The Farm Report

This week on The Farm Report , we present the "So You Want to Be a Farmer" panel from this year's Cherry Bombe Jubilee. The panel discussion featured Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, Katie Baldwin and Amanda Merrow of Amber Waves Farm, Molly Culver of The Youth Farm, and Laura Ferrara of Westwind Orchard, and was moderated by our very own Erin Fairbanks. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

This week on The Farm Report , we bring you a special field piece recorded at AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey. Vertical farming is the practice of producing food in vertically stacked layers, vertically inclined surfaces and/or integrated in other structures, and AeroFarms is the largest vertical farm in the world. Their state-of-the-art aeroponic growing system uses a patented technology that all...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by Kate Greenberg, the Western Water Program Director for the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC). Kate organizes young farmers and ranchers across the West, advocates for supportive policy, and promotes land and water stewardship. Prior to joining NYFC, Kate worked on vegetable farms, managed Western environmental poli...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by Anastasia Cole Plakias, co-founder and Vice President of Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm. As a managing partner of Brooklyn Grange, she has run the business’ sales department, created its events program, and manages the farm’s communications and external affairs. Anastasia also channels her love of food into weekly CSA news...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by Matt Nielsen, the chief operations officer for Nielsen-Massey Vanillas Inc. and Managing Director of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International BV. Matt began working in the family business when he was 15 years old, sweeping floors and cleaning tanks; today his responsibilities include overseeing all operations at the company...

On the season premiere of The Farm Report , Erin Fairbanks returns to hosting duties! She sits down with Kamal Mouzawak, who started Souk el Tayeb, the first farmer’s market in Beirut, Lebanon. Souk el Tayeb promotes unity around a common respect for food, land, and agricultural traditions. It aims to preserve food traditions and the culture of small farming in Lebanon, to protect the interests of...

Most food starts with a seed tucked in the soil. But where do seeds come from? This week on The Farm Report is a special glimpse into part of the seed supply chain. Host Holli Cederholm takes listeners on a tour of Territorial Seed Company in Cottage Grove, Oregon, with stops at their packing facility and trial farm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

When discussing farm labor, some complex issues come to the table: the history of the labor movement, immigration, fair wages for farm workers, fair prices for farmers... This week’s episode of The Farm Report offers context to these issues with two guests from different big agricultural states. Bryan Little, the Director of Employment Policy for the California Farm Bureau Federation, and Elizabet...

Have a quail of a time with Brittney Miller of Manchester Farms in Columbia, South Carolina! Owner of her family quail farm, Brittney has a lot to say about this old school bird and her passion for bringing farrow quail to more dinner tables as an easy and healthy protein that many chefs have long embraced. Spread out over 380 acres, Manchester Farms produces 80,000 quail per week that are growth-...

Andre Leu, President of IFOAM – Organics International, the only global umbrella organization of the organic world, joins host Holli Cederholm on The Farm Report for a briefing on climate change and agriculture. Leu was on-site in Paris for the COP21 Climate Conference in late 2015, and shares his thoughts on the new international agreement on climate change, and on why utilization of land is real...

This week, one hundred Cabot Creamery dairy farmers descend upon Metro New York as part of their second ever Farmers’ Gratitude Tour. Among them is Jenni Tilton-Flood of Flood Brothers Farm in Clinton, Maine. She called into the Heritage Radio Network studio in between delivering “random acts of cheddar” to discuss Cabot’s cooperative structure and what it means for its 1,200 farmer-owners spread...

Lindsey Lusher Shute is the co-founder and executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC). She joins host Holli Cederholm for a discussion on the biggest barriers that young farmers face today, and how NYFC is supporting practices and policies that will help farmers now and in the future. “What we’re advocating for is that full time farmers are able to access [student loan forgi...

Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Joyce Farms is a family-run operation  dedicated to raising high-quality all-natural meats–including poultry, beef, and game – for chefs, artisanal butchers, and educated consumers across the United States. Among their offerings of heritage breed poultry is the world’s best chicken: the Poulet Rouge Fermier, a French farm chicken. Brothers Ryan and Stuart...

Holli Cederholm was on-site at Organic Seed Alliance’s 8th Organic Seed Growers Conference in Corvallis, Oregon, on February 5-6, 2016, for a special episode of The Farm Report . After a full day of workshops and panel presentations on everything organic seed, Cederholm caught up with Lane Selman of Oregon State University and Chef Timothy Wastell of Sweedeedee in North Portland to explore a uniqu...

As part of HRN’s lead-up to the Charleston Wine + Food festival, Chef Craig Deihl joins The Farm Report this week to tuck into meat that matters. Deihl is the Executive Chef of Cypress in Charleston, SC, and founder of the restaurant’s in-house charcuterie program, the Artisan Meat Share. Deihl is passionate about preserving meat and the requisite skills of the craft, from the farm to the butcher,...

Deb Soule, herbalist and founder of Avena Botanicals in Midcoast Maine, joins The Farm Report to talk about her practice as an herbalist and biodynamic grower. Deb also delves into the challenges herbalists face in of complying with the FDA–which regulates herbs as part of a broad category of dietary supplements–including touching upon the tools necessary for helping future herbalists and small-sc...

Lori Flores, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University (SUNY), joins The Farm Report to discuss her book: Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement . Grounds for Dreaming is “a sweeping critical history of how Mexican communities in agricultural California fought for equality and respect in a hostile climate of labor rep...

The Farm Report is back for 2016(!), hosted by guest host Holli Cederholm. She starts off the season as most farmers and gardeners do: by turning to their favorite seed companies. The Hudson Valley Seed Library in Accord, NY, was initiated in 2004 as one of the first seed libraries in the country. Over time this borrowable seed collection grew from the catalog of the Gardiner Public Library to wha...

Wrapping up another great season, Erin Fairbanks introduces listeners to the new guest host of The Farm Report starting in 2016: Holli Cederholm.  Holli Cederholm’s involvement in organic agriculture spans over a decade—starting with farm apprenticeships wedged between completing a B.A. in environmental writing from Unity College. In 2010-2014, she focused on celebrating  the diversity of vegetabl...

Continuing a close look at Christmas trees, Erin Fairbanks welcomes Lars Crooks to _ The Farm Report _ from Tuckamony Farm, one of the oldest family operated Christmas tree farms in the country.  His great grandfather planted the first crop of Scots Pine and Norway Spruce in 1929 and first opened for season in 1934 and operated the farm for twenty five years before he passed the business to Lars’...

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree… Ever wonder where your Christmas tree comes from? _ The Farm Report _ gets the scoop this week as Erin Fairbanks is on the line with Mary Jeanne Packer of the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York talking all things evergreen.  Founded in 1953, the mission of the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York (CTFANY) is to empower members in the deve...

Tune in for this special episode of _ The Farm Report _ for a preview of the upcoming show, _ The B-Side _, where hosts Jennifer Leuzzi and Erin Fairbanks talk with some of their favorite people in the culinary world about the other things that make them tick.  Talking to a trio of fighting foodies about Muay Thai: Dig Inn CEO Adam Eskin, Top Bartender Joshua Brandenberg , and Personal Trainer and...

Tune in for a special partnered episode of _ Eating Matter _s and The Farm Report as hosts Kim Kessler and Erin Fairbanks are on the line with the United States Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary, Krysta Harden.  Recently announced, the Department of Agriculture announced a commitment to prioritize $5.6 billion over the next two years within USDA programs and services that serve new and be...

This week on _ The Farm Report _, Erin Fairbanks is in studio with Edie Mukiibi, Vice President of Slow Food International, and Richard McCarthy, Executive Director of Slow Food USA.Edie Mukiibi was born and raised in the rural parts of Mukono District in Central Uganda. He attended a nearby rural school for his primary and secondary education. Agriculture was used as a form of punishment in both...

This week on _ The Farm Report _, Erin Fairbanks kicks off another jam-packed show with guest Eric Gustafson, CEO of Coast Packing Company, the number one supplier of animal fat shortenings in the Western United States. Explaining how animal fat shortenings are all about making food taste better, Eric goes on to point out that animal fats need to be part of the diet of health-conscious.  Proud to...