This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lulu Redder, the owner of Feral Woman Farm in North Bend, Washington.

Feral Woman Farm is a pastured pig and chicken operation located within a historic farm park. The land is publicly owned and offers trails and play areas as well as a farmstead.

This means the farm gets plenty of visitors, offering Redder an opportunity to interact with and educate the public on agriculture.

"We get to work in this space which has a lot of history and a lot of public interaction, so it was kind of the perfect place for us to do a community-based farming operation, which I love," said Redder.

Redder takes pride in the closed production loop she's created on the farm. It's important to her that all aspects of her animals' lives are managed on the property, from birth to slaughter.

To keep everything on-site, she trained as a butcher and now processes her livestock on the farm. She also offers community butchery classes to those interested in following in her footsteps.

"I did a lot of exploration and learning about butchery because I felt that I came to a point in my farming career where I was like, if I am going to raise animals for me, I really need to be comfortable with that whole process from start to finish to feel good about that," Redder said.

Many of the people in her classes are women, which Redder appreciates given her own journey.

"I have been a woman on a professional journey and some very typically male-dominated spaces," she said. "And I think it's important as a woman in ag to be pushing for our place at the table and to break the glass ceilings that are walling women in, in certain spaces."