{"podcast":{"title":"One Bite is Everything","slug":"one-bite-is-everything-354028","podcast_index_feed_id":354028,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/one-bite-is-everything/","website_url":"https://www.onebiteiseverything.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/db705d36-bd84-43ee-8561-bc210bc8f648/Jv1yP2aAOZgl3w9Ot9068ejP.png","author":"Dana DiPrima","episode_count":175,"summary":"We talk about food like it's just dinner. It never is. One Bite is Everything explores the people, practices, policies, and power that shape what's on your plate. Through 150+ conversations with farmers, chefs, scientists, historians, and policy thinkers, each episode pulls back the curtain on a food system most of us navigate without really understanding. Real stories, real stakes, no lectures. These conversations don't stop at your headphones. They ripple outward through the For Farmers Movement, a weekly letter, and a community of eaters who are connecting more deeply with the farmers who make their food possible. One Bite is Everything airs every Thursday.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T20:19:30.211269+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-bite-is-everything-354028"},"episode":{"title":"The Hidden Work of Keeping Farmland in Farming","slug":"the-hidden-work-of-keeping-farmland-in-farming","published_at":"2026-04-16T09:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-bite-is-everything-354028/the-hidden-work-of-keeping-farmland-in-farming","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-bite-is-everything-354028","url":"https://www.onebiteiseverything.com/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bb483080-e69f-4b62-94cf-8d37b9177174.mp3","summary":"There are about 2 million farms in the United States. Every year, a significant number of the farmers running them are approaching retirement age with no clear plan for what happens to their land when they're done. Farmland doesn't just disappear when a farmer retires. It gets sold, subdivided, converted, or absorbed into larger operations. And in a lot of cases, that means the end of a working farm, a community food source, and sometimes four generations of family work. In this episode, Dana sits down with Molly Johnston Heck and Olivia Fuller from American Farmland Trust's Farmland for a New Generation program, a New York State initiative that connects retiring farmers with the next generation of land stewards. Olivia isn't just a program staffer. She's a fourth-generation farmer who used AFT's own tools to navigate her family's transition out of dairy and into direct-to-consumer beef, pork, and sheep. She knows this story from the inside. They cover: What conservation easements actually do (and what they don't) The Farmland Protection Implementation Program and how it puts real money in a farmer's hands Preemptive purchase rights and why they matter in high-pressure real estate markets like the Hudson Valley The land-linking platform connecting farmers who have land with farmers who need it Why a \"bad match avoided\" counts as a success The invisible crisis of farm transitions that wait until there's a foreclosure to begin The role of navigators, mediators, and social workers in the hardest conversations farm families face This episode is a companion to a fuller story Dana is building. If you're a farmer thinking about what comes next, or a landowner who wants to see your land stay in production, this conversation is for you. Resources mentioned: Farmland for a New G…","meta_description":"There are about 2 million farms in the United States. Every year, a significant number of the farmers running them are approaching retirement age with no…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2205,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/one-bite-is-everything-354028/episodes/the-hidden-work-of-keeping-farmland-in-farming/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-bite-is-everything-354028/the-hidden-work-of-keeping-farmland-in-farming.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}