Beating the odds and surviving huge setbacks, David Lukens and family have built a following across the Pacific Northwest with Grace Harbor Farms, providing small-scale, locally produced cultured goat and cow dairy products.
Hear how their small family farm started "by accident" and overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become what it is today.
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Joining with her siblings to carry on her family's multigenerational farming legacy, Ellie Steensma is thinking outside the box and passionate about not just producing amazing local food, but also educating the next generation.
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Despite carrying on the legacy of one of Washington state's oldest farming families, farmer Jay Gordon is as innovative and focused on the future of our food system as anyone.
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Ashton Beanblossom had a big decision to make when her parents recently decided to retire from dairy farming.
Hear how she struggled with the sense of loss, but then chose to build her own dairy -- with an interesting twist.
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Living in the shadows is how Miguel Navarrete describes growing up as an undocumented person, explaining what it's like to feel invisible and isolated.
Miguel opens up about coming to the US and earning legal status in this week's episode.
He also shares how the technology he's responsible for maintaining as an IT Manager on an Eastern Washington dairy defies people's perceptions of farming.
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From farm worker to farm owner... through heartbreak, José Torres realized his dream of owning his own dairy farm.
Hear his incredible story and get insight into the struggles his farm faces as he continues to produce high quality milk in Elma, WA.
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An intense battle with mental illness took Duane Brandsma away from his family's farm and the work that he had cared so deeply about.
Duane gives an inside look into the deeply personal details of what really happened when he says he "cracked," and why he's now speaking out about the mental health crisis among farmers.
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Growing up in Guatemala, Enrique Mendoza never expected that he would one day run his own dairy farm here in Washington state.
But after working for Everson-area dairy farmer Jerry Van Dellen for several years, Enrique found he loved dairy farming and began working toward owning his own farm.
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Host Dillon Honcoop's grandfather produced milk for 45 years and raised a family on a small family dairy near Lynden, Wash.
90-year-old Lawrence Honcoop sits down with his podcaster grandson for a personal reflection on the challenges and triumphs he faced over the years, all the way back to being raised by a single mom with her own small farm just out of the Great Depression.
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