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Episode 020 – Down at the County Fair

It’s county fair season! This week, Claire and Gracie cover a little bit of county fair history and their favorite 4-H fair memories, which include specific projects, fair foods, and carnival rides. And because county/state fairs seem to be a big thing in the Midwest more so than other regions, we explain the concept of “butter cow”…because what’s a fair without the annual butter cow? We want to know your favorite county fair memory – tweet us or comment below…

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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: They agree on what the right answer is in this debate. And please don’t call us because we’re millennials – please text, tweet, or FaceTime us. 🙂 We have polls. Vote for your favorite cellular device here and vote for whether drones have definite ROI on farms here. Also, we’re…

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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 city life and the benefits of small town life. Important question for the audience: Excluding population, how do you measure the size of a small town? Number of Walmarts? Number of fast food joints? Number of adult beverage establishments? Tweet us with your answer! Listen to all of our episodes…

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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 of having a trusted mentor and their favorite things about working in a male-dominated industry…like not having to spend much time waiting in line for the ladies’ restroom at big events. 😉 Visit farmkidblog.com/podcast for more episodes of A Farm Kid’s Guide to Agriculture podcast.…

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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 burger? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of A Farm Kid’s Guide to Agriculture as Claire and Gracie discuss the topic of fake meat. Keep an eye out this weekend for Claire and Gracie’s review of the Impossible Burger, which is supposedly the best burger out there…

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Episode 015 – Don’t Waste Your Time Sticking Around the Farm

Some people land close and others fly a little further when leaving the nest. In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss the benefits of getting away from home in their early careers – even if it is only for a year or two. Check out the blog post that inspired this episode here: Don’t Waste Your Time Sticking Around the Farm. Listen to all of our episodes online here or subscribe on the Apple Podcast app.…

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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 day of her new big-girl job. I had gone to lunch a few hours earlier with my new teammates and came back ready to tackle… well, tackle whatever tasks they decided to give me since it was my first day and all. I check the clock at 2:00, then 2:13,…

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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 the lunch/dinner, dinner/supper, and lunch/supper debate is very much based upon the region in which you live. While I prefer the lunch/supper combo (dinners are just really fancy meals, okay? It’s versatile and works in place of lunch or supper. Think about it.), ‘dinner’ tends to be the term people…

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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 organic yogurt and other products. I don’t have anything against organic production practices. In fact, it’s a great option for farmers looking to diversify or find another buyer for their product. My problem is with the organic product marketing tactics practiced by some. At the heart of the debate is…

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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 procrastinate, as long as you get started on them by 2019. 🙂 Anyway, one of my resolutions was to add 10 books to my library from the AgBookClub reading list. Want to know how those books end up on the AgBookClub reading list? That’s right. From the Amazon suggestion box…

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