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KGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 11/29/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County on this episode of The Farming Show.
2025-12-0146 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 11/22/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-11-2447 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 11/15/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-11-1745 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 11/8/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-11-1047 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 10/25/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-10-2748 min
Brad and John - Mornings on KISMWFF w DillonDillon Honcoop was great as the 3rd man in the booth with us to talk about harvest month! He hosts his own show and podcasts and has details on a farmer's rally coming in November! We could not do this show without him!
2025-10-2004 minBrad and John - Mornings on KISMWFF w DillonDillon Honcoop was great as the 3rd man in the booth with us to talk about harvest month! He hosts his own show and podcasts and has details on a farmer's rally coming in November! We could not do this show without him!
2025-10-2004 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 10/18/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Whatcom County and Washington state.
2025-10-2049 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 10/11/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-10-1344 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 10/4/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-10-0746 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 9/27/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-09-2945 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 9/20/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-09-2244 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 9/13/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-09-1545 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 9/6/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-09-0847 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 8/30/35Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-09-0247 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 8/23/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-08-2549 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 8/16/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-08-1846 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 8/9/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-08-1145 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 7/26/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-07-2844 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 7/19/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-07-2147 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 7/12/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-07-1445 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 7/5/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-07-0745 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 6/28/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-06-3047 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 6/21/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-06-2445 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 6/14/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-06-1646 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 6/7/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-06-0945 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 5/31/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-06-0244 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 5/24/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-05-2744 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 5/17/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-05-2044 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 5/10/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-05-1245 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 5/3/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-05-0545 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 4/26/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Whatcom County and Washington state.
2025-04-2845 minKGMI News/Talk 790 - PodcastsThe Farming Show 4/19/25Host Dillon Honcoop talks about farming and agriculture in Washington state and Whatcom County.
2025-04-2244 min
The Farming ShowNoted Environmentalist, Whatcom Farmer Advocate Agree: Water Rights Lawsuit Not WorkingA prominent–and sometimes controversial–local environmentalist is changing his tune on the massive water rights lawsuit the state has launched in Whatcom County.“It is completely unable to deal with the kinds of issues we’re talking about,” said Eric Hirst, joining with Fred Likkel, Executive Director of Whatcom Family Farmers to talk with Dillon on The Farming Show about the water rights adjudication now underway in Whatcom County Superior Court.
2025-04-2100 min
(un)covered5 | Breaking Down Water Adjudication in Whatcom CountyWhat is water adjudication? How will this affect us in Whatcom County? Lately there's been a lot of talk about water rights, water metering, and new laws affecting how you use your water at home from your well. It's a complex topic that still has a lot of gray areas and confusing terminology so that's why we sat down with Dillon Honcoop to help demystify some of these concepts for us. Dillon's podcast:https://realfoodrealpeople.org
2023-12-1938 min
The Farming Show500 Farm Workers Gather to Speak Out on WA Ag OvertimeFarm workers all over Washington are voicing frustration with the state's new agricultural overtime law, and 500 workers recently gathered in Quincy, WA to hear from leaders including state Rep. Alex Ybarra about how to have their voice heard in Olympia. Ybarra joins host Dillon Honcoop with details on the event, and how agricultural overtime is hurting the farm worker community -- the very people it was supposed to help.
2023-10-1021 min
Real Food Real PeopleSmall Farmer Jessica Jager On Stereotypes & AppearancesSmall Farmer Jess Jager of Your Friends Farm shares a story of getting judged—and dismissed—as a farmer, based on her appearance.
She and host Dillon Honcoop tackle the thorny issues of sexism, stereotyping and judging by appearances that more farmers face than you might expect.
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2023-09-2642 min
The Farming ShowIs Olympia ignoring the biggest threat facing Washington’s farmers?A deep dive into the state’s data – or lack thereof – on Washington state's farming labor crisis left host Dillon Honcoop with more questions than answers. He explains why he's concerned that state officials are ignoring what's arguably one of the biggest threats to the future of farming in Washington.
2023-07-1537 min
Talk Ag To Me"Real Stories, Real People" Talk Ag To Me ft. Dillon Honcoop (Real Food, Real People)It’s alway a pleasure to speak with others working towards our goal of improving the relationship between agriculture and the general public. Thank you, Dillon, for all of your work and sharing this great conversation with us!
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2023-07-0534 minReal Food Real PeopleLuis Guitron | #083What's the truth about the controversial H-2A Guest Worker program?
Farm worker housing manager Luis Guitron shares what it's like behind the scenes, as well as his own personal story, as Dillon Honcoop visits an actual guest worker housing facility in Okanogan, WA.
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2021-11-1039 minReal Food Real PeopleLawrence Honcoop | #046Host Dillon Honcoop's grandfather produced milk for 45 years and raised a family on a small family dairy near Lynden, Wash.
90-year-old Lawrence Honcoop sits down with his podcaster grandson for a personal reflection on the challenges and triumphs he faced over the years, all the way back to being raised by a single mom with her own small farm just out of the Great Depression.
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2020-11-0458 minReal Food Real PeopleBlake Carson | #038
Blake Carson:I like to see things grow, I like to make food. I swear my whole life revolves around food prep and all that stuff.
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Dillon Honcoop:My guest on the podcast this week gives me hope for the future, I guess, of growing food, particularly in Western Washington. You’ll see that he has a passion for helping people grow food. He’s an agronomist right out of college. Blake Carson is his name. He works for Skagit Farmers Supply and he’s...
2020-08-3143 minReal Food Real PeopleRosella Mosby | #037
Rosella Mosby:He just called me up one day and he said, “Hey, you want to go have dinner?” and I was like, “Sure. Why not?” A man in my life at that point was not on my list either because here I am, I’m self-employed, I’ve got two kids. You know what I mean? And it was just one of those weird times in your life where you’re thinking, “I do not have time for this.”
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Dillon Honcoop:Getting locally-grown food...
2020-08-2459 minReal Food Real PeopleKady Porterfield | #036
Kady Porterfield:It was a heart sinker, yeah. When the last few mandates came out for Washington state, it was just like, okay. But you feel so helpless, too, because there is really nothing you can do.
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Dillon Honcoop:A lot of people talk about how farmers are getting older and older, and people are aging out of growing food. It’s true, but at the same time, I’ve been really encouraged as I’ve continued on these journeys all over the state...
2020-08-1852 minReal Food Real PeopleSteve Pabody | #035
Dillon Honcoop:They saved your life.
Steve Pabody:I think so. I think several times, probably.
Dillon Honcoop:Wow.
Steve Pabody:The good news is, those nurses, I told them, I said, “You guys saved my life and I can’t really return the favor, but you get free blueberries for life.”
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Dillon Honcoop:A very scary freak incident almost killed Steve Pabody. He’s our guest this week. He and his wife founded and own...
2020-08-1058 minReal Food Real PeopleCase VanderMeulen | #034
Case VanderMeulen:I grew up in Holland. My family had a dairy farm, but my older brother, he took over the family farm and there was no room for two incomes after the quota system came in in Europe. So I had to go do something different.
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Dillon Honcoop:Are big dairy farms bad? It’s been a controversial issue for some people, and so I wanted to talk with someone who runs a big dairy farm. He’s also someone who has run...
2020-08-0359 minReal Food Real PeopleAndrew Eddie part 2 | #033
Andrew Eddie:You run it as a business, but you’re also trying to keep the idea of being a family of people, even if your employees aren’t family if they worked for you for a long time. We have employees that have worked for us for 10 years. We’re all family at this point.
Dillon Honcoop:Yeah.
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Dillon Honcoop:So, I had a career in radio for years and years. And now that I’m back in the farming...
2020-07-2741 minReal Food Real PeopleAndrew Eddie part 1 | #032
Andrew Eddie:I reached a point where I was done. I didn’t want to farm. I thought farming was probably one of the worst things I could do.
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Dillon Honcoop:Deciding to grow food, to become a farmer, is a huge decision for most people that do it, and this week’s guest definitely that’s a part of his story where he didn’t want to be a farmer even though he grew up around it. And you hear this so many tim...
2020-07-2148 minReal Food Real PeopleBobby Morrison | #031
Dillon Honcoop:Depends on what you’re passionate about and what you want your end goal to be with your food and your health because in the end, that’s what it is. Your food is your health.
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Dillon Honcoop:Welcome back to the podcast. Lately, we’ve talked to a lot of people with meat and beef in particular producing it here in Washington State, raising beef on ranch land, feeding beef, all this kind of stuff, but what about the next step...
2020-07-1354 minReal Food Real PeopleBridget Coon part 2 | #030
Bridget Coon:I have to stay connected. I have to try to bridge these two worlds because that’s who I am and who I’ve always been, but it’s just kind of grown and become a career on one end and then also carrying on this beef cattle legacy that I grew up with.
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Dillon Honcoop:COVID is changing our food system and it’s exposed vulnerabilities, but at the same time, it’s kind of turned us back to the importance...
2020-07-0646 minReal Food Real PeopleBridget Coon part 1 | #029
Bridget Coon:So even though they’re going to a larger processing facility, they’re going to be marketed under a brand that you might be familiar with seeing in the grocery store, that’s coming from ranches, family ranches like ours.
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Dillon Honcoop:From growing up on a farm in Western Washington to working next door to the White House, then back to Seattle and now farming in Eastern Washington, our guest this week has done so many things and has so much c...
2020-06-2958 min
Spotlight with Laura DawnSpotlighting Real Food Real PeopleThis week we hear from Dillon Honcoop, his podcast Real Food Real People is a conversation starter for farmers. His hope is to connect the public with the farmers. Help them see the farmers and their families. He interviews farmers from Washington State, from beef to fruit tree to veggie farmers. He is passionate to let people know where their food comes from and how we can support one another. He talks about the importance of caring for the soil as much as the animals who walk on it and the food that comes from it.
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2020-06-2525 minReal Food Real PeopleDerek Friehe | #028
Derek Friehe:I’m gonna go through some of those bad years. I’m not just… It’s my land, it’s where I grew up, it’s many cases, my parents or grandparents are buried here, it’s where I want to raise my kids. It’s more… Yeah, it’s not just a job.
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Dillon Honcoop:Every time I interview a person behind our food here in Washington State, there’s some new cool twist. This week certainly isn’t any different with Derek Fri...
2020-06-2257 minReal Food Real PeopleAndrew Schultz part 2 | #027
Andrew Schultz:There’s no such thing as retirement. I washed that off a long time ago. I’m just going to get up and I’m going to try and do the thing that I enjoy most every day. This seems to be something that really challenges me, so I’ve stuck to it.
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Dillon Honcoop:What gets you up in the morning? I know for me, one of the things is my continuing mission here with the podcast to meet farmers, talk wit...
2020-06-1542 minReal Food Real PeopleAndrew Schultz part 1 | #026
Andrew Schultz:It still felt like maybe I’m not a farmer. I’m pretending or something, but after about year three, year four, after we dealt with some pretty hard curveballs that were thrown to us, I was like, “Okay, I think I’m in this and I think I’m good at it.” Now, I’m a farmer so [laugh].
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Dillon Honcoop:The amount of work and science and art that goes into those Washington wines that we’ve all grown to love so much...
2020-06-0859 minReal Food Real PeopleChelsea Putnam | #025
Chelsea Putnam:I had nothing. I had our suitcases and a few things, but no job, no idea what I’m doing. And so I did what I knew and that was to go work in the orchards and to help establish a new farm.
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Dillon Honcoop:Finding rebirth and renewal on the farm. It’s something that a lot of people have found in their personal stories of farming. And this week we hear from an artist and a teacher who is also...
2020-06-0159 minReal Food Real PeopleKrista Stauffer | #024
Krista Stauffer:Honestly, didn’t really care for him at first.
Dillon Honcoop:Really?
Krista Stauffer:Yeah. He was so cocky. He’s so cocky, and all the girls are like, “Oh, he’s so cute.” And I’m like, “He’s a jerk.”
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Dillon Honcoop:Everybody knows that Washington is really famous for its apples. But it should also be famous for its cheese, and for its butter, and cream, and you name it because dairy is the second bigg...
2020-05-2553 minReal Food Real PeopleJuan Garcia part 2 | #023
Juan Garcia:When Mr. Rader passed away, the weight of the world was on my shoulder. And there was a way that I had to cope with it even more. It wasn’t the right way, and I talk to people about it and I’m not embarrassed of it because a lot of us, there’s a lot of people that face that demon because that’s, I mean, that’s what it is. It’s a demon.
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Dillon Honcoop:The people who grow our...
2020-05-1838 minReal Food Real PeopleJuan Garcia part 1 | #022
Juan Garcia:I mean, I love my father to death, but honestly, I spent more time with Lyle alongside of him than I did my own father. My dad was off working. I was working with Lyle. It was every morning, it was every after lunch, it was every evening.
Dillon Honcoop:So he’s almost kind of also a father figure to you.
Juan Garcia:He was a father figure.
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Dillon Honcoop:Welcome back to The Re...
2020-05-1144 minReal Food Real PeopleAshley Rodriguez | #021
Ashley Rodriguez:That’s definitely part of what I do is wanting to honor the ingredients and the work that the farmers do, the work that the earth does to get these beautiful, beautiful ingredients.
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Dillon Honcoop:I’m not sure if I’ve ever met someone more passionate about food and the art of food and where it comes from. Our guests this week on Real Food Real People podcast is not a farmer. She is a chef as well as a blogge...
2020-05-0453 minReal Food Real PeopleChad Kruger | #020
Chad Kruger:Before he passed away, we had a lot of conversations around where I was going, what I was doing. He always encouraged me in that way. I miss him a lot because he was such an inspirational person.
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Dillon Honcoop:We’re to get kind of sciency. We’re going to get into some science stuff this episode on the Real Food Real People Podcast. I’m host, Dillon Honcoop. Glad you’re here. We’re talking with a guy who’s basically...
2020-04-2750 minReal Food Real PeopleLarry Stap part 2 | #019
Larry Stap:… the cancer just destroyed his body, just destroyed it, invaded every aspect of it. There’s nothing that I wish on any parent ever, is to lose a child.
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Dillon Honcoop:Well, it’s a really emotional conversation this week on the podcast. Last week was the first part of the chat with Larry Stap of Twin Brook Creamery, small dairy farm and glass mild bottling operation in Lyndon, Washington. And he told us all about how Twin Brook came to be, an...
2020-04-2040 minReal Food Real PeopleLarry Stap part 1 | #018
Larry Stap:
It was a huge risk, and like I said earlier, I don’t know for sure, but I know that we were probably within months of the bank foreclosing on us. It was that close. I know it was.
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Well, Twin Brook Creamery is known in Seattle and all over Western Washington for being the local dairy that has milk in glass bottles, the old-fashioned way. You may have heard of them, but have you heard their story of ho...
2020-04-1344 minReal Food Real PeopleCamas Uebelacker part 2 | #017
Camas Uebelacker:
All those dreams and thoughts that you had are gone and it’s not that somebody stole them from you. You know? It wasn’t like my house got broken into, and I got robbed. It’s nothing like that. It’s just literally gone, and there’s nobody to blame. There’s no fingers to point other than mother nature. She can be fickle.
Dillon Honcoop:
That’s got to be stressful, though.
Camas Uebelacker:
It’s a complete pain in the ass, man.
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2020-04-0630 minReal Food Real PeopleCamas Uebelacker part 1 | #016
Camas Uebelacker: There’s nothing more noble than feeding somebody. If I met some guy on the side of the road, he’s hungry or whatever, and I brought him home and fed him, I did him a bigger solid than giving him five bucks. That’s going to last a little longer than five. For me to be able to say that I feed 65,000 people… and it’s something that it’s so important to us that every employee that we have knows it.
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2020-03-3040 minReal Food Real PeopleLydia Johnson | #015
Lydia Johnson:
They got out of dairy in the year that I moved to college. And I have to say that that’s a little heartbreaking because I felt like I was responsible for it. No matter how many times they’ll tell me, “No. No, you need to go. Go do what you need to do.”
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Dillon Honcoop: Welcome back to the Real Food, Real People podcast. I’m Dillon Honcoop, and I’m glad you’re here. Hopefully things are going well if you’re...
2020-03-2339 minReal Food Real PeopleJohn Griggs | #014
John Griggs:
It’s getting hard to do it now. I mean, minimum wage, H-2A. It’s just kind of, we’re still getting the same pricing as we did five years ago when it was $9. It’s hard. But we got to make it work. I don’t see myself losing this farm, and I’ll do anything to keep it.
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Dillon Honcoop:
Okay, so I’m going to geek out a little bit on this week’s episode. I grew up on a family f...
2020-03-1647 minReal Food Real PeopleAlex Durney part 2 | #013
Dillon Honcoop:
Five years ago, what would you have said if you heard yourself just say what you said now?
Alex Durney:
I would have said that you’re absolutely crazy. Absolutely crazy.
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Dillon Honcoop:
Last week on the podcast, we got to know Alex Durney a bit, and she is a rancher now managing Colvin Ranch in Tenino, Washington, but that wasn’t her background. She didn’t grow up around farming or ranching, and just a couple of years...
2020-03-0923 minReal Food Real PeopleAlex Durney part 1 | #012
Alex Durney:
Like I’m pretty positive my grandfather is disappointed in me, because I went to college to get a college education so that I didn’t have to just be some rancher or farmer and here I am doing that. But with that comes a platform in a change that we’re able to make within this country and I want to be able to help with that. I want to be part of that change.
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Dillon Honcoop: Farmers come from so man...
2020-03-0230 minReal Food Real PeopleJavier Valencia | #011
Javier Valencia:
First couple of years, I was intimidated. I’d see people like, “A young, tattooed Hispanic. What are you?” You know, “You don’t know what you’re doing,” and I believe that’s pushed me more. People saying, “Hey, you don’t have experience. Hey, you don’t have a reputation for yourself,” but I guess we made a name for ourselves, just with hard work.
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This week on Real Food, Real People. We get to know Javier Valencia. He grew up as...
2020-02-2441 minReal Food Real PeopleDevin Day | #010
Devin Day:
I actually gave a baby rabbit, just born, mouth-to-mouth. I just, little, little puff puff, right?
Dillon Honcoop:
Yeah.
Devin Day:
Little chest compressions, and it took this huge gasp of air. And within like two minutes was just as healthy as the other ones. Blew my mind.
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This week on the podcast, we spoke with a guy who’s rethinking a lot of stuff about farming and where we get food from, an...
2020-02-1747 minReal Food Real PeopleSandi Bammer | #009
Sandi Bammer (guest): Seeing what they’re doing and watching them post pictures of their land five years ago versus their land now and reading about the carbon sequestering abilities of grassland, and regenerative farming, all of this stuff I think that that has really changed my perception of the meat/dairy/egg industry.
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Dillon Honcoop (host): So I’m in Wenatchee for a meeting a couple of weeks ago just walking down the street. I’d never been in downto...
2020-02-1042 minReal Food Real PeopleJessica Newhouse | #008
Jessica Newhouse (guest):
And they basically open and remove part of the bony projections on your individual vertebrae to make room for these titanium rods that stretch from, like I said, the base of my neck to about my waist.
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She’s faced major health problems and still battles chronic pain, but continues to keep supporting her family’s century-old dairy farm. This week I talk with eastern Washington dairy farmer Jessica Newhouse about her journey from her childhood in what...
2020-02-0445 minReal Food Real PeopleJiwan Brar & Paul Sangha | #007
Paul Sangha:
The reason why I say it was tough was because there were people that did understand that I looked different and it was a bit difficult because people had their opinions and they like to voice those opinions.
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Their families came from India to the US just a few decades ago and they’ve made a life for themselves farming raspberries and blueberries here in the Pacific Northwest. This week on the podcast, I talk with Jiwan Brar and Pa...
2020-01-2744 minReal Food Real PeopleNiels Brisbane part 2 | #006
Niels Brisbane:
Farming needs a facelift basically, essentially, and there it needs to be appreciated for what it is, but then the other piece is like it’s a lot of work and so there needs to be a financial incentive.
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Hoodies, connecting with farmers and figuring out how farmers can have a seat at the table. Again, in sort of defining what is the cuisine of the Pacific Northwest. Last week we got to know award-winning Seattle chef, Niels Brisbane an...
2020-01-2050 minReal Food Real PeopleNiels Brisbane part 1 | #005
Niels Brisbane:
It’s pretty incredible what the Pacific Northwest has to offer and really plugging you in with lots of farm visits, lots of manufacturer visits, actually, these are the purveyors you can get this from.
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Dillon Honcoop:
This week we hear about the personal journey of a guy who became a sous-chef at one of Seattle’s top restaurants, but that’s not what he set out to do. It’s an incredible story. We actually had such an amazing conversation that I’v...
2020-01-1342 minReal Food Real PeopleFelipe Garcia | #004
Felipe Garcia: If you don’t know the subject, it’s easy for you to point a finger or to just judge something when you’ve never done it, or you don’t even have the background, what’s going on, how did this product get to my table?
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Dillon Honcoop: Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Dillon Honcoop. And as I continue my journeys around Washington state, to hear from the real people behind the food that we eat and produce here in Wash...
2020-01-0648 minReal Food Real PeopleErica DeWaard | #003
Erica DeWaard:
I’ve had a lot of people threaten to kill me.
Dillon Honcoop:
Really.
Erica DeWaard:
Yes.
Dillon Honcoop:
Death threats?
Erica DeWaard:
Death threats. They don’t want me on there. I figure that they’re scared of the fact that I’m telling the truth and I’m threatening their agenda.
Announcer: This is the Real Food Real People podcast.
Dillon Honcoop:
Welcome back to the Real Food Real People podcast. I’m Dillon Honcoop and this week I...
2019-12-3042 minReal Food Real PeopleApril Clayton | #002
April Clayton: I kind of resisted getting into farming at first because I didn’t want to be known as Mike’s wife. I just finished my PhD, I didn’t want to be, “Oh, the farmer… Oh, you know, his wife.” I wanted to start my own kind of career path in this area.
Announcer: This is the Real Food, Real People podcast.
Dillon Honcoop: Finding your place on the farm, it’s something that those of us who’ve been part of a family farm at one time or another have all struggled with, I think, b...
2019-12-2336 minReal Food Real PeopleChris Doelman | #001
Chris Doelman:My exact thought was, “I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t have a home to go back to. If I have a chance at trying to save the marriage, it’s bringing it back to something that’s more of like a farm, a family-friendly thing.” And so that’s what I did. I’m like, okay, I just went for it.
Announcer:This is the Real Food, Real People podcast.
Dillon Honcoop:Hello, I’m Dillon Honcoop, and this is the Real Food, Real People podcast, episode n...
2019-12-1640 min