The Farm Report

It’s our second installment of the Jones Family Farm interview, and this time, Erin Fairbanks is talking to Jamie Jones in Shelton, Connecticut. Jamie Jones focused on Plant Science at Cornell University, and began the vineyard at the Jones Family Farm. Tune in to hear about Jamie’s experiences at Cornell, his beginnings in the vineyard, and the Jones Family Vineyard and Winery as it is today. Tun...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks chats with Terry Jones of Jones Family Farms in the White Hills in Shelton, Connecticut. Tune in to hear the history of this seven generation farm! The Jones Family Farms has grown everything from Christmas trees to wine grapes to Terry’s specialty- strawberries. Listen in to hear Terry’s opinions about seasonal eating, his involvement in the Working La...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks checks in with Laura De Maria of Hemlock Hill Farm in Cortland, New York. Tune in to hear what it’s like running a family farm in Westchester Country and what challenges come along with this location both culturally and geographically. Learn more about farm grants, processing and regulations that need to be considered on a small farm, and hear about the...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks checks in with Jeanne Hodesh of GrowNYC. Erin and Jeanne talk about all of the vegetables, cheeses, and meat that will be available at Greenmarkets throughout New York City. Tune in to hear about the some of the new spring garlic, how weather and time changes the taste of maple syrup, and the upcoming availability of goat cheeses and meats. Listen to Je...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks with Anthony Butler of St. John’s Bread and Life, an emergency food provider based out of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Tune in to hear Erin and Anthony discuss the importance of local and healthy food providers for poor and hungry populations, the problems with the food stamp program in New York City, and food education in the Bed Stuy community. Also, Ant...

On this week’s episode of The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is joined by Sherry Shaver of Beaverkill Trout Hatchery. Tune in as Erin continues her series of exploring farming in the Catskills and learn about Sherry’s fish farming operation and how she was introduced to this way of life through family tradition. Learn more about water quality, trout species, egg harvesting, and life as a fish farmer....

This week on the Farm Report host Erin Fairbanks talks with Ken Jaffe of Slope Farms Beef . Located in the hilly landscape of Catskills, Jeff and his wife Linda pasture raise a herd of all grass-fed cattle. Learn about how production in upstate New York has transitioned over the years from dairy production to cattle (there’s so much grass!) and why hydrofracking would be in fact quite destructive...

This week the Farm Report is abuzz with bees and honey. Joining host Erin Fairbanks is bee lover and owner of Catskill Provisions , Claire Marin, who imparts us with her encyclopedic knowledge of these creatures from mating habits, to how to start your own apiary, to why raw honey is best. Later on Adam Diehl, a maple syrup farmer who supplies Catskill Provisions, with his syrup tells us all about...

This week on the Farm Report get ready to meet Pat McLenithan of Cambridge Valley Livestock, the largest family-owned livestock auction house in New York state. He talks with host Erin Fairbanks about the ins-and-outs of how a livestock auction house works, from when the animal arrives to when it is sold on sale day and everything in between. Learn about why livestock buyers have some of the sharp...

If you are a farmer, a farm enthusiast, shop at farmers markets of just simply care where your food comes from, Real Time Farms is for you! Tune in to this week’s episode of The Farm Report as Erin Fairbanks sits down with the women behind the forward thinking website, Corrina Borden & Lindsay Partridge. Find out what The Food Warriors do and how you can help in their mission to help farmers a...

This week on the Farm Report we see the return of guest Jesse LaFlamme from Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs . Jesse goes in depth about why big agriculture has gone the way it has with sometimes over 600,000 hens being stuffed in cages in a single barn and why he chooses to keep his chickens cage-free and certified humane. Tune in to learn about the life cycle of chickens and their breeding and layi...

This week on The Farm Report host Erin Fairbanks talks with Ashley Bechman, a writer for the publication AgriNews of Illinois. They discuss how she is using her education in both communication and agriculture to cover topics that affect local farm families and their businesses. Tune in to learn about the importance of 4H and FFA as well as why sweet potatoes are actually completely different from...

This week on The Farm Report keeps it extra local with Maggie Cheney of EcoStation NY . They discuss the various local agriculture programs that she is helping run, from the Bushwick Farm Campus to educational programs on composting at schools in Brooklyn. Tune in to find out how you can join the fight for better agriculture education in New York through volunteerism or many other routes. This epi...

This week The Farm Report is pleased to welcome Jesse LaFlamme, head of Pete And Gerry’s Organic Eggs , the first Certified Humane egg farm in the country. Pete and Gerry’s is proving commercial farming and organic, humane, sustainable farming are not mutually exclusive. Pete and Gerry’s has realized consistent growth without becoming a factory farm. Jesse recruits small family farms as egg produc...

This week on The Farm Report host Erin Fairbanks sits down with Dennis Derryck, Tusha Yakovleva, and Sabrina Wilensky of Corbin Hill Farm , which is a for-profit social venture that is trying to re- imagine the relationship between communities, farmers, and investors. Their business model, called farm-sharing, is different than a CSA and allows them to reach out to low-income communities living in...

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This week The Farm Report trades in the pasture for a trip to the bakery that is the Hot Bread Kitchen. Host Erin Fairbanks sits down with Robin Burger, the business development manager of the Harlem-based non-profit social enterprise to explore how they are creating better lives for low-income women and their families by teaching them the skills necessary to launch food businesses and achieve man...

This week The Farm Report celebrates is 100th episode! Former co-host Heather Hyman calls in and in the studio current host Erin Fairbanks is joined by friend and policy specialist Monica Patel of the Ecology Center . Together the cover a broad range of important and current environmental issues from water rights, herbicides, and indoor air quality. Find out the truth about supposedly ‘clean coal’...

Goatober is almost over, but don’t be sad! You can still get your last goat fix on this week’s Farm Report. Host Erin Fairbanks talks with farmer Mark Guanzini and his wife Luce who run Highwood Farm up in Spencer, NY. Highwood Farm is also a participating goat farm in Heritage Foods USA ‘s No Goat Left Behind initiative. They talk about the daily life of raising a herd Boer meat goats from the da...

Certified Holistic Nutritionist Kristin Wartman joins the Farm Report with Erin Fairbanks today to bust some food myths and expose some of the evils of big industry agriculture and food. Find out what makes a healthy diet and hear about some of the common mistakes people make in trying to get healthy. Hear why Kristin thinks food and democracy go hand in hand and why all concerned foodies should b...

It’s Goatober and that means this week the Farm Report gives you the inside scoop on goats and the idea behind Heritage Food’s No Goat Left Behind program. From the differences between meat and dairy goats, goat nutrition, recipes, and herding Erin Fairbanks and tatiana Stanton, the goat extension specialist for NY state, will guide you on this encyclopedic episode. Learn how goat is being transfo...

This installment of The Farm Report brings the story of a city girl who traded it in for starting a farm on the Maine coast. Annemarie Ahearn started Salt Water Farm two years ago not only to grow and produce but to teach people the lost culinary arts; from how to properly pick herbs to making butter to pickling and preserving. Salt Water Farms now offers classes for everyone to learn these skills...

Allen Leibowitz of Zingerman’s re-joins The Farm Report with host Erin Fairbanks to talk more about coffee roasting. Learn how to be as thorough as possible when sourcing and buying coffee and find out why sample roasting is so important. Allen takes listeners on a journey through the process of roasting, and explains how coffee goes from bean to store to cup. Pro tip: coffee is best at its freshe...

This week The Farm Report goes behind the scene of the coffee growing business with Allen Leibowitz of Zingerman’s Coffee . Learn about all the different processes that it takes to get from coffee from the trees to the roasters and how the decisions growers, pickers, and producers make separates you big store brand coffee from more artisanal coffee. So tune in and the next time you go to pick up s...

This week the farm report goes local, real local with Bee Aer of BK Farmyards in Central Brooklyn where ecological horticulture is the name of the game. Ever wanted to raise chickens in the city? Learn about their chicken apprenticeships and egg CSA as well as their youth farming programs through the High School for Public Service . Want to help out or eat for a good cause? Check BK Farms’s pop-up...