The Countryside Kitchen - how the podcast started...

Quite quickly, my Facebook friends and twitter followers would ask if they could share the recipe ideas with their friends. I was also receiving messages to say how I had inspired other people, especially parents with young children, to get baking and involve them too.

From there, the food blog ‘No Fuss Meals for Busy Parents’ was born. I created an account on Facebook and Instagram and started posting recipe suggestion, followed by seasonal ingredient suggestions.

Having held various national positions within the world of food and farming, I reached out to my networks and interviewed farmer friends who were busy, working hard to produce food for our table. And that’s how the ‘meet the producer’ section was founded.

Each time I post, there is a local producer with an incredible story to tell. However they may not have time to market their business or would be quite humble about the achievements they have made. So I’ve taken my passion for food and farming and shone a light on interesting people, found out their route into farming, what the future holds for them, as well as where followers can purchase those ingredients from.

From there, I established a website: www.nofussmealsforbusyparents.com to house all the photos, recipes and interviews. 

I realised quite soon on that interviews with local food producers would need more than a Facebook page to house the content. Understanding how someone has built up their farming or food business and how they may have diversified, takes up a large word count. But there were so many interesting anecdotes, stories and history to share as well as talking about recipe suggestions and where you could buy ingredients from, that I had to grow the project even more. 

That’s how the podcast ‘The Countryside Kitchen meets’ came about.

In September 2021, Milly launched a monthly podcast with a different farmer, food producer or lover of local produce. Recorded in advance and streamed on a podcast hosting service, the podcast has been downloaded hundreds of times, with 10 episodes to tune into to date.

Interviews include Gold medal winning Paralympic athlete Charlotte Henshaw, Love British Food founder Alexia Robinson and Staffordshire Beef, Arable and Diversification Farmer Rich Bower. 

The podcast is fun, informative with some time saving hacks to help busy people, especially parents with young children, to prepare and enjoy tasty meals using local sourced ingredients. Understanding and promoting how food is produced from the farm to fork is important to me.

I'm hopeful that it makes a difference and more people are aware of the wonderful farming community we have across the British Isles. That includes promoting the message of buying British, shopping locally and Backing British Farming.

Season two will launch in Sept 2022, with the hope that it will reach out to an even bigger audience.

To find out more about the Podcast ‘The Countryside Kitchen Meets’ contact Milly on 07752989544 or email hello@millyfyfe.com 

You can listen to the podcast on all major streaming platforms including Apple Music, Spotify and Google Music. The RSS feed is here: https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-countryside-kitchen/

And the podcast also sits on this website: www.millyfyfe.com