On today’s podcast, I talk to Trisha Bates who goes by the Instagram handle @urbanamericanfarmer. I first got to know Trisha at the beginning of the pandemic when she was a source for a series of articles I wrote about how Austin’s small farms were providing for the community when the supermarkets were tanking. Since then, we’ve stayed on each other’s collaborative radar, and I’m grateful to call her a friend.

Trisha Bates grew up in rural Illinois, and came to Austin with her two sons a few years back. She’s a pollinator, as you’ll hear, someone taking wisdom and disseminating it, creating new spaces and uses for it, propagating it and letting it flourish where it can. I hope you enjoy our conversation.