GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

Hey everyone just checking in and saying hey! I recorded this Thursday March 19, 2020! What a crazy week! I truly believe we are going to come out stronger on the other side. I know it's scary and crazy things are happening, I truly believe the good in humanity and that we should all donate blood if that's a possibility. Our schools all closed Monday, our governor said we were closed Sunday right after I bleached my classroom... and my principal said be ready to teach online when spring break is over (our spring break is 3/20-27/20) in case they ask. Listeners I know I go oh! at the end, but it was probably just something in my car. I am jumpy! haha... don't panic no big deal... anyway, I will try to post soon. My storage is almost full out! I did post a good instagram/facebook post of mike's minifarm and his lesson he learned about tarping. Be safe and Let's Get Growing!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Hi Jackie!I am a new listener who has been (vegetable) gardening all my life & in the last few years added fruit trees to my repartee. I live in NW PA, tho my garden is about 30 miles away in Conneaut, Ohio, a few blocks South of Lake Erie. I listened to the show with Melissa K. Norris today & enjoyed it very much. I will definitely be listening more! (& I entered the book give away, too!)Keep up the good work!Cindy OndishTell us a little about yourself.The way this weird situation started is a long storywhere I live in NW PA I had a gardentrees grew upwe live amongst woodsMy garden got worse and worse eveyryeareveryyeartomato plans around my houseseparate from thismy husband bought a placeboat garagelot with weeds taller then mehacked them down with a cyclehe noticed there was an asparagusthere’s where my garden isthe ground is like a gardener’s dreamperson who owned it before was friendsthere’s my gardenI resisted the whole thing a bit of the timenothing grows at my house because there is no lightwe’re there all the time in the summerwe cleared an acre out of the woods some of it I want to turn back to woodsdidn’t want to cut anymore downsuch a gradual thingI willalways had tomato plants around the housepepper plantspots on the deckit was okI guess if I do raised bedsright in the middle of the lawngradual thingworkedhow wonderful this stuff growsexpandedI came from an Italian familyeveryone grew tomatoeswhich is weirdwe canned teammateswe ate a lot of pastathat’s all I really knewhe came over on the boat from Italyknew about other plantsmy first gardenout of collegelive in an apartment and stuffas soon as I had spaceI did I have a lot of house plantsI have kind of a green thumbgood place to grow then at that timeI grew cornwhole range of things, my family never grewso nicefeel like you can take care of yourselfempoweredI am going to the storecan itgrow it and can itas I had my children got biggertrying to feed themknew what I was feeding Tell me about your first gardening experience?How did you learn how to garden organically?4 Tell us about something that grew well this year.4I was head over heels in love with parsnipsalways had good luck growing parsnipsI know now my garden was such clayeven thought I tried to work things in itif they dry outonce they dry out they’re deadold timerteaching me how to grow parsnipsnever eaten a warshipboiling water on themboard over topnever did the topmine would growbecause my ground was so nasty and wetso I have been trying to grow them in my good gardendrainagemulching themcould not get parsnips to growbummed out of itmore that I readwhat do I have to loselet them start sprouting on the sinktedious job of picking up the sproutsbiggest most beautifulstart them first plant themplant thempour boiling water over the rowseeds make them float to the topwaxy coating that has to get through the coatingworked because my ground was so wetdidn’t drainnew garden is drains my husband introduced them to mecravings for themsometimesbounty of parsnipswe started outmy husband cooks everything starting with

Happy to talk about any Hemp building topics or direction the conversation goes.I call my listeners Green Future Growers. I had a guest on the east side of Montana, and one of the things he talked about the importance of having a market ahead of time. And then my husband and I have always been interested in building a hemp house, or straw bale house but hempcrete would be even better.Yeah it totally would and it's exciting all the different applications of hemp being used across the United States. For that eastern Montana farmer what he said was spot on.You gotta have an idea of where the plants are gonna end up and who is going to buy it and using it for what purpose before you even start farming.Mike said you have to interview these guys and here is Tommy Gibbons to talk to us today from Hempitecture! Part of me feels like I have been waiting for this for so long, I thought this would pass back in the 1990's and I talked to Tara Caton last year at the Rodale Institute and I was like what is going on in our country finally?Tell us a little about yourself.There’s so much to tell about our businesspeople in the 90s who have been fighting this battle, it's been an accumulative effort and truly the future is ahead of us and that’s what we look towardsWe are HempitectureKetchum Idahosun valley ski resort2014built the first commercial hemp concretewe make building with hemp easyconsult on different projectstrain people how to build with materialssell building materialssellcome to your job site and professionally install your hemp insulation productsJust hempcrete and hemp wool now but who knows where it's gonna go!woolreally exciting!Maybe it was 2014. I remember going to this business thing. Our Senator Jon Tester, is actually one of those Eastern Montana farmers. He wanted to pass a hemp bill, but he said the problem was the police not being able to tell the difference between a hemp plant and a cannabis plant and I thought that was lame because for me, I always think that any cannabis farmer is not going to let any hemp seeds near their cannabis so they are going to regulate it themselves in a way. But that is sort of off topic.common interest incultivate growYoure just allowed to transportpeople didn’t feel they could tell the difference between marijuana flower passing through the state and hemp flowers. differencethreshold 05THC send out for testingIdaho police didn’t feel like they should pay, or didn't have the sources in placeultimatelyThere is all this confusion about what is hemp and what is marijuana, but does come down to the THC content.The hemp we use for building that looks nothing like smokable0% THC contentstems or fibersSo we don’t bump too much into that problem, luckily now things are legal, the cultivation and transportation is legalrecentlyin some states the battle persists and it was very important if it was So where do you get your hemp then from local people in Idaho?No we don't. They are still not growing in Idaho.our current supplier s out of quebecWe've had suppliers more local likekentucky in the USuntil this yearmore growersand need to processorsinner core, needs to be chopped up,...

https://www.advancingecoag.com/aboutSo excited because my guest today has this amazing green future grower story I KNOW listeners are going to absolutely love! So if you’re driving don’t worry I’ll make awesome SHOWNOTES because I know we are going to have a million golden seeds dropped with this amazing interview. CEO of Advancing Ego Agriculture, John Kempf is on a mission to “produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and consistently higher yields!”What I love about his story is how he started out and I can’t wait for you to hear it too! His passion for growing healthy soil and healthy plants for profit is contagious! Tell us a little about yourself.I love what I do I have fun!I grew up in a family vegetable farm in snow-belt south of Lake ErieSmall scale market ~ fruits and veggies for wholesale marketsearly 2000s we had 3 consecutive yearsintense diseasewe lost majority of crops to a variety of disease and insectsIn the 3rd year in 2004, we observed thatplants which were grown on healthy soilbetter biologywere very disease and insect resistantcantaloupe resistant to powdery mildew that was side by sidesoil with he previous pesticide exposure for the prior decade of growing vegetables we lost the majority of the crop to powdery mildew, 80% of leavesThe new soil didn’t have pesticide exposure didn't have any powdery mildew. Not 5-10% you couldn't find any! ZERO! There was a knifelike effect right down the field.really a major turning pointwhat was the difference between those two plants resistant to powdery mildew when the next plant 2 feet away was susceptible. asking that question and the things I learnedplant science and agronomy from asking that question were what led to foundingAdvancing Eco Agriculture (AEA)in 2006AEAWas the idea that we can grow plants that are completely resistant to diseases and insects based on how we manage nutrition.where we identified plants that are healthynot only are theyresistant to diseases and insects but they regenerate soil health at the same timeprocess of this journey I was fortunate to be guided byUSDA expertsland grant universitiesall over the worldrealized this exceptional info that very wise people had was scattered all over the placedifficult to findnot recorded at allsome experiences were not being transferredLed me to starting the Regenerative Ag Podcastwith the intention and goal of interviewingleading farmersleading scientistssharing their information with other professional agronomists and growers who wanted to produce in a regenerative agriculture context!Tell me about your first gardening experience?I grew up even from before I remember, we always grew our own food.appreciate it as an adultThere were many years my parents purchased salt and pepper and spices and that was just about itmaple syruphoneysteviasweetenersgrew many of our own herbs2 farmed ponds where we raised fishraised poultrygrass fed beeffamily dairy cowgrew a large gardensmall orchardLived an incredibly rich life from a food quality...

Tell us a little about yourself.I'm from Minnesota originallyfamily typical upbringing in the suburbscareer as being a chefmy extensive hobby as being a gardenermarket gardeninggrowing up in the 80s food was sort of an afterreddishso I got a degree in psychologyneeded to do something a little more inspiringlived in Europe for a semester in collegetraveled around Europe and really saw food in a different lightexperienced it really differently from what I hadThen I decided to go to culinary school, I ended up in Vancouver BCrelatives out there as well so I came back to the twin citiesItalian kitchensownerskind of moved around bit as chefs do is quite normalI also started gardening at a fairly young ageearly twentiesI ended up dating a woman from the Ukraine, she had a strong gardening interestI had always been interested in nature as a young kidgardening with my parentsbut very simple, chard and green beans and that kind of thingI started working at a natural foods coop right next to a really old and thriving community gardenin St Paul and that’s where I met some really great gardeners who I would call mentorsOne particular gardener there was a soil scientist at the university of MN, she took me under her wing learned some incredible techniquesraised bedno till gardencover cropsrotationOne thing that really inspired me from a young age to kind of continue this and do a lot more was just witnessing the differences in her garden and other community gardensShe made her community garden plot not tilled in the back row and the rest of the 90 plots were tilled once a year. In the other plots, the soil was still quite good but it was obvious she had thebest looking vegetablesearliestlargest vegetables in that gardenIt was no mystery she was doing something different and right. It was from her I learned about Mycorrhizal fungi and the relationship to the plants and how important that wasusing those techniquesI was able to follow in her footsteps in a way when she got done, working at an urban agriculture non profit in st paul, centered at gardens all over st Paulchildrenform a market garden essentiallyI was able to take over that job when she was finished, working on her phdI got to be a market gardener for 3 years, all the while I was cooking at night, I couldn't do that these days, way too intense, way too muchSo wait, are you a rockstar millennial?I'm 42 so I'm more of an xeryeah for meFor many years, I've been involved in both the culinary world and the growing worldI see that they are so intermittently intertwined, and kind of dependent on each other, the communities overlap so much. I find that really inspiring, such that I was able to go to the MOSESMIDWEST Organic Conference for Organic Farming and meet a lot of great farmers and gardenersmove to the country and start a land based businessAlas I stayed in the city and am still working as a chefAfter working at some great restaurants and for some people who are superstars for natural foodslocal alice watersworked for this woman for 7 years, after that endedI started my own business as a personal chef, working in people’s homescooking Monday - Friday, everyday meals, it's different from catering Gives me a lot more time on weekends and eveningsbeing a chef is pretty awesome but the restaurant life can...

Author ofUgly FarmTell us a little about yourself.I am IDK if I am a rockstar but I am tryingNE CT, the poor part of CT, we’re not in HartfordThere’s a lot of farms in general in this part of CTit’s not where I started farmingmy husband and I bought a little piece of propertyit’s sort of an Urban farmwe have neighbors we can see1.2 acresOh, it’s um.My husband and I were Goth kids in schoolI’m really into growing black vegetableslove the black carrotsalways buy those seedswith the black tomatoesIf you forget to trim your tomato bush for a couple of weeks the busy parts are hiding inside are going to have big green splotches on themeither assumethe tomatoes are only going to be blackturn your tomatoes toward the sunby the time that happensbugsslice themthey are blackfrom the toptaste greatmake salsa out ofnot as impressive if the wholeBaker Creek Black Beauty Tomatoesalmost every tomato I have ever hadstill tastes in one shape or formsweeter or nicertomato tastes like at tomatoblack like your soulblack jalapenosI thought they would be super spicypicking them and eating them off the bushthe black nebula carrotsblack all The wayblanch them for a two minutespurple dyeYou are just dropping golden seedsTell me about your first gardening experience?my grandmother on my mother’s sidekind of a homesteadunder an acrebeing a little kidblueberriesfruit treesthey were getting older19101915-16something like...

Check out the video version of the 2020 GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge here:https://youtu.be/1Ki-9NNSBTIWant to learn more join us for the Organic Oasis Master ClassThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

So, I just wanted to tell you what's been new since I released the 2020 GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge and see if you are having the same problems I am hearing it, as well as talk a bit about January 2020! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalIt’s always good to have a before and after photo to record your progress. When I look back at our place in the early 90s I can’t believe how far we have come. Take a picture now of your before and get ready for the after!If you need more help with your 2020 GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge let us know. You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook.The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!Now I want you to visualize yourself enjoying your garden this summer. You’ve done the hard work, you’ve mastered the challenges, your ready to harvest the fruits of your labor. Close your eyes and imagine all of your garden dreams have come true. At least the goals we set out in the last few days. What does that look like? What does it feel like? Can you smell it? Can you taste it? Can you hear it? What do you feel when you pick a fresh flower?Are you drinking coffee or tea and enjoying the flowers? Are you taking pictures of a beautiful butterfly or flower? Are you eating a fresh garden salad or apple from your fruit tree? Are your grand children skipping through your earth-friendly environment? Are people raving over your fresh veggies at the farmer’s market stand?What does achieving your 2020 garden goals really mean to you?This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalIt’s always good to have a before and after photo to record your progress. When I look back at our place in the early 90s I can’t believe how far we have come. Take a picture now of your before and get ready for the after!If you need more help with your 2020 GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge let us know. You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook.The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!Go back to your garden journal goals and see if there are any new goals you’ve decided on or any that you might have left out. What other things have you decided you would like to accomplish this year?Do you have something you want to accomplish each month?Is there something you learned when you were doing research you think you might also like to take on?This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalIt’s always good to have a before and after photo to record your progress. When I look back at our place in the early 90s I can’t believe how far we have come. Take a picture now of your before and get ready for the after!If you need more help with your 2020 GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge let us know. You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook. The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Appropedia is for collaborative solutionsin sustainability, appropriate technology, poverty reduction, and permaculture.To Catch The RainTell us a little about yourself.So, I’m an instructor at Humble State University in far northern California. to make real projects all around the worldin summers we're teaching in other countriesIndiaDominican RepublicMexicoEl Salvadoralways with the same kind of intent which is to work together to find out what people neednot coming in with solutions, locally or internationally.we don’t come in thinking know we know the answer we just come in with the excitement of working together.We work with a lots of grade schools k-12agriculturegarden infrastructureZane middle schoolrain water catchmentedible landscapingsolar power robot stationshuman powered sundialspermeable pavementall type of projects to raise the educational experience with the engagement as well as an environment that’s really nurturingYou know if students are catching their own rain and using that to grow their own food on campus they're education is heightened.I'm so excited this year to be somewhere were recycling is valued, recess is 4 times a day! There's an outdoor classroom! My kids are big into legos so solar powered robots sounds great! educational experiencesoh yeah so we pretty much just adapted that projectstay outside and be inspired by the sun!You're organization sounds like my ideal of the Peace Corps. My question with the Peaces Corps is why do they not send 6 people to one place instead of 1 person to 6 places?I do international work because I love learning. I have a bigger impact in my own local community because I know where to find stuff and who’s gonna donateSHOW NOTES COMING SOON! Read unfinished notes here. We’d love if you’d join  Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.comIf you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new Free Garden Course.com Free Organic Garden...

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - Visualize&nbsp;DAY 5 Get ORGANIZED: What do you need to do first?For me this is the fun part. Making a list of things to do.If your goal is to build a deep bed, do you know what materials you’re going to choose? Where you’re going to get your soil to fill it? What you’re going to put in there? Seeds? Starts? Transplants? Where will you get them and when do they go in the ground?If your goal is to create a water feature for bees what’s it going to be made out of? Where will it go? How will you access water? What can they stand on while they’re drinking so they don’t drown?If your goal is to plant an orchard have you picked out your fruit trees? Do you need fencing? If so how much? Will you need a post hole digger? Where will you get your fence posts?If your goal is to plant an herb garden do you have list of herbs you want to get? Do they need full sun or shade? Do they stay out all year or do you need to keep them in pots so you can bring them in during the winter?Make a list of all the things you will need to purchase or gather and do for each step of your goal. Make sure you have an idea of how long each project will take.This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden Journal&nbsp;Garden Journal and Data Keeper&nbsp;DAY 2: MAKE A PLANLet’s take your list and start to define a strategy. The first step is to organize and prioritize your goals. I like to start with the calendar and put my goals into chronological order.A general guess for now is fine. We’ll get to the details down the line.Which ones can you start now?Which ones do you need to wait until the ground thaws?Which ones do you need supplies for?Which ones do you have to accomplish this year?A secret I have learned about successful gardening is that you should start with your harvest date? When do you want to be done? If you’re working on a landscape when do you want to be able to enjoy it? If you are planting vegetables when would you be harvesting? Do you have a list of seeds you want plant?&nbsp;<a href="https://mailchi.mp/3e5a3ee84452/organicoasismasterclass"...

Cannabis Cultivator: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing MarijuanaIt’s like I discuss bookThe Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide To Using and Growing Medicinal Marijuanastep-by-step guidesMy name is Jeff Ditchfield I'm 60 years old this year.Jeff started growing cannabis when a friend with MS got robbed at knifepoint for trying to buy some pot to help her pain. Listen to his amazing story and learn how you or someone you know can grow cannabis for medicine in this amazing interview that will tug at your heart strings when you hear how parents are struggling to save get medicine to help their children.This book was recommended as the best easiest to follow guide to growing cannabis organically.Listen to the full interview here&nbsp;Remember to join us for the Organic Oasis Master Class beta cohort starting January 24, 2020! And get ready for your best garden ever!The Organic Oasis Master ClassThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Cannabis Cultivator: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing MarijuanaIt’s like I discuss in the bookThe Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide To Using and Growing Medicinal Marijuanastep-by-step guidesMy name is Jeff Ditchfield I'm 60 years old this year.Jeff started growing cannabis when a friend with MS got robbed at knifepoint for trying to buy some pot to help her pain. Listen to his amazing story and learn how you or someone you know can grow cannabis for medicine in this amazing interview that will tug at your heart strings when you hear how parents are struggling to save get medicine to help their children.This book was recommended as the best easiest to follow guide to growing cannabis organically.Remember to join us for the Organic Oasis Master Class beta cohort starting January 24, 2020! And get ready for your best garden ever!The Organic Oasis Master ClassThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One – Brainstorm – No Dream is Too BigDay Two – Make A PlanDay Three – Create a SMART GoalDay Four – Research TimeDay Five – Get OrganizedDay Six – Photo Time – the Before shotDay Seven – ReflectDay Eight – VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalWhat do you need to accomplish your goal?What supplies are you going to need? Where will you get them?Is your goal to plant heirloom tomatoes? Where are you going to get your seed?Do you have a catalog? Have you picked out varieties that are acclimated to your climate?&nbsp;Do you have your seed packets? What are your harvest dates, date to maturity, can you start marking on your calendar when each variety needs to get planted?Is your goal to sell micro-greens to your local restaurants? Have you made a list of restaurants in your area? Spoke to the chefs? Found out what their needs are? Is there a special herb they would like too?&nbsp;Are you going to install a new automatic water system? Do you know someone who has one? Is there a local sprinkler service that can help?Are you wanting to plant Sweet Potatoes? There’s a great video on Johnny’s Select Seed Site or maybe you want to bring in some beneficial insects?You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the&nbsp;Organic Gardener Facebook Group&nbsp;or message me or Mike on Facebook.The Organic Oasis Master Class&nbsp;Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you’ll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th!Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Haha! IDK what to really call this episode. TMI? Inspiration? RAW me? But if you're new to the show Jackie Marie Beyer the host is also an artist. And I am working (like for over 25 years now...) on a book called Dreams Do Come True and another on traveling around Paris. Something I dreamed about forever and really never thought would happen. I have led an amazing life. I have had basically all of my dreams come true and have felt that way since the very first step I took into Mikes kitchen all those years ago back in 1992! I knew I was home. I wanted to move to Montana since I was in 3rd grade and have been here since I was 21. How many people meet their husband on a mountain side? It hasn't always been easy, I have had more then my fair share of challenges, and I've been a member of the working poor for most of my adult life. But I've also had amazing experiences and when I got to go to Paris in 2016 I basically kicked my bucket list. Mike and I never thought we'd dig a well, but we did in 2013 after selling a small investment property we bought when I was teaching on the east side and he improved. And so my rant today is just me reaching out to you and encouraging you to believe you can do anything you really set your mind to. And let me know if I can do anything for you. 2013 was the summer I smiled! 2020 has already started out so good I am positive it will be the year I smiled!Here's to an awesome new Decade everyone!You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the&nbsp;Organic Gardener Facebook Group&nbsp;or message me or Mike on Facebook.The Organic Oasis Master Class&nbsp;Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you’ll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th!Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalThe acronym S.M.A.R.T stands forStrategicMeasurableAttainableRelevantTime-boundFor each of your goals you are going to need to create a SMART strategy. Today we are just going to start with your most important goal you want to complete in 2020.SmartGoalWhyLet’s say your SMART goal is to plant a bed of lettuce every week for the first 2 months of spring. It’s strategic because you want to eat healthy lettuce while it’s growing before it get’s too hot and bolts in the middle of summer. It’s measurable because you can schedule out plantings each Saturday morning perhaps starting in March through the end of April. It’s attainable because by the end of March you should be able to get lettuce seeds started. And if you can’t you can always adjust your dates. It’s relevant because you like lettuce. It’s time bound because it will start in April and end in May.This might seem like a lengthy process but if you really want to achieve your goals and not just say, I’m gonna put in a garden this year, it’s much more likely to be successful.Another example of a smart goal might be you want to build 2 new deep beds by Spring growing season.Strategic - deep beds can add convenience, more space for planting, and organization to your garden.Measurable - you have decided you want 2 new beds.Attainable - you can create beds out of recycled materials or purchase new wood if needed.Relevant - deep beds help grow nutritious food.Time-bound - you can give yourself a specific deadline before June 20th the first of Summer.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you need more help with your S.M.A.R.T goals let me know. You are more then welcome to email me at [email protected] and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook.<a...

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden Journal&nbsp;Garden Journal and Data Keeper&nbsp;DAY 2: MAKE A PLANLet’s take your list and start to define a strategy. The first step is to organize and prioritize your goals. I like to start with the calendar and put my goals into chronological order.A general guess for now is fine. We’ll get to the details down the line.Which ones can you start now?Which ones do you need to wait until the ground thaws?Which ones do you need supplies for?Which ones do you have to accomplish this year?A secret I have learned about successful gardening is that you should start with your harvest date? When do you want to be done? If you’re working on a landscape when do you want to be able to enjoy it? If you are planting vegetables when would you be harvesting? Do you have a list of seeds you want plant?&nbsp;The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden Journal&nbsp;Garden Journal and Data KeeperMake a list of all your garden dreams! Don't leave anything out!&nbsp;Do you want a pond with a water fountain in the middle?An orchard full of fruit trees?A root cellar to store your produce come winter?A green house to help extend your season?A place to market your extra produce?A fence to keep the deer out?A chicken tractor?Growing sweet potatoes?Ordering some heirloom seeds?Pollinator plants to attract bees and butterflies?Beehives full of honey?Deep beds full of healthy nutritious broccoli, tomatoes and fresh lettuce?An earth friendly landscape your puppy can run around on without a worry?Today I want you to start your list of gardening dreams!The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

1. Tell us a little about yourself.My name is Michelle Lipp and I am an early childhood educator turned play-at-home mom of three kids and one renegade garden. In the classroom, I was infamously known as the teacher who went outside no matter what.I’ve taught in 5 states with varying climates and firmly believe in the Scandanavian proverb that there is no bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.When my eldest son was in his first year of preschool, his principal (and my former supervisor) remarked that my kids must always get to play outside. I realized that I had become an indoor parent--that even though I had no issue dressing and undressing a dozen children belonging to other people to get them out into the fresh air, I had become complacent at doing so with my own.Outdoor play and nature experiences are so integral to healthy bodies and minds and so vital to early development.Children learn to sit still by moving around and the great outdoors is an ideal location for this. I needed to get my family (and myself) back outside and I needed a way to be accountable for that goal so just over a year ago at the end of winter, 2018, I founded a local nature based meetup group for families and professionals working with children to gather at local parks, playgrounds and nature spaces.&nbsp;I call my group Park n’Play.&nbsp;I live in the Richmond, VA area and our climate is fairly temperate. My group runs from the end of winter through the fall, although it is my goal to eventually have it be a year-round endeavor. I firmly believe that nature play and experience should be accessible to all regardless of age, ability, geographic location and socioeconomic status.For that reason, I run my meetups free of charge and I am incredibly fortunate to live in an area with amazing public parks and nature spaces. I arrive with a nature-based or outdoor-friendly activity geared toward children of mixed ages and adults, a small, traveling nature-based library with relevant books for children and adults and more than anything else, it’s an opportunity to be outdoors together as a community and reap the benefits of fresh air and vitamin D.&nbsp;2. Tell me about your first gardening experience?&nbsp;I grew up when it was still OK to toss your kids out in the fenced in suburban backyard to play all day.My mother, also an early childhood educator, gardened in our backyard. She had a vegetable garden, a flower bed and my sister and I had our own small plot to tend to. I was a notoriously picky eater who would munch raw chives straight from the whiskey barrel they were growing in and I am pretty sure I was covered in mud and smelled like onions at least until the age of 8.The garden was a space for imaginative play, mud pies, digging up worms, picking cucumbers that were taller than I was and it was also a place where it was OK to fail, to fall and skin your knee and to learn the hard way that you can’t bring your pet goldfish back inside three days after his funeral.3. How did you learn how to garden organically?Adulthood and Parenthood are full of choices and many times we live in a society with option overload.In an ideal world, I would choose only organic produce and buy completely local and garden in a space that is fully free of chemical pesticides. My family currently lives in a rented property and our yard is semi-public and shared. Our property management uses lawn treatments I am not a fan of, so I choose to container garden and grow our produce in a raised bed table. Organic gardening is something I learned mainly by default....

Here's a replay of my very first interview with the amazing Patti Armbrister! Get ready to join the Patti Armbrister Fan Club coming soon!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Announcing the winner of the Family Garden Plan Book and if you didn't win don't forget to preorder today because it is released tomorrow and you want to get all the great bonuses that come with this book! I ordered a copy for me just for the bonuses. You can order a copy at https://melissaknorris.com/familygardenplan/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

What's your preference?Do you like long show notes that transcribe the full episode or do you like shorter versions? I made 2 copies of Golden Seeds From Melissa K. Norris. One I actually took notes by hand, 13 pages worth and then I typed them off. The other I just transcribed while listening. Which is your preference or do you just like to read it on the&nbsp;website? Would you like a printed copy delivered to your home each month?Golden Seeds from Melissa Norris ShortGolden Seeds from Melissa Norris Long&nbsp;- Full Transcript&nbsp;I'd love to know which you like better if you cold just hit reply and say long, short or website I'd really appreciate it!Don't forget to sign up to Win a copy of Melisa’s New Book Here and leave her a 5-star review when you're done reading it!&nbsp;Happy New Year!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Melissa Kagiyama from Key to the Mountain I buy all my food from local farmers and then cook it.How do we connect with you?I love sharing with everyone so grateful you are all listeningagain, my name is Melissa Kagiyamakeytothemountain.comwant to sharejust hit the contact usI respond to all emails!I love getting requests for new food and flavorshave an Instagram key_to_the_mountainOn Facebook at Key to the MountainAre you a millennial born between 1980-1995?Yeah Millennial!Awesome!Today is Friday August 2, 2019!So I am so excited to introduce my guest today who I met at the Farmer's Market when I was in Missoula for the 1/2 Marathon in June.&nbsp;And she gave me something that not only did I love but helped me complete the Missoula 1/2 Marathon standing up! From Key to the Mountain in Missoula Montana here's rockstar millennial Melissa Kagiyama!I have had guest come on and talk about food they cooked from the farmer's market. You said when you first moved to Missoula, you were blown away by the quality of food available at the farmer's market and then you started cooking with it. People often wonder about those things. I am more the organic eater at my house and I feel like you as we were saying the pre-chat that you struggle with water.&nbsp;Tell us a little about yourself.I really appreciate all our local farmers that are doing all that work. We cook it so we can preserve that amazing food that we grow for all year.Tell me about your first gardening experience?A brief background, grew up not cooking, eating everything from a can, not cooking dinner, which is a way a lot of millennials grew up, with both parents working, it takes a lot of time to cook fresh food so we&nbsp;didn’t eat a lot of fresh food.&nbsp;When I got into college, I got really exhausted all the time, I felt like something wasn't right, like I was sick, I went to the doctor.&nbsp;I was sleeping like 16 hours a day because I was so tired. Going to the doctors telling me I’m fine and it was all in my head,&nbsp;was very discouraging and disempowering. I said, I’m gonna find something out and I'm gonna do something about it.After much searching I found indian holistic medicine called Ayurveda what that is in a nutshell is directions on how to live and eat on a balanced lifeTells you how much to&nbsp;eatexercisesleepAyurveda: It's really about entire lifestyleReally for me, what shocked me so much was about the food I was eating,&nbsp;I thought for me if I was eating canned green beans, I was getting my vegetables, but that is not necessarily true sometimes its true it dependsI felt completely healed, I learned all this knowledge about how to eat.&nbsp;I finished my degree really great! I started teaching, so at this point I was&nbsp;cooking all my foodbasically really simple&nbsp;recipessaladspaghettiBut I was&nbsp;actually cooking my...

When Melissa K. Norris was on the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast recently we talked about the amazing tip I got from my interview with Sally Fallon about needing to eat a healthy fat with beets etc to get the full mineral and nutritional value from root vegetables. Check out the replay and see if you don't learn a ton. Sally Fallon and the Weston A. Price foundation was originally introduced to me when I interviewed the AMAZING Mandy Gerth From Lower Valley farm. Also great interviews. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Jeff Lowenfels author of the Teaming With Microbes Soil Trilogy shares his system for creating healthy organic ecosystems and how we can all work to save the world if we just answer the question What would Greta think?If you wondered why we changed the name to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast there will be no doubt when you finish with this amazing episode. Get ready for Jeff to drop Golden Seeds Galore!JEFF LOWENFELS "LORD OF THE ROOTS" AUTHOR OF THE SOIL TRIOLOGY:Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food WebTeaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant NutritionandTEAMING WITH FUNGIThe Organic Grower’s Guide to MycorrhizaeAND NOW HIS NEW BOOK:&nbsp;DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your OwnTell us a little about yourself.I was a lawyer, I worked for a fortune 500 companyalways been a gardenerTell me about your first gardening experience?my father had to take over a family8 acresfrustrated farmersall the magazinesJI Rodalecame over to the house for dinnerI must have been about 10-11How did you learn how to garden organically?My first memories are being pushed around in a wheel barrow by my father in the gardenThe first thing I planted was a wedding cake strawberry planterIm in Anchorage Alaska, the longest running garden columnistMy new book is on a brand new kind of cannabisIt will be the next tomato plantremember when the snap peas came outeverybody had to grow themstill growing them todayhas no photo periodsame size as a tomatoproduces from seed to harvestjust like a tomato plantsmall plantone of the things I love about the books is&nbsp;the diagram in the back with the plant diagram, leavesplant leavesnitrogen deficiencyif you don’t know what the photoperiod thing iscannabis has to have 12 hours day 12 hours nightthey require12 hours + one minutepoinsettiascactustriggered by length of lightIf you take a christmas cactus and leave it in a situation where it gets more daylight then darkness it won’t bloom no matter what.A Russian guy was...

Are you wondering why we are rebranding ourselves as the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast?Listen here to learn what's new!Get ready for our first episode as the Green Organic Gardener Podcast where Jeff Lowenfels author of Teaming with Microbes, Teaming With Nutrients and Teaming With Fungi and his new book on DIY Cannabis, from Anchorage Alaska prepare to be dazzled! Afterall what would Greta think?Love all of you green future growers out there!Do you have your climate story ready?Hey there Green Future Growers! thanks for joining us today. If you're new to the show, I hope you'll subscribe on iTunes or your favorite Android app and let's get growing. 18sJackieMarieHey everybody, JackieMarie Beyer here, I'm driving to work so there might be a little static in the background, but this is like a good place for me to record, I feel like because it's kind of quiet in my car for me and I don't know it's just a good time for me. Thoughts are fresh in my head, I find like when I get my microphone out and I'm sitting at my desk later in the day, or even if I get up on a Saturday morning and do it, I'm just like, what was I going to say? 48sJackieMarieSo anyway, in case you happen to notice there's a new word on the podcast logo, the Green Organic Gardener podcast. And it's funny because like, I've been trying to figure out how could I narrow my niche? And like reach out better to people. I mean, I feel like I have my avatar dialed in, but I don't know. I just, I just want to be unapologetic on my show and I, 1000% support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, and believe that, you know, just that my podcast, you know, definitely has an environmental focus. 1m 36sJackieMarieLike I call you Green Future Growers because I believe we're all dedicated to growing a greener future. And so I hope I'm not offending anybody. And if we lose some listeners, I think it's just like, I was listening to Sally Hogshead yesterday on the Marie Forleo show. If you don't know who she is, she wrote this book called Fascinate and like, I've taken her Fascinate quiz. If you're a listener and you've taken her Fascinate quiz and you want to send me your results, that would be so amazing. Or just like anything that you feel that would help. But like at the top of my, every time I do an interview with anybody like Sally Hogshead has this Fascinate quiz for businesses and she kind of like gives you these four powerful words. 2m 21sJackieMarieAnd I look at those four words every time I get on the mic to do an interview and talk about. Anyway, it's what Sally was saying like on the top of her front page, she has this thing about Hogshead means, I don't know, like 144 barrels of mead or whatever, if you don't like it. Like, I guess she gets a lot of flack about her middle, her last name, but she put something up there, like some kind of like curse word, or just like, if you don't like this, I don't know. But she says, people have actually written her and said, we were going to work with you until we saw your homepage. And then we decided not to, and she's like, what a greet screener. 3m 4sJackieMarieAnd so I do kind of feel like, and I know there are people out there that have very different political beliefs from me that have been listening to my show. And I, you know, you're more than welcome to listen. I've said before, I'm everybody's favorite Democrat. If you're a Republican, I have plenty of friends who are Republicans, but I...

Don't forget to enter the Melissa K. Norris Giveaway to win a copy of her new awesome book!&nbsp; So, if you listened to the interview I did with Sarah Clark from the Get Pregnant Naturally Podcastwho challenged me to try an Elimination Diet where I gave up the top 5 allergens for 10 days. And I did it. And I wanted to share my results.It's EasyI mention theJill Angie Not Your Average Runner podcast too who talks about a mindset shift from "I Can Do Hard Things" to "It's Easy". Kate Erikson has a great saying&nbsp;"Gratitude is the First Seed of Abundance"And I tried it, I thought what am I going to eat if I can't eat:soycornglutendairyeggspeanutsSo I thought what could I eat? I can eat salad, fish, garbanzo beans (hummus)!I was like I can do that. I love salad! I love fish! I love garbanzo beans!And so it turned out it was easy!It was a little weird, I searched some vegan sites for recipes. I didn't really make any, other then the lentil burgers, which asked for eggs but I din't seem to have a problem. They also asked for bread crumbs, I was gonna make from some gluten free bread&nbsp;I did buy some gluten free bread boy was that expensive!&nbsp;I looked at gluten free brownie recipes but they called for eggs, again. I bought some gluten free flour which was super expensive! I made a gluten free vegan pizza, it was not very good, I had a problem getting the bread to rise because I think my yeast wasn't any good. It really made some good habits.I also put some ketchup in some lentil burgers&nbsp;from Making Thyme For Health that called for tomato paste. And it had cornstarch or corn syrup or something in it. So there's that I did on like day 4. And lentils were a great thing I ate.&nbsp;I don't think I have food allergies. I didn't really seem to feel any different. I am an Italian and I feel like my stomach can handle just about anything. I thought it would get rid of the sniffling sound in my nose but it didn't seem to do anything about that.I could eat chocolate, there are gluten free vegan chocolate bars from Endangered Species&nbsp;and they taste delicious and are frequently on sale! Just be advised they recently changed their labels, I stood staring at the chocolate display before I found them!I'm used to eating ice cream every night. I bought some almond milk, after I found out I could eat nuts just not peanuts, but I never had it. I drank rice milk, with granola a lot.&nbsp;So if you want to try the elimination diet think about what can you eat?It was definitely fun to say hey this is easy! and Hey I'm doing this!On day 6 I was ready to quit, on day 8 I really wanted to quit. Especially I mistakenly ate some edamame at school...

Jackie,Great! Then I feel I may have something of value for your audience. We have a flock of Gotland sheep, and that is our main focus along with offering Farmstead vacations to people. Oh now that may be an angle you would like to explore, adding agritourism to your farm business! I can talk about that for days on end. We also raise pigs and use them to reclaim pasture and to add nutrients to the soil. We do have a small garden and hoop house, but I only grow for our own needs and do not sell produce.&nbsp;We do however, sell our pork. We, at some point, may offer lamb, as in to eat, however, right now we are growing our flock and concentrating on selling breeding stock. I am not a vegan, so if that would be offensive to your audience, then warning should be given.&nbsp;We are NOT certified organic, but 99% of what we do is organic.&nbsp;Ha! I graduated from high school in 1980. I think what may be inspiring for those listening is that our homestead grew out of a desire to teach our children about life and death and the value of working the soil with your hands and about having a strong work ethic and being self sufficient. I homeschooled my children from birth till they went off to college and much of what we do now was out of a desire for them to experience life fully. Life and death tend to be taboos in our society, lock people up to die and lock women up to give birth...well ok, that sounds a bit dramatic, but my point is that birth and dying are not talked about in general. I wanted my children to see that it is a natural process and it is to be celebrated and treated with great reverence. So, at age 40, we added sheep to our family homestead. We began knowing nothing and as a family learned together.&nbsp;There is so much value in the words from those who are older.&nbsp;My website is&nbsp;https://www.grandviewfarmvt.com/&nbsp;and I keep an extensive blog on shepherding at&nbsp;http://www.livingwithgotlands.com/.And from this email we would share this awesome interview!FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON!&nbsp;Sign up for our newsletter full of Golden Seeds dropped by my awesome guests!To get a copy of the golden seeds issue emailed directly to your inbox!And to enter to win a copy of Melissa K. Norris’ new book The Family Garden Plan sign up hereThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Read my this issue of the Golden Seeds Newsletter here.GoldenSeedsIssue15SarahHardingCompassionateConversationsAboutClimateSarah Harding from Coconut at Sea Soap Co.Friday, November 22, 2019I’m super excited and last time she shared a ton of golden seeds with listeners and she’s kind of changed directions so here she’s here to tell us about her new venture the Coconut at Sea Soap Company.We grew up in North County San Diego. We spent our childhood lives loving the ocean and surfing.We moved to Montana when we were 22 and spent the second half of our lives farming, fishing, and raising a family.Now we're Coconut at Sea Soap Company.A family business committed to giving our all in everything we do. We make soap because we want to save the planetWe love the ocean. We love the mountains.Seeing plastic clogging up our reefs and blowing across farm fields broke our hearts.So we decided to reduce single-use plastics. Bar soap and shampoo bars are an easy switch toward our goal of plastic-free showers.And we know gardeners are always getting dirty! Welcome Sarah McPhearson, Sarah Harding?McPhearson is my maiden name.You're in Whitefish where I got a job this year and I feel so excited about this because this week we are talking about saving the animals in Wonders McGraw-Hill we’re reading Kids to the Rescue about saving turtles and manatees. And we did a puppet show called the Turtle Mishap about a turtle who get’s stuck in a plastic six pack holder. Tell us a little about yourself.It’s kind of a long story. When I last talked to you, we were farming full mite growing asparagus, microgreens, cut flowers, it just got the word I think of most is relentlessRelentlessElizabeth Gilbert when she talks about jobs, that every job has a poop sandwich and you have to be willing to eat the poop sandwich that comes along with that job. And we just we got tired of the poop sandwich that came with farming. The relentless with it, we were growing microgreens year round, and how we never got a break and how we never got to spend quality chunks of time with our kidssold our microgramsleased the asparagus field outI still do cut flowers, because after all they’re beautiful!And then I kind of flopped around for a few years. And we were on a family vacation, with my husband and his two brothers, and we were on vacation in Indonesia and we would pull up to this amazing island!on a boatdreamywhite sandlittle spit in the middle of the indian oceanwith coconut...

Melissa K. Norris from Modern Homesteading the&nbsp;Pioneering Today Podcast where everything is homegrown and homemade!The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food&nbsp;Gardeners are so excited to share what we have learned with others who are interested and I feel like that is what we get to do on garden podcasts! And I love podcasts!Want to read my Golden Seeds Shownotes? There's even two versions a long version that's the full transcript and a short version.I’m a 5th generation homestead and as a youngster I didn’t appreciate it. My dad lived through the Great Depression so if hey didn’t raise it they didn’t eat through the winter. I thought everyone grew up like that. With agardenpreserving foodraising beef cattleIt wasn’t until I hit high school really, I didn’t realize I was an anomaly. When my husband and I got married, I was working 40 hours a week and we started our family and I was trying to balance family, and growing our food and all of that, and it has been a 20 year journey to get here.I feel like my husband grew up in a similar situation on a cattle ranch, growing a lot of their own food, baking their own breads and cookies.I feel blessed now to have all that insight as an adult it has served me well, but as a teenager I didn’t really appreciate it. My husband and I got married, had kids and I was working as a pharm -tech.&nbsp;I loved the Little House books as a child, my mother instilled in me a deep love of reading. For us to have tv where we lived you had to go out in the snow and turn the antenna. So I read a lot.I wanted to write books, my lifelong dream was to write historical fiction. I was always writing about dutch oven cooking and barrel riding and all these things. I was at a writer’s conference and they said you had to have a platform with a blog etc. I was like what’s a blog?But I learned, we had dial-up internet. And I wrote this blog about things my heroine did that I was also doing. I thought well I cook in a dutch oven so I’ll share my favorite recipes and hopefully people who wanted to read that would read my books and I eventually got a literary agent, and wrote lots of manuscripts but none got accepted. But then the last publishing house said how would you like to write non-fiction, your blog is amazing. And I said YES! Yes, I will!We raise all of our own beefporkincreasing a gardenBoth of my first books I was doing all of this. Just 2 years ago I was able to “retire” and stay home to focus on&nbsp;writingpodcastinge-coursespioneering today Academy&nbsp;And of course raise our own food!&nbsp;Learning how to do all that while I was working was very&nbsp;Powerful!because so many people are working and want this lifestyle and aren’t able to leave their regular jobs and I was able to say,&nbsp;YES YOU CAN!This is what I didAnd how I can help you do it too!And you do! And you give away lots of free content, but then you also go way in-depth in your classes etc.&nbsp;Being able to feed our family and grow our own food.My new book, <a...

The biggest question I&#8217;ve gotten this year again. Is what do I do for my earth friendly landscape and what do I do with all these dandelions? But I was at someone&#8217;s place the other day, I could just tell right off the bat, looking down, you don&#8217;t have very healthy soil, so I suggested planting some clover, and then also IDK if they have a bag for their lawnmower so when they mow they might be spreading those seeds, where if they put them in the compost pile it would be better. I think&#8230; Anyway&#8230; It&#8217;s Thursday May 30, 2019. I&#8217;m feeling a little mic shy as I haven&#8217;t been on my mic for almost a month! David Thompson from Food Is Free Tacoma is here to share his journey. Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a navy veteran, 35 year mechanic, and I am retired. Wht I do is I have a free table and everything I grow in my garden I give away. Tell us a little bit more, how did you get started with this? Did you just say one day I want to put a table in front of your house? I saw food is free project on Facebook, it was about veterans and giving away our extras to your neighbors. I started with a small garden about 700 sq feet and now it&#8217;s 4000 tried to give it to family kids I tried a table where the food is free and started from there its grown into quite the little non-profit. I like the way it started with Facebook. I have my FB page food is free Started a new project called gardens for the people Parkway gardens throughout the city of tacoma for people to share their food directly between the sidewalk and the curb. Hoping to do 10 of those this year. I love that idea, because where my mom lives there&#8217;s all these places just like that are covered in these little yellow flags and that&#8217;s where you&#8217;re talking about growing the ood? We ammend the soil and remove the sod with local compost and plant straight into the ground. I love this idea! Tell me about your first gardening experience? I used to watch Crockets victory garden, I used to dream about having a garden but it wasn&#8217;t till I got older got this house with a small garden 10 years now. I made a lot of mistakes, vertical gardening, I tried a lot of different things before. Tell us about something that grew well this year. my cabbages grew really well tomatoes didn&#8217;t do too bad last year either? I think we had a cool summer last year. That really helped the cabbage a lot. Did that help with the tomatoes? Do you put them in a greenhouse, they don&#8217;t like the cold do they? Yes, that&#8217;s true. The only thing I grow in the greenhouse is peppers. Is there something you would do different next year or

Interview 289 with Health Coach Sarah Clark | Author of Fabulously Fertile + Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/ Thursday May 2, 2019 I have another podcaster on the line we are going to talk about eating healthy today. The Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast. Thanks for being on the show today. This is something that touches me personally, because Mike and I never had kids. I always tell people if I would have had my iPod touch when I was trying to get pregnant I’m sure we would have had kids. But anyway tech has come so far so I’m glad you have some solutions for people! Tell people about your podcast and business. I help couples who are struggling with infertility. I had my own struggle I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at the age of 28 and that is the loss of function of the ovaries before the age of 40. For me I had these weird health systems cycles were irregular urinary tract infections acne in early 20s cycles were irregular I got married at 25 kids at 28 my cycles were still irregular so I went to my OBGYN and that’s when I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. I remember her reaching up for the packet to the IBF clinic and off I went. Basically being told that my only option was to have donor eggs. I never looked back to any of the health systems I was dealing with. So I went straight to the clinic and got a list and I got a donor egg and had my daughter. She is 17! So this is the back in the day you say donor eggs and people are like IDK what you are talking about. Now with western lifestyle people are having effects. I was wanting to have kids close together, I was super stressed, I went in and those embryos failed. On the second list with another donor I was lucky enough to have my son will fresh transfer he’s 14. After that my health took a nosedive, after I had my daughter, I took antibiotics for every sinus infections. I ended up gut vertigo toenail infections dandruff chronic bladder infections peeing blood yeast infections sinus infections just wouldn’t go away I was in HR at the time, I wanting to bring life coaching into the corporate environment. I took a life coaching course. Health and wellness That’s where I discovered I had these food sensitivities I found out I was intolerant to diary and gluten low and behold by making lifestyle changes bladder infections went away sinus infections <li...

Read the text version of my interview here: Golden Seeds Issue 13 Tad Hussey My interview with Tara Caton At the Rodale Institute Hemp Botanist I’m curious how you found out about me. Haha, IDK? Well, one I’m always looking for guests! But I did just release for Earth Day April 22, 2019, this interview with Tara Caton from the Rodale institute last week and since then I have been online researching hemp and cannabis and I am just flabbergasted at what has changed because when I started my podcast in 2015, I couldn’t find someone to come on my show and talk about hemp or cannabis for 4/20 day. The other thing is I have always dreamed of being a sunflower farmer, and originally I thought I would sell sunflowers to florists, but then I thought bird seed would suit me better but this last winter, I thought I would like to grow sunflower sprouts after I was going crazy looking for fresh greens and my step-daughter gave me some and I was so excited, after the romaine recall. My husband planted so much kale and swiss chard etc last year for me, I didn’t have to buy any greens from August to November! Wow, I can tell you’re a plant enthusiast. Well, I’m a sunflower and hemp enthusiast! It’s Thursday, April 17, 2019! Earth Day is coming up on Monday! I have another podcaster on the line. His business is KiS Organics. Welcome Tad Hussey! I know we’re gonna learn a lot! Are you in Oregon, Washington? Somewhere by the Pacific Coast? I am in the North West. About 20 minutes east of Seattle in Redmond, Washington. Tell us a little about yourself. Sure so, I’m 41 years old, I grew up with father actually both my parents running a commercial nursery and landscape business here on 7 acres in Redmond. So, I grew up around plants, but wasn’t that into them. I kind of moved away from it but after college I came back with a masters degree in another field and I had trouble finding work in that field I really enjoyed. So I ended up coming into my parents business which was all about compost tea at that point so I ended up learning all about: compost tea microbes and gardening from that we sort of expanded we got the property where they originally had the landscape country. This was about 2011. This was sort of the time of victory gardens and backyard chickens. Nurseries were sort of failing so we knew we didn’t want to do that. So we started this thing: KIS Farm Keep It Simple Farm It started out as a feed store. I knew there...

GoldenSeeds#12.NeilDiboll.Prairie The Golden Seeds aren&#8217;t perfect but it&#8217;s a start. I like to read them in PDF format better what about you? Neil Diboll, President of Prairie Nursery, Inc. On the Web: www.prairienursery.com www.facebook.com/prairienursery 1-800-476-9453 (1-800-GRO-WILD) We would love to help you with anything and even help you find some seeds or plants that would grow! Gardens are focused on needs desires of humans only life gardening for all farms plants animals critters bugs sustainable ecosystem on people’s properties native plants. The real importance of native plants is that they have co-evolved with other linked to one brought to another long periods f coevolution support very few of other invertebrates adaptation foundation of the food change limited value ecology what resource was important doug bringing nature home more valuable the other thing to get the chemicals out of the environment native plants are great because 1 you don’t have to fertilize and you don’t have all the maintenance associated with it and opposed to a lawn you don’t have all the petrol chemicals and gasoline building it or running the equipment. steal plastic most important if I don’t see holes in the leaves of my plants. I’m a failure as a gardener encourage my plants to be eaten insects are eating them and insects are eating the birds so I have an ecosystem in my yard. I mean birds eating the insects. You are creating a food chain, creating a food web, in your garden. So we are no longer just gardening for human interests and human returns gardening for all forms of life sharing revolutionary concept for gardening. Tell us about your very first gardening experience? I started out in first grade with my first garden. Our class was raising money for some endeavor by selling garden seeds for ten cents a packet, door to door to neighbors. I decided that if I was going to sell people a product, I should at least try it myself. The garden was a miserable failure due to terrible soil...

Tara Caton Rodale Institute Senior Lab Technician Industrial Hemp Project Lead It all started when this listener said, every time I hear you say millennial I think of this video of this guy bashing millennials sitting around in their yoga pants and so I made my own video of the amazing millennials I interview who are so not ever lazy. I was going through some old Organic Gardening Magazines. A lot of my listeners are asking me how to get rid of pests organically and there were all these letters to the editors saying I&#8217;m not ever reading to you again because you are too political and they answered back and said we believe they are integrated and you can&#8217;t have one without the other. I have always wanted to sell ad space for Rodale&#8217;s so I would see Organic Gardening Magazine in every store i went to as I traveled around. It is Tuesday March 26, 2019. I am so stoked because not only is my guest a rock star millennial but she is the Senior Lab Technician at the Rodale Institute on the Industrial Hemp Project . So welcome Tara Caton! Over the course of a four-year trial, we are exploring hemp’s powerful potential to heal soil and support farmers. Hemp, marijuana’s non-psychotropic cousin, was grown in Pennsylvania for more than 260 years as a valuable cash crop. Tell us a little about yourself. Shownotes coming ASAP! to read what&#8217;s done already click here. The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here. Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate links Please support us on Patreon so we can keep the show up on the internet. It cost close to $100 a month just to keep it up on the internet for the website etc so if you could help by supporting it with an $8/month contribution or $10/month to join the Green Future Growers Book Club where we can delve deep into some of the best gardening books that have...

I’m so excited! On Tuesday I talked to Tara at the Rodale Institute and she got me so excited about all the things going on in the Hemp World. I’m so excited to introduce Josh Mezher from A Pot For Pot. If you want to read the Golden Seeds just click here. Are you a Rockstar Millennial born between 1980 and 1995? I was born in 1986 Awesome! I’m writing a book about the rockstar millennials I interview on my show! Tell us a little about yourself. Been in the cannabis industry for about a decade now. I moved from the UK to go to school at the USC Santa cruz. I moved here at a great time where you could legally grow your own cannabis at home and walk down the street and take it to a medical dispensary. I actually dropped out of school hobbies I always loved gardening and it’s an amazing plant to grow! I love all of this! Tell me about your first gardening experience? Did you say you grew up in the UK? My mom is actually a California and she is actually a fanatical gardener. As a young kid I was always trudging around vegetable patch. digging up the garden underrated species I give full credit to my mom, for everything she taught me, I have applied that vegetables flowers more utilitarian based plants! I love that answer! I am not sure I express enough on my show that what makes the rockstar millennials so amazing it’s because of their awesome parents! Of course my husband is a parent to 2 rockstar millennials! How did you learn how to garden organically or do you want to talk about what’s going on? i didn’t start hydroponic side of it focus on the product It’ funny the evolution of cannabis cultivation is really going traditionally this plant has been grown in small spaces inside houses. A lot of people are not aware of, is how much cannabis does the U.S. produce? and who produces it? now they get marketed PR impressions there are these huge cannabis predominately 11k tons grown annual low end estimate largest cannabis farms barely hitting one to five tons in production hundreds of thousands of people who are growing this in their garden larger scale <span...

Thursday, March 28, 2019! It is a pleasure to be here! Thanks for dealing with my tech problems gla we were able to connect! Back in the spring of 2009, my wife asked me to plant a small garden so she could can some salsa for the winter. Laid off- started farming with a tractor on 2 acres (terribly!), got into chickens, laying hens, pigs, and even a few cows. And after a radical diet and lifestyle change that followed our Daughter health crisis we started to consume large amounts of Vegetables, a lot less meat and in the fall of 2015 we made a leap of faith to sell our meat business, stop using a tractor, and farm using only one acre. Our farming friends thought we were insane, but we were pretty certain that focusing on just produce would allow us to master the lettuce crop in 2016. We had lettuce for sale every week that season! We were so thrilled to discover that we tripled our income on half the amount of land that year! Excited and inspired, we knew we were heading in the right direction. By focusing on creating better growing systems in our produce operation, changing our farm practices, we now have year round production, a near weed free farm (which makes me thrilled nearly every day) and being really aggressive and creative about our sales outlets for our area, we have been able to live a sustainable and enjoyable life, rarely working in the fields more that 8 hours, which was one of our top goals! wife ashley &#8211; 5 kids 1981 Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Ray Tyler with my wife Ashley of Rose Creek farms down here in Selma TN Between Memphis and Nashville Mississippi border Kind of in the edge of that zone 7-zone 8 depends on what kind of year we are having trying to grow as much food as we can on one acre Battling the pests that never seem to die and the endless weeds thanks to the humidity raising 6 young at the same time! And having a blast! Wow you must have had a new baby! 7 month old baby to 10 years old so there is never a dull moment! How great is that? These kids being raised amongst others by a garden like this! as they get older we don’t make them work on the farm We know a lot of children who were forced to work who hate it all do the house chores dishes farm they only work if they want to and we pay them for it It&#8217;s created a very healthy environment They look at the farm as a very positive aspect of their life fortunate every year they want to make more money do more things so it&#8217;s a kind of tremendous joy So we are homeschooling as well so they are <span...

Permaculture Soil Science &amp; Solutions KICKSTARTER campaign Matt Powers Rockstar Millennial, high school English and Social Studies Teacher, and Permacutlure Curriculum designer is here to share his amazing journey and passion to teach everyone he can reach about the power of permaculture. Working with some of the most scientific names in the field including Elaine Ingham, David Montgomery and the Geoff Lawton Matt is on a mission to change the way we look at soil in the 21st century. &nbsp; Matt was my guest on episode 132 where he shared his amazing garden journey from professional bass player to high school educator to science curriculum creator! This episode is a must listen for any master gardeners or even novices who want to learn about soil in a way that any high schooler can understand. With over 20 years of experience teaching and gardening Matt&#8217;s passion shines through as dad, husband and steward of our planet. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Matt Powers is an experienced teacher, family guy, author, consultant, farmer, seed saver, plant breeder, musician, blogger, &amp; permaculturist and creator of the permaculture student curriculum and online course. Permaculture Student Online Curriculum The Permaculture Student Curriculum is focused on starting resilient small businesses and homesteads from scratch. Students of all ages and families learn through weekly collections of videos, worksheets, coloring pages, projects, activities, &amp; critical thinking with teacher&#8217;s guides, recipes, plant focus, seed saving, &amp; Q&amp;A. Mike found a great guest on Facebook yesterday, we are having a bit of a tech issue, but he is dropping lots of &#8220;golden seeds&#8221; about everything from gardening to promoting an online business, and running a positive Kickstarter campaign! Plus he&#8217;s a fellow educator! Interesting that you guys found me yesterday!!! Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a seed saver, a plant breeder, and an organic gardener, I&#8217;m also a teacher. I was an English teacher at high school for many years, a tenured teacher at a local district 15 minutes from my house. I live with my in-laws and my father -in -law&#8217;s parents on family land, 4 generations. My wife and I live here with our 2 sons. We have about 2-3 acres of garden area I’m heading towards becoming a farmer, a subsistence farmer. I&#8217;m a teacher, before that I was a musician. I played with SNL house drummer, Shaun Pelton, their house drummer for 20 years now&#8230; but this was back in the day when I was a young man… I was just a traveling musician. It was my dream to do all that. What kind of instrument? I was a bass player. I played with Rachel Ray’s husband, John Kusimano for 7 years. I did lots of other things, my music is still on the Major league baseball channel everyday, I still get checks in the mail, it&#8217;s like pocket change… It was a thing for young people to do. It was great and I loved it, but then I had a family! And I was like I can’t tour for 2 months, I got to be a dad! That was like a generational moment for me. What happened was, I basically quit that band when I was in NYC and my wife got cancer the first time, and then when she got cancer for the second time we knew we needed to change a lot more because what the doctors were telling us wasn&#8217;t accurate, they were just reading from a list. From there we went out west to recover from cancer, I didn’t know what else to do so I was still doing music, but I was trying to figure out someway to be more present to take care of my wife. She wanted me to do substitute teaching, I hated school. I just hated school, I loved certain teachers and I loved certain classes. But the framework, of compulsory education where I’m being held against my will for 8 hours a day for the purposes of tax dollars for funding that school district mostly the salary of administrators. I didn’t agree with that. I don’t want to go… I just felt obligated, but as soon as I did, I fell in love with the kids, but I feel like we weren&#8217;t educating them. I had this crazy education that my dad gave me, they’re amazing, ones a University Professor, one&#8217;s a financial advisor for people with incredible amounts of money they&#8217;re just unbelievable people. They were both were stellar athletes so they had coaches. I got a lot of that bleed over and that education stuff. I applied all that to my...

Terra BIRDS educates and empowers youth through gardening to help prepare them as the stewards of a sustainable future for humanity. Regan Emmons is here to share her story of teaching elementary and high school students how to garden as well as about her seedling CSA model! Tell us a little about yourself. My first podcast! So very exciting! I live in Flagstaff, AZ, I have really awesome job very fortunate to work with elementary school students, high school students and I run a 100 member seedling CSA farm, that runs about Jan through the end 0f May. The rest of the year I’m doing a lot of planning and educating and so forth. Tell me about your first gardening experience? I am from Tennessee. One of my formative experiences of being in a garden, working in a garden, I was in high school and I was living with my mother. We had to move into s small apartment on the ground floor. And my mother being the tenacious woman she is, talked the landlord into tilling up the little space in the back of our apartment. She grew mostly tomatoes and peppers and if she grew other things I don’t remember, but the tomatoes were amazing and I just remember’d them for so long. They were big and juicy and ripe and a revelation! I just remember my friends would come over in summer and we would make these tomato sandwiches. I remember leaning over the sink was this beautiful memory that I have that my mother grew in this tiny space wasn’t mind blowing I thought everyone did that and later amazing how productive wasn’t even, wasn&#8217;t even 10 square feet. And I didn’t really help her very much, I was one of those teenagers who didn’t really care about helping my mother. I didn&#8217;t help my mom either, she&#8217;s still wondering how I ended up with a gardening podcast I&#8217;m sure. My husband wonders that too, but I definitely help him more then my mom. What does organic gardening/earth friendly mean to you? I believe in my realm it really means growing without adding a lot of things, pesticides and chemicals and really trying to work on soil amendments and soil health and to let that dictate the health of the plants. I feel like it really has to come with the soil and I&#8217;ve learned that through my work with the garden starts. using fertilizers sparingly, and the fertilizers you do use need to be well sourced from natural sources, I really really dislike synthetic sources. I really don&#8217;t like to use them at all. To me, organic gardening is not using additives and working with the space that you have, definitely have some permaculture training, it&#8217;s all part of that gardening sensibility. Who or what inspired you to start using organic techniques? Back when I was living in Hawaii, and I met my husband there. I was working in Hawaii, on the island of Maui. I met my husband there and we were getting to know each other. He came from a place and a family where they really cared about what they put into their body. I grew up caring about what I put in my body, but not really thinking about the food and what was in the food that I was eating. I didn&#8217;t really think about additives in my meat, and things like that. And it really stemmed from that, learning about food system and our industrial food system, and that was a challenging place to eat anymore. If we weren&#8217;t trying to grow our own food or trying to eat more locally, it was really detrimental. How did you learn how to garden organically? I read a lot, I’m still learning, I consider myself a novice gardener and novice grower. But in my career, I have had a lot of jobs where I grew things. In Hawaii I grew a lot of native plants at my job at the park service. As a community gardener here in Flagstaff, working...

Brian Moody shares his passion for organic food gardening and AERO Montana in this must listen interview. A rockstar millennial to boot, he worked at Terra Birds in Arizona where Reagon Emmons worked as well. Listen to my interview with her here as well. Tell us a little about yourself. East of Yellowstone in Wyoming avid gardeners looking back on it is pretty impressive now all throughout the rocky mountain early and late frosts lots of other challenges I remember growing up and eating fresh carrots and peas from the garden, big influence on me. We moved around quite a bit moving back to Montana and then Flagstaff, Arizona ~ down there, I gained a whole other perspective on farming indigenous folks down there and hopi people. Learning about how they farm and gardenI I never had my own farm or garden business How do we connect with you? you can connect though my work email [email protected] a lot of what missions gardening comes into that been around since 1974 comes out of the early years of AERO original founders alternatives of how to generate electricity wind turbines educate folks about alternative in the 80s added the sustainable agriculture side changes and shifts AERO&#8217;s newest focus alternative energy and agriculture come together strong community food systems production distribution dealing with food waste local scale so much of our energy use comes from producing and shipping food strong local food systems deal with energy use as well AERO is focused on doing workshops and meetings and communities where their food comes from all of the above when you make food peelings stuff that doesn’t get put in food leftover in meals school cafeterias and hospitals anything we don’t eat <span...

I’m so excited! It’s Monday March My guest has been here before but he’s started his own podcast the No-Till Market Gardener Podcast and from Kentucky he’s here to tell us about their garden journey and a rockstar millennial right? There’s Jesse Frost to tell us about his podcast and farmstead! Tell us a little about yourself. I am one half of the farm team, my wife Hannah Crabtree is the other half, arguably the better half. We’re in Central Kentucky about 25 min hour from Louisville nw of lexington. Kind of in the middle of the state it’s a pretty hopping spot as far as Kentucky goes. We have 3/4 of an acre mixed vegetables Our 4 year old has 10 chickens! Mostly we have vegetables. Our entire farm is 100% no tillage I’m happy to talk about that The podcast is geared towards that No-Till Market Gardener Podcast growers like ourselves who are small production but trying to make a living off our vegetables. farm ecologically eliminate tillage various people all over the country all over the world And talk about their methods and it seems that everyone does it a bit differently. Growing for Market Magazine market gardening stuff Andrew said publishing articles since way back cutting edge trend setter Rest of show notes coming ASAP! Make sure you listen to the No-Till Market Gardener Podcast and give it a great review on iTunes! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

I thought I should replay this episode from last winter because the applications for School Gardens opens in 2 weeks on September 1st and I thought educators and people who want to help get a garden in their school would be interested. Applications are due by October 15th. I&#8217;m just thrilled to be back behind the mic it&#8217;s January 7th. I have a great guest that was recommended by Lem Tingley from Growing Spaces in episode 256 and here from the Whole Kids Foundation is Nona Evans! Whole Kids Foundation Facebook Page It&#8217;s always so much fun to see how seeds that you sprinkled about germinate. It&#8217;s so fun to know how we connected! Thank you so much! I reached out to you and you said you checked out the podcast and thought it&#8217;d be a perfect fit. Tell listeners about the Whole Kids Foundation because I had never heard of it! We are on the order of things, a pretty moderate size non-profit organization. We are Whole Kids Foundation and our mission to improve kids nutrition because we know when kids are well nourished they learn better have the opportunity to reach their full potential. we found 3 ways we are capable of reaching children. 1. salad bar equipment for schools Because the moment you put a salad bar in kids have the power of choice and kids get to choose the vegetables they want. 2. support school gardens which is how I connected with you. we have the honor and pleasure with supporting 5,000 school gardens in USA, UK and canada we know when kids are connected to the roots of their food they make better school choices. it’s not just kids The secret is: It&#8217;s not just kids it’s us adults too when we start understanding what the magic we all make good choices. <p...

Today I am so excited to introduce my guest Bob Quinn who is back to tell us about his new book Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food You can read the Golden Seeds Issue #7 here if you prefer! Here&#8217;s my 5 star review, make sure you write yours! Thanks so much for sending me your book, you were worried if I would be able to read it and then I whipped through it in under 48 hours was so engaging! Thanks Jackie! It was a lot of fun to write with Liz who is a great partner who made the story easy to read. She was able to keep it free flowing from one topic to another. There’s so many things to discuss, it’s a bit of a challenge to meet the limitations that they place on us from keeping the book from being a gone with the wind version with so many topics. We tried to hit the highlights of subjects I’m passionate of The High Cost Cheap Food Decline of Rural America and the Disappearance of Our Farms all because we have been encouraged to look at our farms like factories and industrial agriculture food systems. I love the relationships you build and people you talk to. I love biographies, I’ve had a lot of time to read this year, I’ve been to the library a lot this year! Along with Liz Carlisle author of the Lentil Undergound Why don’t you tell listeners a little about yourself? Well I was raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in Big Sandy about 12 miles out of town. Near Havre Great Falls. It’s South of Canadian border where Alberta and Saskatchewan meet. My father was raised here and I started after him and now I raised my children so 3...

Happy August! Announcing the winner of Andrew Mefferd&#8217;s new book: The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers And the Winner is drumroll please John Keith! Remember you can get a 20% discount by using the code: garden on a subscription to Andrew’s awesome publication Growing for Market magazine or any of his books or the books in their online store. The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook: Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture Congratulations to a listener, Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge participant and hopefully future guest! Carrots going to seed make great flowers for beneficials that eat pests Scott Mann and I just talked about how he plants onions and other umbel shaped flowers at the end of his rows of vegetables because they attract a parasitic wasp that eats pests. Herbs in the garden Should have mulched my lavendar&#8230; This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:...

So in this update I go through the questions I usually ask others on my way to work. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Clark gardens and I hated it. How did you learn how to garden organically? My mom, Mike and Organic Gardening Magazine Tell us about something that grew well this year. So far potatoes and carrots. Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? Strawberries Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season. My blueberries and raspberries Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden? Anything that requires me to get down in the dirt. I like raised beds and keeping my jeans clean. What is your favorite activity to do in the garden? Eat the food. I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of harvest I just like to cook it. What is the best gardening advice you have ever received? Water your blueberries. A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. The broadfork, although I&#8217;m still a big fan of the wheelbarrow. I want 4 This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

Jennifer Smith a Rockstar Millennial is here from DeerBusters today to tell us about fencing. DeerBusters has been leading the fencing industry for over 30 years with reliable DIY garden fence in poly and metal fence materials for homes, farms, forests, colleges, orchards, vineyards, and gardens. We are proud to work with wildlife conservation agencies and landscape architects as well as deer farmers who are looking to keep in deer and elk herds with our fencing. Don’t forget to ask about Jon Moore &#8211; portable fence Tell us a little about yourself. I was born and raised in S Florida, I was always an outdoor enthusiast. I was brought up with this preconceived notion that Bambi is innocent and cute. Then I grew up and realized: Deer are very destructive most come about animal between farmers and gardeners IDK I still think deer are pretty cute, they are all over the place although we have had our struggles with deer in the garden and can cause a lot of heart break, also, lyme disease is a very dangerous disease. No, you’re right it’s not just a problem for gardeners, lyme disease is certainly an issue for campers hikers pet owners A lot of owners are not aware their pets can get lyme disease because they are not aware that deer can drop the ticks in the yard. tick species out there vector dieseases pets and humans other wireline reroute the deer reduce the amount of diseases animal and animal and people Tell me about your first gardening experience? I remember growing strawberries with my mom in our backyard. That was something that was very touching and personal for me We never really had a deer problem in South Florida, I grew up on the beach, I never saw a deer until I went to College around Tampa. new to me moved up north mid-atlantic region in Maryland deer are everywhere deer destruction in gardens It is a serious problem Not just Florida, or Maryland or penn How can DeerBusters help people with their deer problems? DeerBusters is located in Waynesboro, PA We work with many different homeowner...

The Permaculture Podcast host Scott Mann shares his amazing journey into permaculture and podcasting in this must listen episode. Learn about The Possibility Handbook: A Toolkit for Transformation &nbsp; So I ask myself today what lesson can I learn since all the work I did this weekend evaporated when my computer crashed yesterday. I am going to release it so I can listen on my way to work tomorrow and hope for the best. Sorry if there are any mistakes but I think Scott was an amazing guest you will enjoy hearing from unedited! To see my unedited notes click here. But I did put on my rose colored glasses on my way to work and ended up enjoying the sunny skies and beautiful Montana forests! Enjoy Green Future Growers! Here&#8217;s to technology challenges and hopefully better solutions! At least I didn&#8217;t lose my whole computer as I still have about 6 episodes in the bank to release! Show notes coming someday! I did want to make sure I include some important links Scott mentions. Two books and a website. David Holmgren&#8217;s site and info at Permaculture Principles and the Poster Download that lists the principles to follow along as we talk. David Holmgren&#8217;s book: Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability and Toby Hemenway&#8217;s Gaia&#8217;s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/