Ferment Radio

About Ferment Radio

Ferment Radio is a podcast series that takes you deep into the fascinating world of microbes. Through fermentation and transformation, we develop new recipes for living on a broken planet.

Publisher

Super Eclectic

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jun 2020

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 56 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   No good ferment starts with a sad veggie

   Chef Jonas Palekas and artist Sean Roy Parker discuss their Citizen Sandwich project, exploring hyper-local ingredients and rescued food in an interview with Ferment Radio.

2. 

   28 Jun 2026

   #54: Microbial or human, that is the question (with Nathalie Dubois & Adam Zaretsky)

   What are we actually? Are we more microbial than human? This episode brings together two artists whose practices orbit that question from very different angles: Nathalie Dubois, a bioartist and scientist whose work often centers on microbes, and Adam Zaretsky, a bioartist mixing ecology, biotechnology, non-human relations, body performance, and gastronomy. Nathalie explores how human personality intertwines with the microbiome, and Adam pushes the limits of biological matter and its preservation in museum archives. Even though they take different approaches, they often run into the same questions. Are microbes the puppet masters of humans, or do humans control microbes? Who depends on whom, and how much of that dependence do we even recognize? Their answers go into areas many people find unfamiliar, challenging assumptions about agency, ethics, and co-existence across species.

3. 

   15 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #53: Walk your desire path of fermentation (with Johnny Drain)

   Host [Host Name] interviews fermentation expert Johnny Drain about his unique perspective on flavor and sustainability in his new book.

Inside a recent episode

No good ferment starts with a sad veggie

Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is, this just contributes towards like, um, commodified processes, which are easier to sell in big quantities. But for me, I, when I teach, I teach people how to do it in their home with the materials that they already have. There is no, like for me, there's no science in fermentation. It is, it is, um, Practice and it is understanding materials and it's a form of material research in my in my eyes anyway You can also think about maybe like a sauerkraut that you make the first time It's never going to be perfect and it doesn't cost very much to make it So the mistake is not an expensive one and if you make a sauerkraut that is for example too salty You can dehydrate it and put it in a blender and make it into a salt and And so there are these spinning like these different life cycles that spin off of every creative interpretation of an ingredient. […]

Who has been a guest on Ferment Radio

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jonas Palekas
• Sean Roy Parker
• Johnny Drain
• Joshua Evans
• Zsuzsa Millei

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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