Milk and Honey

Series produced by This Land Press

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Milk and Honey features stories from Oklahoma's farmers and ranchers.

The series includes stories about the tight living quarters of pigs raised in the commercial pork industry and one rancher's mission to save the endangered Spanish Mustang in the mountains of southeastern Oklahoma.


6 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Three Springs Farm
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Emily Oakley brought Mike Appel to her native Oklahoma to start Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm, in Oaks, Oklahoma. The two met in an...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Your Meat
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat eating ways by participating in a field dressing class put on by Women in the Outdoor...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 2
Clean Dirt
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Kris Gosney and her husband were like most of their neighbors in northwestern Oklahoma: conventional farmers relying heavily on chemicals to produc...

Bought by KOSU, WAMC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 5
From Weed Chopper to Community Farmer
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Rufus Newsome knows what it's like to be poor and hungry and dependent on the land. Growing up in Sunflower County, Mississippi, he chopped weeds o...

Bought by KOSU, Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WFPL News


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 4
Cattle Rustling in God's Country
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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When Jeff Emerson started buying cattle in the early 1990's he was paying as much as $5,000 dollars a head when other farmers were only spending a ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Endangered Pigs Are Delicious
From: This Land Press
Series: Milk and Honey
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Commercial pig farms have a reputation for their smell, but Stephen Green was more troubled by the sound of all those pigs, confined in quarters so...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1