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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Creating Vegan Safe Havens: Transforming Tragedy into Healing with Frances Gonzalez

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode, we welcome Frances Gonzalez, founder of Little Logan’s Farm, who shares her inspiring journey of creating a veganic sanctuary and educational space in New York’s Hudson Valley. After experiencing profound personal loss, Frances channeled her grief into building a community space that champions veganic farming and compassionate living. Through innovative farm-to-table events and educational programs, she’s breaking…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer. This is Marianne Sullivan. And this week, we will be welcoming

0:12.5

Francis Gonzalez, who will be telling us all about Little Logan's Farm, a vegan oasis in the Hudson

0:20.0

Valley of New York, which you're all going to want to

0:22.7

visit as soon as possible. It honestly sounds like heaven, and I'm just mad because we lived in

0:27.2

the Hudson Valley, but not at the same time as this was there. Yeah, I don't know exactly

0:32.7

when they started, but I definitely have never been there and I definitely want to be.

0:37.8

I want to be there when it's warm out, and I definitely want to be. Yeah.

0:38.0

I want to be there when it's warm out, and it's not warm in the Hudson Valley right now. How are you feeling, by the way? You know, every day I feel a little better. That's good. That's good. I figure like, you know, 10 years from now, this. Oh, no. No, it took a lot out of me, but I don't want to, you know, all right, I've been complaining, like, for a long time now I'm going to stop. And it really is so, I'm so much better. I can function. Good, good, good. So, yeah, I was saying before we started, like I walk around the house and I see a pile of something that needs to be taken care of it. instead of saying, it's fine, it's not going to fall down, I say, oh, at some point I should deal with that.

1:14.8

Oh. the house and I see a pile of something that needs to be taken care of it. Instead of saying, it's fine, it's not going to fall down. I say, oh, at some point I should deal with that.

1:14.8

Oh, progress. Yeah. Maybe at some point I actually will deal with it. I sent someone a picture this

1:20.5

morning of like, you know, my dog as I do. And then I went to look at the picture that I sent her.

1:26.9

And my house was so messy, like in the picture. It's in front of me in real life. But for some reason, seeing it in the picture, I was like, oh, my. No, you do tend to not notice the mess. Yeah, yeah, it was bad. Which is good, because otherwise life would be insupportable. But I do. You would be, I guess you would be one of those people who, like, you know, are always cleaning and whose houses always look immaculate, which actually would be kind of nice.

1:51.9

But I'm definitely not that person.

1:53.9

You neither.

1:54.7

So you know how I'm like obsessed with listening to audiobooks?

1:59.0

I mean, it's like the thing I do when I'm trying to decompress.

2:05.1

I have been listening to Parker Posey's memoir, which is called You're on an airplane.

2:11.2

And I saw someone on Blue Sky recommend it. It's a little bit like a one woman show vibe. Like there's some sound

2:18.8

effects and and parts of it are sort of like performed. Like it's there's, oh, there are sound

2:24.1

effects in the audio. Yeah. Yeah. It's really good. But anyway, so I just wanted to say that like

2:30.2

she's not vegan, is she? No, but here's's the thing why are we talking about her because she

2:34.8

teeters on talking she talks about veganism throughout the book seriously but like just a little

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