by Mary Caelsto | Apr 6, 2021 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode I interview historical fantasy author Marian L. Thorpe. We chat about agricultural history, the animals (including horses) in her books, and her writing. We also talk chickens a bit. I hope you enjoy our conversation. In the bonus conversation...
by Mary Caelsto | Apr 2, 2021 | Homestead Update
This week the 30 eggs I had in the incubator were due to hatch. Those who follow me on Twitter know that I ended up with five chicks. Well, a sixth one hatched yesterday. Out of 30 eggs that’s not a really good hatch rate. The eggs broke down as follows: 20 eggs...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 31, 2021 | Worldbuilding
I’m finishing up my AS in Agriculture degree with this semester and the fall semester to go. This semester I’m taking the last of my agriculture classes: AGR215 (Soils) and AGR297 (Global Agriculture). It’s the second class, the capstone class of the...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 30, 2021 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode I encourage you to think outside the box, or rather outside the field, when it comes to livestock. What about people in small spaces? How about urban livestock keeping? I discuss raising livestock like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and B. Dubia...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 26, 2021 | Homestead Update
It’s that time again. On March 9, after the eggs I bought off of eBay arrived, I put those 10 plus about 24-30 of my own into the incubator. They’re due to hatch on the 30th, which means they’ll go into “lock down” on Sunday, the 28th....
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 24, 2021 | World Building With Ag
On Monday I posted about how I recycle shredded paper in the chicken coop and promised that I’d follow up with how you can use this for your world building. So here we are! Now you can take this as a direct relationship where your print makers or your scribes...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 23, 2021 | Podcast Episodes
Welcome to episode 5. Sorry for the break last week. College started up again, and the two agriculture classes I’m taking to finish the AS in Ag are pretty “busywork intensive” so I had to make sure my schedule was in order and missed out on doing an...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 22, 2021 | Farming Talk
We recycle and compost as much as possible. Living out in the country there isn’t curbside recycling, but I can take our recycling into the nearest town and drop it off when I need to go there, usually once a month. You might wonder what this has to do with your...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 9, 2021 | Podcast Episodes
Welcome to episode 4. In this episode I’ll interview author Dan Fitzgerald, who I met at a World Building for Writers summit earlier this year. We chat about his unique low fantasy stories, The Maer Cycle, what he has coming up in the future, and about the role...
by Mary Caelsto | Mar 8, 2021 | Animal Talk
Among the definition the Merriam-Webster dictionary gives for chicken, one of them is coward. Chicken is a well known insult when someone is backing away from a fight or not willing to take on a battle. And yet, are chickens really deserving of that? Chickens, like...
Since moving to the Ozarks in 2013, Mary's embraced her inner farm girl and worked her love of animals (especially horses) into her writing fantasy and women's literature. The Fantasy Farmer Podcast combines her love of farming with speculative fiction and author education to help authors with the care and feeding of their rural protagonists. 
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