WARRENS, Wis. — A Wisconsin cranberry farmer is using the power of her phone to teach people about agriculture.

Every Thursday night Amber Bristow goes to an office on her family's Warrens, Wisconsin cranberry farm, which is a part of the Ocean Spray farmer-owned cooperative, to record a podcast. The fifth generation farmer hops on zoom with her friend Becca, a Steven's Point, Wisconsin dairy farmer friend and they record.

“Two women farmers one with dairy, one with cranberries,” Bristow said.

Bristow started the podcast — called Forward Farming — a year ago to talk about life on the farm and the experiences of being a female farm manager.

Forward Farming is a weekly podcast about two women running farms in Wisconsin.

“It's been so much fun, we've had a lot of really fun guests on this show, a lot of women in agriculture just talking about our daily lives,” Bristow said.

Daily lives of cranberry farmers are busy in the spring. Cranberry vines are perennial plants, and farmers spend the spring making sure they don't frost or freeze after they start coming out of dormancy for the winter.

Bristow first started sharing her life through the seasons of cranberry farming on Instagram, with the account @cranberrychats. Showing the famous harvest season for sure, but everything that leads up to it too.

“I have no idea how it got to be where it is today,” Bristow said. “It's just a lot of sharing my life out here and people found that interesting which is really cool and very humbling.”

Past 9,000 followers now, Bristow has hosted companies, brewers players, even Wisconsin celebrity Charlie Berens.

“I try to keep it educational while still having fun,” Bristow said.

Spring is a busy time for cranberry farmers as vines come out of dormancy from the winter.

The podcast an extension of that. Bristow has received messages from listeners around the world.

“We have women of all ages listening to our show and we always get messages like 'oh my gosh I can't believe how much I relate to you guys',” Bristow said.

Especially with the focus on their experiences as female farm managers — a demographic growing in Wisconsin and the Nation.

“I'm so proud to be a part of that number and statistic,” Bristow said.

Bristow says it's humbling to have people interested in following her online.

“Just seeing people get excited about cranberries the way I do, thats all I wanted, is to share my love of cranberries with everyone else,” Bristow said.