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Episode 23: From Teacher to Founder: Anne Kuehne on Growing Community Farm Leaders at Sproutin' Up
Anne Kuehne started out teaching kindergarten and first grade—then saw, up close, how access to fresh food was out of reach for many kids. What began with collecting extra produce from neighbors and showing up (even...
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Episode 22: One Farm, Many Threads: How Fernbrook Weaves Education, CSA, Nursery, and Hospitality
Fernbrook Farms is a living mosaic: education center, CSA, wholesale nursery, and a historic inn—braided together by one family’s multi-generation love of land and learning. In this conversation, Brian Kuser shares...
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Episode 21: The Power of Partnership: Inside Rogue Valley Farm to School's Model
Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley Farm to School is proof that you don’t need your own farm to make a huge impact on kids, cafeterias, and local growers. Instead, they weave together partnerships with schools, teaching...
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Episode 20: Fiddlehead Care Farm: Where Animals and Gardens Nurture Mental Health
Fiddlehead Care Farm is a therapeutic farm in Ontario where counseling meets animals, gardens, and woodland trails. Founder and director Stephanie Deaken shares how growing up with a sister with Down syndrome, a...
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Episode 19: Play. Learn. Grow.: Sunflower Farm's Licensed Preschool, Farm Fests, & Community Roots
Sunflower Farm in Longmont, Colorado blends licensed early childhood education with real farm life—over 100 animals, gardens, and wide-open play—plus beloved community events like Farm Fests and music...
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Episode 18: Living History, Real Farm Learning: How Gibbs Farm Teaches Land, Story, and Stewardship
Gibbs Farm is an eight-acre oasis just outside St. Paul where farm education meets living history. Director Sammy Nelson and Youth Programs Manager Janie Bender share how they turn heirloom gardens, farm animals, and...
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Episode 17: A Tiny Farm, Big Impact: Food Access, Chickens, and Community with Montclair Community Farms
Montclair Community Farms’ Executive Director Lana Mustafa shares how a backyard beekeeper and homesteader became the leader of a thriving urban farm in Montclair, NJ. From a 10,000-square-foot site with raised beds,...
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Episode 16: When a Dairy Becomes a Classroom: How Hart to Hart Built a Beloved Farm Camp
Hart to Hart Farm is a family-owned organic dairy in Albion, Maine where the barns double as classrooms and kids become caretakers. Director Linda Hartkopf didn’t grow up on a farm—she chose this life—and built a...
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Episode 15: The Farm a Town Saved: Former Teachers, Outdoor Preschool, and All-Ages Learning at Wright-Locke
Wright-Locke Farm is a historic, certified-organic community farm just outside Boston. Education Director Sarah Doyle shares how her team of former classroom teachers aren't just producing food, they're taking care of...
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Episode 14: A Public School's Working Farm: How Bowers Turns Curriculum into a Living Classroom
Bowers School Farm has been connecting students to land, animals, and food systems since 1967—right inside the Bloomfield Hills Schools. In this episode, Learning Expedition Leader Megan Isabelle walks us through how...
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Episode 13: Resilience in Bloom: Farm Education at Treworgy Orchards
Treworgy Family Orchards in Maine could have ended before it began. When the family planted their very first 15 acres of apple trees, every single one was destroyed by pests. Instead of giving up, they started over —...
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Episode 12: From Farm to Yarn at Two Dachshund Farm
🎙️ Episode 12 — Two Dachshund Farm (Franklinton, NC)
Anne Akers has woven together a life of fiber, education, and agritourism at Two Dachshund Farm, the 17-acre haven she and her husband Rodney have been building as...
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