Andrea Bemis - How to be an Organic Farmer, Feed your Community, and Publish a Gorgeous Cookbook

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🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s guest has one of the most important jobs you can think of: she’s a farmer and grows the food we eat. Andrea Bemis and her husband, Taylor, own an organic vegetable farm called Tumbleweed Farm in Parkdale, near Hood River, Oregon. We talk about how she got into farming, what she would have done if she wasn’t a farmer, what she’s learned from working on the land, and how she turned her passion for cooking her own food into a successful blog, Dishing Up The Dirt, and a cookbook of the same name

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0:00.0	This is episode 69 with organic vegetable farmer, foodie, recipe maker, and author Andrea Beamus.
0:07.0	Welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living, an adventure podcast presented by REI Co-op, the brand who helps get you outside through gear, classes, and adventures.
0:19.0	We talk to experts who have taken a wild idea and made it a reality so you can too.
0:24.0	For people who have climbed the tallest peaks, started thriving businesses, and even broken records,
0:29.3	some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures.
0:33.7	I'm your host Shelby Stanger and I hope you enjoy this show.
0:37.0	There's a lot of made careers in the world, but being a farmer who grows food we eat is something we actually need to survive.
0:50.0	We got to eat. Someone has to grow our precious food. There's been so many times I've wanted to leave it all to be a farmer,
0:57.0	to live off the land and feed my family and other people along the way.
1:01.0	Well, Andrea Beamus and her husband Taylor are doing just that.
1:04.3	They're organic vegetable farmers in Parkdale near Hood River Oregon and they own a
1:09.9	six-acre organic vegetable farm called tumbleweed. Andrea shares how she got into
1:15.6	farming, what she would have done if she wasn't a farmer which is about as
1:19.6	opposite as one might imagine, what she's learned from working on the land, the realities of farm life,
1:26.4	and how she turned her passion from being a farmer and growing and cooking food into a really successful blog and cookbook called
1:34.5	dishing up the dirt. Andrew is a delightful storyteller. She has a great
1:39.0	message of having a simple dream and sharing community through food. Enjoy.
1:48.0	All right, we have Andrea Beamus on the show.
1:50.3	Andrea, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living worth living so excited have you on
1:53.6	Shelby thank you so much for having me yeah so a wild idea to be a farmer I
1:59.2	think we all have this I do I have this idealistic picture of what it's like to be a farmer in my head and thought I could do it.
2:07.0	Maybe you could break it down for us. First, how you got the wild idea to have an organic farm be a farmer and sort of the reality of what it's like.
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