Latest Farm bill Podcast Episodes
The Farm Report: A Farm Bill for the Next Generation TRAILER
Young Farmers Podcast - January 17, 2024 16:10 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsJoin us for a special series of The Farm Report in collaboration with Heritage Radio Network that's all about The Farm Bill. Tune in to hear from farmers, policymakers, organizers, and food advocates about all the ways the farm bill directly impacts our lives - whether we realize it or not. We’l...
Building Climate Resilience: 2023 Farm Bill Part 3
Young Farmers Podcast - September 15, 2023 14:23 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is the third episode of our 2023 Farm Bill series, digging into the farm policy that will affect the next generation of farmers and ranchers. We’ve been asking how 1,000 pages of federal policy can provide tangible benefits and support to beginning and BIPOC farmers, our communities, and t...
Solving the Land Access Crisis: 2023 Farm Bill Part 2
Young Farmers Podcast - July 19, 2023 19:09 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is the second episode of a six-part series focused on the one thing everyone in our network – from farmers to policymakers, organizers to corporate partners – is laser-focused on right now: the 2023 Farm Bill. In this episode, we're joined by Dãnia Davy, Director of Land Retention and Advo...
2023 Farm Bill Part 1: Making it Work for Young Farmers
Young Farmers Podcast - April 27, 2023 17:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is the first episode of a new six-part series focused on the one thing everyone in our network – from farmers to policymakers, organizers to corporate partners – seems to be laser focused on right now: the 2023 Farm Bill. We're joined by Billy Hackett, Policy Specialist for the National Su...
Making it Work for Young Farmers: 2023 Farm Bill Part 1
Young Farmers Podcast - April 27, 2023 17:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis is the first episode of a new six-part series focused on the one thing everyone in our network – from farmers to policymakers, organizers to corporate partners – seems to be laser focused on right now: the 2023 Farm Bill. We're joined by Billy Hackett, Policy Specialist for the National Su...
Young Farmers Are Losing Land to Wealthy Buyers
Young Farmers Podcast - August 23, 2022 17:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAccess to affordable, quality farmland is the top challenge young farmers face, particularly BIPOC farmers, who today make up only 2% of farmland owners. Young Farmer's Land Campaign Director Holly Rippon-Butler talks with New York Times reporter Elizabeth Dunn about her recent article, “How ‘Fa...
Getting on the Land with the Hoosier Young Farmers Coalition
Young Farmers Podcast - December 13, 2021 20:11 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsToday we're coming to you with a special episode from our Hoosier Young Farmers Chapter. The Hoosier chapter just released their own podcast series which shares the voices of farmers from across the state, farmers you might not think of when you picture the farmers of Indiana. This episode featu...
What does it mean to be accountable?
Young Farmers Podcast - June 22, 2021 17:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsJessica Manly talks with Equity and Organizational Change Director and Accountability Report author Michelle A. T. Hughes about what it means for the National Young Farmers Coalition to be accountable to its farmers, partners, and its racial equity commitments. Read the report at www.youngfarm...
WAYFC Takeover Finale: Ariana de Leña on Tools for Dealing with Farmer Stress and Anxiety
Young Farmers Podcast - February 01, 2021 15:41 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAri de Leña is a farmer at Kamayan Farm is a vegetable, flower, medicinal herb, and education farm just east of Seattle on Snoqualmie People’s land. In this conversation we dive into what it looks like to deal with stress and anxiety while being ‘August tired’. Because Ari and Elizabeth really g...
WAYFC Takeover 6: Ariana de Leña on Farmer Stress and Anxiety (Part 1)
Young Farmers Podcast - January 22, 2021 17:56 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsAri de Leña is a farmer at Kamayan Farm is a vegetable, flower, medicinal herb, and education farm just east of Seattle on Snoqualmie People’s land. In this conversation we dive into what it looks like to deal with stress and anxiety while being ‘August tired’. Because Ari and Elizabeth really g...
WAYFC Takeover 5: Vero Vergara of Sweet Hollow Farm
Young Farmers Podcast - January 13, 2021 16:24 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsVero Vergara is a nonbinary, disabled, brown, queer farmer and food systems cultural worker based on Coast Salish territories. Vero is a founding worker-owner of Sweet Hollow Farm in Woodinville, WA. They work at the intersection of autonomous food systems building and liberatory community care....
Food Safety Part 2: Lean and Clean with Ellen Polishuk
Young Farmers Podcast - December 22, 2020 21:16 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn part 2 of our produce safety series, Young Farmers' Produce Safety Manager, Maggie Kaiser, talks with Ellen Polishuk about integrating Lean Farming principles into your farm's food safety plan. Visit youngfarmers.org/foodsafety for our online produce safety resource library and all of our f...
Food Safety Part 1: Scaling Up with Scott Chang-Fleeman
Young Farmers Podcast - December 17, 2020 19:29 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThis week and next we'll be talking about an often overlooked, and sometimes daunting, part of farming: *food safety*! Part 1 is a conversation with Scott Chang-Fleeman, owner of Shao Shan Farm in Marin County, who grows Asian heritage vegetables. It's interesting because it seems produce safety...
WAYFC Takeover 4: Miles Griffin and Amanda Doughty on Farmer Mental Health
Young Farmers Podcast - November 17, 2020 21:17 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsMiles Griffin and Amanda Doughty currently live on 20 acres in Twisp, Washington. Amanda is a licensed therapist, who works off the farm full-time but loves a good Saturday weeding session. Miles is the owner and operator of Posterity Farm, producing pastured turkeys, wholesale organic garlic, ...
WAYFC Takeover 3: Nyema Clark of Nurturing Roots
Young Farmers Podcast - September 16, 2020 21:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsNyema Clark is the Executive Director and Farm Queen at Nurturing Roots, a farm and community garden committed to addressing food justice issues in the Beacon Hill Neighborhood in Seattle. Nyema dives into their grow-your-own program Nurturing Your Roots at Home and we talk about how farmers and...
WAYFC Takeover 2: Tracy Stewart of Gathering Roots
Young Farmers Podcast - September 04, 2020 18:21 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe Washington Young Farmers Coalition (WAYFC) takes over the Young Farmers Podcast to talk about resilience and community building in the time of COVID-19. Become a member of the National Young Farmers Coalition at younfarmers.org/join and sign up for our advocacy network by texting FARMERS to ...
WAYFC Takeover 1: John Wesley and the Seattle BIPOC Organic Food Bank
Young Farmers Podcast - August 25, 2020 18:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsJohn Wesley is a curator, cultural ambassador, and community organizer. He is passionate about designing and producing experiences that connect diverse cultures and cultivate joy. JW is the founder and director of Seattle Bipoc Organic Food Bank; an organization dedicated to providing everyone w...
Looking Back on a Decade of Young Farmers
Young Farmers Podcast - June 20, 2019 14:38 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWe turn the mic on Lindsey this week for the finale episode of our first season of the Young Farmers Podcast. The National Young Farmers Coalition's Sophie Ackoff, VP of Policy and Campaigns, and Holly Rippon-Butler, Land Access Program Director, join Lindsey in the studio to talk about the earl...
Hemp, CBD, and the U.S. Green Rush
Young Farmers Podcast - June 11, 2019 16:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsToday we dive into the heady world of industrial hemp. Hemp is no longer just for Canadian cereal companies and scratchy beige t-shirts. This low-THC strain of cannabis, think of it as the well behaved fraternal twin to marijuana, is, as of the 2018 Farm Bill, a legal crop in all 50 states. And ...
Karen Washington on NYC Food Security and Lifting Up a New Generation of Black and Brown Farmers
Young Farmers Podcast - May 29, 2019 18:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsKaren Washington is one of the most influential food and farming activists of our time. From starting the Garden of Happiness in the Bronx, Black Urban Growers, and now Rise and Root Farm, Karen is modeling a new food system based on equity, social capital, and health. New York State has over 5...
Who Owns U.S. Farmland?
Young Farmers Podcast - May 21, 2019 21:09 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe biggest problem faced by farmers across the country is access to land. Who owns it, who rents it—it all has a big impact on the kind of food we grow and who has economic opportunity in rural communities. Young Farmers' Land Access Program Director, Holly Rippon-Butler, sits down with Megan ...
Looking to 2020: Climate Action, the Farm Crisis, and Politics in Rural America
Young Farmers Podcast - May 15, 2019 16:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLindsey speaks with Matt Russell, an Iowa farmer and executive director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light, an organization that brings people of all faiths together in conversation about critical issues, like climate change and the future of rural America. Matt sees an opportunity for farmers t...
"Growing Pennsylvania's Future" with Karen Gardner
Young Farmers Podcast - May 09, 2019 15:19 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratings"We need to understand the challenges young farmers are facing regionally in order to create solutions." Lindsey checks in with Karen Gardner, National Young Farmers Coalition's Pennsylvania Policy Associate, about what she's hearing from beginning farmers in PA, and the upcoming Pennsylvania Yo...
Kate Greenberg: Young Farmer Becomes Colorado's Commissioner of Agriculture
Young Farmers Podcast - April 30, 2019 21:09 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLindsey talks with Kate Greenberg, Colorado's new Commissioner of Agriculture, and former Western Program Director with the National Young Farmers Coalition. Lindsey and Kate check in about what it's been like to be the youngest person, and first woman, to hold this role in Colorado, as well as ...
Mai Nguyen and the California Young Farmers Report
Young Farmers Podcast - April 23, 2019 18:06 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsCalifornia produces more food than any other state in the nation. Over one-third of U.S. vegetables and two-thirds of U.S. fruits and nuts are grown in California. But drought, wildfire, and the impacts of climate change are increasing across the state. How are the farmers doing? And how are the...
Census Results Are In: We Need #MOREFARMERS
Young Farmers Podcast - April 16, 2019 15:53 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLast week, the USDA's NASS released the results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture, the first count in over five years of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who run them. What do we know now about the state of agriculture in this country? Lindsey talks with Erin Foster West, Young Farmers' fed...
What Could the Green New Deal Mean for the Future of Ag?
Young Farmers Podcast - April 12, 2019 15:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsOn February 7th, 2019 Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution in Congress recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. The resolution starts by listing the many ways that climate change will devastate this country, incl...
Rep. Antonio Delgado @ Radio Kingston
Young Farmers Podcast - April 04, 2019 00:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsLindsey is joined in the studio at Radio Kingston by freshman Congressman Antonio Delgado (NY-19) to talk about his hotly contested race for office, representing the needs of beginning farmers in DC, and how he's trying to reach across the aisle in an era of "political tribalism." After the show...
POTUS vs. WOTUS: What Side of the Clean Water Debate Should Farmers Be On?
Young Farmers Podcast - March 26, 2019 17:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsPassed in 1972, the Clean Water Act (CWA) is one of the most progressive, influential environmental policies in U.S. history. The CWA is charged with keeping U.S. waters "fishable and swimmable," and protected from pollution. Recent proposed changes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Braceros: The Controversial History of US-Mexico Farm Worker Programs with Dr. Matthew Garcia
Young Farmers Podcast - March 08, 2019 16:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsThe Bracero Program began in 1942 as an agreement between the United States and Mexico to bring laborers to the U.S. to replace men who were leaving farms to fight in World War II. The program didn’t end with the war, however, it actually grew by hundreds of thousands of workers, and continued u...
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