About Keeping Kith: Field Notes from the Prairie Podcast
A weekly field-recording practice rooted in land, listening, and belonging. Each episode is recorded outside — with the flock, in the barn, or walking the prairie — and left mostly as it is. Wind, birds, long pauses, sheep noises…all of it stays. A way of keeping company with one another and with the land. 🌾🌾🌾
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Short episode and short show notes this week. I’m a little underwater with finishing projects, travel, and now puppy wrangling! But I do want to include links to the two places/orgs I mention toward the end:
https://knollfarm.org/ (https://knollfarm.org/)
and
https://www.theinterwoveninstitute.org/ (http://ttps://www.theinterwoveninstitute.org/)
Also, if you are looking for a book to read this summer, consider Helen Whybrow (https://helenwhybrow.com/)’s memoir The Salt Stones (she’s the owner/operator at Knoll Farm)—it’s wonderful, and is how I found my way to her farm!
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5 Jun 2026
Keeping Kith with Uncertainty
UUUUFFFFFFFFFFF!!!! This week has been hard. Lambing, jet lag, trying to get the plants in the ground, planning for and setting up the Keeping Kith festival this weekend…I can’t believe how physically exhausted I am. And in the midst of it all, the emotional work of lambing, which always has highs and lows—the portal between birth and death is open wide during these times on the ranch, and the intensity of it has not diminished even after over a decade of working with the flock.
This year has been my most successful year lambing so far—all the babies were born healthy, which is a pretty big deal. The last ewe had her baby yesterday afternoon. And, amazingly, the ewe I’m following around in this episode is doing much better today. She’s not out of the woods, but she’s certainly heading in the right direction.
Meanwhile, I hope to see some of you tomorrow!
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27 May 2026
Keeping Kith with the Humans
Hello! I just got back from the most wonderful trip! I won’t say much here as I go into a lot of detail during the episode…but you can click here for more information about —->MOTH (https://mothlife.org/about/) (which I also talk about) for those interested.
Meanwhile, when I left, it felt like early spring, and now it feels like midsummer! The kids are done with school, too, so we are tasting the freedom of long, hot afternoons and cooling salmon pink dusks. We’ve started camping out with the sheep who are lambing—a long-held dream of mine—at a homestead we are leasing west of town. So next week I am sure will feature sheep again! Lamb time is the best time of the year.
I hope you all are doing well!
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