, and community. Through Seylou, he demonstrates how food can become a bridge between farmers, bakers, and the people they nourish every day.

We often think of a farm as a place that grows food. But a small farm does so much more than that. It holds up a local economy, circulating dollars in a way no chain store can. It creates belonging, the feeling of being known by the person who grows your food. It carries the identity of a family and a town. And it quietly supports the mental health and the very future of the place it calls home. In this quick episode, we explore how small farms fortify our communities, drawing on research and the real voices of people across the country. We also look at what unravels, slowly and often invisibly, when a farm disappears. Because supporting a farm is never just about food. It's about the kind of town and world you want to live in. One Bite is EverythingOne 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.