Ep 233 John Garcia: You’re In the Farming Now!

We’re starting off the podcast year on a beautifully sunny but slightly chilly day in Connecticut. Cam (Cameron) and Chip (Chester) Falkowski of C&C Back Achers Farm join us for a conversation about the wonderful combinations that can occur when you play with the ingredients a little. Scottish Highland and Belted Galloway Cattle, American Boer and Cashmere Goats (though they don’t mix the cattle and the goats – ha, ha), and multiple generations in this great family - all blend...

6 Jan 202250min

We are a little goofy at this time of the year. So, Elara and I put a little ditty together to start this week's episode off, but it's not about Jack and Diane. It'll go down as a classic. We look forward to bringing you more fun and exciting episodes from our adventures in the upcoming year, but we won't give up our day jobs. Happy New Year!! Support the show

30 Dec 20217min

We give you the Real Origin Story (so we’ve heard) of Santa’s sled, and the valiant beasts that pull it. Happy Holidays, everyone. Links: https://www.bing.com/search?q=A+Visit+from+St.+Nicholas&efirst=0&ecount=50&filters=tnTID%3a%2217C301C5-FC14-4bbc-A7A5-242874C90864%22+tnVersion%3a%224371033%22+Segment%3a%22popularnow.carousel%22+tnCol%3a%2235%22+tnOrder%3a%22bc2683e4-dec3-4a71-9c65-e6f85ac2fa90%22&form=HPNN01 https://www.bing.com/search?q=‘A+Visit+from+St.+Nicholas’...

23 Dec 20217min

This week we would like to thank all of the farmers and ranchers who work so hard to bring food to our tables. Unfortunately most of the time these hard working people are not thanked enough. We all have stress with our jobs, but for many of us we don't have the added challenges of weather, trade embargoes, and how that's going to affect the price of their crops this year. While we were at the FFA National Show this year we had the opportunity to speak with Abby Heidenreich from the Pur...

15 Dec 202116min

We’re not taking you to church, but we are going to a monastery (you never thought we’d start a podcast with that one, I bet). Join us, as we talk to Mother Katherine at the Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery in Otego, New York. Join us, and over 50 sheep, 12 goats, 3 chickens, and a guardian dog. And Mother Katherine runs the whole livestock department, if you believe that. One of the most interesting people we’ve ever met. All that, and her fellow sisters knit a mean pair ...

8 Dec 202137min

We talked a month ago about the cost of that comfy sweater from the knitting side of things, but now we’re going to go back a little bit further. The Sheep itself (or goat, or llama, or…). But that’s not the only thing we need to trace in that regard. There’s the shepherd, which sprang into existence at the moment the sheep was domesticated. Our podcast today brings back Tammy White, of Wing and a Prayer Farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Little did anyone know, but a...

2 Dec 202123min

A thanks to all of our listeners, sponsors, and especially all of the people who bring food to our tables each day....The Farmers Links: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM25-lz1Yms https://www.theeisenberggroup.com/ https://www.dutchessfair.com/the-fairgrounds/all-events/new-york-state-sheep-wool-festival/ https://www.virtual.sheepandwool.com/41 Support the show

25 Nov 202119min

In this week's episode we sit down with Becky Serres, a retired employee of Ft. Robinson State Park in Crawford, Nebraska. We were at Ft. Robinson to film the Longhorn roundup and ran into Becky as she volunteered to saddle up her horse and help herd these 125 head of cattle to their winter pasture. The Ft. Robinson herd is one of the last few publicly-owned herds of the original style of longhorns remaining in the U.S., what we might call CTLR cattle. Besides the longhorn herd, there ...

17 Nov 202136min