Farm Queen Podcast

Bryn is one heck of a busy woman between running her own family farm's day-to-day operations, running a local non-profit to help her community access gardening space and fresh foods, plus being a mom, active in her community, and more! Listen in to learn more about how her community garden effort works, and how her own farm contributes to sharing the goodness in the world, too.

You can follow her farm and her non-profit on Facebook at Wensleydale Cottage Farm and Room To Grow Cortland, respectively.

Antonisha is entirely dedicated to her business from the ground up -- literally. Listen in to hear her passion and dedication to not just developing high-quality beauty products with entirely organic ingredients but also to having a hand in the quality herself. She is a true queen with a focus and a drive not often seen in society these days!

You can follow her business on Facebook at Afica Pure Artisan & Hair Clinique.

Christa offers many unique projects to her community between her personal farm and her non profit farm, from work-based CSA "payments" to space for families to do their own farming. Hear her story of her passion for instilling a love of farming in today's youth, with a strong focus among farmers of color and shifting land equity.

You can follow Christa's farm on Facebook at The Learning Farm.

Juliana shares her story of her farming roots in Brazil and how they eventually brought her to starting her own farm just outside of Ithaca, NY. Her passion for helping small farms grow is what gets her through the day at work, and the evidence is clear -- she is a true Queen fighting to make starting small farms more accessible for minority groups and anyone.

You can follow her farm on Instagram at @viva_acres.

Erica is the type of farm queen that is so deeply passionate about what she does that she has literally built her current life on the philosophies that became part of her job. She is an outstanding grazing farmer as well as a Holistic Management Certified Instructor and the online coordinator and livestock specialist for Cornell Small Farms Program.

You can follow Erica on Facebook at Shelterbelt Farm

Get to know our next queen, Tricia, who not only farms her heart out but also makes sure to farm what her family loves best. This queen is someone truly driven to put in the hard work day after day, share the real behind-the-scenes truths of farming, be as knowledgeable and conscientious with her farming as possible, and encourages others to do the same.

You can follow Tricia's farm on Facebook at Creekside Meadows Farm.

This week's queen is someone who practices what she preaches AND preaches what she practices, which makes her a very special woman! Get to know her passion for grass-fed farming and other ways she's working hard and changing ag for many.

You can follow her farm on Facebook at Peaceful By Nature Farm.

Here's a queen who has come full circle from starting on a dairy farm as a kid to coming back home to revive and transition the farm to beef as an adult. She's passionate about connecting with her community, advocating for farms, and working to help anyone interested learn about farms.

You can follow her farm on Facebook at Greene Pasture Ranch.

In this episode, you'll get to know what drives Jenn to work hard outside of her day job to maintain a farmstand-type store for her customers. She not only raises the products in the store herself, but she also supports members of her community by sourcing high-quality products for her customers from hyper-local farms as well! Learn what drives this woman that lives and breathes agriculture, day in and day out!

You can follow Jenn's store on Facebook at the Farmhouse Market.

Our next farm queen, Michele Kline of Nellie’s Knoll Creamery shares her stories of focusing on being part of the food system versus just a consumer, of helping customers heal with her products, the hard struggles her family carries on a daily basis, and her persistent passion for all things ag (literally). Listen in to this rare, humble woman discuss “the lost art” of small farming and serving others and let her inspire you with her unique business!

You can follow Michele and her farm at Nellie’s Knoll on Facebook.