The Producers Food Podcast

Hosted ByAnthony Huckstep and Dani Valent

The Producers is a food podcast telling the stories of producers, farmers, growers and makers..
The Producers is an Australian Food Podcast from the Deep in the Weeds Network.

The Producers is a food podcast telling the stories of producers, farmers, growers and makers..

The Producers comes from Deep In The Weeds, Australia’s leading food podcast network. Listen to find out where your food comes from. Food journalist hosts Dani Valent and Anthony Huckstep share the stories of farmers and food artisans.

Dani Valent is a journalist, restaurant critic, cookbook author, travel writer and screenwriter. She loves telling stories! Her professional writing career started with travel publisher Lonely Planet and she’s continued to thread food and travel through a writing career that’s included interviews with actors, politicians and even an astronaut. These days, she’s focusing on chefs, restaurants and cooking. if it’s tasty, she wants to know about it, and she wants you to know too.

Known in the industry as Huck, Anthony Huckstep is an award-winning journalist, restaurant critic and cookbook author who constantly threatens the final notch on his belt in the name of a good story. Huck is the co-founder of MetalMouth, a dinner that deconstructs the heavy metal and fine dining contradiction by celebrating the beauty of both.

The Producers is an Australian Food Podcast from the Deep in the Weeds Network.


All Episodes

Tania Walter (Burrum Biodynamics) – a life of creativity, variety, challenge and meaningful rewards

Tania and Stephen Walter are biodynamic grain farmers in north-western Victoria. Burrum Biodynamics is a place of dark cracking soil and grey loam, red clay and sand, underpinning fields...

Tess Sellar (Sellar Farmhouse Creamery) – making a go of dairy farming

How many cows do you need to milk to call yourself a dairy farmer? Tess Sellar has 10 friendly girls at her farm on Dja Dja Wurrung country in...

Royce Akers (Pep) – adding some spice

Royce Akers is one third of Pep, a peppy new Australian brand shaking up the world of pepper. Even though pepper has a dramatic and storied history, a driver...

Sam Lentini (Eastcoast Beverages) – Tree to bottle

For six decades the Lentini Family citrus farm has been passed down through three generations, squeezing love and care into their range of fresh juices. Sam Lentini from Eastcoast...

Ann Lyster (Apple grower) – bravo to great apples

West Australian apple grower Ann Lyster is also the chairperson of Fruit West Co-operative. She didn’t start life as a farmer but she finds it extraordinarily satisfying, rich and...

Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) – Raise the kids

Keen to escape the city life, Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) took over the family property in rural Western Australia where she is now raising a young family, cattle,...

Bruce Maynard (Wheat and Sheep farmer) – valuing diversity and soil health

Bruce Maynard isn’t farming like those around him. His fields at Willydah, west of Dubbo in NSW, look different, greener, wilder, a little more chaotic. He’s a wheat and...

Grampians Wimmera Mallee Episode 7 – The Producers: Claire Morgan (Rupanyup Living) – farmer, maker and regional advocate

Claire Morgan is a farmer, maker and regional advocate, helping people understand where their food comes from and how important it is to have thriving rural towns. She’s growing...

Rob Lockhart (Potato Farmer) – celebrating the spud.

Central Victorian farmer Rob Lockhart grows wheat, oats, lambs and beef but potatoes are his main deal. We talk about the ups and downs of farming, small town life...

Gemma Deavin (Mount Henry Honey) – A new story to tell

At the base of the Blue Mountains former journalist Gemma Deavin and her family are producing Mount Henry Honey that truly captures a sense of time and place in...