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

Courtney Young (Woodstock Flour) – the flavour of flour

Flour isn’t just the stuff that makes a loaf of bread stand up. It’s an ingredient of provenance, with its own flavour and backstory. At least, that’s how it’s...

Caroline Kropack (Brazen Brownies) – Fortune favours the brave

After working their entire careers in the corporate world, Caroline Kropack and her husband George decided to throw it all in and do something they love. After years of...

Andrew Fairley (Yarra Valley Cherries) – multi-generational fruit producer

There aren’t many truly seasonal products but cherries are one of those fruits that only appear as the weather warms up. By January they are more or less gone...

Genevieve Muir (Coast of Gold) – Shito Hot

After losing her business during Covid, Genevieve Muir spent more time in the kitchen cooking the food of her West African heritage. Keen to master a prized condiment, she...

AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 4: Annette Reed (Tasmanian Natural Garlic and Tomatoes) – grown with passion and care.

Welcome to the final episode in our miniseries collaboration between Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita...

AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 3: Linda Morice (Sinapius Vineyard) – determination, strong values, tragedy and resilience

Welcome to the third collaboration between Deep in the Weeds’ Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita...

AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 2 – Wouter Sels (Seven Springs Farm) – an isolated life rich in connection

Welcome to the third collaboration between Deep in the Weeds’ Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita...

AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 1 – Bec Rumble (Lone Goose Farm) – a fascinating farming story

Welcome to the third collaboration between Deep in the Weeds’ Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita...

Brendan Gamze (Gamze Smokehouse) – full of pride

Brendan Gamze is part of Gamze Smokehouse, a family-run smallgoods company in north-east Victoria. Building on his father Felix’s work as a butcher, Gamze turns free-range whole beasts into...

Rhiannon Phillips (Mountain’s Gourmet) – Do it yourself

Disillusioned with conventional farming practises, Rhiannon Phillips set off on a journey to make a change. She started her own farm – Mountains Gourmet where she is committed to...