The Producers is a food podcast telling the stories of producers, farmers, growers and makers.. A Deep in the Weeds ProductionAn Australian Food Podcast from the Deep in the Weeds Network.
Latest episodes
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37 min
Anthony Kumnick (Grampians Vinegar) - How much do you know about vinegar?
How much do you know about vinegar? Anthony Kumnick is the founder of Grampians Vinegar, based in Great Western Victoria. With a long and varied career, including time as a publica…
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42 min
Louisa Dunn (Potato Farmer - Blackwood, Victoria) - Spud Fest.
Louisa Dunn farms potatoes, beef and sheep in Blackwood, an hour north of Melbourne. A city girl from Brighton, who married into a fifth generation farming family, Louisa has learn…
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29 min
Carly Baker-Burnham (Bonnie Doone Organic Beef) - Winds of change
Carbon neutral climate positive agriculture is not the first thing many people think of when it comes to cattle farming but in Queensland Carly Baker-Burnham and her family from Bo…
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31 min
Tania Walter (Burrum Biodynamics) - a life of creativity, variety, challenge and meaningful rewards
Tania and Stephen Walter are biodynamic grain farmers in north-western Victoria. Burrum Biodynamics is a place of dark cracking soil and grey loam, red clay and sand, underpinning…
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22 min
Tess Sellar (Sellar Farmhouse Creamery) - making a go of dairy farming
How many cows do you need to milk to call yourself a dairy farmer? Tess Sellar has 10 friendly girls at her farm on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. As Sellar Farmhouse…
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23 min
Royce Akers (Pep) - adding some spice
Royce Akers is one third of Pep, a peppy new Australian brand shaking up the world of pepper. Even though pepper has a dramatic and storied history, a driver of fortunes and cross-…
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15 min
Sam Lentini (Eastcoast Beverages) - Tree to bottle
For six decades the Lentini Family citrus farm has been passed down through three generations, squeezing love and care into their range of fresh juices. Sam Lentini from Eastcoast…
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20 min
Ann Lyster (Apple grower) - bravo to great apples
West Australian apple grower Ann Lyster is also the chairperson of Fruit West Co-operative. She didn’t start life as a farmer but she finds it extraordinarily satisfying, rich and…
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25 min
Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) - Raise the kids
Keen to escape the city life, Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) took over the family property in rural Western Australia where she is now raising a young family, cattle, sheep and ch…
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23 min
Bruce Maynard (Wheat and Sheep farmer) - valuing diversity and soil health
Bruce Maynard isn’t farming like those around him. His fields at Willydah, west of Dubbo in NSW, look different, greener, wilder, a little more chaotic. He’s a wheat and sheep farm…
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28 min
Grampians Wimmera Mallee Episode 7 - The Producers: Claire Morgan (Rupanyup Living) - farmer, maker and region…
Claire Morgan is a farmer, maker and regional advocate, helping people understand where their food comes from and how important it is to have thriving rural towns. She’s growing ch…
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15 min
Rob Lockhart (Potato Farmer) - celebrating the spud.
Central Victorian farmer Rob Lockhart grows wheat, oats, lambs and beef but potatoes are his main deal. We talk about the ups and downs of farming, small town life and SpudFest, a…
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34 min
Gemma Deavin (Mount Henry Honey) - A new story to tell
At the base of the Blue Mountains former journalist Gemma Deavin and her family are producing Mount Henry Honey that truly captures a sense of time and place in each jar.https://ww…
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27 min
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 done at Courtney You…
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20 min
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 experimenta…
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24 min
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 again. For me, they a…
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23 min
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 spent mo…
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31 min
AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 4: Annette Reed (Tasmanian Natural Garlic and Tomatoes) - grown with passi…
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…
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19 min
AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 3: Linda Morice (Sinapius Vineyard) - determination, strong values, traged…
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 Tasmani…
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31 min
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 Tasmani…