Ep 031 Tom Watkins, Murray McMurray and the Free Exotic Chick
The free exotic chick. Well, doesn't that sound racy and exciting. It's actually one of our favorite live gameshows that you can play at home, brought to us by the people at Murray McMurray. In this snippet from our Heirloom Expo 2019 run in Santa Rosa last month, we have an impromptu conversation with Tom Watkins, VP of Murray McMurray. The podcast can't bring you the visuals, so you'll have to imagine the warmly welcome smile ...
7 Okt 201928min
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 we would give you a snippet of the experience. Our interviews, recorded live and uncut (somewhat uncut - it went ALL DAY LONG). We are giving you the introduction of the founders and their hellos, the overview of the purpose of the event, the wel...
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 domesticated donkey, but it's fun to say and makes me feel like a more exciting girl. That said... The Donkey Welfare Symposium. The recipe is like this: 1. 200 (plus) people passionate about donkeys, from both a professional and personal perspective. ...
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 who have been to Napa and Santa Rosa can attest). People from around the world come to swap seeds, listen to experts in the field, and find interesting new things to grow. If you go to their Facebook page, you'll find that the mission of the Heirlo...
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 take your shoes off and run wild. And Elara got to ride in the grain truck -- Rick the combine. Oh. Any by the way, there were big, beautiful, fluffy, majestic Scottish Highland Cattle in various colors everywhere -- one of our absolute favorite animals so far. As far as breeds go, ...
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 about her. She brought awareness to the general public of the issues relating to autism. She has such a great story that they made a movie out of her story (Claire Danes in the role). She is an author with numerous books to her credit.&nbs...
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, Colorado to meet up with Steve and Anita Hill, who hail from Sunny Hill Ranch, a self-sufficient farm specializing in raising yaks 100 wild miles outside of Anchorage, Alaska. At the show, we got to see these very hairy and very different anima...
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 that each human being is a world unto itself for the creatures that inhabit it. Even if the little critters do tell us how to think sometimes (yes, that's a real thing). Christopher and Kristen Shockey, fermentistas extraordinaire, sat down with u...
19 Aug 20191h 21min
