Meet Holly Callahan-Kasmala & Chrisie DiCarlo

In Maryland, best friends of 40-plus years share a passion for good food, laughter and, most of all, poultry.

- LISA MUNNIKSMA

Holly Callahan-Kasmala and Chrisie DiCarlo are hosts of the Coffee With the Chicken Ladies podcast. DiCarlo and her family have a small farm with chickens and a garden, and she has a background in emergency veterinary medicine. On Callahan-Kasmala’s small farm, she and her family keep multiple types of poultry, as well as sheep. CallahanKasmala is also a fiber artist and historian.

HOBBY FARMS: Tell us about the podcast.

DICARLO: We have been best friends since the moment we met, and we spent all our time growing up talking on the phone for hours and hours. Looking back, I think it was training to start a podcast. When [the Covid-19 pandemic] happened, we still wanted to get together, so we moved our get-togethers over coffee to Zoom, and we started talking about what project we could do together.