Small Farms Radio

The Cornell Small Farms Program’s monthly podcast, Small Farms Radio, centers on stories of the diversity and resilience that come from producing food on a small scale. Small Farms Radio is a hub of conversation for farmers to share the stories of why they farm, what they struggle with, and how they see the future of the food system.

Episodes

Episode 6 - Fungi on the Farm

July 17, 2025 • 41 mins

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 buildings and ducking into basement hatches to discover the innovative world of indoor mushroom production. In this episode Youngerman learns how some growers in the big city are producing mushrooms from “spore-to-table” and every s...

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Episode 5 - Fungi In The City

June 13, 2025 • 35 mins

How does a mushroom move through the city? This April we sent our agroforestry and mushroom specialist Connor Youngerman to follow a mushroom in New York City. With the help of farmers, chefs, and business owners, Youngerman explored the life cycle of urban mushrooms, and how several organizations are working to close the loop of food and food waste in the city.

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Episode 4 - Farm Transitions at Northland Sheep Dairy

May 6, 2025 • 39 mins

What do you do when don’t have family to take over your farm? We talk with Donn and Maryrose of Northland Sheep Dairy in Marathon, NY about how they negotiated the transition of ownership with the previous owners of their farm and how they are making decisions about their own retirement based on their experience.

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Episode 3 - Founding the West Branch Commons Part 2

April 24, 2025 • 34 mins

The West Branch Commons is a land access project in the Catskill region of NY that provides one of the most holistic approaches to supporting beginning farmers in the country. In the second part of this two part series we talk with Tianna Kennedy and Francis Yu, two farmer founders of this project about how this project came to be.

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Episode 2 - Founding the West Branch Commons

March 9, 2025 • 34 mins

The West Branch Commons is a land access project in the Catskill region of New York that provides one of the most holistic approaches to supporting beginning farmers in the country. In this first part of our two-part series we talk with Sea Matais, one of the first farmers to access land through the project, and Rhiannon Wright, a collaborator and part of the team that helped get this project off the ground. Watch the documentary T...

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Episode 1 - Who Is A Farmer?

February 8, 2025 • 32 mins

Who can call themselves a farmer? Depending on where you sit in the food system, you may answer this question very differently. In this first episode of Small Farms Radio, hosted by Cornell Small Farms Program, we hear a range of perspectives on this question from a diverse group of stakeholders. Why does it matter who is called a farmer? This conversation encourages reflection about who is served by different definitions of the te...

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Small Farms Radio

Episodes

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Episode 4 - Farm Transitions at Northland Sheep Dairy

Episode 3 - Founding the West Branch Commons Part 2

Episode 2 - Founding the West Branch Commons

Episode 1 - Who Is A Farmer?

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