Today’s conversation is with Polly Festa, Livestock manager at the Accokeek Foundation. This foundation was formed more than 50 years ago and is the steward of 200 acres on the shore of the Potomac River in MD. Now there are many facets to the foundation, but today episode is focusing on their Heritage Livestock.

Deborah packed up her family and feft Chicago to live the dream of being a self-sufficient farmer. Today Deborah Niemann is a homesteader, writer, speaker, workshop leader, and self-sufficiency expert. Back 2002, she relocated her family from the suburbs of Chicago to a 32-acre parcel on a creek “in the middle of nowhere.” Together, they built their own home and began growing the majority of their food. Sheep, pigs, cattle, goats, chickens, and turkeys supply meat, eggs, and dairy products, while an organic garden and orchard provides fruit and vegetables. Deborah is also the author of Homegrown & Handmade, Ecothrifty and Raising Goats Naturally; The Complete Guide to Milk, Meat and more.

Bought and paid for a bull, but came home with a cow. Hear the story first hand from
Pineywoods Cattle farmer Ken Jobe from Longwood Creek Farm located in Roberta, GA. Ken is new to farming and part of the movement in this country to return to the land. He is also a proud member of the Pineywoods Cattle Registry & Breeders Association.

Discover more about the Clun Forest Sheep with Alan Zuschlag from Touchstone Farm, the nation’s first Certified Humane sheep operation. I love the quote he gave CNN during an interview, “Small farms are better for the consumers, better for the animals, better for everyone.”Today we are going to learn more about the Clun Forest Sheep Alan raises.