When people look into a farmer’s world, it often looks like a fairy tale life, and in many respects, that’s true. In this episode of The Fighting Farmer podcast, we cover some of the things that challenge the wonderful life. Topics in this show: Pushing the production season, and it’s getting cold in the holler. The…

Update from the farm: The Christmas ducks are out on pasture in the unseasonably warm fall weather and doing well. A buyer from a cooking school visits the farm. Across the Creek Farm supplies this school already, and the buyer said they needed to source conventional chicken so that the students would have a realistic experience…

Matt Brechwald publishes the Off Farm Income podcast and farms in  Kuna, Idaho. Like many people, Matt had a “good job” with good pay, good benefits, time off, and reliability. And like many people he was not satisfied. Before he knew it, he spent 15 years as a police officer, and his dream of farming…