Grounded by the Farm

There have been a lot of things happening in America's food system over the past few weeks and while we have talked about some elements in various episodes so far, the big picture still is a question for many. That led YouTuber Kay Johnson of Happy Trails Hiking to take a different spin on her live Foodie Friday show. This week's podcast is the bulk of that interview. We discuss some of the variou...

Natasha Nicholes has been building a community garden & the community that inspires more people to grow food in their backyard for years. She started locally, growing a efw plants at a condo and grew to a backyard before getting permission to plant lots on Chicago's South Side & online. Her community lives the moniker "We Sow We Grow" meeting gardeners where they are and seeing all celebrate each...

The search for the perfect avocado is a search many of us have been on. But avocado farmers like Mimi Holtz, who is known simply as Mimi Avocado online, know what to look for and what impacts the tasty goodness we all crave. Listen as she shares favorite recipes, some of the everyday ways the Holtz family enjoys avocados, insight on how the crop is grown and tips for delighting kids.  Links mentio...

A detailed transcript and photos are available at   http://groundedbythefarm.com/enough-food/ .  Links for this episode are at the bottom of the list of timecodes, etc.  Val Wagner and her husband Mark farm and raise a family of four boys in Monango, North Dakota. We talk with her about how they plan for and store food for a family that size as well as a bit about the crops and livestock they rais...

Links mentioned during this episode: Previous episode talking steaks, burgers, types of cattle and animal use/waste https://groundedbythefarm.com/picking-out-steaks-under-appreciated-cuts-of-beef-part-1-feutz/ Video of Marybeth with the cows talking about feed https://groundedbythefarm.com/beef-cattle-farmer-veterinarian/ Marybeth's website is myfearlesskitchen.com easy recipes you can make at hom...

Links: Video of Marybeth talking about the cows, their feed, etc. https://groundedbythefarm.com/beef-cattle-farmer-veterinarian/ Marybeth's blog myfearlesskitchen.com This episode of Grounded by the Farm takes a bit of a different path as Marybeth Feutz discusses beef and her Indiana cow-calf operation with us. One of those differences was planned — rather than ask questions I had, I asked several...

Interview with Scott Engelbrecht, J-M Farms Mushrooms    Key Links:   Video from a tour inside J-M Farms https://groundedbythefarm.com/mushroom-farm/ JP's first visit to J-M https://jploveslife.com/food/mushroom-farm/ and answering a lot of questions about mushrooms https://jploveslife.com/agriculture/growing-mushrooms/   Find J-M Farms online at https://www.jmfarms.com/ , on Instagram at https://...

Links:  Video of Bailey Farms peppers https://groundedbythefarm.com/pepper-farm/ Scoville scale:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale Bailey Farms website:   baileyfarmsinc.com Bailey Farms Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/baileyfarms/ Bailey Farms on Facebook Peppers are a food that spark a lot of passion and nowhere is that more clear than with Bailey Farms . Randy Bailey started...

Resources mentioned in this episode: Interview with Christian Spears (episode 107 issued at the same time as a bonus episode) Video from inside the brewery & on the farm https://groundedbythefarm.com/craft-beer-tennessee-brew/ Popcorn episode (Grounded by the Farm #102) https://groundedbythefarm.com/growing-popcorn/ Finding Batey Farms online: Instagram BateyFarms1807 https://www.instagram.com/bat...

Resources mentioned in this episode: Interview with Brandon Whitt, Batey Farms (episode 106) Video from inside the brewery & on the farm https://groundedbythefarm.com/craft-beer-tennessee-brew/ crawfish episode https://groundedbythefarm.com/crawfish/ Video of TNBrew Works https://www.facebook.com/tnbrew/videos/369475823833814/ Finding Tennessee Brew Works online: Brewery website:   https://www.tnb...

You can see video of the farm at https://groundedbythefarm.com/trish-brian-mckeighen/ Belenus Farms Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/BelenusFarms/ Trish and Brian McKeighen purchased a farm in Saint David, Arizona that had a dozen pecan trees. The couple used Brian's baking knowledge to create new recipes for candied pecans including a local flavor called Mexican chocolate.  For Trish and...

This interview with Virginia farmer and ham expert, DeeDee Darden takes place in Smithfield, Virginia where the family raises cotton & corn and maintains the family smokehouse where they salt cure hams the way it was done decades ago.  She explains the almost year-long process of salt curing and smoking hams to get the color and taste that is so desirable. As well as some of the history around Vir...

This is a conversation with crawfish farmers Bill & Janice Cheek at Stelly's Restaurant in Lebeau, Louisiana. We talk about the important things like crawfish, crawdads and mudbugs as lingo.... but seriously, we talked about the red swamp crawfish & white species that are raised commercially and the difference between them and the small crawdads people see in creeks.  The programs at the LSU Ag Pr...

In this episode, we talk popcorn with Matt Helms who is returning to his family farm part-time as he starts a popcorn business serving customers in the St. Louis local area and online. With a family tradition of farming, Matt tells us he wanted to participate in that while still living in the city and working off farm as well. While he and his wife Michelle considered a few things, popcorn rose to...

This bonus episodes provides a bit of background on the show's host Janice Person, the way she got into agriculture and memories of a first farmer interview decades ago.  As the launch of the show began to near, it became clear that connecting back to Mr Ray Young -- the first farmer I (Janice) ever interviewed -- just seemed to make sense.  Mr Ray and his wife Mrs. Dorothy welcomed me into their...

More information available on GroundedbytheFarm.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2381122262203711/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/groundedbythefarm_/ Twitter https://twitter.com/groundedbythef Find Jonathan Dinsmore on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thefarmerjon/     Discussed in this podcast: Jonathan Dinsmore farms with his father in Yuma, Arizona. Dinsmore Farms produces h...

Grounded by the Farm is a new podcast featuring food conversations with farmers. Each interview will focus on a specific food and we will be talking with a farmer who produces that, learn the ways their crops get to market, ways they enjoy the crop with family and what it takes to grow the crop.  Because food is so visual, the website groundedbythefarm.com will include more than your typical show...