Farm to Fork correspondent Colleen Stewart’s radio story about farmer suicides in India aired on WKYU, the public radio service of Western Kentucky University, on Wednesday morning, April 28, at 6:35 and 8:35 a.m. A link to the story is available on WKYU’s website here. Kevin Willis, assistant news director, recorded Stewart’s first-person story at [Read More]
By Amanda Loviza and Sara Shipley Hiles The Farm to Fork class completed its round of field trips at Paul and Alison Wiediger’s 84 acre Au Naturel Farm in Smith’s Grove, Ky. Alison Wiediger bought the farm in 1989, and worked to reverse the erosive effects of the previous conventional farmer. In 1991, Au Naturel [Read More]
Take a look at O’Daniel Farms through the lens of Farm to Fork photographers.
Our photographers share photographs from the first field trip of the semester, to the WKU Farm.
The Fleischaker-Greene Scholars program at Western Kentucky University brings together top students in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting to investigate a different topic each year. Our current topic is “Agriculture: From Farm to Fork.”
Sara Shipley Hiles is a freelance journalist and part-time faculty member at the Western Kentucky University School of Journalism. She has worked as a reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Ore., The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was co-author of a book, “City Adrift: New [Read More]
On Friday, the class will visit the WKU Farm to meet our colleagues in the Agriculture Department. Dr. Jenks Britt will lead a tour of the 780-acre farm on Nashville Road, about 15 minutes from the main campus.
Agriculture provides food, fuel and fiber for the world. This spring, the Fleischaker-Greene Scholars class at Western Kentucky University’s School of Journalism & Broadcasting will investigate agriculture, from farm to fork.
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