Suzanne Krowiak of Indy Food Swap

This episode is an interview with Suzanne Krowiak about how she started the Indy Food Swap.

If you haven’t been to a food swap and enjoy cooking, baking, preserving, gardening or foraging it is an event that might be right up your alley.

Suzanne is also a master food preserver and at the end of the episode, we talk about her affinity for making pickles and her love of ground cherries. If you haven’t heard of ground cherries, you will get a great introduction. Her description will probably have you anxiously awaiting next summer’s farmers markets so you can pick up a flat for yourself.

Where to find Indy Food Swap

* Facebook

* Twitter

* Website

Links from the Show

* Kate Payne

* Hip Girls Guide to Homemaking

* Indianapolis City Market

* Food Swap Network

* Blue Chair Jam Cookbook*

* Purdue extension Master Food Preserver – next Johnson County class in June 2017. sign-up early!

* Indiana Historical Society-Communities Can Exhibit

* The cookies I swapped at my first food swap

*This is an affiliate link. I will get a percentage of any purchases you make at no cost to you.

Hannah Lindgren creator of Food First

Hannah is a storyteller & one of the stories she has told is about the Indy food scene. Her method of storytelling is video & her movie Food First is a must see.

While this episode talks about how she started telling stories with film and how the movie came to be, the best parts of the interview are our conversation about food, exploring new areas and her role as a mentor to Hayley from Native Bread.

There is an importance to the food that you put into your body that is above and beyond anything else. Hannah had to learn this, like I have, through trial and error. Her situation being more important than mine because the wrong foods cause her extreme illness.

Where to find Hannah and Food First

* Deliberate Media Website

* Facebook

Other Films by Hannah

* Indiana Gas Boom

* A FILM TO DECREASE WORLDSUCK: The Nerdfighters Documentary

Links from show

* Native Bread

* Ezra’s Enlightened Cafe

* Chris Baggott

* Tyner Pond

* ClusterTruck

Hayley is a very impressive lady and her company Native Bread is certainly headed for a long life as a great business in Indianapolis. She started Native Bread so to fill the void of artisan gluten-free bread and she has quickly gained a reputation for a great product.

She was nice enough to chat about the process and the challenges of baking gluten-free bread as well as the challenges of starting her own business. You will hear just how little I knew about this process at the beginning of this interview. Not entirely sure why I thought that yeast wasn’t involved in gluten-free bread, but I know better now. If you are gluten-free or know someone who is, you should check out her bread.

If you are interested in getting her bread for Thanksgiving you should follow her on social media. Since it freezes well you could also find it at the Indy Winter Farmers Market on Nov. 12th.

As always I hope you enjoy the episode. If you do please share with some friends on Facebook. You can find me on Facebook here.

Where to find Hayley and Native Bread

* Website

* Facebook

* Instagram

* Farmersmarket.com

Links from the show

* How Can it Be Gluten Free Cookbook*

* Gluten Free Artisan Bread in a Day*

* Good Earth in Broad Ripple

* Garden Table

* Playful Soul

* ClusterTruck

* Duos, (you may remember them from the first episode)

* SCORE

* Farmersmarket.com

I had a lot of fun recording my episode with Meredith. Talking about ice cream probably had something to do with it, but I think it had more to do with her being fun and relaxing. Just from talking to her she is just the person you would expect to own an ice cream shop.

Ice cream is my favorite. I am alway down to try a new flavor and have been known to go out in the most inclement weather to get a good cone. The day this airs I will likely be heading to Lick to get an ice cream sandwich or cone to celebrate my birthday!

If you like ice cream, want to start your own food business or just wonder what it is like to own an ice cream business this episode will have something for you.

As always I hope you enjoy the episode. If you do please share with some friends on Facebook. You can find me on Facebook here.

Where you can find Lick Ice Cream

* website

* facebook

* instagram – careful this will make you hungry!

Where you can buy Lick Ice Cream

* Lick @ CCIC Wed-Saturday 11-5

* Best Chocolate in Town

* MacNivens

* Pure Eatery

* Some Guy’s Pizza

* St. Joseph’s Brewery

* Wildwood Market

* Good Earth

* Georgetown Market

* Moody’s

* SoBro Cafe

* Tyner Pond Market

Links

* Smitten Kitchen

* the fennel ice cream that started it all

* Broad Ripple Farmers Market

* Black Dog gelato

* The Galley Ice Cream

* Companion Ice Cream

* Wild’s Apple Farm

* Adrian Orchard

* Spencer Berry Farm

* Traders Point Creamery

* Bee Coffee Roasters

* Neal Brown – Pizzology & Libertine

* Circle City Sweets

* IVY Tech Culinary School

* JCC Farmers Market

Today we are talking to Sarah Adam. She is the manager of the Indy Winter Farmers Market, also a farmer for Growing Places Indy, she has a lot of insight on what you can find at the Winter Market and local food. You might be surprised at just how much you will be able to find.

We talk about some of the differences from a summer market and all of the great programs offered at the Winter Market. Like, did you know you can do yoga on Saturday mornings and your donation for the class goes to a matching program to help people with SNAP benefits?

If you want to start voting with your dollars getting to know the Indy Winter Farmers Market is a good place to start. If you are new in town and are seeking a like-minded community, been around but want to get to know some farmers or just want something social to do now that your summer market is gone this is the place for you.

The vendor list was just announced and it looks like this will be another great year.

Where you find more information about the market

* website

* instagram

* Facebook

The other winter markets in Indy

* Broad Ripple

* Carmel

* Fishers

* Greenfield

* JCC

* Normandy Farms

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

* Growing Places Indy

* Eskenazi Sky Farm

* Monon Trail

* Public Greens

* Chase Legacy Center

* City Market

* The Platform

* Circle City Industrial Complex – CCIC

* Pogue’s Run Trail

* Cultural Trail

* Maker’s Space

* Teagen Development

* SNAP

* Hoosier Works card

* Fresh Bucks

* Indy Hunger Network

* Eat Well Initiative
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Kate Franzman is queen of the bees in Indianapolis. Through her business Bee Public she has spent hours setting up hives, teaching people about bees and advocating on their behalf with the city council. The bees are lucky to have a friend like Kate and Indianapolis is lucky to have a resource like Kate. Kate worked the last few years as an urban farmer, but even before that she was drawn to help the bees.

In this episode, Kate and I talk about the importance of bees, what she has done to educate about bees in Indianapolis, the resources she used to work with the city council. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Where you can find Kate for questions or speaking engagements

* website

* twitter

* facebook

* instagram

Links

* Center for Inquiry bee hive

* Growing Places Indy

* Growing Places Indy apprenticeship program

* Beyond Pesticides

* Mayor Joe Hogsett Waggle Dance

* carpenter bee

* earth charter

* girl next door honey

* honey bee conservancy

* The Third Plate by Dan Barber

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Becky Hostetter is one of the most cherished people in the Indianapolis food scene and has been for years.

I have known Becky for years through her amazing kids and from my summer job busing tables at her first restaurant, and the first vegetarian restaurant in Indianapolis, Essential Edibles.

When I decided to make a podcast about food in Indianapolis and the Midwest I knew I wanted to start with Becky. She has spent years impacting, cultivating and curating the food scene in Indianapolis. I knew she would provide everyone with a view of where we were, where we are, and where we have the potential to go. She didn’t disappoint!

If you want to get into the Indianapolis food scene and aren’t sure where to start this conversation with Becky will give you lots of ideas and resources.

If you just like good food be sure to stop by Duos restaurant or food truck. You can follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well.

Links:

* Purdue Urban Farm Incubator Program

* Dig In

* South Circle Farm

* Big City Farms

* Love Handle

* Pogue’s Run Grocer

* Flanner House

* Kheprw Institute

* CCIC – Circle City Industrial Complex

* Indy’s Kitchen

* Recess

This is it the intro to the podcast!

Episode 000, because this is really a quick, less than 5 minutes, introduction to what is to come.

I hope you enjoy the intro and are excited to hear the first episode. My plan is to have it live on October 6th. I am submitting to iTunes so you should be able to subscribe soon. Until then tune in here to get the episodes or follow me on Facebook to get the latest episodes the moment they are released.

This really is going to be a celebration of food and shared meals in Indianapolis and the Midwest. If you know people who love any of that I would love if you shared the podcast.

The opening and closing music is from The Hardee’s, a local Indianapolis band. I am grateful to them for letting me use their music. The song specifically is Naptown Funk from their album Gnome State. Listen and buy the album or follow on Facebook to keep their shows on your calendar.

For the record, the idea of publishing is giving me butterflies in my stomach. Here is to new adventures!