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How Our Family Holiday Food Traditions Have Shifted: A Conversation with My Mom

November 30, 2022
Tagged as: holidays

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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Holiday Foods and Traditions: Stories from Listeners & Friends

November 16, 2022
Tagged as: holidays

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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Life Beside a Cranberry Marsh: Smoothies, Ecology and a Cran-Baby (Updated)

November 2, 2022
Tagged as: cranberries, holidays, wisconsin

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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Pumpkin Patch & the Passing of Time Means We Need An Update

October 19, 2022
Tagged as: holidays, iowa, pumpkin

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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Beekeeping and Building Leadership Skills at Sankofa Farms

October 5, 2022
Tagged as: honey, pollinators, sugar, vegetables

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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Foraging Pawpaws, Fruit Farming and Making Fruit Leather in Funk’s Grove

September 21, 2022
Tagged as: fruit, Illinois

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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Finding Environmental Common Ground: Dairy & Nature

September 7, 2022
Tagged as: dairy, Missouri

Common ground is a phrase that is said less frequently these days, and environmental common ground isn’t what everyone expects happens when environmental scientists and farmers sit down together. But maybe we should. The health…

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Growing Dates: Coachella’s Longest Running Jam Session

August 24, 2022
Tagged as: california, fruit

Not many of us look at palm trees and immediately think of growing dates and yet, this episode may change that for you! Palm trees are usually on beaches, so seeing acres of them in...

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Called to Live the Cheese Life, Interview with a Cheesemonger

August 10, 2022
Tagged as: arkansas, dairy

There are titles that go almost unnoticed, but being a cheesemonger definitely stands out! It took a long time but eventually, I met a cheesemonger. That cheesemonger, Jessica Keahey (founder of Sweet Freedom Cheese in...

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A Tale of Two Dairies: Visiting Two Dairy Farms & Talking Similarities & Differences

July 27, 2022
Tagged as: dairy, oklahoma, protein

Maybe it started with PBS as a kid, but I love to compare and contrast things. So when the team at Midwest Dairy recently asked if I would like to see two different dairy farms...

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My Brother’s Farm Co-op: Two Decades of Food Self-Sufficiency & Community

July 13, 2022
Tagged as: chickens, lamb, Ohio, pork, vegetables

I frequently hear people talk about the goal of being self-sufficient with their food production. Ask yourself though, do you see people do it? Well, for two decades I’ve had a front row to watch...

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Talking Pasture-to-Table Lamb with Ohio’s Kristin Root Patterson

June 29, 2022
Tagged as: lamb, Ohio, protein

The unique taste of lamb draws me in almost every time its on a menu and I think pasture-to-table lamb is something everyone should try. The Mediterranean flavors just aren’t the same without lamb. That’s...

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