March 20, 2022
Ep. 1.12 Jenn Colby on Leadership, Introverts, and Being a Real Farmer
“It feels scary to work with a dangerous animal, but it's within our wheelhouse. To do something that is unknown--to reach out, to ask for help, to admit we don't know--to go into that sort of dark place outside of our circle...
March 12, 2022
Ep. 1.11 Jesse McDougall Part 2
“I think that climate change, and the collapse of so many of our ecological systems is the pressure that's going to push human evolution into a new phase. And I think that has to be the story. “ Part 2 of my conversation with...
March 6, 2022
Ep. 1.10 Jesse McDougall Part 1
“It was the next generation for the farm…and so it came to [my wife] Cally or nobody. And we thought, well, hell, we might be better than nobody. So we raised our hand and said, “Let us give it a shot.” Jesse McDougall had ne...
Feb. 19, 2022
Ep. 1.8 Kristen Judkins
“So I went around on the farm tour and I went to check out all their barns and I spent like eight weeks almost every day going to visit somebody, talking about their sheep. Going from barn to barn I realized, ‘Oh, everybody d...
Jan. 29, 2022
Ep 1.5 Jinny Hardy Cleland
“Problem solvers make the best farmers. If you’re not a problem solver, it makes your farming life so much harder.” I’ve known Jinny Cleland of Four Springs Farm in Royalton, Vermont for more than 20 years, which is about hal...
Jan. 22, 2022
Ep 1.4 Matt Skoglund
On first thinking about ranching bison, Matt said he thought “I’m a kid from suburban Chicago, I could never do that.” And then he went on with his day. As he describes it, “I didn’t entertain the thought of it, really. But t...
Jan. 15, 2022
Ep. 1.3 Chris & Jenn Talk Farmer/Non-Farmer
“People who don’t farm don’t realize how much it really governs what you can and can not do with the construct of your lives. Unless you’ve got the systems in place to manage that stuff.”—Chris Sargent When I had the idea to ...
Jan. 8, 2022
Ep. 1.2 Randy & Lisa Robar
“Yeah, neither Lisa or I grew up on a farm. So this is all new. This was not in our plans. I was chasing the corporate ladder. She was a public-school teacher. Then we started to look into food, which is a spiral. A downward ...