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Going All In on All Things Sheep-ish This Week

September 1, 2020
Tagged as: lamb, meat, protein, sheep

As school started and our summer intern returned to classes, I recorded this week’s episode and had an unexpected opportunity to work with a former colleague again. And it all comes together with sheep. Stick...

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Food

The Right Way to Cut a Watermelon? A Watermelon Knife?

August 3, 2020
Tagged as: Florida, food prep, fruit, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, watermelon

Watermelon, the fruit of summer, no matter how you slice and dice them, they are always refreshing! But have you ever thought to yourself, I need a watermelon knife for all that slicing and dicing?...

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Farm Basics

Different Types of Farm Tours & How to Take One

July 21, 2020
Tagged as: dairy, farm tour, indiana, New Jersey, pork, spinach, Virginia, wheat

Have you ever been on a farm tour? If so, what stood out for you? I will say I have been on a lot and they seem to range dramatically. What farmers call a farm...

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Animal Crossing farming? Yep. Reality & Dreams At Play

July 21, 2020
Tagged as: pop culture

About a dozen members of my family have enjoyed playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) this summer. I do a bit Animal Crossing farming a bit while others bring their passions for sports teams, cooking,...

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Checking out Almond Trees on California Farm Visits

June 24, 2020
Tagged as: almonds, california, nuts, protein

Almond trees weren’t part of my world growing up. The latest episode of Grounded by the Farm, I talk with Dino Giacomazzi about growing almonds and his family’s new business with flavored almonds. When I...

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Rice Recipes that Will Fill You Up and Make you Smile

June 11, 2020
Tagged as: grain, recipes, rice

Since we are talking with rice farmer Matthew Sligar this week, we wanted to make sure you knew how to make good use of some of that rice you have in the kitchen! Don’t forget,...

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Learning About Growing Rice from a Children’s Book

June 9, 2020
Tagged as: california, grain, rice

This post includes an affiliate link for the book. Using and purchasing through that link may generate income for this site. As I prepared for the interview with Matthew Sligar of Rice Farming TV about...

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Wheat-Based Recipes You May Want to Give a Go

May 27, 2020
Tagged as: grain, recipes, wheat

As I talked with Michelle Jones about her family’s wheat farm, I craved all the wheat-based recipes and comfort foods. And with the way so many of us are accessing the food system differently, although...

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We Will Be Taking Things Up A Notch Thanks to a Summer Intern!

May 18, 2020

Grounded by the Farm is excited to announce a new team member for the summer. We bet you will notice the contributions of a summer intern will be noticed both here on the website and...

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Food

Mushroom Recipes You Will Love

May 11, 2020
Tagged as: mushrooms, recipes, vegetables

Last week my family had a funny conversation about mushrooms recipes. It immediately brought up the podcast conversation about mushrooms with Scott at J-M Farms. And I realized it was just a year ago that I...

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Food

Can my local butcher help with the shortage of meat now?

May 7, 2020
Tagged as: beef, meat, protein

As we have been discussing recently in various episodes and posts, the pandemic that we are all dealing with is causing complications for the food supply. And this week we are seeing grocery stores and...

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Tips on a Container Garden — What I Learned by Trying Containers

May 5, 2020
Tagged as: gardening, Missouri, vegetables

Interviewing Natasha Nicholes for this week’s episode talking about gardening reminded me about previous years of my container garden. This spring and my need to stay quarantined makes me wonder whether I will get much...

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