One Bite is Everything

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.

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.

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.land Adam Alexander, the Seed Detective: The Accidental Seed Heroes Chef Sean Sherman: Owamni, NATIFS (natifs.org), and the Indigenous Food Lab. His newest cookbook is Turtle Island. Mentioned in this episode Caleb’s wish list The Tuesday 5:18 am letter One Bite Is Everything is part of Heritage Radio Network. Sound editing and original music by Russell Chapa.

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, NC Hoghan Yahzi Land Restoration Project, Ganado, AZ The Blooming Hands Collective, Niwot, CO Twin Peaks Orchards, Newcastle, CA Mack's Farm, Davie, FL Cherry Rock Farm, Brandon, SD River View Land & Livestock, Crown City, OH Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB), Olympia, WA CremAree Goat Farm and Dairy, Pelham, NC Minerva's Meadow, State Center, IA Cape Cod Flower Truck, North Falmouth, MA Happy 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 them Shop a farmer wish list If you know a nominated farmer, remind them that grant applications are due October 12, National Farmers Day Subscribe 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 podcasts More engagement than 88% of podcasts on Spotify Five-star rating average Proud 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.