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Edible Activist Black and Brown Voices in Food and Agriculture

“I’m not waiting for anybody to save us. We got to save ourselves. We are working to create the world that we actually w...
05/29/2026

“I’m not waiting for anybody to save us. We got to save ourselves. We are working to create the world that we actually want to live in. And I think that’s where the solutions are going to lie.” — Jiana Murdic

EA193: Get Fresh Daily: Where Food Justice Meets Joy in Philadelphia •••Some of my favorite connections happen in the mo...
05/27/2026

EA193: Get Fresh Daily: Where Food Justice Meets
Joy in Philadelphia
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Some of my favorite connections happen in the most intentional spaces. I met Get Fresh Daily () founder Jiana Murdic at the conference — and the moment she started talking about her incredible organization I knew I had to have her on the show.

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Joy is the strategy. Fresh food is the medicine. And Philadelphia is the proving ground.

I sat down with Jiana and this conversation is everything. From growing up as a first generation east coaster living for summers in Tennessee, to building a food justice movement in the heart of West Philadelphia, she brings joy, realness and deep community roots to everything she does.

We get into why healthy food has to be sexy to work, what it really means to meet people where they are without judgment, and why she is not waiting on policy to save us. Plus her full vision for what Philadelphia’s food landscape looks like when the work truly takes root.

🔗 Link in bio to listen to the full episode — also streaming on Simplecast, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

“We eat in season. When you can get shrimp, when you get the best crab, when oyster season is — you eat what is meant to...
05/22/2026

“We eat in season. When you can get shrimp, when you get the best crab, when oyster season is — you eat what is meant to be eaten.” — Amethyst Ganaway

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EA192: The Lowcountry Table•••This conversation with Amethyst Ganaway ()had me wanting to book a flight to Charleston im...
05/20/2026

EA192: The Lowcountry Table
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This conversation with Amethyst Ganaway ()had me wanting to book a flight to Charleston immediately. ✈️

Amethyst is a chef, food writer, and cultural archivist with deep Gullah Geechee heritage — and she came through and gave us everything. She took me inside growing up in Charleston where food and land were inseparable, how she actually came into whole animal cooking later in life and why Black food traditions deserve to be documented and celebrated on our own terms, not repackaged by someone else.

Amethyst also gets real about the disconnect between chefs and farmers, what food sovereignty actually looks like on the ground in lowcountry communities, and the story behind her forthcoming book: From tha Roota to tha Toota, written entirely in her own voice 🖤

🔗 in bio to listen to the full episode— also streaming on Simplecast, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

05/19/2026

The Black Church Census could shift everything we know about Black food sovereignty — mapping the land and assets held by Black church institutions. But not at the cost of relinquishing ownership of the data and insight that come from it.

Pastor Heber Brown III was intentional about ensuring that data would not be owned by a PWI. Instead of pursuing a national rollout, he chose a tighter focus rooted in Baltimore, building the census in partnership with his HBCU alma mater, Morgan State University.

There’s something powerful about that choice happening in Baltimore — the city where redlining was born.

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EA191: The Church as a Food Hub•••The church has land. Now what?I welcome back Rev. Heber Brown III — eleven years in — ...
05/07/2026

EA191: The Church as a Food Hub
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The church has land. Now what?

I welcome back Rev. Heber Brown III — eleven years in — and this time he came to tell the truth. We get into what it really takes to activate a Black church, why he refused to hand Black data to a PWI and what we lose if our generation does not step up before our elders are gone.

But this conversation does not end in doom. Pastor Brown is planting seeds — a Black church census with Morgan State, Freedom School in Sunday school and a succession plan built on abundance not sacrifice.

Plus he drops exclusive news right here on Edible Activist — in four years he steps down as Executive Director. The ground is already being prepared.

🔗 Link in bio to listen to the full episode — also streaming on Simplecast, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Food as art. Food as memory. Food as tribute. 🖤Revisiting our conversation with Chef Demi Unique — and it hits different...
05/06/2026

Food as art. Food as memory. Food as tribute. 🖤

Revisiting our conversation with Chef Demi Unique — and it hits different every time. She’s a traveling artist, chef, and consultant who uses flavor to honor lineage and build community.

Every episode has a story worth sitting with. This is your reminder to press play. 🎧 🔗 Link in bio.

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A big stage isn’t somewhere you’ll find me often — but it happened last week at the conference, curated by the wonderfu...
05/01/2026

A big stage isn’t somewhere you’ll find me often — but it happened last week at the conference, curated by the wonderful ladies. It’s been amazing to watch them evolve.

No matter how many people I’ve interviewed, the nervous jitters always show up. But I never take lightly the time and resources folks invest to be in these rooms — so I always want to leave people with something real.

led a beautiful and warm conversation on media and storytelling, and I had the privilege of sharing the stage with two other brilliant Black women building legacy media companies: and

Here’s what I wanted the room to walk away with:

🖤 Amplification is visibility, but preservation is everlasting. Both matter — and this has been a real mindset shift for me.

🖤 The power of local is where the intimacy lives. We’ve moved on from chasing mainstream. Smaller audiences with real reach.

🖤 Know your non-negotiables around funding. It can reshape what you’ve built if you’re not careful. I’ve turned down money because I wasn’t willing to bend all the way — and I work full time to keep EA standing on my own terms.

Thank you BWIF for having me. If we didn’t get to connect, slide in my DMs — it doesn’t stop at the conference. 🖤

P.S. — Photos from the experience will be in my stories!

Part of showing up for this community is making sure the right voices get their flowers — more than once. So I’m coming ...
04/23/2026

Part of showing up for this community is making sure the right voices get their flowers — more than once. So I’m coming back to a conversation I had with journalist and cultural storyteller Antoinette Johnson ( )

There are so many Black women in media who work incredibly hard to create, share, and communicate stories to the masses — and as I prepare to sit on a panel about media and storytelling at the Black Women in Food Conference, that feels worth celebrating. Antoinette’s work is a perfect example of that, and I’d encourage you to give it a listen if you haven’t yet.

And lastly, she’s hosting a unique food and travel experience to Vietnam— definitely worth checking out!

As we approach Earth Day, I am reminded that caring for the planet isn’t a once-a-year moment— it’s a daily practice roo...
04/14/2026

As we approach Earth Day, I am reminded that caring for the planet isn’t a once-a-year moment— it’s a daily practice rooted in how we show up for our land, our food, and each other. And it’s about honoring the land — and the communities who protect it through everyday action.

When I spoke with Zsameria Rayford months back (EA184), we explored how SWAP DC → SWAP Universe isn’t just about clothing. It’s about reducing the strain on the land that grows our food, keeping harmful waste out of soil and waterways, and creating joyful spaces where neighbors exchange clothes, plants, books, and knowledge.

It’s a reminder that sustainability is not a silo.

Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people, healthy communities.

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“There’s no such thing as good food or bad food. When you don’t have food — that’s bad. Let’s start there.” — Chef Mu, M...
04/08/2026

“There’s no such thing as good food or bad food. When you don’t have food — that’s bad. Let’s start there.” — Chef Mu, Market Manager

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