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Fungi on the Farm

Fungi on the Farm: Small Farms Radio Explores Indoor Mushroom Production

By Emma Davis / July 18, 2025

What does it take to grow mushrooms indoors? To answer this question, our agroforestry and mushroom specialist, Connor Youngerman, takes podcast listeners on a tour of Queens, venturing into nondescript…

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Fungi in the City: Small Farms Radio Talks Urban Mushroom Life Cycle

By Olivia Young / June 12, 2025

How does a mushroom move through the city? On the most recent episode of the Small Farms Radio podcast, our agroforestry and mushroom specialist Connor Youngerman learned that it’s compost…

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Farm Transitions at Northland Sheep Dairy Final

Farm Transitions and Transformations: Small Farms Radio in Conversation with Northland Sheep Dairy

By Kacey Deamer / May 7, 2025

Starting a farm is difficult. But what do you do when you want to retire from one? In the newest episode of our Small Farms Radio podcast, our Associate Director…

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Founding the West Branch Commons

Founding the Commons: Small Farms Radio Dives into West Branch Land Access Project

By Kacey Deamer / April 24, 2025

The last episode of the Small Farms Radio podcast spotlighted West Branch Commons, an innovative land access project that allows beginning farmers to lease affordable farmland with built-in market logistics…

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Founding the West Branch Commons V2

West Branch Commons: Small Farms Radio Explores an Innovative Land Tenure Model

By Kacey Deamer / March 10, 2025

One of the greatest challenges facing a new farmer is the search for land. It is difficult and costly to find quality acreage with the infrastructure needed to support a…

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Who Is A Farmer? First Episode of Small Farms Podcast Explores Farming Identities

By Kacey Deamer / February 13, 2025

What comes to mind when you imagine a farmer? Is it someone navigating a combine across thousands of acres of wheat? Perhaps it is someone in a dense city, managing…

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Welcome to Small Farms Radio, Our New Podcast

By Kacey Deamer / February 9, 2025

We are excited to share that the Cornell Small Farms Program has launched a monthly podcast, Small Farms Radio. For more than two decades, the Cornell Small Farms Program has…

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