From Birth to Butchering With Lulu Redder
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lulu Redder, the owner of in North Bend, Washington. Feral Woman Farm is a pastured pig and chicken operation located within a historic farm park. The land is publicly owned and offers trails and play areas as well as a farmstead. This means the farm gets plenty of visitors, offering Redder an opportunity to interact with and educate the public on agriculture. “We get to work in this space which has a lot of history and a lot of public interaction, so it was kind of the perfect place for us to do a...
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A Love for All Plants and All-Purpose Sheep With Annie Hasz
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Annie Hasz of Broadwing Farm. The Berks County, Pennsylvania, farm started in vegetable production but now focuses on grass-fed lamb for meat and pelts. Hasz also co-runs Rooted Home Herbalism, an annual eight-month course that teaches growing and using herbs. “We achieved our original dream and we grew loads of produce. We sold at farmers markets and through CSA and then more and more to restaurants,” Hasz said. “But I had other interests developing in herbalism. So, as time moved on, things shifted.” Hasz...
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Merging Farm Life and City Life With Lindsay Eshelman
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lindsay Eshelman of Plow Farms. Eshelman grew up on the Plowville, Pennsylvania, farm that specializes in Christmas trees, and while she still does work with the farm today, she spends much of her time living in New York City. “I’m kind of the leading voice in PR and marketing, and more importantly experience,” Eshelman said. “My role is to bring the experience to the farm and to create this capsule of joy and Christmas that we have.” One of the biggest ways Eshelman creates joy on the farm is its annual ....
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It's Time to Get Excited About Sheep's Milk Cheese With Julia Inslee
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re talking to Julia Inslee, owner of Locust Hollow Farm in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Inslee has lived on the farm since her parents purchased the property in the late 1970s. At the time, it was home to a farmhouse, a few rundown barns and several acres of untended land. Over the next few decades, Inslee’s family transformed the property. In 2010, Inslee started a dairy sheep operation and now raises East Friesians for milk and fiber. “One of the major misconceptions about sheep is that they’re all the same,” Inslee said....
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Farming Fish Sustainably and Ethically With Brittany Peachey
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re talking to Brittany Peachey, the aquaculture operations manager at in Hudson, New York. Peachey’s interest in aquaculture was born from an aquatic biology class in college. After earning her master’s degree in aquaculture nutrition, she came to work at Hudson Valley Fisheries, a fish farm that specializes in sustainably raised steelhead trout. Peachey was recently awarded the New York State Fair Golden Hoof Award, which is given in recognition of outstanding animal care and husbandry. She acknowledges it’s...
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Celebrating Christmas Trees and Cookies in the Festive FarmHouse
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re ushering in the holiday season with a special seasonal episode featuring an interview with Kelly Piccioni, Penn State’s Christmas tree-focused Extension educator. Piccioni comes from a family with roots in selling Christmas trees. Her great-grandfather began selling trees he bought off the Orange Car—a railway-side produce stand that opened in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s. Her grandparents continued the tradition when they bought what is now the family’s Christmas tree farm, Geissler Tree Farms. “Christmas trees...
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Building Community Through Education With Denise Bosworth
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re speaking with Denise Bosworth of Rohrbach’s Farm. Bosworth is part of the farm’s fourth generation and runs the farm market in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Bosworth and her husband, Dan, returned to the farm in 2013 to begin a new culinary venture, Big Dan’s BBQ. In 2015, Bosworth officially took over the farm market portion of the business and her brother, Mark Rohrbach, took over the farming operation. “I like to say my brother grows the food, Dan cooks the food and I throw the party,” Bosworth said. “We all...
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Award-Winning Sustainable Farming With Casey Wisch
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re talking to Casey Wisch, co-owner of in Lovettsville, Virginia. Wisch’s interest in farming began in college. After graduating, she spent time in New Zealand and Australia where she first encountered permaculture and experienced being part of an agricultural community. When she returned to the U.S., she and her now husband began working toward founding Long Stone Farm. “We wanted to start this grazing operation and we wanted to produce good clean meat for our community, and we wanted to pursue a better path...
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For the Love of Farming: A 70th Anniversary Special
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re honoring the voices of farmers as we celebrate our 70th anniversary. This special podcast episode will feature a variety of voices from farmers and ag industry members who stopped by our pop-up recording studio at this year’s . You’ll hear voices of all ages — from a recent college graduate working her first job in the ag industry to a 92-year-old retired farmer who recalls exactly how his farm community came to his aid when he lost a leg in a farm accident. You’ll even hear from Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Russell...
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Dare to Return to the Haunted FarmHouse
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This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re returning to the haunted farmhouse for some seasonal fun and spine-tingling tales from the farm. In this episode, we’ll be sharing four spooky stories that take place on farms or in rural communities because, let’s face it, scary stories from the city just don’t have quite the same chilling effect as those set out in the country. For our first tale, we’ll travel to Robertson County, Tennessee, where the Bell family came to farm in the early 1800s. Unfortunately for the Bells, a spirit that would become known as the...
info_outlineThis week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we’re talking to Fran Severn, a writer and equestrian whose passion for horses inspired her to write “Riders of a Certain Age: Your Guide for Loving Horses Mid-Life and Beyond.”
Severn grew up in downtown Baltimore where horses and barns were scarce, but that didn’t stop her from developing an affinity for all things equine.
“I think loving horses is in your DNA and I always wanted horses in my life,” Severn said.
She began riding after college and, as her journalism career expanded to covering the Kentucky Derby and events at the Kentucky Horse Park, she eventually purchased her first horse. However, life got busy and riding took a backseat until Severn was in her 50s.
That return sparked a revelation: There were few resources available for older women getting back into horses. Severn saw an opportunity to combine her love of horses and her writing talents and published “Riders of a Certain Age.”
Severn’s book tackles the physical, emotional and practical challenges of riding later in life, including health considerations, finances and long-term horse care planning. It’s become a handy resource for an expanding group of riders.
“It’s pretty clear that the fastest growing demographic in the recreational horse world is women, 55 plus,” Severn said.
The notion that people are still interested in active recreational activities past middle age is still novel to some.
“It was always presumed, you hit 65, you’re going to play canasta, maybe take your kids on a Disney cruise, and not do much else,” Severn said. “And I think maybe because some of the researchers are starting to hit our age, they’re discovering that that’s not the case. We can do pretty much everything.”
Severn has followed up “Riders of a Certain Age” with several publications. “Creating Your Journey” is a journaling guide for older riders, and “Barn Fires“ is a practical guide to fire prevention inspired by her own experience with a barn fire.
Her latest publication, “Barn Hacks,” is the product of an 18-month labor of love that compiles over 1,000 tips from around the equine world — including how to use sauerkraut to treat abscesses.
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Check out Lancaster Farming's newest podcast, Super Smart Farm Show!
Kids have a lot of questions about farming, and the Super Smart Farm Show, Lancaster Farming's podcast for kids, has a lot of answers. Join us each week as we explore kid-friendly topics like why bees are important and why sheep need hair cuts. We here at the Super Smart Farm Show know it’s fun to ask questions and wonder about the world we live in, especially when it comes to learning about how farmers feed and take care of us.
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