#199: Franklin Vines: Legacy, Land & the Vine
Stephanie Franklin didn't set out to become a farmer. She set out to find her purpose and the vines answered. In this conversation, the foun...
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Edible Activist Podcast
Melissa Jones is the creator + founder of FoodTalksDC, a platform that creates space for people of color to share food narratives that stem from the land. She travels the D.C. area and beyon...
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20 of 200 episodes#198: Good Ground: Roots & Revolution
DeVonne Jackson Perez left a decade in television production to become an urban farmer — and she has never looked back. In this conversation...
#197: Agritourism: Farming Beyond the Harvest
In this conversation, Phylicia Murray, founder of Farm Experiences Collection, takes us inside the world of agritourism — what it is, why it...
#196: Food, Community & One Love
Asmeret Berhe-Lumax turned a single community fridge in Brooklyn into one of the most recognized food access movements in the country and sh...
#195: Cuisine Noir : The Legacy
V. Sheree Williams didn't set out to build a legacy — she set out to tell stories. But over a decade of centering Black chefs, food culture,...
#194: Deb Freeman: Giving Edna Lewis Her Flowers
She was the originator of the farm to table movement. She just never got the credit. In this episode Melissa L. Jones sits down with Deb Fre...
#193: Get Fresh Daily: Where Food Justice Meets Joy in Philadelphia
Joy is the strategy. Fresh food is the medicine. And Philadelphia is the proving ground. In this episode Melissa L. Jones sits down with Jia...
#192: The Lowcountry Table with Amethyst Ganaway
Every part of the animal. Every part of the story. Amethyst Ganaway grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where food and land were never se...
#191: When the Pulpit Meets the Soil: The Church as a Food Hub
In this episode Melissa L. Jones welcomes back Pastor Heber Brown III — founder of the Black Church Food Security Network — eleven years int...
#190: The Community Creates the Market: Brooklyn Supported Agriculture
The community creates the market! For Chef Mu that is not a tagline -- it is what he witnesses every time he shows up. In this episode, Meli...
#189: Nana Kumi: The Land Remembers
The land remembers. And Nana listening. In this episode, Melissa L. Jones sits down with Nana Kumi, a queer Black southern artist, filmmaker...
#188: Growing Resilience in the South with Sade Meeks
Some of the most powerful lessons come from the most ordinary moments — a grandmother's garden, a Sunday dinner table, a bowl of grits. Meli...
#187: Designing a Just Food Future with Dr. Celeste Davis
Host Melissa L. Jones sits down with Dr. Celeste Davis—public health educator, design strategist, and director of the Public Health Scholars...
#186: From Lineage to Land: Umi’s Journey of Ancestral Farming
Returning-generation farmer and community herbalist Bianca “Umi” Anthony shares how she’s reclaiming seven acres of her family’s 1950s land...
#185: Nurturing Our Seeds: Detroit Roots, Community Power
Erin Cole, founder of Nurturing Our Seeds in Detroit, shares how a porch-side safety moment on Helen Street—mowing vacant lots for elders—gr...
#184: SWAP: Fashioning Environmental Justice with Zsameria Rayford
From living-room swaps to a decade of citywide pop-ups, Zsameria Rayford’s SWAP DC → SWAP Universe shows how style and sustainability move t...
#183: SiStained8: From Kitchen Scraps to Living Soil
Najwa Womack, founder of SiStained8 in Washington, D.C., traces her path from early nature moments to teaching compost as the art of growing...
#182: Black Cotton and the Power of Legacy with Julius Tillery
Cotton has long been a cornerstone of American agriculture and culture. Julius Tillery, a fifth-generation cotton farmer and founder of Blac...
#181: Roots, Recipes & Storytelling with Antoinette Johnson
Chef, storyteller, and advocate Antoinette Johnson takes us back to her Black Southern roots, where family traditions and community gatherin...
#180: From the Kitchen to the Soil with Chef Marly
After a traumatic brain injury in 2014, Chef Marly — a classically trained chef and Washington native — found healing in an unexpected place...