On Her Errand (A Ballerina Farm Bonus)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate explores the Ballerina Farm article heard ‘round the World Wide Web and reacts to the Times UK profile of homesteaders Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel, who run a picturesque farm in Utah with their eight children. Kate high-level examines Neeleman’s portrayal of farm life, the influence of their Mormon faith on gender roles, how that lack of context likely made the article more inflammatory to a secular audience, and discusses the complexities of claimed empowerment in our choices when they’re from a finite set of options. She also goes on a gratuitous Juilliard tangent (the Troy Bolton of it all), but not before a predictable plea to her audience to not marry someone after three weeks and a rant about bearing children being left up to God's will. Kate also touches on her confusion about the label of “trad wife,” wonders if she is one while her son is on her lap while she records, and attempts to explore the nuances of active versus passive harm when promoting a certain traditional (or regressive) lifestyle on the internet. Enjoy!

https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/meet-the-queen-of-the-trad-wives-and-her-eight-children-plfr50cgk

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome back to the Be There in Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your
0:14.7	host. This week I'm kind of doing a like two episode situation because I
0:20.6	didn't have one come out last week, but I'm back, I'm here and I'm ready to talk about
0:25.5	ballerina Farm. But yeah, there's a lot of dialogue happening about ballerina Farm,
0:30.2	Hannah Neelman, who's behind the account slash brand,
0:34.1	Valerina Farm, who's a fellow millennial mother of eight,
0:39.2	and she lives with her eight kids, her husband Daniel, on a farm in Utah they bought in 2018 and the
0:46.5	ballerina farm of it all is because she prior to settling down with Daniel
0:51.9	she was a professional dancer who studied at Juilliard. Anyway, they lived in Brazil for a while. They got passionate about farming. They moved back to the U.S this property near Camas, Utah in 2018, and kind of shared a very like cottage core, bucolic, I think I called it pastoral goop, situation where it was like the romanticizing of farm life in ways not realistic to what it actually is and is more like I don't know giving yourself aggressive
1:24.4	inconveniences for sport that I don't totally understand but like I think since
1:28.2	it's outside of my realm of interests maybe it's not enough to pull me in but I do think the cultural conversation
1:34.5	surrounding her is important and can be quite interesting. I just I like my
1:39.2	influencers materialists. I like, I don't know, I love an influencer that's an expert in their
1:47.4	field, but I think I'm generally disinterested in like content about people
1:51.2	just in fields, crops, harvesting. I try to get into Cottage
1:57.7	Corps ever since I was Grace with Kirsten Larson's calico dress and
2:01.0	wooden spoon. I bought the ticket, I took the ride. I bought two Hill House home dresses that still have the tags on it. It's not me, it never will be.
2:08.0	Am I interested in Sourdough? Yeah. I like bread and I believe in a woman's right to white bread.
2:13.0	But I don't even understand what it's started is or what it does,
2:16.0	and if I can't keep a house plan alive, I assume, I mean, do you guys remember sea monkeys?
2:21.0	Couldn't even keep those little spermy weird bad boys afloat.
2:24.0	Also, what were we doing buying like sea life at a toy store?
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