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Podcast Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world

Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world

K. Castrataro

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Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 64

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This podcast celebrates the stories of women farmers around the world who are engaged in food production, ornamentals, and agritourism. Join us for some honest farm talk--and lots of laughter--about the unique challenges faced by female farmers as they try to balance their farm and personal lives, support their mental health and well-being, and sustain healthy relationships on and off the farm.

The first season’s guests include a cassava grower from Cameroon, an agroforester from North Carolina, a ”chicken midwife” from California, the Grass Whisperer, and many, many more. You won’t want to miss an episode!

Your host, Kristen ”K” Castrataro, is a fifth-generation farm kid from Rhode Island. She has a rich agricultural background as a producer, Extension Agent, and farm consultant. She is driven by the conviction that the people feeding our bodies and souls should NOT be starving themselves. K is the founder of Pen Light for Farmers, a business that helps farmers (especially farm women) build a farm life and relationships that meet their deepest needs and values. You can find her at www.penlightfarmers.com.
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Discovering the Mystic Nature of Seeds with Kalan Redwood: TRAILER

Season 2

lundi 23 février 2026 • Duration 00:57

Recording date: February 18, 2026

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode nine features Kalan Redwood of Redwood Seeds as we discuss:

  • Rejuvenating during the “off-season”
  • Appreciating the potential of seeds
  • Choosing traditional schooling and homeschooling
  • Building a seed business from the ground up
  • Much, much more!

You will love this inspiring and informative farmer!

#IYWF2026

About Kalan:

Kalan didn’t choose farming—farming chose her! In her mid-twenties, she met her husband, which started a journey of garden curiosity. After several years growing seeds under contract for other companies, Redwood Seeds was born. They specialize in certified organic, heirloom, and open-pollinated varieties adapted to diverse climates.   

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Food as Medicine for the Body and Soul with Amber Toombs

Season 2 · Episode 8

vendredi 20 février 2026 • Duration 58:30

Recording date: February 3, 2026

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode seven features beginning farmer Amber Toombs of Rustic Roots Heritage Homestead as we discuss:

  • The joys and triumphs of farm cats
  • The “farming gene”
  • Creating hands-on agricultural education
  • Livestock as soil amendments
  • Much, much more!

You will love this energetic and collaborative farmer!

#IYWF2026

About Amber:

Amber was born and raised in the city. Her grandmother, a resilient woman who grew up during the Depression era, experienced the harsh realities of self-sufficiency firsthand. Determined to provide a different life for her family, Amber's grandmother moved to the city, distancing herself from the lifestyle she once knew. This city upbringing shaped Amber's early years, but the stories and skills passed down from her grandmother ignited a spark within her—a desire to rediscover and embrace a life more connected to nature and tradition.

Special opportunity for Food, Flowers, & Fun listeners:

Attend Amber’s Sovereign Health Summit: From Soil to Soul October 27-31, 2026 (both virtual and in person options). Sign up now at https://www.sovereignhealthsummit.com/?ref=womenfarm5. Use the coupon code womenfarm5 to get 5% off your tickets. 

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Living and Farming in Community with Lucía Cueto Kearney: TRAILER

Season 2

lundi 19 janvier 2026 • Duration 00:58

Recording date: January 15, 2026

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 4 features no-dig vegetable farmer Lucía Cueto Kearney of Pea Shoot Farm, LLC as we discuss:

  • Farming to address climate change
  • Growing vegetables in a no-dig system
  • Sharing income in a communal living structure
  • Assigning appropriate value to the work of those who provide community services
  • Much, much more!

You will love this passionate and ideological farmer!

#IYWF2026 

About Lucía:

Lucía Cueto Kearney is a first-generation farmer of Argentine and Irish descent. For the last decade and more, her twin passions have been cooperative living and small-scale sustainable agriculture. Lucía is a founding member of the Wolf Tree Cooperative, a rural housing coop in Foster, RI launched in 2022. After eight years of working for and learning from other farmers, Lucía was able to launch Pea Shoot Farm, LLC (Quinta Arvejita) at Wolf Tree in 2023, a no-dig, intensive market garden producing a variety of crops and homestead goods using farming practices that go beyond sustainability and actively work to build healthy soil. We believe that healthy, sustainably produced, culturally affirming food is a human right, and seek to serve the needs of our local community through the food we grow and access to the land we steward. We believe that small farms are key in reconnecting people to community and planet, and seek to be a part of a robust, sustainable, and just food system here in Rhode Island. 

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Finding Possibilities in Farming with Heather Meehan

Season 2 · Episode 3

vendredi 16 janvier 2026 • Duration 52:04

Recording date: December 29, 2025

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 3 features cut flower farmer Heather Meehan of The Daisy Edition as we discuss:

  • Connecting with land, food, and people
  • Building foundational farming skills
  • Getting—and staying—open to new agricultural possibilities
  • Navigating land access and tenure
  • Much, much more!

You will love this responsive and reflective farmer!

#IYWF2026 

About Heather:

Heather Meehan, the founding farmer of The Daisy Edition, got her start at a twenty-acre pick-your-own CSA (community-supported agriculture) in 2021. It was there that she first fell in love with growing flowers, and she went on to hone her flower farming and floral design skills at farms in New York and Rhode Island. Heather’s favorite moments are early mornings spent harvesting dahlias and anytime one of her cats crawls into her lap. 

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Finding Possibilities in Farming with Heather Meehan: TRAILER

Season 2

lundi 12 janvier 2026 • Duration 00:56

Recording date: December 29, 2025

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 3 features cut flower farmer Heather Meehan of The Daisy Edition as we discuss:

  • Connecting with land, food, and people
  • Building foundational farming skills
  • Getting—and staying—open to new agricultural possibilities
  • Navigating land access and tenure
  • Much, much more!

You will love this responsive and reflective farmer!

#IYWF2026 

About Heather:

Heather Meehan, the founding farmer of The Daisy Edition, got her start at a twenty-acre pick-your-own CSA (community-supported agriculture) in 2021. It was there that she first fell in love with growing flowers, and she went on to hone her flower farming and floral design skills at farms in New York and Rhode Island. Heather’s favorite moments are early mornings spent harvesting dahlias and anytime one of her cats crawls into her lap. 

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Farming the Long Game with Stacy Entel

Season 2 · Episode 2

vendredi 9 janvier 2026 • Duration 54:26

Recording date: January 2, 2026

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 2 features farmer, educator, and ag mediator Stacy Entel of Land & Sea Together as we discuss:

  • Solving problems through agricultural mediation
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships
  • Farming forty hours a week
  • Keeping farm staff for the long-term
  • Much, much more!

You will love this engaging and relational farmer!

#IYWF2026

About Stacy:

Stacy is in her eleventh farming season. She currently grows organic vegetables at Heart Beets Farm in Berkley, Massachusetts, where she exercises her passions for regenerative agriculture and equitable access to local produce. She is also an agricultural mediator with Land & Sea Together. Prior to her work as a farmer and mediator, Stacy earned her B.A. from Tufts University, taught elementary school, and worked especially with English Language Learners. 

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Farming the Long Game with Stacy Entel: TRAILER

Season 2

lundi 5 janvier 2026 • Duration 00:58

Recording date: January 2, 2026

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 2 features farmer, educator, and ag mediator Stacy Entel of Land & Sea Together as we discuss:

  • Solving problems through agricultural mediation
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships
  • Farming forty hours a week
  • Keeping farm staff for the long-term
  • Much, much more!

You will love this engaging and relational farmer!

#IYWF2026

About Stacy:

Stacy is in her eleventh farming season. She currently grows organic vegetables at Heart Beets Farm in Berkley, Massachusetts, where she exercises her passions for regenerative agriculture and equitable access to local produce. She is also an agricultural mediator with Land & Sea Together. Prior to her work as a farmer and mediator, Stacy earned her B.A. from Tufts University, taught elementary school, and worked especially with English Language Learners. 

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Giving and Receiving Help for Your Farm Life with Jennie Kapszukiewicz

Season 2 · Episode 1

vendredi 2 janvier 2026 • Duration 54:16

Recording date: December 22, 2025

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 1 features farmer, educator, and farm planner Jennie Kapszukiewicz of Stone Hill Farm and American Farmland Trust as we discuss:

  • Integrating children into your farm life
  • Advocating for diverse forms of agriculture
  • Redefining generational farming
  • Asking for and receiving help
  • Much, much more!

You will love this intelligent and uplifting farmer!

#IYWF2026 

About Jennie:

Jennie co-owns a pasture-raised, grass-fed beef and pork operation in Northeast Connecticut that utilizes intensive pasture management and regenerative practices. She also works for American Farmland Trust New England, supporting producers’ conservation planning in collaboration with NRCS. Jennie is deeply rooted within her local agricultural community, where she has chaired her town's Agriculture Commission since 2015 and serves as a board member for the Windham County Agricultural Society. Before starting her farm, Jennie was a special education teacher and, later, a disabilities administrator in Connecticut public education.

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Giving and Receiving Help for Your Farm Life with Jennie Kapszukiewicz: TRAILER

Season 2

lundi 29 décembre 2025 • Duration 00:56

Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! Episode 1 features farmer, educator, and farm planner Jennie Kapszukiewicz of Stone Hill Farm and American Farmland Trust as we discuss:

  • Integrating children into your farm life
  • Advocating for diverse forms of agriculture
  • Redefining generational farming
  • Asking for and receiving help
  • Much, much more!

You will love this intelligent and uplifting farmer!

About Jennie:

Jennie co-owns a pasture-raised, grass-fed beef and pork operation in Northeast Connecticut that utilizes intensive pasture management and regenerative practices. She also works for American Farmland Trust New England, supporting producers’ conservation planning in collaboration with NRCS. Jennie is deeply rooted within her local agricultural community, where she has chaired her town's Agriculture Commission since 2015 and serves as a board member for the Windham County Agricultural Society. Before starting her farm, Jennie was a special education teacher and, later, a disabilities administrator in Connecticut public education.

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Raising Sheep and Goats for Niche Markets with Sandra Miller

Season 1 · Episode 22

vendredi 26 décembre 2025 • Duration 57:21

Recording date: December 16, 2025

Episode twenty-two of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world features farmer, writer, and foodie Sandra Miller of Painted Hand Farm as we discuss:

  • Deciding what kind of crops to produce
  • Raising niche meats
  • Familiarizing yourself with agricultural law
  • Exercising your mind
  • Much, much more!

You will love this bold and honest farmer!

About Sandra:

Born and raised in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania, Sandra struck out for California straight out of high school. Formally educated in geology and anthropology, she also rolled up her sleeves and dug her hands into what was to become the birth of the farm-to-table, support your local farmers movement. Along the way, she did some time digitalizing offshore oil rigs and networking and securing international companies' communication systems through emerging technologies. Eventually she broke out of her cubicle and cast off her cables to follow her passion for great meals by digging in the dirt, raising and writing about food, and inspiring others to follow in her boot tracks.

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