Ep 030 Farm Aid 2018: Founders, Farming, Fortitude and the Mellencamp Bleep
It has been a year now since we went to Farm Aid 2018 in Hartford, Connecticut, and our feet are just now recovering. For those of you who have wondered what it may have been like, we thought w...
30 Sep 20191h 13min
Ep 029 Donkey Welfare Symposium - A Wild Ass Weekend
And that's not the last time you'll hear those two words together, when you listen to the podcast. Maybe I'm purposely misdirecting you, as the wild ass was the origin of the breed we now know as the...
23 Sep 201957min
Ep 028 The Heirloom Expo: Seed Swaps, Seed Shops, Chicken Talks and the Amazing Tower of Squash
The Heirloom Expo. For a while now, this event has been held in Santa Rosa in the heart of a big community of artsy, crunchy, healthy people that like good food (and good wine, as all of you wh...
16 Sep 201948min
Ep 027 The Ligos, LiTerra Farms, and Pasture Perfect Beef. And one of the best steaks ever. We mean EVER!
Where we learned that Pennsylvania is not only the home of Penn State, but it has green pastures, wonderfully gracious and generous people, and steak to die for (sigh). Dirt that made you want to tak...
9 Sep 20191h 23min
Ep 026 Temple Grandin. Not Just Outside the Box - She Redesigned the Damn Thing (for cattle, anyway)
Temple Grandin is one of the most well-known and professionally-respected names in livestock production today, and has become a pop-culture icon. And for good reason. You might know many things ...
2 Sep 201930min
Ep 025 Sunny Hill Farm and the Great Yak Butter Tea Incident
Yak Butter Tea -- Three words you never thought would go in a sentence together. And they do, albeit briefly, in this episode of the podcast. We visit the National Western Stock Show in Denver...
26 Aug 201940min
Ep 024 The Shockey's, Probiotic Invaders, and the Case of the Strangely Dead Pickle
Our food is alive - or can be. And it's often better for us if it is alive, as the popular rise of probiotics has shown. Science is now discovering that the human microbiome is an amazing place, and...
19 Aug 20191h 21min
Ep 023 Bide a Wee Farm and the Wildest Sheep Yet!
Of all the sheep we have seen, this one has to be the most unusual. With bold spots and two horns or four (varied shapes, but reaching up toward the sky on the top set, curling in loops on the bottom...
12 Aug 201953min
