Mary Swander's Buggy Land

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

  1. 04/28/2025

    Season #4, Episode #64: Farmer Tales

    Farmers tell stories about their ecxperiences with soil and livestock. Sean Dengler nurtured a lamb in childhood who made all the messy work of farming worth it. For six days, Meghan Filbert chased an escaped ram that made her life a royal mess. Josh Anderson in North Dakota and Austen Camille in Maryland dialogue about soil, how it has changed their attitudes toward landscape and how it has shaped their own creative work. And host Mary Swander tells how her whole community pulled together to try to save a burning Amish barn filled with cows. Music-Dear Lisa and Hollow Poplar--by Betty Swarts and Dan Pease. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see videos, photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a Substack paid subscriber, comment and engage with the episode, joining in the Buggy Land community. Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    1h 1m

  2. 03/17/2025

    Season #4, Episode #63: St. Patrick's Day Special

    Host Mary Swander interviews local historian Roger Duffey about the early settlement of Buggy Land, the Irish becoming neighbors and inter-marrying with the Amish. Swander recites her poem "Quay," and her monologue "Craic and a Jug of Poitin." Sean Fitzgerald lilts, plays Irish pipes, and tin whistle. John Corless sings "The Rose of Tralee" and "Down by the Salley Gardens" by William Butler Yeats. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see videos, photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a Substack paid subscriber, comment and engage with the episode, joining in the Buggy Land community. Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    45 min

  3. 01/31/2025

    Season #4, Episode #62: From Buggy Land to Hovland

    Host Mary Swander interviews Liese Greensfelder about her new memoir Accidental Shepherd. Music by Bettie Swarts and Dan Pease, including a Scandinavian schottische and Dubuque. Swander monologue: 150 Pairs of Boots. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    47 min

  4. 11/14/2024

    Season #3, Episode #61: Harvest

    A harvest issue showcasing Rick Exner's new CD called Occasional Music. Farmer Sean Dengler tells a tale of bringing in the soybean harvest with Old Hoss. Host Mary Swander interviews Amy Kolen with her new book Inside Voices (Ice Cube Press) about singing in a prison choir at the same time she cares for her dying mother. And Swander delivers a monologue about Stingy Jack. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    50 min

  5. 09/10/2024

    Season #3, Episode #60: Around Freemartin Town

    Host Mary Swander takes a spin around Freemartin Town and reads the notes Paul, the Egg Man, has put into his cartons. Swander interviews Aidan Yoder, a Mennonite student and peace activist, home from his 11-day march for Gaza. Swander reads about sacrifice and service from Plain Interests, then concludes with her own monologue called Bring Back the Bluebirds. Music: Cluck Old Hen and Motherless Child. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    40 min

  6. 06/14/2024

    Season #3, Episode #59: Distance

    Farmer Sean Dengler describes his 90 minute commute to his farm. One day the drive became difficult. The Call-In Catastrophe processes recent storms and the plague of loneliness. Host Mary Swander reads her poem Scheherazade, and delivers her monologue about morel hunting. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    38 min

  7. 04/03/2024

    Season #3, Episode #58: Barons

    Listen to host Mary Swander interview author and agricultural antitrust expert Austin Frerick about his book called Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of American's Food Industry (Island Press.) Frerick tells the story of seven corporate titans, how they accumulated their wealth and rose to power to control most everything that we put in our mouths-from grain to dairy, coffee to berries, pork and slaughtering to groceries. How do we change this pattern? What new vision can we bring to agriculture and the way we live on the land? Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander's Buggy Land And Mary Swander's Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: maryswander.substack.com swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander's Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    32 min

  8. 02/01/2024

    Season #3, Episode #57: Winter Spirits

    The podcast explores spirits, the kind you want to lift in the winter, and the kind you want to drink year-round. And the kind that comes back to haunt you. Host Mary Swander explores the history of two bootlegged whiskeys: poitín in Ireland, and Templeton Rye in Iowa, and her connection to both. Readings from Plain Interest. And John K. Corless singing Noreen Bawn. Connect with us on our new Substack pages where you will see photos and extras from the podcast: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land maryswander.substack.com And Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, showcasing young, diverse writers on current topics: swander.substack.com Become a premium member of our podcast Mary Swander’s Buggy Land and gain access to bonus interviews, books, postcards, and poetry critiques. Have Mary join you and a small group for a reading. Visit: https://agarts.supercast.com/ Your donation to Buggy Land helps make this podcast a sustainable business and allows us to do this work. We could not do it without you. Thank you for your support. Make your donation: https://www.agarts.org/donate/ AgArts is a non-profit organization based in Kalona, Iowa, whose mission is to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. The Executive Director and host of Buggy Land is award-winning author Mary Swander. https://maryswander.com/. Learn more about AgArts: https://www.agarts.org/ Say hello on Facebook and Instagram

    33 min
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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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  • Creator
    Mary Swander
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    65
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Mary Swander
  • Show Website
    Mary Swander's Buggy Land