editor NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 Abbie Fentress Swanson left KBIAat the end of 2013. Abbie Fentress Swanson joined Harvest Public Media in 2012 and is based at KBIA Radio in Columbia, Missouri . Before that, she covered arts and culture for WNYC Radio in New York. There she was part of a team that won an Online News Association award in 2012 and an Associated Press award in 2010 for outstanding digital news coverage.In 2011, she won theGarden State Journalists Association "Best Radio Feature" award for " Music Therapy Helps Vets Control Symptoms of PTSD ." Reporting fellowships prior to WNYC took her to Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, India, Germany, the Czech Republic and Belgium. Abbie's travels led tomultimedia stories on a wide range of subjects -- from the World Cup in South Africa , to the gay rights movement in India, to San Francisco's immigration court . She's filed stories for The New York Times ,The Patriot Ledger,KALW Public Radio, The World, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Abbieholds a master's degree in NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 Abbie Fentress Swanson Fri, 23 Apr 2021 03:53:18 +0000 https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Abbie Fentress Swanson Monica Johnson, 36, watered edible yellow kale flowers on a recent sunny morning at a rooftop garden in Greenpoint in Brooklyn, N.Y. Standing in front of the Manhattan skyline in her sleeveless top, shades and blond ponytail pulled back in a trucker cap, she looked part-farm girl and part-hipster. “It’s always been interesting to me that I can be up here in the morning completely covered in dirt and then out at a fancy restaurant and cute dress at night,” she said. “And I think that maybe a lot of people have those two sides to themselves and they only think that they can embrace one.” Luckily Johnson doesn’t have that problem. “Yes, I live in the city. But I'm from Missouri,” she said. “I’m proud of it and I’ll break into my southern accent if I need to. I definitely -- when I need to say that I have farm roots -- I do. Johnson’s farm roots are in Moundville, Mo. , a 124-person town near the Missouri-Kansas border. Although she grew up in the Missouri’s capitol, Jefferson City, her https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/my-farm-roots-hip-brooklyn-connecting-farm-past 246 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0000 My Farm Roots: In Hip Brooklyn, Connecting With A Farm Past Abbie Fentress Swanson When I dig into a burger, I might think about how the cow the beef came from was raised -- whether it was grass or grain fed, locally raised or imported -- but rarely do I consider what breed of cow the meat came from. If I did, I'd guess that it was beef from a Black Angus, Hereford or Charolais cow, which are the three most popular breeds used for meat production in the U.S. But that notion got turned on its head at this year’s Missouri Cattlemen’s Association’s convention in Columbia, Mo. During a presentation by Kevin Good, a senior analyst at the research firm CattleFax, I learned it was just as likely that my burger contained beef from Holsteins, those dappled black-and-white dairy cows. My first reaction was, "Meat? From a dairy cow?" Then Good asked the hundred or so ranchers attending his lecture a question. “How many people have had veal in the last year? Raise your hand," he said. "How many have had beef that’s produced from a fed Holstein in the last year?” Hands around the https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/increasingly-holstein-beef-whats-dinner 281 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000 Increasingly, Holstein Beef Is What's For Dinner