In COVID times we can’t welcome farm visitors our normal way. However, thanks to Marji and the RFDTV FarmHer team, we can all immerse ourselves in a farm visit this weekend.
Tune in (or record to watch later) this weekend. Our FarmHer episode (#16) airs Friday April 2nd and/or Sunday, April 4th at 9:30 pm on RFD-TV. RFD-TV runs on most cable & Satellite systems, check here to find your station!
Preview clips indicate their talents convey the flourishing farm ecosystem on film. And the relational nature of the show appears to have captured our authentically hokey selves but more importantly the intimacy and interconnectedness of a small regenerative farm.
On the day of filming here, the FarmHer team, like everyone who comes, experienced the work of the day. No matter the weather, animals move forward to new pasture as their grazing and fertility are keystones for regeneration and moving to fresh space keeps them healthy and satisfied.
Eventually, when the rain really let loose, we moved inside to the farm kitchen and canned pickles as if ancestral memory told us to go get warm by the hearth! There were so many fun vignettes in between and it will be fun to relive whichever ones make it to the screen.
We farm in such a way that in growing food, we are making our farm better able to grow food; in laboring to provide good food to help our consumers to eat healthy food, we are making our own bodies well; in connecting with our customers and visitors, we are strengthening community bonds, including through encounters with the natural communities there: frogs, wildflowers, and so on. Regeneration.
What a treat to have this opportunity to share our farm virtually!! Hats off to Marji and the RFDTV FarmHer Team for amplifying regeneration and shining the light on FarmHers who have too often not been visible.
The team shot three more episodes while they were in Vermont, including our key partners, Hannah and Chandra Blackmer and their Field Stone Farm (Episode 12). We found the imagery stunning and the capture of this mother-daughter team, who we know and love, inspiring.
Janet (and Ray) from Greenfield Highland Beef, whose beef we proudly sell in our farmstand will be on (May 28), and two farms we are meeting via FarmHer, Barron Hill Alpacas, April 16th and Newmont Farm, May 7th. They also recently aired a “Behind the Scenes” show which enables us to meet their whole team who we really enjoyed.
If all this virtual Vermont and farming on screen is just what you need as lockdowns take hold again in France (thinking of you Chloe!) and elsewhere as Winter keeps winning the argument with Spring, then you will want to chase after the fun content Vermont put together for National Virtual Vacation Day as well as DigInVT’s “Experience Vermont Farms”.