The Farming Show
The Farming Show, hosted by Dillon Honcoop and produced by Save Family Farming, gives voice to the farmers, workers, and advocates fighting for the future of agriculture in Washington State. Each episode dives into the real challenges facing local farms—regulations, lawsuits, labor, water, and misinformation—while telling the human stories behind the headlines. Bold, honest, and unapologetically pro-farmer, the show exposes what’s threatening our food system and what’s being done to defend it.
Episodes
September 8, 2025 • 22 mins
Ryan Mensonides' dream of providing his farm's top-quality dairy products direct to the community was just starting to take off this summer, when a truck crash near Enumclaw, WA changed everything.
Mensonides joins Dillon with a call for the state to take an active role in quickly finding solutions to try to salvage the area's suddenly-suffering economy, including his new Mount Rainier Creamery & Market in nearby Buckley, WA.
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September 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Refrigeration is an important capacity many farms need when they're producing fresh food, but new Washington state restrictions on refrigeration systems could cripple farms with massive cost increases.
Ben Ingalls with IVI joins Dillon with the background on the new laws and what they'll mean for farming in the region.
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August 25, 2025 • 24 mins
A Yakima, WA-based activist group recently published anti-farm videos on its social media feeds that featured the Washington State Department of Health's official logo, raising troubling questions about possible tax dollars used for political purposes.
Save Family Farming has filed an official complaint with the WA Attorney General's Office calling for an investigation into possible state sponsorship of the nonprofit "We Are ELLA"...
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August 25, 2025 • 23 mins
Discredited labor activist Rosalinda Guillén of Community to Community Development recently repeated false and offensive attacks on farms hiring guest workers via the federal H-2A visa program
Farms have been turning to the expensive and highly-regulated program as a last resort to help cover labor gaps resulting from the worsening farm labor shortage.
Enrique Gastelum, a former farmworker who's now CEO of the Worker And Farmer L...
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August 18, 2025 • 42 mins
It's no surprise that during a dry summer, people are talking about water issues, including many that involve the farming community.
Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming's Executive Director, joins Dillon for an update on the advocacy work the organization is focused on currently and into coming weeks and months.
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August 12, 2025 • 22 mins
State leaders have said they would provide support for the 30,000-plus water users it has sued in its Whatcom water rights adjudication court case as they navigate the extremely complex issues the state has forced on them.
But Bill Clarke, Olympia-based attorney for the Ag Water Board of Whatcom County, tells Dillon that various aspects of the funding to support water users and the court processhave been either reduced, cut entire...
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August 11, 2025 • 21 mins
State leaders are going back on decades-old agreements with farm foresters with a troubling new plan that would force larger forest buffers on streams without fish.
The proposal has farmers worried they could be targeted with similar stringent rules, forcing massive amounts of farmland out of production statewide.
Tom Westergreen, a small family forest owner in Whatcom County, along with Washington Farm Forestry Association Execu...
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August 2, 2025 • 20 mins
Seattle's hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River are up for relicensing, and Seattle City Light's proposal leaves the door open to Seattle using eminent domain authority to condemn and take farmland in the Skagit Valley.
Will Honea, Skagit County Deputy Prosecutor, joins Dillon to answer questions about what Seattle's plan entails, and what risks lie ahead for Skagit County agriculture.
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July 28, 2025 • 21 mins
The Trump Administration's recent decision to step back from an agreement designed to speed the march toward breaching the Lower Snake River dams has the Pacific Northwest farming community breathing a guarded sigh of relief.
But John Stuhlmiller, Washington State Water Resources Association Executive Director, tells Dillon that while it's a move in the right direction to step back from the brink and include more voices in the pro...
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July 26, 2025 • 21 mins
Social media influencers and reporters from prominent regional and national publications descended on a few local raspberry farms recently, for a tour set up by the Washington Red Raspberry Commission.
Influencer Kaitlyn Thornton, known on Tik Tok and Instagram as the "Apple Girl," joins Dillon to talk about the tour and what she learned.
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July 22, 2025 • 19 mins
Featuring 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, a car show, vendors, displays and of course raspberries & ice cream, the Northwest Raspberry Festival took over downtown Lynden July 18-19.
Gary Vis, Lynden Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, joined Dillon with the details.
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July 21, 2025 • 20 mins
A key part of the Whatcom County farming community’s fight for survival in the face of immense water resource pressures is on full display in a brand-new documentary film.
Every Last Drop, Whatcom Family Farmers’ latest film release, captures the struggles of a local potato farm using the latest technology to reach new heights of water efficiency under the looming clouds of a local water crisis and massive court case.
Greg Ebe, a...
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July 14, 2025 • 20 mins
The lion's share of America's frozen red raspberries are picked in Whatcom County, and the 2025 harvest of the celebrated red fruit is in full swing.
Mark Van Mersbergen, Lynden-area berry farmer and Washington Red Raspberry Commission President, joins Dillon with a harvest update and a look ahead to the region's next berry specialty: blueberries.
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July 7, 2025 • 40 mins
As farmers across Washington state and all over the nation age, there's a growing question about who will replace them to continue a farming community.
Judy Feldman, Executive Director of the Whidbey Island-based Organic Farm School, joins Dillon to talk about the impending crisis, and how her organization is trying to help.
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June 30, 2025 • 20 mins
As predicted, new farm work overtime laws aren't benefitting farmworkers, despite the promises of lawmakers who supported the changes.
Tim Delbridge, assistant professor of applied economics at Oregon State University, joined Dillon with details on his research on the impact of the changing laws in Oregon, showing farmworkers actually making less money as a result, in many cases.
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June 28, 2025 • 23 mins
Farmers Equipment Company is known around Northwest Washington and far beyond for serving the farming community with their wide variety of equipment lines, shop and irrigation services and expansive parts inventory and more.
Kevin Pawloski, Farmer's Equipment Company's President and General Manager, joins Dillon with a look back at the company's last 9 decades, as well as details on the June 28th anniversary event at their Lynden ...
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June 25, 2025 • 20 mins
Whatcom County officials' miscalculation following the recent rollover of a semi load of honey bees near Lynden sent headline writers around the globe into sensationalist overdrive.
Local reporter Jeremy Lott joined Dillon to discuss the shock the over-the-top coverage generated, and why at the same time local farmers' response was little more than a yawn.
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June 16, 2025 • 20 mins
As the farmworker community grapples with the threat of the ongoing immigration crackdown, some Washington farms have been forced to leave fruit to rot, their workforces in some cases down by as much as 80 percent.
Erik Zavala, Director of Field Staff at Wenatchee-based Blue Bird, Inc., a grower-owned cooperative of small family farms, tells Dillon that not only are local workers worried about being targeted by federal agents, but...
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June 9, 2025 • 20 mins
For nearly 20 years, dairies in Washington's Lower Yakima Valley have been falsely accused of contaminating the groundwater there.
Biased news reports, flawed science, federal and activist lawsuits, government coverups, and even bureaucrats' covert coordination with anti-farm groups have been exposed as part of the ongoing campaign to smear these farms and push them out of business.
Now, as Dillon explains, a Congressman is eleva...
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June 9, 2025 • 20 mins
Some water users in Whatcom County, particularly longtime multigenerational family farms, have been using the same water source since before state law began requiring water rights.
Now that all water users in the county are being required to defend their water rights in court via the Washington Department of Ecology's new water rights adjudication, those farms wouldn't have been able to participate, putting their entire future in ...
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