FarmHouse

This week on the FarmHouse it's time to say goodbye for now and reflect on what we've learned from the amazing women we've been so lucky to talk with on this podcast. We've spoken with roughly 80 women over the course of this show. They've ranged from farmers to educators, policymakers to influencers, but they all had one thing in common: They cared about agriculture. At the end of every interview...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we speak with Julie Schroeder of Open Road Ranch. Schroeder started her Greenbush, Wisconsin, farm in 2024. She began raising lamb because she saw opportunity in her local market. "We've had great luck and love working with sheep and lamb," Schroeder said. "It's been really good for an entry-level farmer." Not long after starting her farm...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with  Olivia Morrissey , the 2026 Pennsylvania Fair Queen. Morrissey, of the Lebanon Area Fair, was crowned state queen Jan. 24 during a competition with 64 other young women. "I was so honored to be chosen," Morrissey said. "There were a lot of qualified women there and it was great to meet all of them. It was definitely a...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Beth Hoffman, author of " Bet the Farm ." Before coming to farming, Hoffman worked as a journalist covering food systems and agriculture. She's also worked as an Associate Professor for the University of San Francisco. When she and her husband got the opportunity to move to his family's cattle farm in Iowa and begin fa...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Audra Mulkern, the creator of " Women's Work ," a documentary about the history of women in agriculture in the U.S. "Women's Work" chronicles women's roles and contributions to American agriculture starting with Indigenous farming practices and ending in the present day. Along the way, Mulkern explores the stories of w...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Megan Bogle, the owner of  True North Farmstead  in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Bogle raises East Friesian/Lacuane crossbreed sheep for dairy products, meat and fiber. She and her husband started True North after moving out of Philadelphia and into the country where they developed an interest in sheep farming. Their shi...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Lauren Sattazahn, a commercial apiarist. Sattazahn and her husband John Tittle own Tittle Apiaries in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The apiary has about 2,000 hives and makes a variety of honey as well as beeswax products. Additionally, Tittle Apiaries offers pollination services for farmers. "When we have larger crops...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lulu Redder, the owner of  Feral Woman Farm  in North Bend, Washington. Feral Woman Farm is a pastured pig and chicken operation located within a historic farm park. The land is publicly owned and offers trails and play areas as well as a farmstead. This means the farm gets plenty of visitors, offering Redder an opportunity...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Annie Hasz of Broadwing Farm. The Berks County, Pennsylvania, farm started in vegetable production but now focuses on grass-fed lamb for meat and pelts. Hasz also co-runs Rooted Home Herbalism, an annual eight-month course that teaches growing and using herbs. "We achieved our original dream and we grew loads of produce. We...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lindsay Eshelman of Plow Farms. Eshelman grew up on the Plowville, Pennsylvania, farm that specializes in Christmas trees, and while she still does work with the farm today, she spends much of her time living in New York City. "I'm kind of the leading voice in PR and marketing, and more importantly experience," Eshelman said...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Julia Inslee, owner of Locust Hollow Farm in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Inslee has lived on the farm since her parents purchased the property in the late 1970s. At the time, it was home to a farmhouse, a few rundown barns and several acres of untended land. Over the next few decades, Inslee's family transformed the proper...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Brittany Peachey, the aquaculture operations manager at  Hudson Valley Fisheries  in Hudson, New York. Peachey's interest in aquaculture was born from an aquatic biology class in college. After earning her master's degree in aquaculture nutrition, she came to work at Hudson Valley Fisheries, a fish farm that specializes i...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're ushering in the holiday season with a special seasonal episode featuring an interview with Kelly Piccioni, Penn State's Christmas tree-focused Extension educator. Piccioni comes from a family with roots in selling Christmas trees. Her great-grandfather began selling trees he bought off the Orange Car—a railway-side produce stand tha...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Denise Bosworth of Rohrbach's Farm. Bosworth is part of the farm's fourth generation and runs the farm market in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Bosworth and her husband, Dan, returned to the farm in 2013 to begin a new culinary venture, Big Dan's BBQ. In 2015, Bosworth officially took over the farm market portion of th...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Casey Wisch, co-owner of  Long Stone Farm  in Lovettsville, Virginia. Wisch's interest in farming began in college. After graduating, she spent time in New Zealand and Australia where she first encountered permaculture and experienced being part of an agricultural community. When she returned to the U.S., she and her now...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're honoring the voices of farmers as we celebrate our 70th anniversary. This special podcast episode will feature a variety of voices from farmers and ag industry members who stopped by our pop-up recording studio at this year's  Ag Progress Days . You'll hear voices of all ages — from a recent college graduate working her first job in...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're returning to the haunted farmhouse for some seasonal fun and spine-tingling tales from the farm. In this episode, we'll be sharing four spooky stories that take place on farms or in rural communities because, let's face it, scary stories from the city just don't have quite the same chilling effect as those set out in the country. Fo...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Katelyn Melvin, owner of Katydid Hill Farm . Melvin grows herbs and makes her own herbal tea blends in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. Her journey into herb farming started by growing herbs in high school. She later worked on a few vegetable farms and decided to take on farming full time. The farm grows multiple acres of he...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Tonya Van Slyke, the longtime executive director of the  Northeast Dairy Producers Association . Van Slyke grew up on her family's 250-cow dairy farm in New York. "I think my quest to be a leader in the industry came from my involvement in both 4-H and FFA," she said. "That's really where my desire to utilize my voice a...

This week on the FarmHouse, we're talking to Cathryn Pugh, a forestry educator with Penn State Extension. Pugh specializes in agroforestry, nontimber forest products and native plants. She is also the president of the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society. There are five main aspects of agroforestry: silvopasture, alley cropping, windbreaks, riparian buffers and forest farming. "Agroforestry can fit i...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Aubrey Fornwalt, the founder and owner of  Full Circle Bioconversion  in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Full Circle uses black soldier flies to convert food waste from the surrounding community into manure and compost. Fornwalt also sells the black soldier fly larvae as feed to poultry operations. It's the first bioconvers...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Heidi Reed, an agronomy educator with Penn State Extension. Reed was recently part of a crop conditions tour across the state, and this year's corn and soybean yields are looking average to below average, mainly due the dry conditions. "Unless somebody has an irrigated field, I don't think any yield records are going to b...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Kathy Smith, the program director for the Ohio Woodland Stewards Program at Ohio State University. Smith knew early on that she wanted to work outside and was interested in natural resource management. Forestry felt like a natural fit. "I appreciate being able to understand the trees and how we can utilize trees to solv...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Wendy Powers, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland. Powers is the first woman to serve in the role, effective July 1. She didn't grow up in agriculture, but her undergrad experience at Cornell University made her interested in the field. Since then, Powers has studied an...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Yemi Amu, the founder and director of  Oko Farms , an outdoor aquaponics farm and education center in Brooklyn, New York. Amu is originally from Nigeria and belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group. Her Yoruba roots have influenced much of her work in the U.S., from the name of her operation to the style of farming. Oko is a...