Growing up with cattle, Ryan Goodman got a good look first-hand at cattle care and feeding. But working cattle in half a dozen states and visiting ranches in the vast majority of the U.S., Ryan...
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Sitting down to talk with This Farm Wife Meredith Bernard was pretty much like sitting down with someone I had known forever. In some ways, we have known each other for years via social media...
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With agritourism on the rise, there has been a lot of diversification of efforts and one niche is agritainment. That’s where the Leonard family found themselves after dealing with the challenges of urban sprawl and...
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Farm stays on Maryland’s Easter Shore may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of Maryland or a vacation, but maybe they should. There is a lot of curiosity to...
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(A full transcript of the podcast audio is available Talking about Curriculum that Pairs Food & Farm with Core Standards with Whitney Choate) When we ended season two of Grounded by the Farm, we said...
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Hearing Paula Hynes talk about her experiences of spending time with the Maasai people in Kenya offers a whole new perspective on farming. Paula, who has a dairy farm with her husband Peter in Ireland...
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How did we come to talk about Irish butter? As we’ve been doing these interviews, I have found inspiration for episodes in a range of places. The inspiration for this one? Making a grilled cheese...
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Only an episode about growing bitter gourd and other Filipino foods could bring together connections to boxer Manny Pacquiao, pineapple, sugarcane and pig roasts and today is the day! It’s time to talk about all...
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From the Blog
Will Kornegay knows a lot about sweet potatoes. His family has grown them for years. And when I met him, he was repoing sweet potatoes hard online. Eventually I interviewed him to clear up some…
In our episode talking about farming chickens, Lauren mentioned biosecurity. Another big word connected to livestock and human health is zoonoses. The word zoonoses…. seeing that on my screen makes me wonder how many of…
As someone who loves chicken and has seen untold numbers of chicken houses, I’ve always been interested in how chickens are raised to provide protein for our plates. We talk to farmer Lauren Arbogast about…