The Female Farmer Project™ Podcast

Why do we love the idea of small family farms? Our guest, Sarah K Mock says it’s because we’ve been told the stories about family farms from an early age through nursery rhymes and picture books. But does that bucolic ideal exist? Sarah provides an agriculture insider’s critique of the romantic agrarian ideal of the small family farm. She lays bare the shortcomings of that narrative — not all is as virtuous as it seems. In this thought-provoking conversation, Mock challenges the many conceptions about farming and farmers and asks the hard questions about the viability of the current systems.SHOW NOTES:www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2021/11/2/farm-and-other-f-words-with-sarah-k-mockLETS CONNECT:www.twitter.com/femalefarmerswww.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/www.femalefarmerproject.org

Kate Hill is a published author and professional cook of 30 years, in 1991 she founded Camont as a cooking school and retreat in the Gascony region of France. Kate is also the founder of GRRLS Meat Camp and an expert in the tradition of French charcuterie

Angie Provost, puts a lens to the racism and discrimination that still exists in the agriculture industry. While painting is a balm that helps Angie cope with the stress of losing their land and livelihood after decades of discriminatory practices, it’s also a canvas that enables her to speak the truth and to fight back.Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalleywww.femalefarmerproject.org

A discussion with Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram about her decade long research about women in agriculture and the social, financial and other barriers they contend with including the acquisition of land. Historically women have been excluded from owning land and locked out of the successorship of generational farmland. Land ownership is the great tell of inequality in communities. Women not only have to be creative in navigating the acquisition of land and financing, but they are having to move further out from city centers where their customer base is.Show Notes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/12/1/inherit-it-or-marry-it-women-accessing-farmland-with-dr-ryanne-pilgeramLETS CONNECT!!twitter.com/femalefarmerswww.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/www.femalefarmerproject.org

Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile joins us on our Cultivating Culture series to discuss the writing of stories about the African American experience including land ownership, intergenerational wealth, inheritance, land loss, mass incarceration, police brutality and other systems of oppression.Find us onhttps://twitter.com/femalefarmershttps://www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/https://www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/www.femalefarmerproject.orgShow Notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/9/4/afro-american-storytelling-with-queen-sugar-author-natalie-baszile