Streak of Lean
By Streak of Lean
RIP Burt, Flannery, Duane and Greg, Levon, Otis, Aretha, Harry Crews, James Dickey, grandmother and grandaddy, and so on and so on.
Streak of LeanMar 12, 2019
Our yearly episode! We are ever so excited to talk. It’s Coop. It’s Birdman. It’s the Lean Boys.
Making Love to the Land
We back. Farming is the subject. Audio isn't that bad. We'll see where this goes.
Thanks, y'all.
Burn, Baby, Burn
We Gotta Talk about Minks for a Minute
Instagram: @streakoflean
Virtue Signaling & Body Soap
Here goes nothing.
A Quick Update and Exposition on Frozen Gas Station Drinks
Brandon is slinging fresh farm goods. Coop is trying to help farmers get whatever Federal money they deserve. Together we don't have the time to put together full episodes right now. Plus, who can keep up with the news? So, instead, we're offering brief conversations as the week goes by. Light-hearted, weird stuff because there's enough heavy out there. This one is a mini-update about our lives and a review of Icees, Slurpees, Slush Puppies, and Gator Ices. We live in rural Georgia, which means our internet and cell reception can be pretty bad, and that can lead to some funky things happening during the recording. You'll hear it. We're leaving everything in because it's fun. Unfortunately, Brandon's audio is pretty clear... Imagine the real conversation occurring in a hallway of echoes...in space...with rainbows.
COVID and Local Farms
Coronavirus - Week 1
One Year Older, Wiser, Weirder, Wilder
A new year and new season of mystery, intrigue, and tales of high adventure on the farm. After a long layoff, we review the arc of our lives over 2019 and make some minor resolutions for the future. It turns out when you go with the flow, things get easier. Follow your bliss, don’t fret the small things, be kind to your spine. Donn professes his love of retro synthwave. Brandon explores the promise and intimidation of the writing life. Plus, we touch on those dire occasions when a sow might need a cold beer to cure her savagery and the cool savor of a Winston cigarette. The show starts with a passel of peepers and ends with a live recording at the mystical navel of the SOUEGA flatlands — the Waverly Minit Mart. Selah.
Episode sponsored by Lang’s Marina Restaurant in St. Marys, Classic Georgia, Tales from the Altamaha, and Georgia Sea Grill on beautiful St. Simons Island.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is waiting for your unique view.
Websites:
- www.streakofleanpod.com
- www.thegrassrootsfarm.com and www.brandonchonko.me
- www.cooperagriculture.com
Social media accounts:
- Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
- Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
- Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
- Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services (sometimes)
Some Things Flat Don't Change
Brandon delivers pastured pork in style, his current chariot of swine a curious effect of Amazon’s long tentacles within the economy. Donn traffics in acronyms and updates everyone on the lamentable state of grant programs and malfunction at the USDA. The episode winds down with a fairly substantive conversation about farm conferences and the specious language of good food. Plus, quick Savannah trivia, dang Bluffton traffic, and a brief sunset interlude. No added animal sounds this go-round, and we’re still learning how to think and speak good. But the audio is crisp and clean, and you can practically smell the barbecue smoke wafting over the Cumberland Sound.
Episode sponsored by Lang’s Marina Restaurant in St. Marys, Classic Georgia, and Georgia Sea Grill on beautiful St. Simons Island.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is up.
Websites:
Social media accounts:
- Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
- Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
- Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
- Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Our Quarterly Episode
Early reviews of this episode are in, and critics are raving: “So lo-fi it was almost incomprehensible, but I loved every minute of it.” The De Soto Gazette-Herald calls it, “A surprisingly pleasant hour considering so little preparation went into the final product.” Coop walks across town while trying out new audio equipment that makes him sound underwater. Brandon is following his normal route, speeding away from cellular signals and into the lost coastal backwoods. Together they weave experimental sonic textures about ANTIFA, the pitiful things that farmers kill accidentally, littering and Southerners’ inability to embrace environmentalism, and new developments at Farm’D. We made this one short; so when it stops, it just sort of stops.
Episode sponsored by Lang’s Marina Restaurant in St. Marys (@langsrestaurant).
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is up.
Websites:
Social media accounts:
- Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
- Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
- Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
- Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Georgia Summer
We here! We didn't give up the podcast game, just got hella busy over the summer. The kind of busy where you're wore-ass out but can't remember what you accomplished. Brandon starts us back with discussing his pesky neighbors, Theresa and Daryl, and their complaints about his dogs. Theresa and Daryl, UGH. Then we get down to some solid farm talk, including: feral swine damage in South Georgia, USDA grants and local food systems investment, the inevitable trash and worn-out equipment that accumulate on every farm ("shame piles"), and sundry other topics along the way. Authentic outdoor sounds, too.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is up.
Websites:
Social media accounts:
- Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
- Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
- Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
- Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Heat and Fever
What is this episode about? What is truth? Can we ever really know another person? We don't talk about none of that. Instead, we cover laughable Yankee tourist traps (we see you, Peach World), vague memories of Midway and the lost Sunbury Road, the cruel turn of weather in Georgia, the possible effects from African Swine Fever’s rampage through China and Southeast Asia, human doodoo, and the salubrious possibilities of human doodoo transfer. Plus, there’s the standard drivel, whatnot, clatter, and noise. But name another podcast with so many loud and abrupt animal sounds.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is up.
Websites:
Social media accounts:
- Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
- Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
- Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
- Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Wyatt Williams, Meat-Obsessed Expat
Read more about Wyatt at his tumblr (https://wyattwilliams.tumblr.com/). Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is live. Our gallery of Georgia courthouses is up. Look for show notes soon.
Websites:
www.streakofleanpod.com
www.thegrassrootsfarm.com
www.cooperagriculture.com
Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Phil Spencer from Farm’d
Our first guest! We enjoy the honor and privilege of keeping company with Phil Spencer, the Community Manager at Farm’d. A buying and distribution platform for local food, Farm’d facilitates linkages between restaurants and farmers. What they’re pulling off sounds so good, it makes one incredulous. We think you'll really like Phil and hearing about the job he's doing to help Georgia farmers get their product to market. Plus, we have scintillating intro talk, in which we cover the weather, drowned trucks, rural hospitals, pica, annoying turns of phrase, driving a tractor in your skivvies, cussing, and getting punk’d. Episode sponsored by the Georgia Sea Grill (@georgiaseagrill). Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening.
Website is finally up! Look for show notes soon.
Websites:
www.streakofleanpod.com
www.thegrassrootsfarm.com
www.cooperagriculture.com
Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Hyperlocal
Back to a Rough January
The Story of Grassroots Farms, Part 3: “You Got To Get in Where You Fit in”
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is finally up! Look for show notes soon.
Websites:
www.streakofleanpod.com
www.thegrassrootsfarm.com
www.cooperagriculture.com
Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
The Story of Grassroots Farms, Part 2: “I Owe an Awful Lot to the Chicken”
Part the Second: We follow our plucky hero through the next stage of his journey to small farm glory. Good fortune strikes as a corporate distributor comes calling for that local yardbird. Brandon moves the flock and fam from their suburban homestead to the wide-open pastures of Southeast Georgia (SOUEGA — God's country, per the Bird Mane). Will this path lead to untold riches as foretold in the prophecy? How can one man compete with the scale and efficiencies of Big Chicken? Find out in this week's episode! Plus, more Florida talk and tantalizing details about a "sweet" outhouse.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is on the way (real real real soonish).
Websites:
Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
The Story of Grassroots Farms, Part 1: “Man, You’re Going To Be a Millionaire”
This is the first of three episodes in which Brandon details his unique journey into the farming life. It’s a story of youthful mistakes, rare opportunity, personal destiny, and abounding love. In Part 1, Brandon talks about getting started as a wide-eyed backyard agrarian in Walton County.
Please smash that five-star rating, and we appreciate y’all for listening. Website is on the way (real real soonish).
Social media accounts: Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Chicken Slime!
Website is on the way (real soonish). So are some small tech upgrades. Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Hatin' on Hotlanta: Grants, Politics, and Rural Living
Publishing this episode was delayed by technical issues and user error, and some audio has been removed to protect the innocent. So, don't mind the gaps, and discussions about recent political events are still relevant, if not timely. Also, we're going to leave you wanting more....
Streak of Lean is still accepting sponsorships from online mattress companies for a limited time. Act now. Opportunities are going fast.
Website is on the way. Social media accounts:
Streak of Lean Instagram — @streakoflean
Grassroots Farms Instagram — @grassrootsfarmsga
Grassroots Farms Twitter — @GApasturedbirds
Cooper Ag Services Instagram — @cooper_ag_services
Organic Goobers
Follow us on Instagram at @streakoflean. Individual accounts are @grassrootsfarmsga (Brandon) and @cooper_ag_services (Donn). Brandon is also saving the republic one tweet at a time (@GApasturedbirds).
We'll have show notes and links once the website (www.streakofleanpod.com) is up.
Welcome to Streak of Lean
Follow us on Instagram at @streakoflean. Individual accounts are @grassrootsfarmsga (Brandon) and @cooper_ag_services (Donn). We'll have show notes and links once the website (www.streakofleanpod.com) is up.
Mattress company sponsorships now being accepted.