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Edible Activist

Melissa L. Jones

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Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 200

Edible Activist is a podcast that feeds you empowering narratives and perspectives from the voices of emerging black people and people of color in food and agriculture who are stewarding the land, healing communities, and advocating for food justice and economic power across the globe. Hosted by Melissa L. Jones, she interviews a diverse group of everyday growers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, and other extraordinary individuals, who exemplify activism in their own edible way!

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🇨🇦 Canada - food
11/08/2026
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
11/09/2024
#99
🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
10/09/2024
#63
🇨🇦 Canada - food
08/09/2024
#100
🇨🇦 Canada - food
07/09/2024
#75
🇨🇦 Canada - food
06/09/2024
#47

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#160: Growing Futures: Youth, Food, and Community

Episode 160

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 • Duration 33:06

In this episode, students from the Youth Entrepreneurship Cooperative at Common Good City Farm take the lead, sharing their experiences exploring urban farming, food systems, and small business entrepreneurship. Through their initiative, "Youth Common Agrowments," the teens developed community agreements to address local challenges and created their own hot sauce brand, "Hot Topic." Focused on raising the wage floor for youth and advocating for their future, this mission-driven project highlights the power of youth leadership. Listen as these teens discuss how they're cultivating change in their community through growth, agriculture, and entrepreneurship.

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#159: Farmer Wes aka The Compost King

Episode 159

Thursday, August 1, 2024 • Duration 50:44

We sit down with Farmer Wes, aka The Compost King, as he shares his inspiring journey and entrepreneurial legacy from his roots to his current role in urban agriculture. Explore his early agricultural experiences in Trinidad, from knocking down mangoes with bamboo shoots as a child, to his transformative journey through the Regenerative Agriculture Certificate program at Common Good City Farm. Wes unpacks the essentials of composting, its importance for growing healthy food, and what farming has looked like during this sweltering summer. Plus, get an insider's look at his involvement in other food justice initiatives and find out his top vegetable and fruit pick of the season. Tune in!

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#150: Beauty Blooms Farm with Nia Nyamweya

Episode 150

Friday, March 22, 2024 • Duration 37:58

#061: Mississippi Part II: Farm Rejuvenation with Felicia Bell

Episode 61

Thursday, January 30, 2020 • Duration 41:10

Our history is filled land loss and discrimination amongst black families and farmers, but this story reflects rejuvenation. Ms. Felicia Bell, a Mississippi native, mother, traditional farmer and operator of RD & S Farm, LLC was born into agriculture. Her family’s land has sustained them for generations, being able to feed themselves, homestead, and launch businesses. In this episode you will hear Felicia’s family legacy, how selling pecans provided capital to start RD & S Farm, and her insight on ownership and freedom.

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#060: Mississippi Part I: Grandma Catherine

Episode 60

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 • Duration 31:41

Born in a small Alabama town, Grandma Catherine remembers having all the food she and her family needed on the land. Surrounded by muscadines, peach trees, and pecans, nature’s seed bloomed right outside her home in Butler. And though Grandma has been living in Jackson, MS for more than five decades, the remnants of her country upbringing remain. In this Part I series, Grandma shares fond food memories with granddaughter Melissa L. Jones, her love for the garden and vegetables, and talks about eating-dirt (yes dirt)! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

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#059: Edible Season Finale

Episode 59

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 • Duration 41:14

In this season finale, host, Melissa L. Jones and guest Jeremy Carry talk gratitude, vision and purpose! Powered and distributed by Simplecast

#058: Black Food Justice

Episode 58

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 • Duration 48:59

Black Food Justice is a fight for our health, wealth equity, access to greener environments, and our land. In this episode, Asha Carter, deputy director with the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, shares what black food justice means to her, details her relationship with nature, and provides a basic understanding of land trusts and how we can use land to build systems for survival. Tune in! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

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#057: A Conversation with Krystal Mack

Episode 57

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 • Duration 52:42

Food isn't linear, and for artists like Krystal Mack, this means using food to tell our history, build community, and as a tool for social design. In this episode we explore Krystal's culinary entrepreneurial journey as a business owner and baker, breakdown Baltimore's food landscape and how this has impacted her work, the importance of language and controlling our narratives, and her most recent event: Black Women, Food & Power! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

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#056: Everybody's Juice

Episode 56

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 • Duration 46:56

Fresh-pressed juice is for everybody, literally. We all need nutrients and vitamins from leafy greens, citrus, and fruits, it's nature's medicine. In this episode we sit down with DC native, Najee Ellerbe, who is a certified juice therapist and owner of Everybody's Juice, a delivery company that offers juice subscriptions to customers. In 2016, Najee contracted the flu and came across juicing while he was bedridden. Little did he know, this lifestyle change would cure his illness, and eventually Everybody's Juice was born. Tune in! Powered and distributed by Simplecast

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#055: Reflections of the Land Part II

Episode 55

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 • Duration 46:13

What does land mean to you? And if you inherited it, how would you steward it? This episodes continues conversations from last week's episode, Reflections of the Land, with host Melissa L. Jones and guest co-host, Jeremy Carry. The top of the episode starts with farming ninja, Jay, sharing how he would cultivate the land if he inherited five acres, then segwaying into stigmas that many black people and people of color have about farming. We also spotlight The Atlantic's piece: The Great Land Robbery. Tune in! Powered and distributed by Simplecast

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