That's a wrap for season 1 of One Bite. Thanks to Jaimee, Vanessa, Kylie, Costa, Sinead, Gabrielle, Alice, Tammi, Jen, Amy, Liz, Jess, Lee Tran and Tyson for your time, story, knowledge and expertise. Thanks to my academic advisors Alana Mann and Michelle St Anne from the Sydney Environment Institute. Thank you for listening, following, engaging, sharing and reaching out. The response has been a bit overwhelming, but I am so glad this project has reached so many people and is starting...

In this episode we hear from Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. He is an academic, arts critic, and researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. Tyson carves traditional tools and weapons and works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University, Melbourne. We yarn about Indigenous perspectives on food, respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Law, abundance and scarcity, western neoliberal paradigms,...

In this episode we hear from Lee Tran Lam, a freelance journalist and editor of New Voices on Food. Lee Tran has written about food for various publications, including Good Food, Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food, The Sun-Herald and The Guardian. She runs The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcast, Diversity in Food Media and presents Local Fidelity on FBi radio. We talk about the impacts of COVID on hospitality and producers, how businesses have pivoted, food ecosystems, food media during...

In this episode we hear from Councillor Jess Miller from the City of Sydney (CoS). Jess has worked with a broad range of organisations to design, lead and implement change for over a decade. She was elected to Council in 2016 and is an advocate for a slow city with lots of active and public transport, character, community, sport, colour and creativity. We talk about COVID, food insecurity and how Council has responded, system weakness, climate risk, planning and policy, NSW food security...

In this episode we hear from Amy Lawon and Liz Millen, founding members of Australia’s Right to Food Coalition. The Coalition started in 2014 and exists to advocate for the human right to nutritious food for all Australians. Amy is a social researcher who has focused on a number of food related issues and Liz worked for 20 years in a Sydney Health District team dedicated to improving food security through local projects. We talk about the Coalitions work, the impact of COVID on their...

In this episode we hear from Jen Sheridan, a Director of Open Food Network Australia (OFN). Jen worked on the Know Your Foodbowl and Foodprint Melbourne projects and currently leads a number of federally funded food system development projects in Victoria. We talk about the what OFN is, the impacts of COVID, connecting stranded produce, dignity in food relief, community supported agriculture (CSA), how short supply networks build resilience and their invisibility in Australia. You can find...

In this episode we hear from Tammi Jonas, an 'ethicurian' farmer of heritage-breed pigs and cattle, and president of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA). Tammi is very active in the global fight for food sovereignty, advocating in numerous UN governing bodies. She is undertaking a PhD on the biodiverse and decolonising practices of agroecological farmers, and is an editor and co-author of Farming Democracy. We talk about what food sovereignty is, community supported agriculture...

In this episode we hear from Alice Zaslavsky, a food literacy advocate, resident Culinary Correspondent for ABC News Breakfast and ABC Radio, author of In Praise of Veg, Alice's Food A-Z, and creator of Phenomenom! We talk about food literacy and education, the cultural disconnect from  food, aspirational food media, ‘othering’ of veg, how we label and  communicate about food and bringing pleasure back into eating. You can  follow Alice on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and In Praise of Veg...

In this episode we hear from Gabrielle Chan, a journalist and author who has lived on a farm for 25 years. She began covering the NSW parliament in the 90s  and moved to the Canberra press gallery in 1995. Gabrielle has worked at The Australian, ABC radio, The Daily Telegraph, in local newspapers and politics and has been a political correspondent for The Guardian  Australia since 2013. She has written and edited history books, biographies and a recipe book. Her latest book, Rusted Off: Why...

In this episode we hear from Dr Sinead Boylan, a nutritional  epidemiologist and inter-disciplinary researcher at the intersection of  food systems, health and the environment. Sinead is the Executive  Officer for the Climate Change, Human Health and Social Impacts Node at the University of Sydney, Executive Director of the Sydney Food and Nutrition Network and coordinator of the 'Population and Health'  unit of the Masters of Sustainability. Her research aims to identify  ways to promote a...

In this episode we hear from Costa Georgiadis, host and presenter of Gardening Australia, landscape architect, environmental educator, garden gnome and lover of the planet. We talk about pandemic gardening, complex systems, resilience, local food, education, regeneration and get philosophical about the power of gardening. You can find Costa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, ABC TV and iView. You can find out more about the Pandemic Gardening survey at Sustain and watch videos of the Findings...

In this episode we hear from Kylie Newberry, a writer, speaker, advocate and founder of Our Food System. Kylie has over 15 years experience as a Public Health Nutritionist, holds a MSc in Food Policy and is part of the Brisbane Fair Food Alliance. We talk about food system resilience to shock, why food is so complex, power and influence in food systems and policy, food environments and food citizenship. Special shout out to the Currawongs singing in Kylie's garden. You can find Kylie at Our...

In this episode we hear from Vanessa, a food lover, avid gardener, fellow Master of Sustainability student and employee at an independent food retailer. Vanessa is part of their graduate program working on sustainability, responsible supply chains, and product development. Her professional interest is how we can make fair, sustainable, and nutritious food systems accessible for all. We talk about the impacts of COVID from a supermarket's perspective, as well as the cascading shocks of...

In this episode we hear from Jaimee Edwards, a fabulous fermenter, food educator, author and part of Sydney food community Cornersmith. She is passionate about the politics of food and the pleasures of eating and her first cookbook, Use it All, co-authored with Alex Elliott-Howrey, is available now. We talk about the impacts of COVID from a small producer and hospitality perspective, as well as fermenting, pickling, cooking, gardening, education, food knowledge, valuing food and bringing the...

Food is connection and sustenance, it is cultural, social, ethical, political and a fundamental human right. In the Anthropocene, food is also complex and problematic. One Bite is a new podcast series exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on food, and how we build back better by asking; what is the food system for and why? We will meet a variety of Australian’s working across different areas, from farm to fork and beyond. We will gain diverse perspectives on how we shift towards more...