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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: FARMING CHILDREN
Description: With Jessica Ridgeway, Executive Director, Farm Discovery at Live Earth
I had the good fortune to have lived on the grandparents’ Montana farm when very young. I still remember, to this day, driving my first working tractor at the age of six. It wasn’t anything special. Grandfather Karl hoisted me up into the seat, put the tractor in gear, and said, “I’ll meet you at the end of the field.”
Every living thing on the grandparents’ farm had a job to do, and nobody– nor anything– got by without doing the work. It was not a...