Barnyard Language

Today we're connecting with Katie Haynes, the 2022 North Carolina Miss Agriculture Advocacy Ambassador and founder of the non-profit Smiling While Sending Hope. Katie is also an avid photographer and disability advocate.

Katarina Edge came on to talk to us about her experience with infertility treatments in rural areas. Treatments are generally expensive, invasive, and involve a LOT of driving.

Today we're talking to Lydia Kyle about the Hermit Peak/Calf Canyon fire in New Mexico.

Today we're talking to Kristi Grieve about starting direct marketing, setting ourselves apart, and why buck goats are the grossest thing in the world.

Today we're talking to Karin Velez of the Just Grow Something podcast. Karin is telling us about gardening with children, starting her own farm, and growing her podcast.

Join us for a virtual baby shower for our friend Sarah Zastrow of the Throwing Wrenches, Mending Fences Podcast. Sarah is due any day now with her first kid, so we took the chance to tell her what to do, with all sorts of good, bad, and conflicting advice.

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Katie Dotterer is a Pennsylvania dairy farmer turned agvocate and Spanish language teaching entrepreneur. Because 80% of the American farm labor force speaks Spanish as their first language, farmers are learning that to be able to communicate effectively with their employees it's becoming increasingly useful to learn Spanish. Katie's courses focus on vocabulary and situations that are most likely to be needed in dairy settings, and she's in the process of expanding to offer courses for swine and poultry producers.

Cody and Thomas Nicholson Stratton are raising their son to be the seventh generation on their regenerative grass-fed beef, dairy, lamb, wool, and egg operation in northern California. Balancing all these operations with off-farm work and managing a multi-generational farm as well as running very active social media accounts is clearly a labor of love and laughter for these three guys.

Sara farms with her husband Peter and their seven children in Michigan. Their lives were all immensely changed after Peter suffered a serious spinal injury during a farm accident in 2019.

This week we're talking to Courtney Wyckoff, retired professional dancer, certified corrective exercise specialist, and founder of the exercise program MommaStrong. www.mommastrong.com