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My Farm Roots
8:47 am
Wed August 8, 2012

Making A Mark All His Own

Credit Peggy Lowe / Harvest Public Media
Despite working full time as a mechanical engineer, 25-year-old Nolan Strawder is rehabbing his family's farm in his spare time.

When a guy is a mechanical engineer at a nuclear power plant, you figure he puts in a pretty good day of work.

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My Farm Roots
12:01 pm
Mon July 30, 2012

Lightening The Load

Credit Courtesy of Jan Phillips
When Jan Phillips was a baby, her parents said they knew by her laughter in response to a cow-driven buggy ride that she would be adventurous. Seventy years later, she's still proving them right. This is her last year on a trip to Asia.

Ninety years ago this May, my grandfather, Ronald Merle Phillips, and his twin brother, Robert Earl, were born on a farm near Chetopa, Kan.

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My Farm Roots
10:46 am
Tue July 24, 2012

Just Taking Notes

Credit Donna Vestal / Harvest Public Media
Tom Karst feels right at home on a summer morning at a farmer's market in Overland Park, Kan.

Sometimes farm roots don’t blossom into a farm life. But those memories can still have a huge influence, perhaps even determining a career choice.

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My Farm Roots
2:52 pm
Wed July 18, 2012

Making A Home Out On The Ranch

Credit Peggy Lowe / Harvest Public Media
Nan Gardiner (front) with her husband Henry in Ashland, Kan.

It’s not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.

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My Farm Roots
1:33 pm
Wed July 11, 2012

Farming Means Family

Kate Edwards hasn’t always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.

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KC Currents
11:38 am
Mon July 9, 2012

'My Farm Roots' Collects Stories From The Land

Credit Peggy Lowe / Harvest Public Media
Nan Gardiner told her story to My Farm Roots.

Many people in the Kansas City area have close ties to agriculture, whether they currently work on a farm, or grew up on one and left. Or maybe their ancestors settled in the region to work the land. 

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