This mini-season focuses on food choices – and such that are climate-friendly and healthy. We take a close look at what climate-friendly and healthy food actually IS and how it connects to the Chefs’ Manifesto’s thematic areas and the SDGs. And we’ll discuss individual choices and choices along the value chain: how do people choose what to eat, how as chefs can we influence food choices to ensure they are good for both people and planet, and how should we move forward and drive the change the world and its food systems urgently need?

In the third episode – the deepdive – host Chef Tom Hunt speaks with the incredibly talented and inspirational Chef Douglas McMaster about his journey pioneering zero-waste cooking in the UK and how that links to the topic of the season, climate-friendly healthy food choices. Listen in!

The Chefs’ Manifesto Podcast

Episode 3 (Deepdive) S4 «Climate-friendly Healthy Food Choices»

This mini-season focuses on food choices – and such that are climate-friendly and healthy. We take a close look at what climate-friendly and healthy food actually IS and how it connects to the Chefs’ Manifesto’s thematic areas and the SDGs. And we’ll discuss individual choices and choices along the value chain: how do people choose what to eat, how as chefs can we influence food choices to ensure they are good for both people and planet, and how should we move forward and drive the change the world and its food systems urgently need? 

The first episode looks at the topic mainly from the perspective of cooking – together with two chefs and one expert. Listen in!

Episode 1 S4 «Climate-friendly Healthy Food Choices»

In the UK we have 350 different words for mud, not quite as enchanting as Iceland's 100 words for snow, granted. But these words, derived from dialects, and often with folklorish roots can describe an experience or place so viscerally. 

For the fourth episode in our series on rewilding we've set up camp in Tom's shed, from where he tends to his tomatoes. Tom is joined again by Anna Souter, co-curator of Rewind/Rewild, to discuss how language can strengthen our memories of, and connections to the landscape around us.

As part of the Rewind/Rewild exhibition, Anna invited thought leaders and creatives working in the area of rewilding to talk about their areas of expertise. This week we feature a talk by Dominick Tyler, a photographer who has turned to exploring landscape through language for his current book, Uncommon Ground.  

Hear his full presentation here

Language & Landscape: The Rewilding Series, Episode 4

How do humans relate to non humans? Can art facilitate cooperation? This is the space in which Feral Practice likes to explore.

We return to Tom's shed for our 5th podcast episode on rewilding, co-hosted by Anna Souter, co-curator of Rewind/Rewild.

Fiona MacDonald is an artist and researcher who works with human and nonhuman beings as Feral Practice, to create art projects across species boundaries, and interdisciplinary events that develop ethical and imaginative relations across species boundaries. Listen here to Fiona in conversation with Tom Jeffreys as part of the Rewind/Rewild exhibition held at OmVed Gardens. 

Tom is a writer and curator, and editor of The Learned Pig. He writes primarily about contemporary art, and is particularly interested in work that crosses over into the sciences or explores our relationship with the environment.

Interspecies Creativity: The Rewilding Series, Episode 5

"Rewilding is messy. Wild places are places of life, and of death. Places of growth and decay, of scavenging, of predation, of prey. They're not pretty places. They're places which display the gore and guts of nature, but also her beauty"

This will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about rewilding and how our ecological future might look.  Lending an ecofeminist voice to the conversation Susan Baker, professor of environmental policy at Cardiff University. Susan examines the rewilding movement through a feminist lens touching on issues of control, oppression, expectations and dualism in our relationship with nature and the environment. Is rewilding, as we know it, the right route to take?

This is the last in The Rewilding Series podcasts, recording from Tom's shed, at the bottom of his garden in Peckham. Tom is joined, once again, by Anna Souter co-curator of Rewind/Rewild, to chat about this exciting new way of thinking about the natural world.

As part of the Rewind/Rewild exhibition, Anna and co-curator Beatrice Searle invited thought leaders and creatives working in the area of rewilding to participate in the Rewilding Forum. Susan's talk was recorded here.

Although this is the last in the series, we have new podcasts with fresh topics, new guests and new sheds in the pipeline. Follow us to be notified of new episodes. Join us on Instagram too @omvedgardens for more stories and news from the garden.

Ecofeminist Thought & Rewilding : The Rewilding Series, Episode 6

A quick ‘breaking’ news story for you all: At Farmerama we don’t always agree with some of the Extinction Rebellion messages, but this week we met Dagan James of the Broughton Water Buffalo Farm and asked him about about what is XR Farmers and what they are doing to share the regenerative farming message far and wide.

Shorts: XR Farmers

"I've never found anything interesting to read about soil..." David Reeve and Luciane Pisani are the editors and art director of Where the Leaves Fall, a magazine that focuses on our contemporary relationship with nature. It’s the sort of subject that can easily feel overwhelming, but they explain that they’re on a mission to tell stories about sustainability and the natural world that feel human, and which ultimately inspire readers to take positive action. They’re also keen that their magazine should help give a platform to voices that aren’t normally heard, and so they search far and wide, looking particularly to the global south for local stories about these global environmental issues.

Art and environmentalism in Where the Leaves Fall

In the second episode of the Chefs' Manifesto Podcast, learn about:
– The climate-smart grain 'Millet' from Indian Chef Anahita Dhondy
– How to 'Grow It Yourself' with vegetable grower Mike Kelly
– Ayurvedic Cooking with Chef Manjit Gill
– Chef action in Peru with Chef Palmiro Ocampo

Episode 2 – Area 1 «Ingredients grown with respect for the earth & its oceans»

In the last episode of Season 1 of the Chefs' Manifesto Podcast, Chef Tom Hunt chats to South African Chef Lorna Maseko, British Chef Arthur Potts Dawson and Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball, Global Lead for Health and Wellbeing at Kellogg about how to ensure nutritious food that is accessible & affordable for all!

Episode 2 – Area 1 «Ingredients grown with respect for the earth & its oceans»

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