Life Continues after Loss

  “I can look to the seasons, and I can look to the controlled burns and the growth that comes up a week later and use that as a reminder: that nature, and the seasons, and those cycles have been here long before we have and will be here long after. And I...

A Little Bit of Whiskey and a Lot of Community

What do you do when you get a call saying you have to fix your 130-year-old barn that is falling down and causing a hazard to your neighbors? You grab some friends, some beer, some food, and some love and figure it out. In today’s exciting episode, Jill Davis...

A Daughters Love and a Brownie Camera

Today’s episode of The Storyteller’s Porch begins with sips of rebels from Dutch Bro’s and a conversation between our host, Jill Davis, and her daughter, Gracie Jenkins. Gracie and Jill start this episode sharing memories of Gracie’s Gma and...

Sometimes It Was Pretty Hard to Pay the Taxes

Iced water and bubbly in hand, our host Jill Davis and Emily Chase Smith walk through the history and genealogy of the sprawling farm inherited in Kansas. The farm began as a homestead in 1888. Made possible by the Homestead Act, Jill’s great grandfather, George...

So You’ve Inherited a Family Farm… Now What?

We begin season two of The Storytellers’ Porch with our host Jill Davis and her long-time friend and co-host, Emily Chase Smith. Jill Davis has been helping people identify their dreams, tell their stories and share their ideas with the world for the past 30...