Introducing our guest blogger

We're excited to try something new with the blog!

I recently visited the Reding family of Howardstown, Kentucky to shoot a story for our upcoming season (starts airing across the country in September). The family was in planting and planning mode for the upcoming season and it occurred to me that the Redings would be a great family for viewers to follow throughout the year.

I've asked them to "guest blog" this year -- bringing us updates (every week or so) from the farm. We'll get to follow along as they grow their crops and hear from them first hand! Ashley Reding will likely do most of the writing but expect to hear from her husband Aaron as well.

Turns out the week after we visited they had serious flooding on their ground, the kind of challenges that farmers across the country face every day. So expect to hear about that, too!

So please enjoy their posts, wish them well this growing season and hopefully get a sense of what it is like "down on the farm." And of course, tune in during season 6 to see their story on America's Heartland!

Jason

Note - we'll also continue posting behind the scenes write-ups, road reports and other general items of interest on the blog!