Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world

Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world

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  • Farming as an Act of Transformation (Highlights from Season 1)

    Recording date: 2025

    Welcome to this special highlight edition of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 5 features five of our most transformational guests from Season 1 as we discuss:

    • Making a difference right where we are
    • Supporting women farmers to have more purpose, community, and profitability
    • Engaging in boat-based advocacy
    • Nurturing the sea through kelp
    • Sharing the fun sides of farming with the next generation
    • If these bite-size snippets whet your appetite, be sure to check out the full episodes, listed below!

      #IYWF2026

      Listen to the Full Episodes Here:

      • Farming That Contributes with Azure Cygler: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-rew66-19a1352
      • Raising Chickens with Humanity and Integrity with Franchesca Duval: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9c2ei-194a871
      • Women Discovering Purpose and Community through Cassava with Nancy Nalova: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ti82k-196c43b
      • Each Farmer Matters with Toluwani Precious Ogunbiyi: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-dz53v-1959ef1
      • Grassroots Advocacy for Farmers on Land and Sea with Sarah Schumann: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-e4y6x-198067f
      • Connect with K at: 

        • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
        • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
        • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
        • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast
        • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x

          52 min
        • Farming as an Act of Transformation (Highlights from Season 1): TRAILER

          Recording date: 2025

          Welcome to this special highlight edition of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 5 features five of our most transformational guests from Season 1 as we discuss:

          • Making a difference right where we are
          • Supporting women farmers to have more purpose, community, and profitability
          • Engaging in boat-based advocacy
          • Nurturing the sea through kelp
          • Sharing the fun sides of farming with the next generation
          • If these bite-size snippets whet your appetite, be sure to check out the full episodes, listed below!

            #IYWF2026

            Listen to the Full Episodes Here:

            • Farming That Contributes with Azure Cygler: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-rew66-19a1352
            • Raising Chickens with Humanity and Integrity with Franchesca Duval: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9c2ei-194a871
            • Women Discovering Purpose and Community through Cassava with Nancy Nalova: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ti82k-196c43b
            • Each Farmer Matters with Toluwani Precious Ogunbiyi: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-dz53v-1959ef1
            • Grassroots Advocacy for Farmers on Land and Sea with Sarah Schumann: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-e4y6x-198067f
            • Connect with K at: 

              • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
              • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
              • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
              • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast 
              • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
              • 1 min
              • Living and Farming in Community with Lucía Cueto Kearney

                Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 4 features no-dig vegetable farmer Lucía Cueto Kearney of Pea Shoot Farm, LLC as we discuss:

                • Farming to address climate change
                • Growing vegetables in a no-dig system
                • Sharing income in a communal living structure
                • Assigning appropriate value to the work of those who provide community services
                • Much, much more!
                • You will love this passionate and ideological farmer!

                  #IYWF2026 

                  About Lucía:

                  Lucía Cueto Kearney is a first-generation farmer of Argentine and Irish descent. For the last decade and more, her twin passions have been cooperative living and small-scale sustainable agriculture. Lucía is a founding member of the Wolf Tree Cooperative, a rural housing coop in Foster, RI launched in 2022. After eight years of working for and learning from other farmers, Lucía was able to launch Pea Shoot Farm, LLC (Quinta Arvejita) at Wolf Tree in 2023, a no-dig, intensive market garden producing a variety of crops and homestead goods using farming practices that go beyond sustainability and actively work to build healthy soil. We believe that healthy, sustainably produced, culturally affirming food is a human right, and seek to serve the needs of our local community through the food we grow and access to the land we steward. We believe that small farms are key in reconnecting people to community and planet, and seek to be a part of a robust, sustainable, and just food system here in Rhode Island. 

                  Connect with Lucía at: 

                  • Website: https://www.wolftreecoop.org/farm
                  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563293259907
                  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pea.shoot.farm/
                  • Connect with K at: 

                    • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                    • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                    • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                    • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast 
                    • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
                    • Recording date: January 15, 2026

                      1 hr 1 min
                    • Living and Farming in Community with Lucía Cueto Kearney: TRAILER

                      Recording date: January 15, 2026

                      Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 4 features no-dig vegetable farmer Lucía Cueto Kearney of Pea Shoot Farm, LLC as we discuss:

                      • Farming to address climate change
                      • Growing vegetables in a no-dig system
                      • Sharing income in a communal living structure
                      • Assigning appropriate value to the work of those who provide community services
                      • Much, much more!
                      • You will love this passionate and ideological farmer!

                        #IYWF2026 

                        About Lucía:

                        Lucía Cueto Kearney is a first-generation farmer of Argentine and Irish descent. For the last decade and more, her twin passions have been cooperative living and small-scale sustainable agriculture. Lucía is a founding member of the Wolf Tree Cooperative, a rural housing coop in Foster, RI launched in 2022. After eight years of working for and learning from other farmers, Lucía was able to launch Pea Shoot Farm, LLC (Quinta Arvejita) at Wolf Tree in 2023, a no-dig, intensive market garden producing a variety of crops and homestead goods using farming practices that go beyond sustainability and actively work to build healthy soil. We believe that healthy, sustainably produced, culturally affirming food is a human right, and seek to serve the needs of our local community through the food we grow and access to the land we steward. We believe that small farms are key in reconnecting people to community and planet, and seek to be a part of a robust, sustainable, and just food system here in Rhode Island. 

                        Connect with Lucía at: 

                        • Website: https://www.wolftreecoop.org/farm
                        • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563293259907
                        • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pea.shoot.farm/
                        • Connect with K at: 

                          • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                          • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                          • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                          • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast 
                          • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
                          • 1 min
                          • Finding Possibilities in Farming with Heather Meehan

                            Recording date: December 29, 2025

                            Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 3 features cut flower farmer Heather Meehan of The Daisy Edition as we discuss:

                            • Connecting with land, food, and people
                            • Building foundational farming skills
                            • Getting—and staying—open to new agricultural possibilities
                            • Navigating land access and tenure
                            • Much, much more!
                            • You will love this responsive and reflective farmer!

                              #IYWF2026 

                              About Heather:

                              Heather Meehan, the founding farmer of The Daisy Edition, got her start at a twenty-acre pick-your-own CSA (community-supported agriculture) in 2021. It was there that she first fell in love with growing flowers, and she went on to hone her flower farming and floral design skills at farms in New York and Rhode Island. Heather’s favorite moments are early mornings spent harvesting dahlias and anytime one of her cats crawls into her lap. 

                              Connect with Heather at: 

                              • Website: https://www.thedaisyedition.com/
                              • Instagram: @thedaisyedition  
                              • Connect with K at: 

                                • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast 
                                • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
                                • 53 min
                                • Finding Possibilities in Farming with Heather Meehan: TRAILER

                                  Recording date: December 29, 2025

                                  Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 3 features cut flower farmer Heather Meehan of The Daisy Edition as we discuss:

                                  • Connecting with land, food, and people
                                  • Building foundational farming skills
                                  • Getting—and staying—open to new agricultural possibilities
                                  • Navigating land access and tenure
                                  • Much, much more!
                                  • You will love this responsive and reflective farmer!

                                    #IYWF2026 

                                    About Heather:

                                    Heather Meehan, the founding farmer of The Daisy Edition, got her start at a twenty-acre pick-your-own CSA (community-supported agriculture) in 2021. It was there that she first fell in love with growing flowers, and she went on to hone her flower farming and floral design skills at farms in New York and Rhode Island. Heather’s favorite moments are early mornings spent harvesting dahlias and anytime one of her cats crawls into her lap. 

                                    Connect with Heather at: 

                                    • Website: https://www.thedaisyedition.com/
                                    • Instagram: @thedaisyedition  
                                    • Connect with K at: 

                                      • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                      • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                      • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                      • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast
                                      • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x 
                                      • 1 min
                                      • Farming the Long Game with Stacy Entel

                                        Recording date: January 2, 2026

                                        Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 2 features farmer, educator, and ag mediator Stacy Entel of Land & Sea Together as we discuss:

                                        • Solving problems through agricultural mediation
                                        • Building and maintaining strong relationships
                                        • Farming forty hours a week
                                        • Keeping farm staff for the long-term
                                        • Much, much more!
                                        • You will love this engaging and relational farmer!

                                          #IYWF2026

                                          About Stacy:

                                          Stacy is in her eleventh farming season. She currently grows organic vegetables at Heart Beets Farm in Berkley, Massachusetts, where she exercises her passions for regenerative agriculture and equitable access to local produce. She is also an agricultural mediator with Land & Sea Together. Prior to her work as a farmer and mediator, Stacy earned her B.A. from Tufts University, taught elementary school, and worked especially with English Language Learners. 

                                          Connect with Stacy at: 

                                          • Website: https://landandseatogether.org/ ; https://www.heartbeetsfarm.com/
                                          • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/landandseatogether/ ; https://www.facebook.com/heartbeetsfarm/
                                          • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landandseatogether/?hl=en ; https://www.instagram.com/heartbeetsfarm/?hl=en
                                          • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heartbeetsfarm2540
                                          • Connect with K at: 

                                            • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                            • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                            • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                            • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast
                                            • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x 
                                            • 55 min
                                            • Farming the Long Game with Stacy Entel: TRAILER

                                              Recording date: January 2, 2026

                                              Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 2 features farmer, educator, and ag mediator Stacy Entel of Land & Sea Together as we discuss:

                                              • Solving problems through agricultural mediation
                                              • Building and maintaining strong relationships
                                              • Farming forty hours a week
                                              • Keeping farm staff for the long-term
                                              • Much, much more!
                                              • You will love this engaging and relational farmer!

                                                #IYWF2026

                                                About Stacy:

                                                Stacy is in her eleventh farming season. She currently grows organic vegetables at Heart Beets Farm in Berkley, Massachusetts, where she exercises her passions for regenerative agriculture and equitable access to local produce. She is also an agricultural mediator with Land & Sea Together. Prior to her work as a farmer and mediator, Stacy earned her B.A. from Tufts University, taught elementary school, and worked especially with English Language Learners. 

                                                Connect with Stacy at: 

                                                • Website: https://landandseatogether.org/ ; https://www.heartbeetsfarm.com/
                                                • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/landandseatogether/ ; https://www.facebook.com/heartbeetsfarm/
                                                • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landandseatogether/?hl=en ; https://www.instagram.com/heartbeetsfarm/?hl=en
                                                • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heartbeetsfarm2540
                                                • Connect with K at: 

                                                  • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                                  • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                                  • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                                  • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast
                                                  • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
                                                  • 1 min
                                                  • Giving and Receiving Help for Your Farm Life with Jennie Kapszukiewicz

                                                    Recording date: December 22, 2025

                                                    Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 1 features farmer, educator, and farm planner Jennie Kapszukiewicz of Stone Hill Farm and American Farmland Trust as we discuss:

                                                    • Integrating children into your farm life
                                                    • Advocating for diverse forms of agriculture
                                                    • Redefining generational farming
                                                    • Asking for and receiving help
                                                    • Much, much more!
                                                    • You will love this intelligent and uplifting farmer!

                                                      #IYWF2026 

                                                      About Jennie:

                                                      Jennie co-owns a pasture-raised, grass-fed beef and pork operation in Northeast Connecticut that utilizes intensive pasture management and regenerative practices. She also works for American Farmland Trust New England, supporting producers’ conservation planning in collaboration with NRCS. Jennie is deeply rooted within her local agricultural community, where she has chaired her town's Agriculture Commission since 2015 and serves as a board member for the Windham County Agricultural Society. Before starting her farm, Jennie was a special education teacher and, later, a disabilities administrator in Connecticut public education.

                                                      Connect with Jennie at: 

                                                      • Website: https://www.stonehillfarmct.com/
                                                      • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stonehillfarmct
                                                      • Connect with K at: 

                                                        • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                                        • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                                        • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                                        • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast 
                                                        • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x
                                                        • 55 min
                                                        • Giving and Receiving Help for Your Farm Life with Jennie Kapszukiewicz: TRAILER

                                                          Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 1 features farmer, educator, and farm planner Jennie Kapszukiewicz of Stone Hill Farm and American Farmland Trust as we discuss:

                                                          • Integrating children into your farm life
                                                          • Advocating for diverse forms of agriculture
                                                          • Redefining generational farming
                                                          • Asking for and receiving help
                                                          • Much, much more!
                                                          • You will love this intelligent and uplifting farmer!

                                                            About Jennie:

                                                            Jennie co-owns a pasture-raised, grass-fed beef and pork operation in Northeast Connecticut that utilizes intensive pasture management and regenerative practices. She also works for American Farmland Trust New England, supporting producers’ conservation planning in collaboration with NRCS. Jennie is deeply rooted within her local agricultural community, where she has chaired her town's Agriculture Commission since 2015 and serves as a board member for the Windham County Agricultural Society. Before starting her farm, Jennie was a special education teacher and, later, a disabilities administrator in Connecticut public education.

                                                            Connect with Jennie at: 

                                                            • Website: https://www.stonehillfarmct.com/
                                                            • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stonehillfarmct
                                                            • Connect with K at: 

                                                              • Website: https://www.penlightfarmers.com
                                                              • YouTube: @k.castrataro3466 
                                                              • Facebook and Instagram: @penlightfarmers
                                                              • Podcast (audio): https://www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast
                                                              • Podcast (video): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIVBn53rrIsTwS4ag6hH4DHnxG_Lxqt7x 
                                                              • 1 min

                                                              About Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world

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                                                              This podcast tells the stories of women farmers around the world who grow produce and ornamentals, raise animals, and engage in agritourism. Join us for some honest talk--and lots of…