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Green Bites

Green Bites

Ellie O'Byrne

A delicious fresh episode on Irish food sustainability dished up each week for everyone who loves food and cares about the environment.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Green Bites episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Green Bites for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Green Bites episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Green Bites - Sustainable wines at The Wine Shed
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12/21/22 • 68 min

Fionnuala Harkin runs a wine workshop in her husband's toolshed in West Cork. What is a sustainable wine: how is it grown, and what does it taste like? Join Ellie and Fionnuala to taste three organic and biodynamic wines from vineyards in Europe that are going the extra mile to protect their environment and farm in harmony with the natural world.

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Green Bites - The Honey Episode
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09/02/22 • 75 min

A visit to East Waterford Beekeepers' Association with Donal Lehane and a honey tasting in East Cork with Hanna Bäckmo: this episode is as sweet as it gets: beekeepers farm the skies and protect pollinators and their food sources.

But what's happening to the native Irish Black Bee, and why is only 8% of the honey consumed in Ireland Irish honey?

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Green Bites - Microdairy

Microdairy

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09/16/22 • 41 min

"Bigger farms and less farmers is where we’re heading; when you’ve no control over the price, all you can do is get bigger.” Meet Sinéad Moran of Gleann Buí farm in Co Mayo. Sinéad and her partner, Mick McGrath, started selling raw milk from their microdairy in 2021. Is there a model here that produces milk sustainably, supports a family and provides quality local food?

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Green Bites - Ireland's White Gold Boom
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07/30/20 • 37 min

Ireland produces somewhere in the region of 13% of the world's infant formula. Research has revealed that for every kilo of formula produced, the true carbon cost is anywhere between four and 11 kilos of greenhouses gases. Alongside Australian expert in the economics of infant feeding Dr Julie Smith, Green Bites takes a deep dive into the environmental and ethical impacts of Ireland's €1.3 billion White Gold Boom.

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Green Bites - Bee the Change

Bee the Change

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07/20/20 • 40 min

Could YOU live on foods only grown in Ireland for a month each year? Lisa Fingleton is the author of The Local Food Project, based on her 30-day Local Food Challenge: each September she invites people to try eating only food grown in Ireland. Her partner Rena Blake is the North Kerry co-ordinator for Kerry Social Farming. Together they live on a 20 acre organic smallholding called Barna, where they try to embody the saying “be the change you want to see in the world.”

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Green Bites - Green Bites Trailer
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07/18/20 • 1 min

Season one of Green Bites, the Irish Food Sustainability Podcast, launches on Friday the 17th of July. Listen on podcast platforms or on www.greenbites.ie

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Green Bites - What makes a sustainable kitchen?
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08/19/22 • 50 min

What does a frozen avocado or a palm weevil grub taste like? Meet UK-based, Kerry-born chef and nutritionist Sadhbh Moore, whose book, Sustainable Kitchen, is out this year. What do we mean when we say "sustainable"? And where's the line when it comes to individual responsibility versus corporate or state level environmental actions?

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Green Bites - What's the beef with beef?
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07/24/20 • 35 min

Do you think a vegan diet will save the world? This episode might make you think again.

We meet Sligo farmer and artist Clive Bright, whose 120 acre organic farm raises 100% grass-fed beef for Clive’s direct-to-customer company The Rare Ruminare. Clive has transformed his farm from standard dairy, complete with spraying and fertilisers, to the mob-grazing system he uses today, where trees play a vital role in improving his pastures. He’s been certified organic for six years.

Clive believes a truly sustainable food system necessarily includes livestock. In revolutionising his approach to farming, he says he's managed to insulate his livelihood against the commodity market and a food system he sees as broken.

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Green Bites - Flour Power

Flour Power

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07/18/20 • 41 min

Where does our flour come from? Can Ireland grow wheat and other milling grains? Green Bites follows the story of flour from farm to loaf with Emma Clutterbuck of Oak Forest Mills in Co Kilkenny and Cork-based baker Ben Lebon of The Natural Foods Bakery.

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Green Bites - Taming the soybean
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12/28/22 • 67 min

In ancient China, it was believed that the nutritional power of the mighty, protein-rich soy bean needed to be "tamed"....Tempeh, the Indonesian soy-based protein food, might be lesser known than Tofu, but it's one way of taming the golden bean. Vegan chef James De Burca launched De Burca's Tempeh in 2022, the first commercial Tempeh producers in Ireland. Using beans from France to produce Tempeh is one way of keeping food miles down while going plant-based, he says. James whips up a Thai Larb, Tempeh and Aubergine Involtini and Tempeh Bacon to prove its versatility.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Green Bites have?

Green Bites currently has 21 episodes available.

What topics does Green Bites cover?

The podcast is about Irish, Ecology, Cooking, Culinary, Environment, Nature, Podcasts, Science, Farming, Arts, Sustainability and Food.

What is the most popular episode on Green Bites?

The episode title 'Sustainable wines at The Wine Shed' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Green Bites?

The average episode length on Green Bites is 42 minutes.

How often are episodes of Green Bites released?

Episodes of Green Bites are typically released every 7 days, 2 hours.

When was the first episode of Green Bites?

The first episode of Green Bites was released on Jul 18, 2020.

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