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Listen to the Land: Stories and conversations about home and the land in the rural Southeast

 "Listen to the Land" is produced by students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, with support from the Georgia Museum of Agriculture, the Georgia Pecan Growers Association, and the Gail Dillard Faculty Enrichment Fund. 

Apr 28, 2023

Hayden Norman interviews Ross Kendrick, a peanut farmer from Turner County in South Georgia. Kendrick is a fifth generation farmer, and a leaders in the peanut commission and the farm bureau. He knows he not only has to cultivate peanuts and cotton, but that he also has to cultivate good relations with lawmakers in...


Apr 21, 2023

"Listen to the Land" host Colton Creel travels to Pelham, Georgia, with Molly McKettrick to interview Anfernee McDonald, a student starting his own farm. McDonald entered farming after leaving the Marines, when he realized he wasn't the husband and father that he wanted to be. Now deeply religious, McDonald discovered...


Apr 14, 2023

Scott Hudson of Hudson Pecans in Ocilla, Georgia, talks about the hurricane winds that threaten pecan growers in the American Southeast every fall. Hurricane Micheal destroyed more than thousand trees in his orchard alone. But hurricanes are not the only threat to pecan orchardists. As Dr. Lenny Wells of the University...