Two new episodes each month
Food. Fiber. Culture & Community
Diary of a Farm Virgin is a bi-weekly-published podcast community centering around a Black family and their peri-urban farming journey, as they relearn their connection to the land — and one another — in the “Now South.” Keisha Cameron of High Hog Farm, and frequent co-host Whitney Jaye of Semente Farm explore the intersections of Black and Indigenous food history and heritage, and agrarian art and lifeways, all while cultivating food, fiber, culture and community.
SEASON 1
Food and fiber (farming) are deep parts of who we are…our history. (We are seedkeepers/vision casters). These relationships unconsciously shape who we are, where we came from, and give us a glimpse into our future. In the world we live in today, relearning and intentionally recalling this history and knowing is more important than ever. For many of us, there is an unspoken curiosity when it comes to our connection to our food and our own soil, and the journey we are taking is one of adopting connectivity to our land as a practice. The exploration into food, the reconnection to the land and the occasion shenanigans on the farm led to the birth of the Farm Virgin.
Nature tends toward predictability and is a continuous teacher. A Farm Virgin offers reverence for the learning from this ecosystem season to season. There is never a fixed point of expertise, but a shifting understanding that calls for constantly being a student and participant with Mother Nature as Teacher. The Farm Virgin is the spirit of experimenting and learning the intricacies of the day to day operations of the farm, food and land practices – celebrating the journey with our family along the way. It is recovering a deeper belonging to the land; an activated journey of discovery.
