What will we eat in 2050? It's no question that food is our greatest connector—but even with new technologies and changing eating habits our food system is in crisis. Hosted by Ludwig Hurtado and Mold Magazine's editors, Food Futures invites experts across the worlds of technology, agriculture, science and design to separate fact from fiction, inspiring each of us to become creative collaborators in shaping the future of food. Learn more at thisismold.com.
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Fair Food Futures
Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, and Joanna Horton, in collaboration with civic food networks in Australia
The Fair Food Futures podcast explores the stories and visions for change put forth by community food networks in Australia as they seek to progress transformations towards sustainable food futures, and identifies the strategies, challenges and opportunities for making civil society’s visions for fair food futures come to life. Our main questions were: what does it mean to do ‘food justice’ in Australia? What does your fair food future look like, and how do we get there? With these questions ...
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Compost The Prison Plantation
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Joshua Sbicca of the Prison Agriculture Lab is on the podcast to discuss the way that the prison industrial complex uses food and agriculture as a way to uphold itself. His piece for MOLD, 'It's Time To Compost The Prison Plantation' is part of our series on Food and Abolition, tackling the ways in which the project of prison abolition can inform a…
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Street Vendors Are Here To Stay
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On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, we speak to street vendors from Plaza Tonatiuh in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and community organizer Brian “Leo” Garita about their fight for a share of public space. We’ll also have a conversation with urban planning scholar, Ryan Devlin, who studies street vending and design solutions for vendors.…
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What A Girl Wants (To Eat): Girl Dinner
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In mid-May of this year, Olivia Maher posted a simple tiktok in her kitchen describing a meal she dubbed “Girl Dinner”— low effort meals consisting of a smorgasbord of ingredients scavenged from the fridge, freezer, and pantry. What started as a quick video has turned into a viral trend with thousands of videos using the Girl Dinner hashtag set to …
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The Return of Lesbian Bars
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Lesbian bars were disappearing at an alarming rate. But might we be entering a renaissance of the sapphic space? Journalist Meghan McCarron and bar owners Emily Bielagus and Mara Herbkersman of The Ruby Fruit are on the podcast to discuss.
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Erewhon, the buzzy LA-based grocery chain, Erewhon, is known for selling things like 20$ smoothies with hyaluronic acid and 30$ jugs of oxygenated water. It's understandably earned its viral reputation as “America’s Most Expensive Grocery Store.” But it might come as a surprise to recent customers and haters alike, that the health-food store actual…
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NFT's For Restaurants???
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More and more restaurants are beginning to experiment with NFT membership programs, where token-holders can get that coveted VIP treatment at their establishments. The writer, Terry Nguyen comes on the Food Futures podcast to discuss whether NFT's will change the dining industry as we know it. Nguyen is a writer, critic, and poet who currently wor…
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Now We're NOT Cooking With Gas?
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What's so bad about using a gas stove? And is the Biden Administration really putting a ban on them? In order to understand why gas stoves have become such a contentious topic in the news, we reached out to Rebecca Leber. She’s a senior reporter at Vox, where she covers climate change. She’s been reporting about gas stoves long before they were mak…
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Whether you’re the target audience or not, you’ve probably come across one of The Liver King's videos before. He's infamous online for posting videos of himself eating raw meat. Now, he's come under fire because it’s been revealed that he actually uses steroids in order to achieve the physique that he touts as a result of his diet. On this episode …
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Alicia Kennedy on tourism, climate change, and tomato season hype
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Alicia Kennedy is a food writer based in Puerto Rico. On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, she joins the show to discuss ways we can mitigate climate change through eating. Read Alicia's piece for MOLD reflecting on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendations: http://bit.ly/3Hd4vSA…
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On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, artist Meech Boakye joins to discuss AI artwork and the world-building capacities and limitations of DALL-E 2.
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Episode 7: Civil society in local and global food policy making: a conversation with UN experts Dr Nora McKeon and Maggie Carter
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In the final episode of this podcast series, we reflect on the learnings gathered from our conversations with food systems experts and leaders of civic food networks, and ask how policy can help scale up fairer food systems in Australia. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Nora McKeon, professor at the Rome Tre University, who has worked extensiv…
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Episode 6: ‘Food and rights for all’: the missing conversation about hunger and land access in Australia
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In this episode, Dr Rachel Carey, Senior Lecturer in food systems at the School of Agriculture and Food from the University of Melbourne, and Emma Brindal, the Youth Education Coordinator of the Northey St City Farm and co-founder of the Decolonisation Action Group, take us on a journey to understand what the right to food means, based on their wor…
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Episode 5: ‘Food as Commons’: bridging the rural-urban divide through collective ownership and action
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This time, our food justice conversations welcome Dr Hope Foley from Growing Forward, and Andrew Ward from Regen Farmers Mutual, who share their ideas about understanding food and land as “commons”. Hope explains Growing Forward’s approach to land sovereignty and common ownership, which reclaims unused public land to grow food to feed local communi…
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How to Live A "Degrowth" Life
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How can we create more resilient communities and food systems in rejection of the capitalist obsession with infnite economic growth? Jamie Tyberg is a community organizer in New York City whose work centers around decolonization. On today’s episode, researcher and baker, Lexie Smith is in conversation with Jamie outlining the vision of degrowth as …
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Episode 4: ‘Resilience beyond crisis’: the power of connecting producers and consumers
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In this episode inspired by the “Fair Food in the City” scenario, small-scale producers Jacki Hinchey from Blue Dog Farm, Matt Bakker and Micah Oberon from Neighbourhood Farm, and Phil Garozzo and Alice Star from Loop Growers share their first-hand experiences with recent crises, such as the 2022 floods and the COVID19 pandemic. Our guest speakers …
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Episode 3: Practicing ‘intersectional solidarity and care’ with First Nations, grassroots, and refugee communities
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In this episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast we begin our journey alongside leaders of civic food networks in Australia, learning from them how they uphold intersectional solidarity and care practices in their work. This episode brings together three examples of how the “Long Table” scenario identified by the Fair Food Futures project can look …
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Episode 2: ‘You don’t get justice merely by surviving the system’: a food justice conversation with Dr. Raj Patel
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In this second episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast, the world-famous author, filmmaker, activist, and academic Dr Raj Patel shares an overview of some of the structural problems with the global food system, in conversation with Dr Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. By drawing on evidence gathered duri…
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Doomsday Preppers and Food for the End of the World
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On this episode of Food Futures, we speak to artist and writer Adriana Gallo, about preppers, preservation, rotting food, and much more. Her latest essay for MOLD is called "Cooking for the end of the world."
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Episode 1: ‘Creating fair food futures in Australia’: A yarn with Costa Georgiadis
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In this introductory episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast, Dr Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland; and landscape architect, TV presenter, and gardening superstar Costa Georgiadis, engage in a conversation about the diversity of grassroots fair food initiatives in Australia. Imagining he had a 'magic wand…
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Rice is life. For our debut episode, we speak to Momoko Nakamura, aka the Rice Girl, a woman on a mission to bring naturally farmed Japanese rice to the rest of the world. In Japan alone, there are over 200 varietals of rice grown throughout the country—from the snowy northern islands to the Ryukus with their subtropical climate. Through her rice s…
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