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Roxanne Dubai is a private chef and hospitality professional who owns the catering company Peace 4U. Her cooking is informed by her community activism and her desire to bring good food to all.

Tom Leggett is the market manager of the popular Franklin Street Bazaar – now in its second decade on Evansville’s west side. He also writes about food trucks for News4U and hosts the Evansville Food Trucks group on Facebook. His motto: always be learning.

Jenny Scheller is a home-based baker with a passion for macarons, the delicate, crispy/chewy sandwich cookies she creates for her business, the Dainty Flour.

Brian Buxton of Fingers Fork Knife & Spoon returns for our 30th episode to talk about local dining and his new role as owner/publisher of Evansville’s free entertainment monthly, News4U.

In this first episode we set the table for a season of conversations about Food From Here with some thoughts on our relationship with the land – which is arguably the starting point of every food story we tell. Joining host Peggy Pirro is Sustainable Living educator Amy Rhodes, founder of Listen to the Land, an organization whose mission includes teaching the importance of local food networks. Amy is currently the Sustainable Living Program manager at Seton Harvest, a CSA farm in Evansville, Indiana, that brings the principles of caretaking and ecological stewardship into daily practice.

Talking mushrooms with local grower Roger Winstead of Beautiful Edibles. There’s a lot going on in the world of culinary mushrooms beyond the familiar white buttons and portobellos.

Jenny Lamble is a former high school counselor who opened the Be Happy Pie Company storefront in Evansville in 2017, after baking pies out of her home kitchen for two years and selling them at local farmers markets. Jenny has pie tips to share and a few things to say about running a company whose mission is to add some happiness to the world.

Mary Winstead builds relationships and community as she and her family grow vegetables on their two-acre farm in suburban Warrick County.

Urban Seeds new Executive Director Maria Marton is getting to know growers, visiting local farms and farmers markets, talking food access with local organizations, and meeting local food entrepreneurs who are making things happen in our community.

Chef and cooking instructor Aimee Blume writes about food for the Evansville Courier Press. In this episode she shares what excites her about the food scene in our city.