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In a world where we can get just about anything just about anytime, it’s wonderfully exciting to have truly seasonal crops that mark a time of year. Cherries are...
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.
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Ann Furner (Naturally Dried Prunes) – Nice plums
The first of its kind in Australia, Naturally Dried Prunes are the most sustainable prune farm down under, utilising prune drying tunnels that have reduced the carbon footprint by...
Katrina Myers (Barham Avocados) – for the love of the avo
Katrina Myers and her husband Tim own Barham Avocados, on the Murray River in New South Wales. It’s Katrina’s family farm but she wasn’t always sure she’d return to...
Giaan Rooney (Macadamia Farmer) – from medals to macadamias
You might know Giaan Rooney as an Olympic swimmer – she won a gold medal for Australia in the 2004 Athens Olympics as part of the 4 x 100m...
Maurie Cafra (Cafresco Organics) – remarkably consistent
Maurie Cafra owns Cafresco Organics in Koo Wee Rup in Victoria, a South Gippsland region remarkable for its black soil and suitability for growing food. Maurie grew up on...
Roz Kaldor-Aroni (Elato ice Cream) – The mathematics of ice cream
Combining her background in applied chemistry with gelato and ice cream training in Australia, Italy and Canada, Roz Kaldor-Aroni from Elato finessed her own formula and developed a patented...
Peter Salleras (Fruit Forest Farm) – farmer, trailblazer and durian lover
Peter and Alison Salleras both grew up on north Queensland cane farms but they took a different path for their own careers – a somewhat radical path, according to many...
Ace Hodgkinson-Jones (Firebreak Farm) – Set sail for land
After a career in the Navy, Ace Hodgkinson-Jones returned home to take over the family farm. Firebreak Farm is situated in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains, where Ace...
Nathan Creary (Killer Condiments) – We produce flavour
“We produce flavour.” That’s a very nice mission statement from Killer Condiments’ Nathan Creary, a southern Sydney shopfitter turned farmer turned butcher turned condiment king. We dig in with...
Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 5 – Matthew Young (Elphin Grove Farm) – the King of Celeriac
This is the fifth and final episode in a special series of The Producers. AgriCultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. In five conversations, we get...