Fun Ferments

In this episode of "tasteMAKERS," host Cat Neville heads to Boston, Massachusetts, to meet the team at Freight Farms. They are building self-contained hydroponic farms from cast-off shipping containers that can be controlled with an app and make growing food anywhere, in any climate, possible.

From his home base on Broken Arrow Ranch in Ingram, Texas, Chris Hughes travels across the state, harvesting game on Texas ranches in a humane, sustainable way. Those animals are processed on site using a mobile processing unit that was pioneered by his father. Strap yourself in. In this episode of "tasteMAKERS," you're on the hunt with host Cat Neville.

In this episode of "tasteMAKERS," host Cat Neville heads to Chicago to meet Jenny Yang, the woman behind Phoenix Bean Tofu. While the country's third largest city may seem disconnected from Illinois, a highly agrarian state, it's not. In fact, Illinois produces the highest volume of soybeans of any state and some of those beans make it to Phoenix Bean, whose tofu you'll see on the menus of some of the city's best restaurants.

In this episode of "tasteMAKERS," host Cat Neville heads to Louisvillle, Kentucky to meet Tom Edwards of Louismill and MozzaPi. He works directly with grain farmers to source wheat, rye and corn and that he stone grinds into flour and grits, some of which he bakes into breads and tosses into pizzas that are baked in his wood-fired oven.