Recording date: September 17, 2026
Welcome to the second season of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world! In episode thirty-nine, host K Castrataro indulges in a heart-to-heart chat with YOU, her farm family, about:
These straight-from-the-heart solo episodes give you an opportunity to hear K’s thoughts on the biggest issues you face as farmers and as people.
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A GIFT FOR LISTENERS:
Are you looking for a more purposeful farm life rich in time, energy, and abundance? Here are some steps you can take today…it’s your time to grow!
About K:
Kristen “K” Castrataro is a farm life advisor with nearly five decades’ experience in livestock, fruit, and vegetable production, harvesting, and marketing, including agritourism. (At six months old, she was in a play pen in the cornfield. At six years old, she was running the farm stand!)
In addition to her practical background as a producer, she served as the Sustainable Agriculture Extension Agent for the University of Rhode Island, providing whole-farm consulting services for the state’s commercial land agriculture producers.
K’s formal training in education, therapeutic writing, and mediation combined with a decade of work in child protection and mental health and psychosocial support allow her to go beyond farm business planning to addressing the whole farmer’s unique needs at individual, family, and community levels.
K specializes in:
Driving her work is K’s deeply held belief that the people who feed our bodies and souls should not feel as if they are starving themselves.
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