Podcasts about farmwives

In this episode- we (Lou, Jamie and April) discuss our roles as Farmwives and how our roles as significant or insignificant as they may seem to us, are meaningful and appreciated. Each of us have our own unique qualities and skills that add value to our family farming operations. We talk about how we have evolved into our roles, how our roles have changed with time, and where our role has taken us. Remember: Your role matters. You matter.

Today is our 3rd installment of our series featuring Missouri producers and influencers. We talk today to Kylie Epperson of Vandalia, Missouri. Kylie is one half of the voices behind the Midwest Farm Wives Podcast. We speak today to Kylie about her journey from what she thought was going to be a career as a school teacher to becoming a partner with her husband in their farm operation. We also talk about Kylie's (and her partner Whitney Larson's) work in bringing light to the perspective of the farm wife, an often overlooked and unappreciated perspective. Check out Kylie and Whitney on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midwest-farm-wives/id1471900461

Today is our 3rd installment of our series featuring Missouri producers and influencers. We talk today to Kylie Epperson of Vandalia, Missouri. Kylie is one half of the voices behind the Midwest Farm Wives Podcast. We speak today to Kylie about her journey from what she thought was going to be a career as a school teacher to becoming a partner with her husband in their farm operation. We also talk about Kylie's (and her partner Whitney Larson's) work in bringing light to the perspective of the farm wife, an often overlooked and unappreciated perspective. Check out Kylie and Whitney on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midwest-farm-wives/id1471900461

As most of you know we began this journey without ever meeting in person. Building a relationship via Instagram and daily texts. Well we finally got to meet up in Nashville last week. To say we hit it of and had a blast would be an understatement. Love at first sight? Haha maybe for best friends. Our husbands equally enjoyed one another and all the farm talk, which made it bitter sweet! We want to say happy holidays and new year to all of our listeners, and as always thank you so much for your support!    

This weekend on Documentary on Newstalk, Producer Patricia Baker’s new radio documentary, Egg Money, celebrates a generation of women who worked to improve life in rural Ireland; countrywomen often stereotyped and overlooked in their roles as mothers, homemakers and farmer’s wives. These women, now aged between 70 and 90, tell their stories, and when woven together, highlight a very different story than the one expected. These women played a vital role in the development of rural Ireland. They were activists, lobbyists, and business women with very independent means. Photograph Courtesy of ESB Archives Egg Money is broadcast on Newstalk 106 – 108FM on Sunday 17th November at 7am, and again Saturday 23rd November at 11pm.  Quotes from Egg Money: “I had a journalist say to me once, ‘I went to an ICA Guild meeting wanting to talk about changing the world, and what did I finish up doing? I was asked to judge a jam making competition’.  And I said  ‘and are jam making and saving the world mutually exclusive’ ?” Mamo McDonald “My parents were farmers.  There was seven of us in the family, no bathroom, no electricity, very basic stuff. We all did jobs.  We had to milk the cows before we went to school in the morning, everyone had to milk by hand. Turning the turf in the evening, or the hay. Everyone just mucked in and did what they had to do.  Cleaned out the houses.  You just did it and there was no saying that you won’t, you just got on with it.” Eleanor Calnan “The one word that has come up all the time in my research is drudgery.  Housework was a constant drudgery at the time.  If you didn't have electricity, you’re cooking on an open fire., You had to light the fire in the morning if you wanted a cup of tea. Most people did not have running water in their houses, so you are talking about getting water from a well, or from a pump.  Washing clothes in a basin with a scrubbing board, it is hard manual work.  Also you’re talking about families where you could have anything up to four children in nappies at the same time, and no one had disposable nappies at the time.”  Dr Sorcha O’Brien design historian “Women were expected to bring in some income to keep the family afloat. They did it in various ways, child minding, knitting, sewing various. Poultry raring was seen as one for the women.   Egg Money was often the only income stream that the women controlled themselves.  It was put away to pay towards a child’s education, to improve conditions in the home.  It could be used for diverse purposes. It was pretty central to the life of the family.” Professor Emeritus UCD History Mary E Daly “My mother always had the Egg Money, and so did all the other women I knew, my aunties and grandparents, and myself, and it was never questioned.  We were independent enough, we did a lot of the work, the women milked the cows, cleaned out cow sheds. They did everything, pitched hay. We were brought up to be independent since the time we could walk.  My mother and all her counterparts regarded herself as business women, they knew a lot about running business in those days, and they were trained by their mothers.” Connie McEvoy. “They are hidden from all the statistics.  Farmwives were never counted as economically productive people in the census.” Professor Emeritus UCD History Mary E Daly “ICA was very good for interaction with women, different ages. The ICA would have been very vocal on women’s rights.”  Mary Therese Coen “I started off a conservative, I was as conservative as anyone.  I thought these radical women’s movement were … (pause) well I thought Neil McCaffrey had cloven feet. Then I meet her and heard her speak, and I thought she was very articulate, she was very funny, and I was also admiring of a lot of the things the radical women were doing. They were going along a different path to the one we were going, but they had echoes of one another.  I became a born again feminist.  I claimed our place in the women’s movement, because we were part of the wider women’s movement because we were working for women too. Mamo McDonald, Past National President of the ICA, founder of Age and Opportunity. Egg Money is broadcast on Newstalk 106 – 108FM on Sunday 17th November at 7am, and again Saturday 23rd November at 11pm CREDITS: Egg Money is a Curious Broadcast production funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee. It was narrated and produced by Patricia Baker, with edit and final mix by Gerry Horan at Contact Studio. Sound and Vision is a funding scheme for television and radio that provides funding in support of high quality programmes on Irish culture, heritage and experience, and programmes to improve adult literacy. The scheme is managed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.    

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Billi J. Miller to discuss her labour of love with writing the Farmwives books.  When Billi married a fourth generation farmer and moved into a farming community, she very quickly fell in love with the community, the people and especially the farm wives. She wanted to write a book that would highlight the roles of the traditional farm wives of the community. Tune in to hear Billi share her "Labour of Love" and her journey with writing two amazing books.    

On today's show, Canola Council of Canada President Jim Everson recaps his recent trip to China. Also, Alberta author Billi J Miller talks about her Farmwives book series.

Reading West features Canadian writers talking about their books...specifically writers who live in Western Canada.  Episode Three features an interview with Vermilion author and photographer Billi Miller and a reading from Edmonton author Theresa Shea. Billi Miller's book, Farmwives in Profile, began as an observation and conversation. Soon profiling farm women became a passion project. The book details heartfelt Q & As about each woman's life as a farm wife, photos, and recipes. Some families have also paid tribute to their mothers by including a written piece detailing the impact she had on their lives. For more info, or to purchase the book, visit http://www.farmwivesbook.com The Unfinished Child is Theresa Shea's first novel. It was a finalist for the Alberta Book Awards (fiction) and for theh Alberta Readers' Choice Award. A book club favourite, the novel has sold over 10,000 copies. Theresa is currently finishing a novel that is set in the United States and deals with race relations leading up to and including the civil rights movement. The mother of three great teenagers, she lives and writers in Edmonton. Readers can purchase Theresa's book from Audreys Books in Edmonton, through other independent bookstores, Amazon, or from the publisher (Brindle and Glass). It's also available as an e-book. This podcast features Western Canadian authors reading from their novels, short fiction, poetry, memoirs, or non-fiction. It is created and hosted by Saskatchewan novelist Lisa Guenther. Reading West is open to featuring published authors from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. For the most part, the podcast focuses on literature, but writers working in other genres are welcome to inquire. For more information on submitting, visit lisaguenther.com/reading-west-podcast/  You can also check out the show on Facebook at www.facebook.com/readingwest/ Theme music is Flax Flower Blue by Best Kept Secret Girlfriend.

Manitoba Agriculture's Dennis Lange discusses edible bean production. Billi Miller continues talking about her book, Farmwives in Profile.

Writer/photographer Billi J. Miller discusses her book, Farmwives in Profile. North Dakota State University extension agronomist Hans Kandel talks about managing fields with excess water and salt.

Join me on the EPIC journey as Billi J. Miller (City), meets Farmer, the man of her dreams and moves to the country. There she reignites her passion for photography and storytelling. Farmwives in Profile is her first book set to launch on January 13, 2016. To learn more and to purchase your copy please visit: http://www.farmwivesbook.com/. Look for Billi popping up on TV and online in the next few weeks!