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every 9 days
Average audio length:
49 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
139 episodes
since Oct. 31, 2022
episodic

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“You don’t have to be on one end of the spectrum or the other. It’s okay to find the middle ground.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Ali Lightfoot of Lightfoot Farmstead in Tennessee to talk about building a direct-to-consumer farm business while balancing full-time jobs, r…

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“We have to evolve to keep what we have.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Hannah and Ashley Rainville, two sisters from a multi-generational dairy farm in northern Vermont, to talk about what it looks like to face one of the hardest decisions in agriculture—stepping away fr…
“Convenience replaced skill, and we stopped noticing what we lost.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Kody Hanner, founder of The Homestead Education, to talk about what happens when life forces you to rethink everything—your food, your health, and the way your family operate…
“Policies built for emergencies rarely stay temporary.”  In this solo episode of Farming on Purpose, I continue the conversation about resource allocation in agriculture — but this time through the lens of policy, infrastructure, and the decisions that quietly shaped modern farming.  Most farmers…
“People really want the agricultural life. They want to learn how to do it right—they just need someone willing to show them.”    In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Frank Baggiolini, asset manager and content creator for Outlaw Ranch Care, to talk about a growing shift in rura…
“Farmers markets are great — but they’re a narrow pipe between farmers and consumers.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Dan Brunner, founder of Market Wagon, to talk about one of the biggest challenges in local food systems: distribution.  Dan comes from a background in sof…
“Every generation of farmers has asked the same question: What do we do with what we have?”  In this solo episode of Farming on Purpose, I take a deep dive into the history of agriculture — not just as a timeline of events, but as a story of resource allocation.  From subsistence survival to the …
“You don’t know what you don’t know — and that’s what keeps people up at night.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Jace Young, founder and CEO of Legacy Farmer, to talk about the financial side of agriculture that most producers avoid — until they can’t.  Jace grew up on a m…
“You’re going to make mistakes — and then you’re going to learn from those mistakes.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Hayley Darnielle, owner of Crooked Creek Farms in Montana, to talk about building a diversified, direct-to-consumer farm business from the ground up.  What…
“You don’t have to have a perfect farm — you just have to open the gate.”  In this episode of Farming on Purpose, I sit down with Megan Daluge, a fifth-generation Wisconsin dairy farmer and co-founder of Milk’n Mamas, to talk about what diversification really looks like when you’re committed to ke…
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