The Punk Rock Farmer - Part 1

Today I'm talking with Jonathan Lawler at The Punk Rock Farmer. You can follow on Facebook as well.

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00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Jonathan Lawler,  also known as the punk rock farmer in Indiana. I think you're in Indiana, yes? Yes, that's correct.  All right. Welcome, Jonathan. How are you? I'm good. How did you fare with the weather in Indiana last night?  It was a little bit rough. We're kind of used to it.

01:25 My farm's been hit by a tornado. I don't know twice. I lost a packing shed to a tornado a few years ago. Weirdly enough, last night, you know, we thought we were kind of ahead of the storm. So we decided to run to Walmart together. Well, which was weird. We usually don't go to Walmart as a family. my wife wanted to stop at another place up to town. So she came with us.

01:56 And  she actually came in because she said it was getting so bad. And as we were in there, the Walmart basically shut down and made everybody go back to their like, uh, receiving and storage area where it's designated as a storm shelter.  Well, I'm glad you're safe because I saw that there were bad storms in Indiana last night and I was like, Oh no, I think the guy I'm talking to today is in Indiana crap.  So glad you're good. Glad your family is safe.

02:26 Um, so tell me about yourself and tell me how come you're called The Punk Rock Farmer.  So  I actually didn't come up with that name.  Um, I didn't like the name when people started calling me that,  uh, you know, because when you get a label put on you, that's as wide as something representing an entire subculture in a music scene,  it's kinda, you know,

02:54 You feel like there's a lot of pressure there. You might not align with everything that that subculture represents.  But  I was  so we were working.  We were doing urban farm pr