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Gracie Weinzierl Pierson

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 019 – Call Me Maybe

This week, Claire and Gracie foray into a discussion of the evolution of technology and the highly-contested debate of whether Apple or Android is a better smartphone platform. Spoiler alert:…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 018 – Somethin’ About a Small Town

Claire and Gracie recap their 4th of July food label taste test (check out the video here), compare small town shindigs and big city festivals, and highlight the benefits of…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 017 – Girls Run the World

Claire and Gracie talk about what it’s like to be a young female working in a traditionally male-dominated industry. (Spoiler: It’s not really that bad.) They also cover the importance…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 016 – So We Meat Again

What do you call a cow with no legs? What makes meat “meat”? Could Claire survive following a vegetarian diet? Would Claire or Gracie be willing to try a lab-grown…

Tips for composing the perfect snack drawer

Snack Drawer Essentials

I remember it well: Picture a 22-year-old, fresh out of college with brand-new dress slacks and a nice, new pleather laptop bag sitting at her desk halfway through the first…

The Future of Family Dinners

Can I begin here by telling you how painful it was to type ‘dinners’ in the title instead of ‘suppers’? Living three hours away from home has taught me that…

Stonyfield stirring it up

Stirring It Up

If you like to keep up with the GMO and science literacy conversation, you’ve probably heard about the conversation not happening over on Stonyfield’s Facebook page this week. Stonyfield makes…

reading list

15 Books on My 2018 Reading List

‘Tis the season of abandoned New Year’s Resolutions. Like I said in my first post of 2018, the beauty of New Year’s Resolutions is that you have an entire year to…

The Country Christmas Connection

The Big Reveal – TCCC 2017

Christmas seems like forever ago, but I finally got around to packing up my tree and putting away the red and green (leaving the blue, snowmen, and penguins because it…