About this podcast
Food Matters meets the people who are trying to reconnect us with real, healthy and sustainable food. With our food system causing huge problems for the health of people and planet, there’s a quiet revolution happening driven by passionate people in communities and food businesses around the world who want to do things differently – producing nutritious food in a way that doesn’t cost the earth. Food Matters tells their story.
Join Mick Kelly, founder of GIY as he dives in to proper conversations with the most fascinating food producers, chefs, farmers, scientists, activists and other stakeholders across the food system touching on everything from the pitfalls of ultra-processed foods, food waste and pollution; seasonality, eating more plants, regenerative farming and so much more..
Only by understanding the full panorama of our food's journey can we cultivate a healthier, more sustainable food-future. Join the GIY movement across all social channels and please follow or subscribe to this podcast to continue these important conversations about global food health and sustainability.
Episodes
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- Blood, Guts and Black Pudding: Kate Ryan on Ireland's Forgotten Foods · 1 h 9 minIt’s a familiar part of the traditional Irish breakfast, but how much do we really know about black pudding - where it came from, how it was made, or the extraordinary history…
- The Lie of the Land: Ireland's Broken Food System · 1 h 27 minJohn Gibbons is one of Ireland's best-known environmental commentators and a tireless voice on the big environmental issues of our time. John recently published a bestselling…
- Former Minister Pippa Hackett on trying to change Ireland’s food system · 1 h 13 minChanging a country’s food system takes longer than an election cycle. In this episode of Food Matters, Mick Kelly speaks with organic farmer and former Minister of State Pippa…
- The small family farm that bet it all on organic · 1 h 1 minWhat would make a conventional tillage farmer walk away from the type of farming he had always practised and start all over again? For Kevin Scully, founder of The Merry Mill…
- Could there be another famine in Ireland? · 1 h 9 minDuring an extended trip through South America, Damien Regan's eyes were opened to the vulnerabilities of our global food system and the risks they pose to food security. He…
- The Burren and the Future of Farming, with Brendan Dunford · 1 h 7 minBrendan Dunford grew up on a farm in County Waterford, but it was the landscape of the Burren that shaped his life’s work. Over the past two decades, he has worked closely with…
- The fragility of food production and the economics behind Ireland’s food security risk · 54 minJim Power is one of Ireland's best-known economists. Having grown up on a farm in County Waterford, he has always had a particular passion for the economics of food production…
- S3 Ep35: Deep Medicine - Rethinking Food, Health and the Modern Food System with Dr. Rupa Marya · 59 minWhat if the modern food system is one of the biggest drivers of disease in our society? Dr. Rupa Marya is an author and physician and a passionate advocate for deep medicine - a…
- S3 Ep34: Bringing Chef Skills Home: Eimear Brazil's Journey from Canada to The Kitchen Shift · 1 h 8 minHaving spent over 15 years cooking in professional kitchens across Ireland and Canada, Eimear Brazil hung up her chef's apron to dedicate herself to inspiring a generation of…
- S3 Ep33: Baking real bread and building communities, with Sarah Richards of Seagull Bakery · 1 h 2 minSarah Richards always thought she would make her living as an artist. To support her painting, she began baking real sourdough bread, selling loaves from the boot of her car…
- S3 Ep32: Growing at Grantstown, with David Currid · 1 h 0 minDavid Currid grows almost 50,000 tomato plants every year at Grantstown Nurseries — the family business his parents started after moving from Dundalk to Waterford in the late…
- S3 Ep31: Buy Irish honey, save Ireland’s bees, with Aoife Nic Giolla Coda · 1 h 7 minAoife Nic Giolla Coda’s love of beekeeping was passed down from her father, Micheál, who founded Galtee Honey Farm in 1970. When her father neared retirement, Aoife returned home…
- S3 Ep30: Saving Seeds, Securing the Future, with Madeline McKeever · 56 minMadeline McKeever is on a mission to protect biodiversity and secure our food future—one seed at a time. A former dairy farmer in West Cork, Madeline started Brown Envelope Seeds…
- SECOND BITES: Paul Brophy, Ireland’s ‘Broccoli Baron’ · 60 minThe GIY team and I are taking a short summer break from recordings, but in the meantime, we’ll be bringing you a selection of our favourite episodes from the series so far. So…
- SECOND BITES: Mark Diacono – from River Cottage to his own ‘climate change farm’ · 1 h 3 minThe GIY team and I are taking a short summer break from recordings, but in the meantime, we’ll be bringing you a selection of our favourite episodes from the series so far. So…
- S3 Ep29: Ashes to Action: The Glenisk Story of Sustainability · 1 h 11 minVincent Cleary is one of Ireland’s original champions of food sustainability. Having taken over the family yoghurt business from his father in the mid 1990s, Vincent knew that…
- S3 Ep28: Sea Change: Niall Sabongi on Irish Seafood Sustainability · 1 h 5 minNiall Sabongi is on a mission to change how we eat, and think about, seafood in Ireland. A chef and seafood entrepreneur, Niall was frustrated by stuffy restaurants and a broken…
- S3 Ep27: Tom Keogh talks spuds, snacks and food security · 1 h 7 minTom Keogh has a great story to tell. Their family has been farming the land for over three generations, supplying the fresh produce market with potatoes grown on the farm in…
- S3 Ep26: Beyond Carbon Neutral: John Gilliland’s approach to Sustainable Farming · 1 h 1 minJohn Gilliland is on a mission to transform how we think about food, farming, and the environment. At Brook Hall Estate, his family’s historic farm in Derry, John began by trying…
- S3 Ep25: From Surf to Turf, with Fergal Smith · 49 minHaving spent over a decade as an international pro surfer, Fergal Smith made the life-changing decision to return home to the west of Ireland and follow in his father’s footsteps…
