{"podcast":{"title":"Against the Grain: The Farm Aid Podcast","slug":"against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947","podcast_index_feed_id":6618947,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2273568.rss","website_url":"http://www.farmaid.org/podcast","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/cj5jput0lvm3bz4j6z758maqzjdo?.jpg","author":"Jessica Ilyse Kurn and Michael Foley","episode_count":29,"summary":"“Against the Grain” is the Farm Aid podcast, designed to bring the magic of Farm Aid’s annual festival to listeners year-round. Listeners will hear from artists and farmers, advocates and food experts, activists, and policymakers–all of whom are working towards building a more just and equitable farm and food system. Farm Aid’s Jessica Ilyse Kurn and Michael Stewart Foley will take you all over the country, from Farm Aid’s backstage to rural and urban farms and farmers’ markets. There, you’ll meet citizens fighting the industrial agriculture giants, holding the government accountable, and shifting the culture towards a food and farm model that is better for farmers, the planet and for all of us. Learn more at www.farmaid.org/podcast","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T16:18:26.872181+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947"},"episode":{"title":"Artist Ag-tivists","slug":"artist-ag-tivists","published_at":"2025-08-13T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947/artist-ag-tivists","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273568/episodes/17661189-artist-ag-tivists.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273568/episodes/17661189-artist-ag-tivists.mp3","summary":"In this third episode of Against the Grain's series on Artists and Activism, we talk to artists who come from farming backgrounds and have joined Farm Aid over the years to stand up for family farmers. We hear first from the legendary bluesman, Taj Mahal, who grew up picking tobacco and working on a dairy farm in Massachusetts before studying animal husbandry and agronomy in college. Like Taj, the other artists we talked to for this episode - Cassandra Lewis, Waylon Payne and Charley Crockett...","meta_description":"In this third episode of Against the Grain's series on Artists and Activism, we talk to artists who come from farming backgrounds and have joined Farm Aid…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1737,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947/episodes/artist-ag-tivists/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947/artist-ag-tivists.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}