a farmer-ish podcast by Crystal Sands

In this episode, we honor World Bee Day with an interview with a very special guest, author Loree Griffin Burns, who has written a new book entitled Honey Bee Rescue. After a short introduction that explores little things we can all do to help the bees, I sit down with Loree to talk about her new book about bees, the struggles in keeping bees, and we end up talking about related topics such as science, curiosity, and writing. 

In this episode, we focus on farm animals and what humans can learn from living so closely with animals. After Ron and I share some of our favorite farm animal stories, I interview award-winning author Sy Montgomery about her newest book, The Hawk's Way. Sy Montgomery is the author of many award-winning and best-selling books, including How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, and Birdology. Her work focuses on illuminating the lives of animals and what we can learn from them. This episode concludes with a poem from the Farmer-ish journal by Ed Higgins entitled "...

In this first episode, I speak with two special guests and farmers. The first guest is my husband, and in the first segment of this episode, we talk about how we got into farming for ourselves here in rural Maine and why we think it's so important to grow your own food and become more self sufficient.