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June 2, 2021

Baked into the Market: How Bread Alone Pioneered an Organic Grain Mar…

Sharon Burns-Leader is the co-owner of Bread Alone, a pioneering organic bakery that sells its baked goods at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City. She serves on GrowNYC’s (the organization that oversees the market) ...

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May 6, 2021

Farmers in NYC: Union Square Greenmarket & How It Works (Episode 1)

A new series of episodes will feature the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City and the farmers and other producers who sell there. What an interesting combination — one of the biggest and most famous cities in the world ...

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April 9, 2021

How One Farm Revolutionized the Land, the Farm, and a Small Town By F…

Farmer Will Harris transformed his third generation family farm from a monoculture factory farm to a regenerative multi-species farm that is no longer dependent on commodity structures or industrial fertilizer. He learned a t...

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April 7, 2021

Five Live with Farmer Franchesca Duval of Alchemist Farm

Farmer Franchesca Duval of Alchemist Farm in Northern California is pioneering humane practices for poultry hatcheries. She is working with her community to make sure the rooster chicks are going to good use for food. She thi...

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March 24, 2021

Straight Talk with Mushroom Farmer Matt Hall of Midnight Harvest

Hold on to your mushroom caps, folks. We are going straight into the mushroom world today. Mushroom farmer Matt Hall really wears a scientist hat in his work growing Maitake and Shiitake mushrooms for restaurants and retail o...

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March 19, 2021

Five LIVE with Farmer Nicole Vernon of Vernon Family Farm

Meet farmer Nicole Vernon of Vernon Family Farm in Newfields, New Hampshire where she and her husband, Jeremiah, are raising pastured meats and three young daughters. The Vernons produce 20,000 pastured hens a year and that i...

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March 10, 2021

Straight Talk with Goat Farmer Maria Stewart of Gorgeous Goat Creamery

Maria Stewart is a dairy goat farmer. At Gorgeous Goat Creamery she processes her goats' milk, makes cheese and soap. She sells her products off the farm and at seasonal farmers markets. She welcomes visitors for farm tours. ...

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March 4, 2021

Straight Talk with Vegetable Farmer and Beekeeper Kamal Bell of Sanko…

Farmer Kamal Bell and your host, Farm Girl, go back in history to Kamal's farming roots and look forward into what could be. Instead of food deserts and discrimination, a more sustainable world where young people lead the cha...

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Feb. 22, 2021

Dairy Is Dying: When You Understand Federal Milk Marketing Orders You…

This episode is the first in a series of several about the dairy industry, dairy farmers and their bovine producers. It's a 101 of sorts. In this episode you'll meet a lifelong dairy farmer from New York state, Rich Dirie of ...

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Feb. 19, 2021

Five LIVE with Sam Lustig of Swanton Berry Farm

Meet Sam Lustig, a jack of all trades on the business side of Swanton Berry Farm in Santa Cruz, California. Sam talks drippy, sweet, red-in-the-middle strawberries, why it's important that they are organic and why it's just a...

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Feb. 16, 2021

Five Live with Vegetable (+ CBD) Farmer Ashton Zubal of Farmstock Farm

Meet vegetable and cannabis farmer Ashton Zubal of Farmstock Farm in Kingston, NY. Ashton dishes on working with friends (the not so good side!), growing 365 days a year, the challenges of finding a consistent marketplace (an...

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Feb. 8, 2021

A Bison Farm Pioneers Heritage Stock and Farming Practices in Tune wi…

It's a deeply American story. Two veterans raising American Bison. Join your host, Farm Girl, in a spirited conversation with Liz about her majestic herd, how her service prepared her for farming, her seriously straight talk ...

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Feb. 3, 2021

Five LIVE with Pig Farmer Jessica Kirksey of Little D's Farm

Meet Kune Kune pig farmer Jessica Kirksey of Little D's Farm in Grand Saline, Texas. Jessica dishes on pig breeds, breeding, harvesting, pig personalities and more. She really knows her stuff and shares her passion for pork! ...

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Jan. 27, 2021

Five LIVE with Sheep Farmer Joe Evans of Evans & Evans Farm

Meet Welsh sheep farmer Joe Evans who, together with his wife, raises sheep and lamb in the hills of Andes, NY. Joe tells us about the best and worst of farming, how to sequester carbon through rotational grazing, what miscon...

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Jan. 26, 2021

Five LIVE with Dairy Farmer Kyle Clark of Clark Dairy Farms

Meet 5th generation dairy farmer Kyle Clark who farms dairy in Delhi, New York with his father and with wisdom from his grandfather. Kyle dishes on working with family, feeding cows, taking care of the land, starting a creame...

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May 22, 2020

Dairy in Crisis: The Fact That Big Is Fragile Is No Laughing Matter w…

Dairy farmers are dumping milk. Do you know why? In this episode we meet two dairy farmers -- from Wisconsin and Florida -- to explore the root causes of the dairy crisis and to find out what we can do about it. Along the way...

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May 7, 2020

Food Insecurity Is Not Just a Pandemic Issue with Regenerative Farmin…

Farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm -- the gold standard in sustainable agriculture -- dishes on what's wrong with big business farms, supermarket supply chains and what's right with small entrepreneurial farms. Find out wha...

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April 23, 2020

Who Helps Farmers When Farmers Help Us?

Farmers are working overtime to connect with new markets. They are altering business practices. They are also heading into their busiest growing and harvesting season. On top of all that, they need help. They are struggling a...

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April 9, 2020

CSAs & Homesteading Surge During COVID

Food insecurity as a result of COVID has spurred folks to hoard supplies and food. But it's also had another effect. Consumers are scrambling to get into a local farm share. They are planting gardens of their own, raising chi...

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March 27, 2020

Essential Personnel - Six Farmers from Across the US Talk COVID-19

Six farmers from across the US discuss how they are responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic in their local communities. Their work has been deemed essential and their observations on what's needed going forward are insight...

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March 12, 2020

Where Fishing Begins: A Family Trout Hatchery Casts Far and Wide -- w…

You will barely believe what happens on this fish farm -- from fish breeding to how far all the fish go. The Beaverkill Trout Hatchery is a mecca of trout and a holy place for fly fisherpersons the world over. Five generation...

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Feb. 27, 2020

A $50 Lamb Dinner Signals How Important Good Farming Is -- with Farme…

Meet Mr. & Mrs. Sheepfarmer, aka Joe and Jackie Evans, their border collies and their Farm Manager Sam Scott. Running a sheep farm means you are part shepherd, part grass farmer, part OBGYN, part veterinarian, part salesperso...

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Feb. 6, 2020

A Goat Farm on Main Street - Dirty Girl Farm

Dirty Girl Farm is a small goat dairy and creamery that is unusual in that it is located IN TOWN. Funny things happen if you have goats and farmers Cyndi Wright and Lester Bourke tell all! 20 minutes One Bite is Everything is...

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Jan. 23, 2020

A Switch to Microgreens - Agrarian Feast

Meet farmers Vincent Cuneo and Luke Snobeck of Agrarian Feast and join them on their journey to create a USDA Organic farm that currently features delicious micro greens. Meet some of the characters responsible for their succ...

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