Community Ag Project

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project podcast! In season 2 episode 8, we sit down with Tajah Ellis of Out of Seam. Our conversation shows the connection and inspiration of different communities that inspire a weaving of the elements and continued experimentation in the creative process. We start the episode off with hearing of Tajah’s background, and how that inspired Out of Seam, Taja...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Ag Project Podcast. In season 2 episode 7, we sit down with Yolanda Gonzalez, “an Urban Agricultural Specialist with the Harvest NY program. In this role, she provides technical assistance and educational programming for urban farmers and gardeners across the five boroughs of New York City.” Yolanda has been in this role for 7 years, so I ask her some questi...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture project. In episode 6, we sit down with RJ Noble of the New Hampshire Hemp Company. In our discussion, we cover the difference between CBD, CBG and THC, navigating the hemp laws in New Hampshire, industrial applications of hemp, soil practices on his farms, quorum sensing and more! To get in touch with RJ about his work, you can visit his instagram @nhhemp...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project Podcast. In episode 5, we welcome Javier Flores, a farmer based out of San Diego. Javier got his start working in his local food system at the Wild Willow Farm and Education Center, and now works with the Seeds@City Sustainable Agriculture. We discuss Javier’s transition into working in the food system and finding mentors in the agricultu...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project Podcast! In episode 4, we sit with Ian Jiménez Barreras in Borikén aka Puerto Rico, and discuss his navigations of experiential learning in his field, finding his agroecology community, and his experimentation with ferments and Korean natural farming. We cover his background, goals and intention when it comes to agriculture, and understan...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project Podcast. In S2E3, we have a conversation with Anthony Basil Rodriguez: storyteller, researcher, and documentarian of rare plants, humankind and the flux of global society. Anthony defines ethnobotany and we hear about his expeditions to different countries and areas that have focused on specific documentation efforts. We talk about banana...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project, Season 2 Episode 2. Today we welcome our guests Maryam and Julien, who are born originally in France and currently living in Berlin and Paris, respectively. Maryam and Julien spent time in the US this summer working on various farms in New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California through WWOOF. We start off our conversation talking abou...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. To start off season 2 of the Community Agriculture Project Podcast, we are delving into ways of being in community, specifically from an economic standpoint. Our guest is Ebony Gustave, the founder of the Cooperative Journal - a resource for alternative economic models. In our discussion, Ebony and I cover the values of the solidarity economy, dif...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project podcast. In episode 10, we sit down with Vivian and Dorothy Lee to compare and contrast their experiences through time studying and working in the food system. Vivian discusses her experience working at farms and gardens in the New Brunswick area, and how that eventually lead to their position working with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) on the suppl...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project! In episode 9 we talk with Christine and Adam of The Groovy Veggie Farm. The Groovy Veggie Farm is currently operating in Jefferson, NY. However, Christine and Adam have much more to their story and what makes their farm operate the way that it does today. I met Christine and Adam in 2020 at Rainshadow Organics in Sisters, Oregon when they were wor...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project! In episode 8, we sit down with Diego Martins, who currently works for the New York Horticultural Society as a Greenhouse and Garden Manager. Diego has started a program called Gay in the Garden. Gay in the Garden is for queer folks and their allies to come together for both unstructured and facilitated time in the garden, and is a place to show up...

Hey everyone! Ethan here. Welcome to the second episode of my minisode series for the Community Agriculture Project! To briefly introduce myself, I am a current high school student passionate about environmental justice and law. In the first recording of my minisode series, I delved deeper into my personal experiences in the agricultural and environmental field, so I recommend you listen to that t...

Hello! This is Ethan, and welcome to the final episode of my minisode series for the Community Agriculture Project! To briefly introduce myself, I am a high school student passionate about environmental justice and law. In the first recording of my minisode series, I delved deeper into my personal experiences in the agricultural and environmental field, and in the second episode, I discussed diffe...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. We have made it to episode 7! In this episode, the 2023 CAP interns Ethan Liu and Iradatu Sulayman join us to interview Elissa Teles Muñoz, a Coordinator at the Climate Resilience & Education Task Force (CRETF). CRETF is dedicated to increasing access to interdisciplinary climate education and professional learning opportunities in N...

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project podcast. In episode 6 we sit down with Yahezequiel Walker, aka Yazi, to talk about his work in soil and community. We discuss the work that Yazi does with the Triiibe Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio, and how his community has influenced the way that that work is done. This topic leads us to discussing ideas in leadership, and what it means...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project Podcast. Welcome to Episode 5. This episode was shot in Vallejo, California in the Let Our People Grow garden and nursery. Let Our People Grow is a regenerative permacultural nursery focused on making food sovereignty and food security more accessible. The original goal for this episode was to showcase just the work being done in the garden, but it...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. This is Ethan here, your host of our new minisode series. This bonus series will be a collection of five short podcasts focusing on the intersection between agriculture and our current climate state. From this series, you may expect to hear about how certain technologies, policies, and innovations impact climate change and agriculture. I am a curr...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project podcast. Episode 4 takes us to Salem, Massachusetts where we get to know the stories and people behind Maitland Mountain Farm. Maitland Mountain Farm is a family farm best known for their pickles, but owners Holly and Andy have an effect on their community past their value added products. We start by talking with Dr. Miyabe Shields, a research scie...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. Today I talked with Trevor, a student researcher studying Sustainable Development and Environmental Chemistry at Columbia University. In this episode, we discuss Trevor’s initial inspiration for setting up air quality testing equipment in his community, the theory of purple air sensors and how they are implemented for environmental testing, the NO...

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project. Our second episode is an interview with Domenico Celli aka Puentes Naturales. Domenico is based in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico in barrio Tanamá where he operates an agroforestry coffee farm and beneficiado that provides services to support local coffee farmers in any stage of the coffee production pipeline. The mission statement of his project, known as...

Welcome to the Community Agriculture Project. This first episode is an interview with Jusleen Basra about her recently released article The Impact of Food: Distributing Resilience through Language and Practice. In this production, Jusleen and I discuss ideas around language, experiential learning, distributed resilience, anthropology in the food and agriculture space, food interactivism, and food...