FIT TO EAT:
THE NL FARM
AND FOOD SHOW

Fit to Eat is a radio/podcast show featuring local grower Ivan Emke in conversation with farmers, processors, hunters, chefs, thinkers, innovators, homesteaders, researchers and eaters.​​

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The show uses a lighthearted and engaging approach to explore the important topic of food security. As Ivan explains...

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Many of us have devoted a significant amount of time to eating, and to talking and reading and thinking about eating. However, perhaps we have spent much less time thinking about where our food came from. Or who grew it or raised it or hunted it or collected it... or made it in a lab. But that may be changing.

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Indeed, in these times, we are beginning to think more about food security, as we realize ever more clearly that in Newfoundland & Labrador we are at the weakest link of the transportation chain - in an age of extreme weather and climate disruption. If we were not able to ship in food, we would not survive. We produce only around 10% of what we eat. Thus, without imports, we’d eat until about the end of the first week of February, and then we’d go hungry the rest of the year. That is not a good situation.

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So it is time to talk about our food system, and the people who play a role in it.

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Check out the Fit to Eat website for the latest episode and show archives.