Urban farming has so much potential but it can be hard to make a living doing it. With the economy today, every city and town seems to have more people experiencing homelessness. In Iowa, there...
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Shelby Smith never expected to be a farmer, so it may be fitting that she started a cricket farm. That’s a the kind of farm people in the US never think of, in fact it...
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Holidays bring together an amazing combination of foods & traditions, but how often do we step back and talk about how our families celebrated the holidays 25, 50, even 75 years ago? And how do...
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We’re off the farm in this episode as we ask listeners and friends to share their favorite holiday foods and traditions. As we hear from five people tell us about the foods that must be...
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I cannot believe it has been two years since we ventured toward the cranberry marsh that cranberry farmer Amber Bristow works. With the central roll this uniquely American fruit plays for my family’s holidays (I...
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Back in 2020, we talked with Shannon Latham who runs a pumpkin farm up in Northern Iowa. Well, now that 2022’s pumpkin season has rolled around, we headed back to the pumpkin patch to find...
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Have you ever considered beekeeping as a way to building leadership skills and tapping passions? Kamal Bell has been doing just that on his first generation farm in Cedar Grove, NC. As we sat down...
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Pawpaws are one of a handful of unique fruits and vegetables native to the United States, and yet they are not nearly as widely enjoyed as the holiday must have cranberries! One of the reasons...
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40:03 SUMMARY KEYWORDS shelter, people, work, community, lettuce, greenhouse, farm, central iowa, job, restaurants, folks, urban farm, urban ag, big, growing, food, plants, helps, agriculture, chefs SPEAKERS Joshua Spain, Aaron Thormodsen, Grounded by the Farm…
This transcript accompanies Cricket Farming: A New Frontier for Protein Powder? 49:57 It was generated via AI services. We apologize for errors. SUMMARY KEYWORDS crickets, people, eat, farm, feed, bins, grow, insects, eggs, thought, barn,…