What happens when people step out of the grocery store and onto a working farm? In this episode of One Bite is Everything, Dana sits down with chef and educator Gary Podesto of Climate Farm School, an organization that brings...
What happens when food assistance programs lose funding? For millions of children and families, the effects can be immediate. Fewer meals. More strain on household budgets. More difficult choices between food, housing, health...
What does it actually take to create a truly great restaurant experience — not just once, but every single night? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , Dana sits down with Chef Chris Stam of Alchemy on Martha's Vineyard...
What do small farmers actually need? After reviewing nearly 900 farmer grant applications through the For Farmers Movement — along with 45 new project submissions from the Friend of a Farmer Choice Awards — a very different p...
Show Notes What does it actually take to become a farmer today if you didn’t grow up on a farm, inherit land, or have a roadmap? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , Dana sits down with first-generation goat farmer Emm...
Inside the hidden systems, rules, economics, and realities shaping America’s farmers markets. Most people think they understand farmers markets. You show up. You buy produce, eggs, cheese, meat, flowers, or honey from a farme...
What does “best available” actually mean when it comes to food? In this conversation, Dana sits down with Sam Sifton of The New York Times to unpack how we got here. Not just what we eat, but why we eat the way we do, and how...
In honor of Earth Day, this episode takes a closer look at something often missing from the environmental conversation: the role farmers actually play. We tend to hear about agriculture in broad strokes—greenhouse gas emissio...
There are about 2 million farms in the United States. Every year, a significant number of the farmers running them are approaching retirement age with no clear plan for what happens to their land when they're done. Farmland d...
What would American food look like if the story had not been interrupted? That's the question at the center of this conversation with Chef Sean Sherman — an Ogala Lakota chef who grew up on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dak...
How do we produce meat in a way that works for farmers, animals, the land, and the people who eat it? Right now, that conversation happens in extremes. On one side: a highly industrialized system designed for efficiency and l...
What does it actually take to make local food work — not just in theory, but in real life? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , host Dana DiPrima speaks with Jeanne Blasberg, a former Boston-based author who made a dra...
What if the most important laboratory in agriculture isn’t a university… but a farmer’s field? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , Dana DiPrima talks with farmer and writer Adam Kuznia about the experiments happening ...
On Martha’s Vineyard, farmer Jo Douglas is quietly building one of the most creative small-scale food systems in the country. Her farm, Fork to Pork , begins with a problem that defines the modern food system: nearly 40 perce...
What happens when a family farm grows far beyond its backyard beginnings? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , host Dana DiPrima speaks with Brittney Miller, second-generation owner of Manchester Farms in South Carolin...
Let’s start with what’s simple: food is health. In this episode of One Bite is Everything , Dana DiPrima speaks with Carter Williams, systems engineer turned agricultural investor and contributor to the Food Is Health Substac...
What does American farming feel like right now? Not from a policy brief or an out of touch news headline. But from inside the daily lives of small farmers. After reviewing nearly 400 grant applications and more than one hundr...
What if the future of food isn’t about fixing the industrial system—but building a parallel one? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , host Dana DiPrima is joined by David Fisher , a botanist, former USDA-funded potato ...
This week, let’s back it up for a minute. It’s easy to get left behind in conversations about food and farming. Easy to feel like you don’t belong. But food is yours. It’s essential. And you should have more power, more knowl...
In this second part of my conversation with Dave Fischer of Fischer Farms, we move beyond headlines and into the systems shaping what ends up on our plates. If you haven’t listened to the first part of the convo yet, I recomm...
What’s really happening with beef right now? Why do prices feel volatile, headlines feel confusing, and farmers feel squeezed, even as demand stays strong? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , I’m joined by Dave Fische...
The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans are being framed as more than nutrition advice. This time, the language goes further—talking about realigning the food system , supporting American farmers and ranchers, and ensuring r...
2026 doesn’t feel like a trend year. It feels like a decision year. In this solo episode of One Bite is Everything , Dana DiPrima reflects on what she’s heard over the past year from farmers, eaters, and innovators across the...
What if the future of food follows the same path as clean beauty? In this episode of One Bite is Everything , host Dana DiPrima continues a broader conversation about innovation, transparency, and consumer power—this time thr...