The Rural Woman Podcast

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Karen Dean. Karen is a Canadian bestselling author, motivational speaker, coach, entrepreneur, and proud single mother of three. With a background in dairy farming, Karen embarked on a new chapter of her life after selling her farm following the end of her marriage 11 years ago. Now a completely solo parent, she finds solace and rejuv...

On this episode of Maybe You Can Relate, you’ll hear Katelyn’s presentation from the Williams County Soil Conservation District's, 5th Annual Ladies Ag Night in Williston, North Dakota. To hear the full episode, head on over to Patreon.com and join the Patreon Community in supporting the stories of Women in Agriculture to be shared through The Rural Woman Podcast.  https://wildrosefarmer...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Lisa Miller. Lisa is the voice behind the two-acre homestead podcast. She was born and raised in the Silicon Valley. The area she grew up in was kind of an interesting mixture; it was part rural and part suburbia. Lisa was raised by two beautiful parents, and her mom has a farming background which played a significant role in her life...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Haley Ammann-Ekstrom. Haley is a 6th generation cattle farmer from southern Minnesota. She is the first female of those six generations to take over the family business. Haley loves being a part of the agriculture industry and helping younger females find their calling. Haley had many mentors growing up in school and 4-H. She wants to...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Arlene Hunter. Arlene and her husband Hugh own and operate Maple-Ain Farms Limited near Smiths Falls, Ontario. A 6th generation family farm, Maple-Ain is home to their herd of purebred Holsteins and one Jersey. They also grow corn, soybeans and hay and are raising their 4 children on the farm, ages 17, 14, 12 and 7. In 2021, Arlene wa...

On this episode of Maybe You Can Relate, I’ll be speaking about what is that secret sauce? I share my thoughts on almost 4 years of podcasting and what I’ve done over the years to make this podcast what it is today. But whether you have a podcast or just a desire for something in your heart…this episode is for you. To hear the full episode, head on over to Patreon.com and join the Patreon Communit...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Jessica Mose. Jessica is the owner and maker behind Prairie Soap Shack - An all-natural skincare e-commerce business where she creates modern and eco-friendly products with wildcrafted and homegrown plants. A former nurse and now certified herbalist, Jessica is inspired by nature and the nostalgia of her roots when creating in her bus...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Kendall Ballantine. At the age of 27, Kendall ditched the power suits of her corporate career, as Director of Operations in grocery supply chain, for a life in gumboots on the farm when she opened her business Central Park Farms. Fast forward eight years later, Central Park Farms employs a small team and is a growing direct-to-consume...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Elise Ferguson. Elise is a professional web developer, movie theatre manager, master gardener, homesteader, mom, candy store owner, beginning farmer, and a person with too many irons in the fire in southwestern Minnesota. For full show notes, including links mentioned in the show, head over to wildrosefarmer.com/173 . . . THIS WEEK'S...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Kate Kavanaugh. Kate Kavanaugh is an entrepreneur, farmer, butcher, nutrition therapist, and host of the Mind, Body, and Soil Podcast. She saw firsthand the power of meat to heal her own body, and in seeking out farmers and ranchers raising meat, she found the power of meat to heal land, too. In 2013, she opened Western Daughters Butc...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Jenna Brown. Jenna earned her B.S. in Biology and Soil Science from the University of Wyoming. After college, she saw herself working in the energy industry and living the big city life with all of her friends enjoying fancy bars and Colorado Avalanche hockey games. However, that all changed in 2020 when she lost her energy industry j...

*The content shared in this episode includes cannabis education and is intended for an adult audience. On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Serena Donovan. Serena Donovan is a proud wife, mother, and grandmother living and working on their family grain farm near Mossleigh, Alberta. Although Serena grew up rurally, she did not have a direct connection with Agriculture unt...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Alli Caraveo. Alli Caraveo is a stay-at-home mom, first-generation rancher, entrepreneur and Equine Gestaltist™. She pursued her lifelong love for animals by getting her Veterinary Technology degree in 2012. During that time, she was building a family and a ranch with her future husband.  Currently, Alli and her family are enjoyi...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Diane McKenzie. Diane McKenzie is a farmer from Warner, Alberta. She grew up in southern Alberta on a mixed-family farm and currently farms with her family - growing grain, feed, forage and Hereford cattle seed stock. Diane's research interest is rural women and their participation in the intergenerational transfer of the family farm....

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Lindsay Hamilton. Lindsay Hamilton from Homegrown Small Town owns and operates 3 successful businesses, 2 of which are in the farming sector. A 5th generation farmer with a passion for growing, soil and education. When not helping to oversee the operations and over 100 employees, she enjoys spending her time on her one-acre garden wit...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Sarah Riedner. For full show notes, including links mentioned in the show, head over to wildrosefarmer.com/166 Sarah Riedner still considers herself a newbie farmer. She and her husband are both first-generation farmers and started officially farming in 2017, although they had been doing urban farming in the backyards of Calgary prior...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Megan Callahan. She is the Jill of all trades at the Lazy D C Bar Ranch. Megan has lots of irons in the fire. From Raw milk to riding lessons, mule breeding, donkey rescue, Mom & Foster Parent, hay sales, a pumpkin patch and Glamping tents in the near future! The many avenues for revenue prepare her for if certain markets take a h...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Emily Reuschel. Emily and her husband, Andrew, raise corn, soybeans, cover crops, and two farm kids in West Central Illinois. Emily is an elementary school teacher turned entrepreneur and thought leader. She cultivates personal and professional growth for rural women through high-level masterminds and retreats, 1:1 coaching, publ...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Justine Berry. Justine is a second-generation cattle rancher in east central Alberta. Along with her parents and her growing family, they raise Black Angus cattle and direct market their natural grass-fed beef. Justine also works part-time as a registered nurse at the local hospital. Justine is passionate about finding a balance betwe...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Dr. Tammy Gray-Steele. Dr. Tammy Gray-Steele is the first American agricultural specialist, agripreneur, educator, and women and children advocate. Born and raised on a farm, she received her secondary education in the rustic and rural community of Wewoka, Oklahoma. Upon graduating high school, Dr. Steele left Oklahoma to pursue a dua...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Sierra Seidner. At 26 years young, Sierra is the owner of Iron Horse Animal Health Products, a company that manufactures high-quality but affordable supplements and feed for horses and livestock like chickens, sheep, and cows. She graduated from Westminster College with a degree in Financial Economics in December of 2018, but after ta...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Ashley Sutton. Ashley was born and raised on Long Island, NY, about an hour from New York City.  It wasn’t until she moved to Colorado for graduate school that she started thinking about where our food comes from. Ashley met her husband in graduate school out west, and he introduced her to the world of agriculture! It wasn’t long...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Elizabeth Goad. Elizabeth is a full-time stay-at-home, homesteading mother and wife. Elizabeth is a first-generation farmer, who has always been involved with horses, but her love of farm and family continued to grow as she did. After having her children, her world changed. She went from being a strong, independent woman to finding he...

On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Rebecca King. In 1997, at a very young age, Rebecca married her high school sweetheart and joined him in taking over his family's generational farm. They jumped in with both feet, determined to succeed and didn't look back. By April 2006, they had completed their family of three precious daughters. In January 2013, the family farm bec...

On this special feature episode of The Rural Woman Podcast, you’ll meet Kyndall Durakovic Bauer. Kyndall is a Florida native who has a strong passion for agriculture. She has been working on building her cattle business, KD Cattle Co., for several years now and has always had the vision of using her cattle company to help bridge the gap between producers and consumers by taking extra time to be a...