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Mary Swander"s Buggy Land

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land, hosted by Mary Swander, explores life among the Amish and the arts and agriculture in the wider rural community.

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23:52

Season #2, Episode #24: B&W Ointment

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2022/02/14

The Amish have no health insurance, little available cash, but a vast knowledge of herbs and other remedies. Learn about the invention of their healing B&W protocol for burns. Host Mary Swander recalls her personal experiences with B&W and browses other tales of healing in Plain Interests. Swander announces the Ask Ruby Contest! Winning entry receives $200. Music: How Great Thou Art.Become a premium member of AgArts From Horse and Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews,

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27:59

Season #2, Episode #23: The Winner of the Great Amish...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2022/01/26

Listen to the winning entry of the Great Amish Belt Loop Bad Poetry Contest and enjoy a selection of the other really terrific awful poems. Sample the collection of entries, from the political to the inane, full of bad rhythm and rhyme, overblown emotion, doggerel and catterel, all containing the phrases "a cat yowling on the back fence" and "a buzzard on a dead horse."Become a premium member of AgArts From Horse and Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, poetry

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31:59

Season #2, Episode #22: I'm Getting Married in the...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2022/01/12

Part #2 featuring immigrants from Muscatine, IA telling stories of their own cuisines. You'll meet the professors of this MCC English as a Second Language class, then sample an armadillo in Mexico, a guinea pig in Equador, feijoada in Brazil, fufu in Togo, and fish in a Scandinavian restaurant in Chicago.Become a premium member of AgArts From Horse and Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, poetry critiques and have Mary join you and a small group for a reading

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51:48

Season #1, Episode #21: Robert McConnell: Hog Farmer...

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2021/12/22

Host Mary Swander interviews Robert McConnell, accomplished musician, and unique director and conductor of the South East Iowa Symphony Orchestra. McConnell speaks of his upbringing on a farm, his musical family, his studies in Kirksville and St. Louis, MO, and his ventures into conducting. He now runs a hog farm and brings classical music to the rural region. Excerpts from his Christmas concert at Saints Peter and Paul Clear Creek Heritage Association, a church on the National Register of

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3:15

Season #1, Episode #20.5: The Great Amish Belt Loop...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/12/20

Listen to a sample submission for the The Great Belt Loop Poetry Contest and hear host Mary Swander go over the rules for submission. Deadline: January 15, 2022. Submit through the AgArts website. Speak right into your computer and win $100 and a handmade leather belt fashioned by the Amish harness maker. Don't forget to include a yowling cat on the back fence and a buzzard on a dead horse. And don't forget to leave your belt size!Become a premium member of AgArts From Horse and Buggy Land

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22:11

Season #1, Episode #20: Rattlesnake with Hot Sauce

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/12/01

Immigrants from around the world tell stories of their own cuisines. Welcome a storyteller from Brazil eating venison for the first time in the U.S. Welcome a member of the Jewish community of Des Moines, IA, eating tongue, and a man from Cameroon who loves rice. You'll travel to Togo for Fufu, to Sicily for Milanese. And you'll find out what food Des Moines has in common with Ukraine. And finally, you'll discover what Mexicans roast on a spit in when they settle down for a nice Sunday

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25:46

Season #1, Episode #19: Bet the Farm

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/11/10

The Agitator, the Freemartin Town appliance shop, plugs in a washing machine and takes bets on how long it will run without repairs. The prize: a shoo fly pie by Ruby, the gossmommie, who gives the recipe. Host Mary Swander launches the Great Amish Belt Loop Bad Poetry contest. Poetry must be bad and include the phrases "a yowling cat on the back fence" and "a buzzard on a dead horse." Music by the Deep Dish Divas.Become a premium member of AgArts From Horse and Buggy Land and gain access

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22:15

Season #1, Episode #18: Living the Good Life on the...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/10/27

Host Mary Swander interviews Geoff and Joanna Mouming at Yum-Yum farm near Wellman, IA, where the couple dramatically improved the soil through composting, cover crops, and prairie restoration. With the services of Seattle architect John DeForest, the Moumings built a house that reflected their ecological values gleaned from the writings of Scott and Helen Nearing and Aldo Leopold. Moumings have become known for their hospitality and delicious homegrown food. Yum!Your donation to AgArts

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33:29

Season #1, Episode #17: Corn Is Not the Answer

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/10/14

Host Mary Swander returns to Red Fern Farm and takes a tour with owners Kathy Dice and Tom Wahl. Swander reads three poems she has written about the farm, reciting them as she is guided past chestnut trees, to paw-paws and persimmons. Dice and Wahl describe the beginnings of their perennial plantings, their U-Pick operation and their Bosnian customers. Eventually, Swander's poems will be anthologized in a book sponsored by SILT and the the Writing the Land Project. Features Meskwaki flute

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29:59

Season #1, Episode #16: Red Fern Farm

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/09/29

Host Mary Swander makes a trip to Red Fern Farm in SE Iowa to interview Kathy Dice and Tom Wahl, visionaries in agroforestry. They talk about how they transformed a corn and bean row crop farm into one that will be forever preserved as a perennial paradise, emphasizing nuts, fruit, and vines.

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32:19

Season #1, Episode #15: Down the River

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/09/15

Host Mary Swander tells the story of the "Bridge to Nowhere," the antique structure that once spanned the Amish River and connected Bull Town and Freemartin Town. Swander follows with a reading of some excerpts of her book of poetry The Girls on the Roof, a Mississippi River saga of a mother and daughter stuck on top of the roof of a catfish dive for three days during the 1993 flood. While there, the two women discover that they have both had a affair with the same man. Music by Catfish

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22:58

Season #1, Episode #14: Light and Variable Winds

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/08/31

In the final segment of the Fork Tales performance in Mt. Vernon, IA, farmer David Miller captures his run-away duck with a Mattel fishing net and puts out a wildfire burning through two acres of cover crops. Host Mary Swander then throws open the mic to two young volunteer storytellers---Eva and Alyssa-who have their own tales of ducks and crops. Music by Dale Beeks and the Mississippi String Band.

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22:08

Season #1, Episode 13: How One Woman Became a Farm...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/08/24

Host Mary Swander provides a continuation of the Mt. Vernon, IA, Fork Tales Performance. Suzan Erem, the Executive Director of SILT, a sustainable land trust that builds food security by circling cities with community-based food farms, recalls how she became a rural activist. Laura Krouse, owner of Abbe Hills Farm and a legend in sustainable agriculture, tells how she endured this season of erratic weather patterns to finally feed her CSA customers. Music by Dale Beeks and the Mississippi

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23:25

Season #1, Episode 12: Flying Grain Bins and Baling...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/08/11

A Fork Tales performance: The first of three live recordings. Host Mary Swander coached farmers to tell their own weather-related stories at the Mt. Vernon, IA, Farmer's Market. First, Allan Mallie tells of his optimistic approach to derecho damage on his farm. Then Kevin Woods recalls surviving adolescence on a farm where the farrowing house was warmer than the human house in the winter. Music by Dale Beeks and the Mississippi String Band.

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28:21

Season #1, Episode 11: Quilting Bee

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/05/26

It's the Quilt Show in Freemmartin Town. Host Mary Swander tells of her inclusion in an Amish come-as-you-are quilting bee. Ruby, the grossmommie, gives her recipe for Jell-o Postage Stamp Quilt Salad. A browsing of Plain Interests, the Amish newspaper, includes the care of a brood of bluebirds. Music by the Silver Trailer Girls, Laura Hudson Kittrell, Monica Leo, and Aleta Murphy. Underscoring by Marco Cacho.

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21:29

Season #1, Episode #10: Vernon Ropp: Sewing Machines...

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/04/28

Host Mary Swander interviews Vernon Ropp, a local Mennonite man who makes lawn art, converting sewing machines to toy tractors. Ropp tells of attending an Amish one-room school and struggling to learn English. During the Korean War, he became a conscientious objector, performing his service work at the Alexian Brothers hospital in Chicago. Ropp traveled the world with the Mennonite Disaster Service and other relief organizations, to return to his off-farm job selling John Deere tractors

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25:35

Season #1, Episode #9: Farm Jokes

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/03/26

Host Mary Swander tells farm jokes and stories that she has garnered from her Amish and Mennonite neighbors, Practical Farmers of Iowa members, and her own experience of living in an old one-room Amish schoolhouse. Music by Alan Murphy from his album Hogs in the Cornfield.

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29:18

Season #1, Episode #8: Star Gazing

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/02/19

Host Mary Swander tells a story about star gazing with the Amish and what it means to stay home for long periods of time. She explores the connections to the night sky in her poem "Heaven?" She reads about a universal cure from the Balm of Gilead tree when she browses Special Interests, the Amish newspaper. Music by Annie Chapman Brewer, Too Many String Band, and Marco Cacho.

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23:42

Season #1, Episode #7: Heavenly Harmonicas

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2021/01/14

Host Mary Swander explores the history and use of the harmonica, the one instrument that the Amish are allowed to play. Gospel tune: "We are Going down the Valley" Story of harmonicas as wedding presents. “Heavenly Harmonica Potatoes” recipe by Ruby, the grossmommie. Music by Patrick Hazell.

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21:08

Season #1, Episode #6: Adeste Fideles in Chinese

Mary Swander"s Buggy Land ·

2020/11/30

Mary Swander celebrates multi-cultural holidays by reading her classic Amishland Christmas story Adeste Fideles in Chinese, a tale of neighbors helping neighbors. Music includes Silent Night in German, Adeste Fideles in both Latin and Chinese.

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