The Agri-Tourist, My Journey Back to Agriculture
Agritourism involves travel, entertainment, adventure and agriculture, but, at its core, agritourism is really about connecting and educating. Join me to learn from experienced agritourism farmers and entrepreneurs, and help me build my future farm strategy.
Episodes
66 episodes
A Blue Point Oyster Farm in the Great South Bay
About 3 years ago, Mike & Ray founded Toasted Oysters… a venture that started over some research and a couple of backyard drinks. And one that is also a part of the Farmer Veteran Coalition. I have to admit, Until we spoke, I di...
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Episode 66
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1:05:42
Emily Stone Disrupts the Chocolate Economy, Impacting Over 10,000+ Cacao Farmers Globally
I can’t resist a great conversation about chocolate and cacao farming. I had the pleasure of interviewing someone I met at the beginning of her cacao journey, a real powerhouse and innovator at the time whom I met on my first chocolate trip to ...
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Episode 65
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59:52
The Original Farm Trails & Gravenstein Apple Thrive Together
Farm Trails was founded in the 1970’s to connect the public to local farmers, ranchers, producers and purveyors in Sonoma County CA and is still aligned with the same mission and going strong in 2025. Over five decades ago, a group...
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Episode 64
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1:06:43
A Costa Rica Adventure Debrief with Abby
One of my best trips ever….exploring Costa Rica…with my youngest daughter Abby…for her 18th birthday and High School graduation! This past April, Abby and I embarked on an adventure to Costa Rica….packed with ‘fake’ volcanic eruptions, as...
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Episode 63
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1:06:13
Farms of the Brave with Matt & Kara Rutter
I had the opportunity to interview 2 extremely dedicated and super insipring people who are veterans, farmers, educators, PHd students, and mentors for so many veterans who are considering a career in farming. This is career #2 for both o...
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Episode 62
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51:44
Wine on the Porch Part 2: A Mini Podcast Series with Maryland 'Farm' Women
On Agri-Tourist Episode #4 we hosted Shelby Watson-Hampton, author of Grace, Grit & Lipstick and co-owner of Robin Hill Farm & Vineyards in Maryland. I was heading...
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Episode 61
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1:02:42
Wine on the Porch Part 1: A Mini Podcast Series with Maryland 'Farm' Women
On the Agri-Tourist Episode #4 we hosted Shelby Watson-Hampton, author of Grace, Grit & Lipstick and co-owner of Robin Hill Farm & Vineyards. I was heading down to a wedding in SC and my 1st stop was Maryland. I always say that I ...
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Episode 60
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37:34
Providing Meaningful Access to Healthy Food with Shalom Farms
Shalom Farms is a nonprofit working together to build healthy communities by growing and sharing healthy food. The food they grow is distributed through their network of programs and partnerships in communities where access to healthy food is l...
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Episode 59
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1:02:21
Was Meryl Streep the Real Inspiration for Eco-Certified Apples?
We did not grow apples at my farm. So during apple season we would purchase apples to have available for our customers. Finding organic apples was impossible so after some research we found Eco Certified apples from Fishkill Farms -...
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Episode 58
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1:13:03
A Land Access Story: Finding Secure Farmland with Molly Comstock
Molly Comstock is now overseeing Many Forks Farm. Many from the Berkshires know her as the owner of Colfax Farm. Molly’s passion and tenacity for farming and to be a farmer definitely comes through in her story. And her story has a signif...
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Episode 57
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1:01:29
Creating Sustainable Hunger Relief Right from Your PORCH
My conversation with Jim Sanders, farmer from Wildflower Lane Farm in NC, was far reaching. HIs idea around having food advocacy groups who are purchasing produce from retailers and wholesalers shift those funds to pay local farmers to gr...
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Episode 56
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50:18
A Farm Conversation that Led to a Place at the Table
Jim Sanders, farmer from Wildflower Lane Farm in NC, had an idea about growing vegetables and finding a distribution partner for those vegetables. In my podcast interview with Jim (
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Episode 55
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40:58
A Creative Farming Model to Grow Food for Local Kids in North Carolina
Jim Sanders, an environmentalist and farmer, is the owner of Wildflower Lane Farm in North Carolina. Jim has some great stories about how he came into farming and his fun and not so fun experiences with trying to build a farming business....
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Episode 54
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1:10:58
The Journey Comes Full Circle with Jen & Marisa (Part 2)
So this is my 53rd episode…the 1st episode of Season 2 of the Agri-Tourist Podcast! This episode is Part 2 of my interview with Marisa about coming full circle. I have learned so much during the course of this ye...
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Episode 53
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46:51
The Journey Comes Full Circle with Jen & Marisa (Part 1)
So this is my 52nd episode…Part 1! One whole year of podcast episodes…and I have to say that I learned so much during the course of this year…and not just about farming and agriculture. I learned so much about life, about love, about pas...
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Episode 52
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47:41
Veteran Farmers, Serving Our Country Twice, by Defending it and Feeding it
When I became aware of The Farmer Veteran Coalition, I just had to learn more. The Mission of Farmer Veteran Coalition is Mobilizing Veterans to Feed America. They are cultivating a new generation of farmers and food le...
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Episode 51
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41:39
Everybody Has the Right to High Quality Produce at Full Well Farm
Meg and Laura founded Full Well Farm located in Adams, MA in 2018. Meg was brought up on the farmland they are now farming on. When chatting with Meg about their background, there seemed to be an initial resistance to farming and becoming...
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Episode 50
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1:03:45
Johnson Gains Ground, Growing Food & Community to Create More Food Security in MA
The USDA defines food security as having "access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members" and very low food insecurity is classified as " where one or more household members experience reduced food inta...
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Episode 49
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58:40
It's All About 'Morals Over Money' at The Farmyard
She is a passionate farm entrepreneur from Maryland…driven to preserve her farmland and build a thriving Farmyard business. Renee Wilson was born to a teacher and dairy farmer, she was a 4H member and then earned an education in TV prod...
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Episode 48
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33:20
Heart & Soil Makes Healthy Food Accessible To All
Kristen Tool and I have something very important in common….we want to connect ALL people to real, healthy, nutritious food….sometimes that food is harvested right from the farm and other times it is made into nutritious soups. Ca...
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Episode 47
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57:20
A Craft Beer & Apple Cider Tour with Dr. Alison Feeney
Craft Beer and Cider….both wins for the agritourism industry. And it’s actually less about the alcohol and more about the sense of community and connection that it brings. Dr. Alison Feeney is a Professor in the Geography and...
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Episode 46
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57:33
Experience West Virginia's Thrilling White Water and Agritourism of Tawney Farm
Have you ever heard of the New River Gorge or the Gauley River? Well, if you’ve ever been into the white water rafting scene, you have heard one of these West Virginia rivers and probably rafted it! The New River Gorge is amazing in...
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Episode 45
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1:03:03
Only 90 US Farms Grow Tea and Maryland's Lori Baker is One of Them
Did you know that there are about 1.8 million tea growers around the world? The leading tea-producing countries include Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan. The U.S. trails behind the 6 million tons of global tea production,&n...
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Episode 44
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1:01:32
Giany's Leap of Faith & Focus on Growing Food Impacts South Carolina Children
I’ve taken leaps of faith in the past, but nothing like Giany Guedjo, the Executive Director at Carolina Human Reinvestment. Giany was an accountant at an orphanage in Benin, West Africa. But Giany wanted more for himself and his ex...
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Episode 43
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1:15:23
Tom & Monica's Shared Vision & Adventure at Goodnow Farms Chocolate
They believe that great craft chocolate is “true to the bean,” – that the flavors apparent in the bar reflect the flavors hidden in the cacao bean. Like coffee beans and wine grapes, different cacao beans have different flavors. Discovering tho...
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Episode 42
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53:40