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Episode 30: From the Fields to Founder: Building Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm
Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm with Jessica Ridgeway
What happens when a love of food, community, and sustainability grows into an 18-year farm education nonprofit?
In this episode, I sit down with Jessica...
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Episode 29: Stewarding a Farm for Generations: Education, Food, and Community at Snipes Farm
Episode 29 – Stewarding a Farm for Generations: Education, Food, and Community at Snipes Farm
What does it look like to steward a place — not just for today’s programs, but for generations to come?
In this episode,...
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Episode 28: Starting Where You Are: Lessons from Seven Months of Farm Educator Interviews
Episode 28: Starting Where You Are: Lessons from 7 Months of Farm Educator Interviews
This episode of the Farm Educator’s Roadmap is a little different—there’s no interview this week. Instead, host Christa Hein...
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Episode 27: Farm to Table Kids: Betting on Yourself, Following Nature, and Rebuilding Again
Farm to Table Kids: Betting on Yourself, Following Nature, and Rebuilding Again
Stephanie McDonough’s journey is a powerful reminder that farm education isn’t tied to one piece of land — it’s rooted in purpose,...
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Episode 26: Letting the Land Lead: Growing a Farm Education Business One Step at a Time at Heritage Creek Farm
Letting the Land Lead: Growing a Farm Education Business One Step at a Time at Heritage Creek FarmCindi Hughes is the founder of Heritage Creek Farm & Education Center, and in this episode, she shares the very...
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Episode 25: Ever Giving, Ever Learning: Inside Bloomsbury Farm School
Bloomsbury Farm School didn’t start as a grand plan — it started as one farmer, one child, one teacher, and a whole lot of listening to what the land and community were asking for.
In this episode, I’m joined by...
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Episode 24: Access, Education, & Dignity: Project Grows' Farm-to-Community Model
Project Grows sits on just five acres in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, but the impact reaches far beyond the fence line. What started as nine human service agencies responding to childhood obesity and food insecurity...
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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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