Ode to Sheep 1!
Part One
In this episode, we'll hear sounds of sheep and some queer and trans humans who love them. Host Rae Garringer shares memories of growing up on a sheep farm on traditional lands of the Moneton and Calicuas peoples in southern West Virginia, Maja Black shares an audio diary of lambing season in Iowa on traditional lands of the Kiikaapoi, Meskwaki, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples. Then we'll hear an interview with Grayson Crane who raises a flock of Icelandic sheep in western Washington on unceded land of the Coast Salish and Nisqually peoples, and finally we'll meet Wesley Godden who grew up in Singapore and now shepherds a flock of Katahdin hair sheep with his partner of 20 years in Ontario Canada on Omàmìwininìwag (Algonquin) and Anishinabewaki traditional lands.
This is part one of two episodes dedicated to sheep and the queer and trans humans who love them! Find the farmers you heard in this episode on instagram and at their websites: Maja and her sister farm at Local Harvest CSA, Grayson farms at Pink Moon Farm, and Wesley Godden farms at Fairside Farm.
This week, in light of the horrific white supremacist attacks on the Asian American community in Atlanta, we’re asking folks to donate to Asian Americans Advancing Justice - a nonprofit based in Atlanta that released "A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities" after the shootings on March 16th that left 8 people killed in the Atlanta area, including 6 Asian women. We're encouraging listeners to sign on to their collective statement decrying systemic violence against Asian American communities, and to donate in support of the victims and their families here.
Host/Producer/Lead Editor: Rae Garringer. Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland. Theme Song Composer/Banjo: Sam Gleaves. Theme Song Pedal Steel: Rebecca Branson Jones. Additional music on Acoustic and Electric Guitar Music: Tommie Anderson. Special thanks to Dan and his sheep on Moneton and Calicuas lands in Jacox, WV for ambient farm sounds he(a)rd throughout this episode. Photo by Pony Jacobson.