About
Explore Kentucky’s food traditions with The Farmer & The Foodie
Get to know the food grown by Kentucky farmers and celebrate the Commonwealth’s diverse food traditions with The Farmer & The Foodie.
The Farmer & The Foodie hosts, Maggie Keith (The Farmer) and Lindsey McClave (The Foodie), celebrate regional food traditions and create delicious recipes by visiting the people and places providing the ingredients and inspiring simple, healthy meals. The two friends travel the state, where they draw inspiration from the farms, ingredients and people they encounter. Then they bring what they’ve learned into the kitchen to create delicious and approachable recipes.
Each episode wraps up with Maggie, Lindsey, and the friends they’ve met sitting down and enjoying a meal together — underscoring The Farmer & The Foodie‘s mantra that “good food is meant to be shared.”
About the hosts
Lindsey McClave is a food and wine writer and self-taught home cook with a knack for creating original recipes with fresh, locally-sourced ingredients.
Maggie Keith is the owner and operator of Foxhollow Farm and a passionate advocate for Kentucky farmland.
Recent Episodes
TV Schedules
Upcoming
Farming Well - S1 E4
Premiered On: 02/08/2020
Maggie and Lindsey visit a decades-old family farm in New Castle, Kentucky, where they learn what it means to farm well from Steve Smith. They spend some time with Mary Berry of The Berry Center before heading back to Lindsey's kitchen, where Mary teaches them to cook her family's brown sugar pie, and they make a hearty winter meal of braised Boston butt with sweet potato BBQ sauce.
- Saturday December 9, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday December 9, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
- Monday December 11, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 11, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Monday December 11, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 11, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
Coming Around One Table with Common Earth Gardens - S1 E5
Premiered On: 02/15/2020
Maggie and Lindsey take part in the kitchen skills classes taught at the Common Table, a six-week program preparing refugees and others for careers in hospitality. They visit the vibrant vegetable beds of Common Earth Gardens, where refugees from around the world are able to make a living from the earth.
- Saturday December 16, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday December 16, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
- Monday December 18, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 18, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Monday December 18, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 18, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
Tackling Carp in Western Kentucky - S1 E6
Premiered On: 02/22/2020
The season's final episode brings Maggie and Lindsey to Paducah, Kentucky, where they learn firsthand how the community is turning the problem of the invasive carp fish into an opportunity. Chef Sara Bradley of Freight House cooks carp for Maggie and Lindsey, sharing with them the many benefits of this misunderstood fish. Maggie joins local fisherman Marcus on his boat and helps catch his daily carp haul, which Lindsey fries and serves with squash soup.
- Saturday December 23, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday December 23, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
- Monday December 25, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 25, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Monday December 25, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 25, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
Chickens - Foxhollow and Rootbound Farms - S2 E1
Maggie and Lindsey learn natural ways of raising chickens, take part in a chicken roundup and collect eggs. They return to the kitchen to create a speedy weeknight meal of spatchcock chicken and asparagus, poached eggs topped with a hollandaise sauce.
- Saturday December 30, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday December 30, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
- Monday January 1, 2024 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday January 1, 2024 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Monday January 1, 2024 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday January 1, 2024 4:30 pm CT on KET2
The Farmer and the Foodie
- Saturday January 6, 2024 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday January 6, 2024 2:30 pm CT on KET
- Monday January 8, 2024 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday January 8, 2024 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Monday January 8, 2024 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday January 8, 2024 4:30 pm CT on KET2
Recent
Food, Family & The Hindman Settlement School - S1 E1
- Monday November 20, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday November 20, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
- Monday November 20, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday November 20, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
The State of Hunger in Louisville - S1 E3
- Monday December 4, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 4, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
- Monday December 4, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday December 4, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
- Saturday November 18, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday November 18, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
Dairy - JD Country Milk; Louisville Cream - S2 E6
- Monday November 13, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday November 13, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
- Monday November 13, 2023 12:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday November 13, 2023 11:30 am CT on KET2
Foxhollow Farm; Growing the Next Generation of Farmers - S1 E2
- Monday November 27, 2023 5:30 pm ET on KET2
- Monday November 27, 2023 4:30 pm CT on KET2
- Saturday November 11, 2023 3:30 pm ET on KET
- Saturday November 11, 2023 2:30 pm CT on KET
Recipes
Savor the Season

Savor the taste of the festive season with this collection of recipes from KET’s The Farmer & The Foodie.
New Season Premieres January 6, 2024