Did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up at age 7? Age 14? Age 18? Age 20? In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss what they thought they would do for a career back when they were in elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and even grad school and how it compares to their current jobs. They then cover Gracie's new fame as the beginning farmer featured in an NPR article and what it means to her to have had the opportunity to purchase farmland and also figure out at age 27 what she really wants to do when she grows up. For more episodes of A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture, visit www.FarmKidBlog.com/podcast.

It seems like everybody comes from a small town, but what happens to our hometowns when we grow up and move away? In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss

• The implications of the grocery store closing in a nearby community and loss of the town's identity,
• What's in store for Small Town USA,
• And, because we're on the subject of food, our favorite Thanksgiving food traditions.

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In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss meal kits, grocery pickup, and other conveniences when it comes to grocery shopping and meal preparation. Claire recently started receiving meal kits and leaves her honest review and explains what you should expect when subscribing to one. They end the episode discussing the future of food and what expectations younger eaters have when it comes to grocery shopping and convenience.

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We're back for another episode of A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture: The Podcast with ag teacher, former roommate, and goat enthusiast Kenyon Jodlowski. Claire and Kenyon have been best friends since way back in high school and Kenyon is now making his mark as an ag teacher in Central Illinois. In this episode, we talk about Kenyon's beginnings as a goat farmer, what made him decide to become an ag teacher, and what life's been like as a beginning ag teacher. Oh, and somehow band camp finds its way into the conversation. Enjoy!

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In the spirit of fall fun, Gracie and Claire discuss their recent agri-tourism adventure in Southern Illinois and how it's not necessarily just for the non-ag crowd. And for those rainy days when you can't head out to the farm for some fall fun, Claire gives several podcast and video streaming recommendations from her recent True Crime genre kick.

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Climate change has been a hot topic in the news lately, but we feel that agriculture is missing a great opportunity to join the conversation. Farmers are great caretakers of the land and have made great strides in improving farming practices to be more efficient and environmentally friendly. In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss the great things agriculture is doing to contribute towards a solution to factors that may influence climate change. Agriculture has a great story to share and it's time we tell it.

The annual release of Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks seems to be the unofficial beginning of the fall season, but are they really all they're cracked up to be? In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss the best place to get a PSL, the brilliance of the marketing team behind the original launch (seriously, your product has a hashtag and practically launches a new season every year), and whether apple cider has officially been dethroned as the Official Beverage of Fall™.

But with fall comes everything else: bonfires, hayrack rides, visits to the pumpkin patch and corn mazes and the orchard for an afternoon of apple picking, and - best of all - harvest! The fall season seems to be the one that brings the most nostalgia for days on the farm, so how do we harness that energy to promote agricultural awareness throughout the year, not just during harvest?

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In this episode, Claire and Gracie bring their cousin, Evan Rich, on to introduce himself and tell us a little more about his role in the agriculture industry. Evan's a District Sales Manager/Field Service Representative for one of the brands under the Bayer umbrella and was also an ag communications major, like Claire and Gracie. He and Claire also hold opposing views of whether the Oxford comma should be used, which is a taboo topic when we sit around the kids' table during family gatherings, even though we're all in our mid-twenties.

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Rural America often has an "us vs. them" mentality, but is it right to blame our urban consumer counterparts without experiencing life in the city? And flip that the other way around - is it right to blame our rural and farming counterparts without experiencing life in Small Town USA?

Claire and Gracie have both had the opportunity to live in a variety of communities - rural/small town life growing up, medium-sized city through college, and larger cities during the first year on the job and beyond. In this episode, they discuss their likes and dislikes of living in these places and whether they'd return back to a rural lifestyle or would prefer to stay put in the big city.

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We're back! And we brought our cousin Evan on for this episode to discuss family reunions, which are pretty much a summer tradition here in the Midwest.

Here are a few questions we ponder during this episode:

• Why is it there is ALWAYS fried chicken at family reunions?
• Why haven't we figured out how to breed a chicken with more legs? Legs are the best piece!
• Fruit in desserts: Yay or nay?

We're in the throes of new cities, new jobs, and other exciting life events (like starting grad school), so shifting gears here and trying out an every-other-week schedule for a while. We hope you'll stick with us, because we have lots more to discuss in the coming weeks.

Find previous episodes of A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture: The Podcast at FarmKidBlog.com/podcast.