The Growing Season

By: Arkansas PBS
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  • Summary

  • Join musician and host, Ben Dickey, on The Growing Season – a year-long podcast featuring monthly interviews with a handful of Arkansas farmers as they work through a year on their place. From large-scale, row cropping to cattle ranches and two-acre vegetable operations, The Growing Season will take a long, honest look at the many things “farming” means to Arkansans, and the many hurdles that come with that way of life. This podcast is funded through a Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network Grant provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and administered by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture.
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Episodes
  • December - Looking Forward

    December - Looking Forward
    Feb 10 2023

    Our final episode takes one final look back at the season behind us, before the farmers discuss what they have learned about mental health and self-care, and how those lessons might change their habits moving forward
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    54 mins
  • November - Thanksgiving

    November - Thanksgiving
    Jan 13 2023

    With the approaching holiday season, our farmers take a chance to look past the stress and disappointments of this growing season and consider what they are thankful for, and consider just what it is about their way of life that makes it worth living.

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    53 mins
  • October - Reckoning

    October - Reckoning
    Dec 9 2022

    With the season and the harvest finally behind us, the farmers have a fuller and clearer understanding of just what they accomplished this season. What worked? what didn’t? What energy and money was wasted? What was saved? We also speak, head-on about the suicide rates in farmers, understanding the larger reckoning within the industry.

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    48 mins
Psychology Hygiene & Healthy Living History Social Sciences
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