Episode #1: What is Cultivating Change?

The first episode of Cultivating Change: Farmers Share Their Stories podcast is meant to be a field guide for what the rest of the episodes will discuss

media representation of farmers
impact of farmers on American culture and economy
the vast array of farmers present at the Marbleseed conference and beyond

Your podcast’s hosts Pearl Phillips and Caleb Olson also discussed their connections with the farming community and why this story is so important to them.

Pearl’s grandfather, Bayard Phillips, was a soybean, feed corn and alfalfa farmer in central Iowa. Pearl talks about some of the memories she had at the farm and how this project connects her to him.

2-year-old Pearl sitting on her grandfather’s lap on his New Sharon, IA farm. Grandpa Bayard always had a soft spot for Pearl as his youngest grandchild and would let her follow him around on the farm and pet the barn cats.

This is Corey Olson’s Farm located in Shelly Minnesota. The generational farm has been holding cattle, soybeans, wheat, corn and many more crops throughout it’s lifetime.