Sep 16, 2026 · 34 min · 15 segments
What's it like to nurse piglets in one hand and your own baby in the other? Life on a farm, with baby. ⭐️ This episode originally ran on February 22, 2016 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope…
Franny GriffinGuestThere are roughly one million children being raised on farms in the United States.
Today, we'll hear from one mom about what it's like to raise your family in a place where you're outnumbered by animals, which it turns out was not always Franny's normal either.
There's beans, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, okra, and a ton of other stuff.
We have standard crowd-pleasers like sunflowers and zinnias, and also, I can get nerdy with you.
Franny can tell you all the nerdy Latin names of flowers now, but she hasn't been a farmer for very long, just three years.
She grew up in a small town in North Carolina, went to the big city for college, Fordham University in Manhattan.
There are roughly one million children being raised on farms in the United States.
Today, we'll hear from one mom about what it's like to raise your family in a place where you're outnumbered by animals, which it turns out was not always Franny's normal either.
There's beans, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, okra, and a ton of other stuff.
We have standard crowd-pleasers like sunflowers and zinnias, and also, I can get nerdy with you.
Franny can tell you all the nerdy Latin names of flowers now, but she hasn't been a farmer for very long, just three years.
She grew up in a small town in North Carolina, went to the big city for college, Fordham University in Manhattan.
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