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

Kosta Papanikitas (The Fermentalists) – Some like it hot

The Fermentalists and its range of hot sauces was initially a weekend hobby but positive feedback from friends and family encouraged Kosta Papanikitas and his partners to continue developing...

Sophie O’Neil (Torello Farm) – creating connections

Sophie O’Neil is an owner of Torello Farm, a mixed business and farm gate on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Founded in 2016, Torello sells Sophie’s own beef and lamb as...

Krsna Rajalingam (Basik Chocolates) – For the love of chocolate

Basik Chocolates was founded by Krsna Rajalingam with a simple belief: That every chocoholic deserves a perfect bonbon that speaks to them. After painstaking research, and trial and error...

Rikki Goldman (Tahini Neri) – from small beginnings

Founded in Melbourne in 2016, the Tahini Neri vision is tahini schmeared on just about everything. From small beginnings selling homemade tahini on the pavement, Rikki Goldman and her...

Rebecca Barnes (Playing With Fire Native Foods) – playing with fire

After moving to Bundjalung country – Byron Bay Rebecca Barnes started to explore Native Ingredients. Twenty years later and Playing with Fire Native Foods is not only showcasing the...

Gamila MacRury (Gamila at Beechworth) – connected to the land

How would you go farming for a year to end up with 200 grams of product? That’s life – in a good year! – for saffron farmer Gamila MacRury....

Greg Cromwell (Cromwell Farms) – Family first

With farming roots that go back many generations Greg Cromwell (Cromwell Farms) is carrying on the tradition in the Byron Bay Hinterland with wife and daughters where they are...

Rowan Little (Montague Plums) – delighting consumers with wonderful flavour

Rowan Little is the Chief Innovation Officer at Montague, a family-owned fruit growing company headquartered in Victoria and now into its third generation. Montague started with an apple orchard...

Justin Hartley (Duck Foot Farm) – A big change

Duck Foot Farm owned by Justin Hartley is the ultimate example of small-scale farming that relies on land share arrangements between young farmers and landowners. It proves that small...

Lisa Valmormida (Pidapipo Gelato, Melbourne) – scooping smiles day after day.

Is there anything better than gelato? Lisa Valmormida and her brother Jamie come from an entrepreneurial food-loving Italian family, so when Lisa identified a gap in the Australian market...