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Sweet Potatoes? Yams? What’s the Difference Anyway?

January 19, 2022
Tagged as: North Carolina, sweet potato

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...

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Farm Basics

Biosecurity or Zoonoses: What it Means to Keeping Livestock & People Healthy

January 17, 2022
Tagged as: beef, cattle, dairy

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...

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Visiting a Chicken Farm to “Meet My Meats” (Episode 306 Grounded by the Farm Podcast Transcript)

January 12, 2022

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...

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Food

Where are my fellow cookbook lovers?

January 7, 2022
Tagged as: recipes

There’s not a simple single reason I became a cookbook lover and find myself with shelves and stacks of cookbooks. And I have found a vast community of cookbook lovers too. In fact, a colleague...

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Food

Onion seeds & lentils on floats in the Rose Parade?

January 1, 2022

If you are watching the Rose Parade today, you may be surprised (like I was) that there are so many mentions of onion seeds and lentils. If you have questions, I have some answers… some...

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Food

What’s New Year’s without Black-Eyed Peas for Luck? I’m Not Tempting 2022

January 1, 2022
Tagged as: peas

I grew up in a Southern family which included a range of traditions. It’s long been a tradition to eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day to set the good luck for the year. And...

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What do cows eat and why?

December 29, 2021

As episode 305 came together, I remembered having had a blog post on my site Hundred Percent Cotton for years describing what cows eat and why. I had a veterinarian friend — Dr. Kathy Swift...

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Caring for Cattle Around the US, Conversation with Ryan Goodman (Episode 305 Grounded by the Farm Podcast Transcript)

December 28, 2021
Tagged as: transcript

Caring for cattle has some differences depending on the area you are in. The terrain can be so different and the amount of grass and rainfall differs too. That’s what we discuss with cattle care...

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Meredith Bernard Talks About Farming & Her “This Farm Wife” YouTube Channel (Episode 304 Grounded by the Farm Podcast Transcript)

December 15, 2021

We talk with Meredith Bernard about living in an area where all your neighbors have four legs and sharing that with the world, one person at a time through her YouTube channel. Get the audio,...

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Patty Leonard Talks Urban Sprawl & Resulting Impacts on a Family Farm (Episode 303 Grounded by the Farm Podcast Transcript)

December 1, 2021
Tagged as: dairy, Virginia

We talk urban sprawl’s impacts on the family farm with Patty Leonard this week. Get the audio, see photos, show notes, etc on this episode at Agrotainment Ends Up the Happy Ending to Challenges with...

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