{"id":115749,"date":"2023-12-20T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=115749"},"modified":"2024-07-03T05:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:43:49","slug":"episode-68-keisha-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-68-keisha-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 68: Keisha Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kentnutritiongroup-20515077.hs-sites.com\/home-fresh-fall-chickens?utm_source=growing_good&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=2023_fall_chickens&amp;utm_content=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/6tZ9ffVI-Kent_AD-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115765\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/KJ-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/KJ-banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/7wLMoNgS-KJ-banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/KJ-banner-190x59.jpg 190w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/KJ-banner-288x90.jpg 288w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/KJ-banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/29132588\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas farmer Keisha Johnson talks career transitions, skill sharing, poultry keeping and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear about Keisha\u2019s career transition from administration and logistics to farming, and her advice for how anyone can take pre-farming-career skills into farm life\u2014\u201dturning your lifestyle into your livelihood.\u201d Keisha talks about growing vegetables in Texas\u2019s hot, arid climate through summer and more mild winter weather, plus her volunteer-potato-growing experiment. (Listen in for her prediction for this winter\u2019s weather!)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn about Keisha\u2019s White Broad Breasted turkey breeding\u2014a rare thing for this breed to be able to naturally reproduce. She talks, too, about the realities of keeping poultry, including predator pressure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear also about the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and their conference happening at the end of January 2024. Keisha talks about getting involved as a first-year board member and the new skill-sharing and job board they\u2019re working on getting off the ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the very end, Keisha shares her favorite farm meal, sharing a beloved family recipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kjohnson10130\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keisha Johnson on LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ruralcitygurl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[11047,11874],"class_list":["post-115749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-hobby-farms-presents-growing-good","tag-keisha-johnson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 68: Keisha Johnson - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Episode 68 of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good with Keisha Johnson! 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