FarmHouse

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with Christine Smart, the director of Cornell AgriTech. Smart studies plant pathology and disease control at Cornell University's center for agriculture and food research, and she works with farmers across New York to develop disease management options. Much of Smart's work utilizes agricultural intelligence, which blends ar...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Melissa Nelson Baldwin, the owner of  Performance Crop Research, LLC  and co-owner of  South Bend Industrial Hemp . Nelson Baldwin grew up in Kansas in a family of farmers and spent her youth participating in 4-H horse shows and advocating for agriculture in various student organizations. Her passion for farming drove her...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking with a familiar name to our readers,  Sue Bowman . Bowman has a cow-calf farm in Lebanon County and has been writing for Lancaster Farming for 20-plus years. Bowman's farm has been in her family since the early 1890s, and is in a unique spot in the county, with most of the 106 acres located within the borough of Cleona. Due...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're having some seasonal fun and embracing the spooky side of farming. What is it about rural locations, including farms, that make them the perfect settings for ghost stories? Let's face it, scary stories from the city don't have quite the same effect as those that take place on an isolated piece of property where the nights are darker...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Amanda Bennett, an agriculture and natural resources educator with Ohio State Extension. Bennett, who grew up on a grain farm, specializes in raised bed gardening, native plant landscaping,  hydroponics  as well as beekeeping. Working as an Extension educator means Bennett gets to be a life-long learner, as you never know...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're joined by Lindsey Shapiro, a vegetable farmer from Bally, Pennsylvania, and the Farm Bill campaign organizer for Pasa Sustainable Agriculture. Shapiro is a first-generation farmer who discovered her passion for agriculture while helping her husband's family on their urban farm in Philadelphia. "I was just so enamored with the tangib...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're keeping it all in the family with a roundtable episode featuring some of the women who work at Lancaster Farming. Joining co-hosts Candice Wierzbowski and Stephanie Speicher from the editorial department are Kelly Thomas and Rebecca Schweitzer-Benner, and from the advertising department are Brittany Copenhaver and Torey Shotzberger....

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're joined by  Katie Dotterer  who uses her company  AgvoKate  to advocate for agriculture while also teaching farmers Spanish to improve on-farm communication. Dotterer grew up on a  dairy farm in Clinton County , Pennsylvania. As a young woman milking alongside Spanish-speaking farmworkers, she developed a passion for Spanish and enjo...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're joined by Katie Speicher, the assistant farm manager for  Poughkeepsie Farm Project , a nonprofit seeking to foster an inclusive environment for its community while improving food access and education. PFP began as a sustainable produce farming operation in 1999. Since then it has grown from 3 to 12 acres with an over 300-member-str...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're joined by Jennifer Anderson, executive director for  Trellis For Tomorrow . Trellis For Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, that works toward building sustainable communities with a focus on food justice and teaching community members how to garden and grow their own produce. "The work that we do is r...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're joined by Heidi Secord. Secord is the first woman to serve as Pennsylvania's executive director of the  USDA's Farm Service Agency . Additionally, Secord and her husband own and operate the Josie Porter Farm, a diversified vegetable operation in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The farm operates a CSA, which began with 45 members and ha...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Emmalea Ernest, a fruit and vegetable specialist with University of Delaware Extension. Ernest's areas of expertise include lima bean breeding and production, and heat stress tolerance. "Delaware is one of the few places in the United States where we have a lot of lima bean production," Ernest said. Ernest, along with oth...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Ashley Asdal, owner of  Riamede Farms , a pick-your-own apple orchard in Chester, New Jersey. Riamede has been in operation since the 1930s and opened its pick-your-own business in 1974, making it one of the first pick-your-own orchards in the state. Many of Riamede's fruiting trees were planted during the farm's early da...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Sophie Brauns. She coordinates Maryland Market Money, a program run by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission and the Maryland Department of Agriculture that provides a dollar-for-dollar match, up to $30, for purchases made using federal nutrition benefits at farmers markets and farm stands throughout t...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Annaliese Wegner of  Modern Day Farm Chick , an online platform Wegner uses to connect with other women in ag and to educate consumers about farming. Wegner grew up on a farm and now runs a dairy with her husband where they milk 600 cows. For a time, Wegner worked side by side with her husband and felt satisfied in her ro...

The FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, is back this week and keeping it in the family. This week's episode features Melissa Harrop, our markets editor here at Lancaster Farming. Harrop and her husband farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She is also active in the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and is an Army veteran. After serving in the Army for four years, Harrop was medically discharged. How...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we welcomed in royalty. Pennsylvania Dairy Princess  Alexis "Lexi" Butler  and state alternate dairy princesses Emily Wright and Mackenzie Thomas joined us on the podcast to celebrate June Dairy Month. "We have a great message to get out, and that message is milk is good for you and drinking milk supports the awesome people in the dairy i...

This week on FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're speaking with Emily Schaapman, founder of  Dairy Girl Fitness , an online coaching service dedicated to boosting women's health and confidence. Dairy Girl Fitness focuses on empowering women to prioritize their well-being in ways that are both effective and fun. "It's really fun watching women feel more comfortable in their bodies and l...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking all things floral with Liza Goetz, owner of  Wildly Native Flower Farm  in Kent County, Maryland. Wildly Native is both a flower farm and florist. Goetz takes on the growing of the flowers, while her daughter Lizzie handles the flower arranging. And if it weren't for Lizzie, the flower farm may not have ever taken off. Goetz...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're welcoming in Jayne Sebright. Sebright is the executive director of the  Center for Dairy Excellence  and the Dairy Excellence Foundation, two Pennsylvania-based organizations dedicated to supporting dairy farms. "The center is focused on today. We focus on resources, programming and grants that can help our farmers and our industry...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're welcoming in Jane Kaminski. Kaminski, along with her husband, operates  John-Paul's Farm  in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where they grow vegetables, small grains and hay, as well as raising laying hens. Kaminski is also a Land Advocacy Fellow with the  National Young Farmers Coalition . While she had agricultural experiences growi...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we're talking to Lacie Evans, a beef cattle farmer and social media influencer whose videos about life with her cows have attracted 2.5 million followers on  TikTok  and over 600,000 followers on  Instagram . Evans' ag journey began with youth beef cattle showing. After aging out, she turned to breeding cattle for children interested in s...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we welcome Christa Barfield, a Philadelphia-based produce farmer who owns FarmerJawn , the largest Black woman-owned regenerative organic produce farm in the U.S. Barfield farms 128-acres in multiple locations in and around the city. The farm's focus is on five key areas: production, access, education, awareness and lifestyle. "It really...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we talk with Laura Zoeller, owner of a calf-cow operation in Western Pennsylvania. Zoeller's road to farming has been an emotional one with unexpected twists and turns. She grew up on a dairy farm, but said she truly got into agriculture after meeting her late husband, a calf-cow farmer, with whom she had two daughters and a son. Througho...

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we talk with Sarah Mitchell, an industrial hemp sales specialist with King's AgriSeeds. Mitchell initially studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin and worked in the greenhouse industry. Working with  industrial hemp  farmers was new for her, but the industry has turned out to be a good fit. "Really, we're at the birth of a bran...