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First Aired - 12/02/2010 02:00PM
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Join Severine for another episode of Greenhorn Radio; chronicling the life and times of the young farmers in our country. This week she sits down with Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm. Kristin is also an author, her latest book being "This Dirty Life" - which is, as she puts it "the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer." This episode was brought to you by Hearst Ranch.
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Greenhorn Radio: Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm (33:08)
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Greenhorn Radio, Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Essex NY, Essex Farm, Kristin Kimball, Mark Kimball, A Dirty Life, dry seasons versus wet seasons, Lake Champlain, the wind and water that comes through the lake's valley, zoning laws protect the water, Adirondack Park was designed to protect NY's water, there are a lot of young farmers in the Essex NY region, Essex Farm is an incubator of agrarian energy, Kristin and Mark's farming journey, Kristen was a city girl and Mark was a farmer, Kristen fell in love w/Mark AND farming, the original Essex Farm land has not been used for 20 years, compelling agricultural reasons, farm aesthetics, it's typical of the generation to imagine the future wildly, plant the roses and walk under it the rest of your life, from hoof to table, Adirondack Harvest,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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This week's guest on Greenhorn Radio is Arion Thiboumery.
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Greenhorn Radio: Arion Thiboumery (30:00)
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Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Heritage Radio Network, Greenhorn Radio, Hearst Ranch, small scale slaughterhouses, Arion Thiboumery, Iowa State, moral act, land grant institution, farmers, agriculture, young farmers, Iowa is an industrial agriculture state, its the most extensively farmed land in the United States, pesticides, Lawrence Meats, USDA, making a decent living, big scale meat packing, 19,000 hogs a day, 60 hogs a day means medium-small, meat distribution, all cattle in the US eat grass at some point in their life, then they go to a feed yard where they eat a lot of grain, the top four firms control 80% of all the packing, small scale producers, direct marketing, direct sales, restaurant clients, livestock, Beef And Pork Whole Animal Buying Guide, buy meat in halfs wholes or quarter,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 06/24/2010 02:00PM
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This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks to James Graves.
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Greenhorn Radio Introduction: James Graves (15:00)
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Greenhorn Radio, Fairway Market, Heritage Radio Network, James Graves, Essex, pasture and hay fields, vegetables, chickens, pigs, beef, livestock, Lake Champlain, active farming maintenance, low development density, Adirondack Park System, unusual regulation, Boquet River, wet soils, clay soil, growing season is from June to September, propagation of fruit trees, community supported agriculture, maintenance of active farming, low development density permitted by the Adirondack park system, unusual regulation on the landscape,More with James Graves (15:00)
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what is the land / season like?, deciduous forest, wet clay soil, low elevation, Lake Champlagne Valley, farming DOES exist here, open landscape is farmed by people that have inherited their farms over generations, even a few number of people can make an influx happen!, wildfire spread of agrarianism, if one thing works more things start working and that's amazing!, a tiny rundown of how amazing Essex Farm is, apprentice vs farmer vs employee, livestock raising to butchering to hand milking to driving horses, no house on the farm land, ag training elsewhere, a soft spot for historical structures, Champlagne Valley, work parties and volunteer vacations, an exciting adventure of renovating a silo into a dwelling, exposing the fabulous trend of silo living, communities not so used to newcomers, 2nd and 3d gen farmers that have switched to organic methods, first bulk purchase of organic chicken feed in Oakland, reinvent a network of services and goods once it is gone, having a functioning web of commerce to plug into makes a farmer's life easier, elements of fleeting infrastructure that still exists, being at the mercy of the ferry schedule, outcroppings of young farmer territories and find brazen young muscular farmers, this is IT!, teacher-farmers,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
