Maggie Baird — Billie Eilish’s and Finneas O’Connell’s mom and founder of Support+Feed — is hosting Climate Kitchen, a new public media series exploring how plant-based eating and small daily choices connect to climate change, food security, and personal health.
Maggie Baird — Support+Feed founder, sustainable living advocate, and best known as mother to Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell — is heading to public television with a new original series. WETA Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital’s leading public media organization, announced today that it has partnered with Baird to produce Climate Kitchen, set to begin production later this year and premiere on public media nationwide in 2027.
Part cooking show, part docuseries, Climate Kitchen follows Baird through her own kitchen and across the country as she connects everyday choices — what to eat, how to cook it, what happens to the waste — to wider conversations around chronic disease, food insecurity, environmental justice, and affordability. Each episode will be anchored in plant-based recipes built for real budgets and real home kitchens. Baird and Eilish are both vegan.
The guest list
The confirmed lineup spans science, activism, and culture. Viewers can expect appearances from indigenous climate justice activist Xiye Bastida; longevity researcher and best-selling Blue Zones author Dan Buettner; Martha Stewart; Farm Link Project co-founder Aidan Reilly; actor and Cyklar founder Claudia Sulewski; renowned oceanographer and Mission Blue founder Sylvia Earle, and Baird’s children: Grammy and Academy Award-winning artists Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell.
“I am excited to work with WETA to address a critical issue of our time: Finding ways to live more responsibly and being a steward of the natural world that surrounds us,” Baird said in a statement. “Living a more sustainable, earth-friendly lifestyle can seem all-or-nothing, overwhelming, and expensive, but Climate Kitchen is about embracing progress over perfection, debunking the myths around affordability and investment of time, and showing how small, simple behavior shifts can build toward lasting difference in our own health and the health of our planet. Plant-based food is not the only solution to climate change, but there is no solution without it.”
The series is co-produced by Support+Feed, WETA, and Atlas Films, an award-winning, female-run production company behind Knock Down the House and the Emmy Award-winning Poisoned. Directors Kristin Lazure and Stephanie Soechtig of Atlas Films will helm the project. Executive producers include Baird and Allison Kingsley for Support+Feed; Tom Chiodo and Kate Kelly for WETA; and Lazure and Soechtig for Atlas Films. Initial sponsors backing Climate Kitchen include Little Saint, Universal Music Group, Sam Ballmer, and the PATH Foundation.
The Well Beings connection
The show is the newest addition to Well Beings, WETA’s award-winning, multi-year, multiplatform initiative addressing critical health needs across America. Since its May 2020 launch, Well Beings has produced original documentaries, animated shorts, and major broadcast and streaming content, including the 2025 film Caregiving, from executive producer Bradley Cooper, and the 2022 documentary Ken Burns Presents Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness, a film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers.
“Maggie Baird is an extraordinary partner for public media audiences,” said Tom Chiodo, Executive Producer of Special Projects in National Productions at WETA. “Climate Kitchen is dedicated to showing how every person can make a healthy difference in their own lives, as well as the lives of their family and community — one recipe, one meal or household hack at a time. Maggie’s relatable approach will be refreshing to audiences of all ages, meeting them where they are, and helping them to institute incremental changes that will make a difference for all of us, including future generations.”
A national engagement campaign will accompany the series, building partnerships with public media stations and producing in-person and virtual events alongside educational materials shaped around the needs of individual communities. The public can follow the conversation at wellbeings.org or @WellBeingsOrg on Instagram, Facebook, or X using #WellBeings.
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