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Fresh Mushrooms for the Middle of the Country

• February 19, 2020
• Tagged as: mushrooms, oklahoma, vegetables

As a child, I remember mushrooms usually being in cans or bottles — never fresh mushrooms. But today most US farmers grow for the fresh market. It was a shift that really started in the…

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How Americans Love of Spicy Food Gave Specialty Peppers Room to Grow

• February 5, 2020
• Tagged as: food waste, North Carolina, peppers, vegetables

Peppers are a food that spark a lot of passion and nowhere is that more clear than with Bailey Farms. Randy Bailey started the farm in Oxford, NC as a young adult knowing how much…

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Ever met a beer farmer? That malted barley has to start somewhere!

• January 21, 2020
• Tagged as: barley, beer, tennessee

He never thought he’d be a beer farmer but Brandon Whitt says Batey Farms welcomed the new spin on the centuries old farm. He says the motto is “preserving the past and embracing the future”...

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Crafting a Beer that Has a Depth of Local Flavor & Connecting to Farmers

• January 21, 2020
• Tagged as: barley, beer, tennessee

As Christian Spears and the Tennessee Brew Works team began getting their new craft brewery together, they reached out to the Department of Agriculture to see what the ag department may know that could be…

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The Sweetness that is Candied Pecans with Trish and Brian McKeighen

• January 7, 2020
• Tagged as: Arizona, pecans

As our video post earlier in the week showed, Trish and Brian McKeighen purchased a farm in Saint David, Arizona that had a dozen pecan trees. The couple used Brian’s baking knowledge to create new...

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What makes Virginia hams so legendary? DeeDee Darden explains her family’s traditions

• December 24, 2019
• Tagged as: Ham, Virginia

This interview with Virginia farmer and ham expert, DeeDee Darden takes place in Smithfield, Virginia where the family raises cotton & corn and maintains the family smokehouse where they salt cure hams the way it...

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Red & white crawfish? Who knew? A conversation with Bill & Janice Cheek

• December 11, 2019
• Tagged as: crawfish, Lousiana

This is a conversation with crawfish farmers Bill & Janice Cheek at Stelly’s Restaurant in Lebeau, Louisiana. We talk about the important things like crawfish, crawdads and mudbugs as lingo…. but seriously, we talked about...

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Popcorn… family legacy and local future

• December 11, 2019
• Tagged as: Illinois, Missouri, popcorn

In this episode, we talk popcorn with Matt Helms who is returning to his family farm part-time as he starts a popcorn business serving customers in the St. Louis local area and online. With a...

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How I Got Here & A Convo with Mr. Ray Young (The First Farmer I Interviewed)

• December 11, 2019

This bonus episodes provides a bit of background on the show’s host Janice Person, the way she got into agriculture and memories of a first farmer interview decades ago. As the launch of the show...

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Growing Lettuce Farming, Food and Family with Jon Dinsmore

• December 11, 2019
• Tagged as: Arizona, lettuce

Jonathan Dinsmore farms with his father in Yuma, Arizona. They’ve been growing lettuce for decades already. Dinsmore Farms produces head lettuce (iceberg lettuce), fresh romaine and romaine hearts, red & green leaf mixed lettuce and...

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