The Farm Report

John McDowell and Jerry Cosgrove join host Erin Fairbanks to continue the discussion on Harvesting Opportunities in New York, a conference organized by American Farmland Trust to be held November 4th, 2015.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week on _ The Farm Report _, host Erin Fairbanks is talking grain with some of the folks who know it best from the Maine Grain Alliance plus author of “The New Bread Basket,” Amy Holloran.  Speaking with President of the Maine Grain Alliance, Amber Lambke, head miller, Erik LeVine, and Matthew DuBois, owner of The Bankery, Erin brings up the topic of ancient grains being the next “it” food it...

This week on _ The Farm Report _, Erin Fairbanks is joined on the line by David Haight of the American Farmland Trust, making another guest appearance talking all things agriculture in New York State.  Since joining American Farmland Trust in 2001, David Haight has worked with more than 20 local governments to establish agricultural economic development and farmland protection plans. He aids state...

It’s Goatober and Erin Fairbanks is celebrating with an in-depth chat with Mark Baustian of West Hill Farm who raises Boer goats for meat.  Mark shares his passion for bringing goat to the domestic meat market and divulges how he and his wife became goat farmers.  He also points out that while most people think milk and cheese when they think of goat farms, goat is actually the most widely consume...

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Farm Report as host Erin Fairbanks has a quail of a time with Brittney Miller of Manchester Farms in Columbia, South Carolina.  Owner of her family quail farm, Brittney talks 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, M...

The Farm Report is back for the new fall season! Host Erin Fairbanks is in studio with long time confidant and Heritage Radio Network Board Member, JoAnn “Flash” Fleming. This season on The Farm Report expect to hear more on the topic of numbers, which happens to by JoAnn’s specialty as a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Valuation Analyst, and Certified Fraud Examiner. Tune in for a thorough...

On the season finale of The Farm Report , Erin Fairbanks is joined by Dan Purdy and Vicky Purdy, the team behind Purdy & Sons – a farmhouse, butcher shop and processing facility. Purdy & Sons has been serving the Upstate New York area for almost 50 years, combining traditional commitment to superb quality in meats and food with modern, reliable, and safe methods of processing and customer...

What makes Bristol Bay salmon so special? Find out on a brand new episode of The Farm Report . Host Erin Fairbanks is joined by Chef William Dissen, chef/owner of Market Place Restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina and fisherman Chris Nicholson to talk about Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the salmon that run there. Chef Dissen won a scholarship through Chef’s Collaborative to visit the Bristol Bay fish...

It’s hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops. The runaway craft beer market’s convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops renaissance. The demand from craft brewers for local ingredients to make beer―such as hops and barley―is robust and growing. That’s good news for farmers looking to diversify, but the catch is that hops ha...

Happy birthday blueberries! This week on The Farm Report , Erin Fairbanks chats with Amelie Aust of Fall Creek Nursery all about blueberries. Fall Creek supplies the majority of blueberry growers around the world with blueberry plants; Amelie is also president of the Blueberry Family Health Foundation, a nonprofit vehicle started by blueberry families for the industry to combine its resources to p...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is kicking off the show with Meghan Filbert, on the line from the Practical Farmers of Iowa who has been doing a lot of work in the response to avian influenza in Iowa. Talking about what is called the largest outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu, Meghan shares protocol for handling and containing the deadly strain of the virus, mentioning that...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks welcomes Courtney Epton, Director of Education at City Growers to the program. City Growers connects urban communities with agriculture, food and environment through farm education and advocacy in order to foster a culture of health and sustainability. The organization highlights its programs for children and teens at Brooklyn Grange, the world’s...

June is National Dairy Month and The Farm Report is celebrating as host Erin Fairbanks chats with Beth Chittenden of Dutch Hollow Farm. Dutch Hollow Farm is owned by the Chittenden family and is a Registered Jersey Dairy Farm that milks about 600 cows and has about 1,000 cows total. Beth shares the details surrounding the breed of cows used on the farm as well as how their milk is used once it lea...

This week’s episode of The Farm Report comes to you on the road as host Erin Fairbanks is in Denver, Colorado attending the Slow Meat 2015 symposium and fair taking place through June 6. Giving listeners insider tidbits from the gathering, Erin lays out the dense schedule of throughout the weekend and what she’s looking to gain from being in attendance. Look out for recordings of the discussions a...

Keeping strong with the exploration of the meat industry in collaboration with Slow Food USA, on The Farm Report this week Erin Fairbanks is on the line with Gabriel Krenza of both the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Green Sports Alliance. Talking about his role in expanding and enhancing the NRDC’s food network and relationships as well as developing strategy for the sports industry...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is on the line with Corey Blant and Nelly Burgos of Added Value located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. A non-profit organization promoting the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of young leaders, Added Value works toward this goal by creating opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, devel...

On this special reprise episode of The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks has Sydney Phelps on the line from our friends at Bonnie Plants chatting about their free app, Homegrown with Bonnie Plants. Ideal for new gardeners, the app provides in-depth information on topics like container gardening, fertilizing, and what to do in a drought (like what California customers are experiencing) that can ste...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is adding to the series exploring the meat industry in collaboration with with Slow Food USA as they prepare for Slow Meat 2015, a symposium and fair taking place June 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. On the line with Jose Oliva of the Food Chain Workers Alliance, it is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack,...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks keeps on with her series exploring the meat industry in collaboration with Slow Food USA as they prepare for Slow Meat 2015, a symposium and fair taking place June 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. Talking with Mary McCarthy, Director of Operations at Heritage Foods USA about their involvement with Slow Meat and explains that Heritage Foods USA is a mail o...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks continues her series exploring the meat industry in collaboration with with Slow Food USA as they prepare for Slow Meat 2015, a symposium and fair taking place June 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. Robert Nathan Allen of Aspire USA joins Erin on the line from Austin, Texas and explains that the company seeks to create, process, and sell the highest qualit...

This week on a bonus episode of The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is continuing her series exploring the meat industry in collaboration with with Slow Food USA as they prepare for Slow Meat 2015, a symposium and fair taking place June 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. Slow Meat brings together producers, butchers, thought leaders and eaters of every ethos to address the conundrum of industrial animal h...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks welcomes back Rodney Dow to the show talking more on honey and honey bees! Jumping right in, Erin asks how exactly a beekeeper procures flavored honey such as buckwheat, acacia, alfalfa, and orange blossom. As it turns out, terroir is not only a term frequently used in wine but is also applicable to honey, as the location where the bees collect ne...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks is kicking off a series exploring the meat industry in collaboration with with Slow Food USA as they prepare for Slow Meat 2015, a symposium and fair taking place June 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. Slow Meat brings together producers, butchers, thought leaders and eaters of every ethos to address the conundrum of industrial animal husbandry and to cele...

This week on a brand new The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks kicks off the show welcoming Sara Brito, Executive Director Chef’s Collaborative to the show talking details of the upcoming Meat Matters event. Erin then welcomes Rodney Dow of Glynwood Farm and President and CEO of The Dow Corporation, to the program talking about honey bees. From his informative upbringing to explaining the basics a...

This week on The Farm Report , host Erin Fairbanks welcomes journalist David Gumpert to the show for a candid conversation about raw milk. Raw milk is considered milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized and has become the subject of contentious debate. David is the author of “The Raw Milk Answer Book” which raises raises difficult questions surrounding this controversial food – about the...