my farm roots

My Farm Roots: In hip Brooklyn, Missouri native connects with farm past

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:20:27 +0000

This story is part of the 2013 edition of My Farm Roots, a series from KBIA Radio's partner Harvest Public Media that chronicles Americans’ connection to the land. Click here to explore more My Farm Roots stories and to share your own.

From pastime to passion

Hilary Stohs-Krause — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:53:34 +0000

Aaron Troester’s life both did, and didn’t, turn out exactly the way he planned.

Fly borne disease affects Missouri deer population

Rehman Tungekar — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:50:43 +0000

On this week's show, we'll hear about how the drought is affecting Missouri's deer population, and hear a profile from the Harvest Public Media series My Farm Roots.

My Farm Roots: "Little Miss Janice Ann Robinson and the Cow"

Camille Phillips — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:36:01 +0000

Ninety years ago this May, my grandfather, Ronald Merle Phillips, and his twin brother, Robert Earl, were born on a farm near Chetopa, Kan. His twin died of influenza before their second birthday, but my grandpa is still alive and well. To celebrate that fact, 150 family and friends gathered at the community center in Parsons, Kan. last month.

My Farm Roots: Just taking notes

Donna Vestal — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:34:36 +0000

Sometimes farm roots don’t blossom into a farm life.

But those memories can still have a huge influence, perhaps even determining a career choice.

That’s the case for Tom Karst, a soft-spoken, well-respected journalist who’s been covering the fruit and vegetable industry for more than 25 years .

My Farm Roots: Making a home, out on the ranch

Peggy Lowe — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:32:55 +0000

It’s not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.

For 20-year-old Nan Arnold, it was a day in 1956 in Ashland, a small, dusty dot on the open range of western Kansas near the Oklahoma border.

Nan had landed her first job as a music teacher at the Ashland school just a year before. She lived with the store’s owner because her parents thought she was too young to live alone.

My Farm Roots: When you hail from farm country, roots run deep

Jeremy Bernfeld — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:39:25 +0000

This is the first installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Media’s new series chronicling Americans’ connection to the land.

Kate Edwards hasn’t always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.

Now, she farms a small one-acre plot near Solon, Iowa. On her small farm, she feeds 30 families through a Community Supported Agriculture project, a CSA. Edwards was drawn back to farming, she says, because of family memories.

The lasting heritage of the Homestead Act

Peggy Lowe — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:53:16 +0000

LITTLE RIVER, Kan. – Before this town was here, before the railroads were here, before a post office was here, the Hodgsons were here.

In 1871, Hannah and Henry Clay Hodgson moved into a one-room dugout on the banks of the Little Arkansas, their view an Indian camp on the other side of the river. They arrived in central Kansas in November, in the midst of a blizzard, and it took them three days from the train stop in Salina to get the 60 miles south to this outpost.