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Latest Episodes

Ep 212 A.J. O'Neil: Six Degrees of Bacon
April 16, 2024

Backyard Green Films is now in Florida, getting ready to start the World Devon Congress 2024.  But first (and last), our podcast with the butcher.  The place where everything ends – everything that is ordered medium rare, anyway.A.J. O’Neil is the perfect

Ep 211 Stephen Adcock: Ipstone Patchwork Clockwork Dexter Farmstay
March 31, 2024

Our stay at Clockwork Cottage was one of the quiet delights of our UK trip in August of 2023. The Peak District in England is well known as being a day-hikers destination filled with rolling emerald fields, ancient stacked stone walls, and sheep, sheep

Ep 210 Steve Montgomery: …and We’ll Leave the Lamppost on for Ya
March 17, 2024

Steve Montgomery of Lamppost Farm is our guest on todays podcast, coming to you from a stop on the Devon Congress pre-tour - Columbiana, Ohio style this time. Steve and his family raise Devon Cattle, Coopworth Sheep, pigs, turkeys and a partridge in a p

Ep 209 Clover Brooke Farm: We Love Leaping Llamas – But Today We’ll Just Walk
February 29, 2024

Andrea Tibbets of Clover Brooke Farm is our guest on todays podcast. We usually see her at the New York State Sheep & Wool Festival (Rhinebeck), but since at that fine event we see her running the Camelid Barn and running the Leaping Llama contest a

Ep 208 Lakota Ranch: Jeremy is Running for Congress 2024
February 12, 2024

Its another stop on our Devon Pre-Tour run. This time, were bringing you the sights and sounds from a delightful and delicious visit to Lakota Ranch in Remington, Virginia. Lakota is the home of Jeremy Engh, President of Red Devon USA, Dr. Jerry Engh,

Ep 207 Clive Richardson: Kilnsey, Kilnsey, Have You Any Spots?
January 26, 2024

Dont you love talking to people who know their stuff? While crashing the Kilnsey Show in Yorkshire on our UK trip last August, we came across Clive Richardson, Field Officer for the Jacob Sheep Society. It was a spontaneous tailgate conversation, but w

Ep 206 A Little Devon About Bob & Diana
January 10, 2024

Its the Devon Congress 2024 - Coming soon to an east-coast back road near you (if you live on the east coast and are there in April, that is). This April, people are coming from all over the world to celebrate the Devon Cattle breed and all of its many

Ep 205 Bobbin and Weavin' – The 2023 NYSS&WF Rhinebeck Mashup
December 14, 2023

Its time for the mashup! The Dutchess County Sheep and Wool Growers Association once again hosted 30,000 (plus) attendees at the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival, and we were there to see (and interview, and livestream, andeverything) all of it!

Ep 204 Tom Begley: Howdy Pilgrim. Tom, Turkey, and the First Thanksgiving
November 23, 2023

Here at Backyard Green Films, were getting ready to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of the Devons coming to America with our Plymouth to Plimoth documentary. In preparation for this event (and our film!), we spoke with Tom Begley, Deputy Director for

Ep 203 Jeri and Irina: The Non-Expendable Dependables (Don't Tell Sly)
November 09, 2023

Our podcast guests today are Jeri Robinson Lawrence and daughter Irina Lawrence Mathias. This hardworking mother/daughter team has contributed a few soundbites in between Points A, B, C and X in the rush of the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival ever