Digging in the Dirt - Archives

My guest here today on DITD is Vincent Kay a lifelong resident of Connecticut. Vincent happens to be one of Connecticut's top garlic growers. So I contacted him to buy seed and come to find out he worked for Pacifica Network News as well as NPR and as News Director at WPKN radio in Bridgeport From 1996-98. Now after 38 years he operates the State's largest commercial beekeeping business and is the...

My guests on this segment are Thomas Iezin Marketing Communications, and Assistant Operations Manager of the Park City Compost Initiative And Andrew Tyrrell, the Operations Manager for Park City Compost Initiative where they want to create a non-profit commercial composting site for Bridgeport and the surrounding cities and towns. Andrew Is a Master's Composter. Park City Compost started compostin...

Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Chelsea Green Press SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, and AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilit...

Daphne Dixon is Co-founder and Executive Director at Live Green Network in Ct. Daphne along with Alyssa Murphy went on a coast to coast EV road trip, going from one United States coast to another in a Ford Mustang Mach-E all-wheel drive EV. In the middle of this trip Daphne came on Digging in the Dirt to fill us in on what was going on and now she is back to give her final report and assessment of...

I’m pleased to welcome back to “Digging in the Dirt… Gardener, author, educator, podcaster blogger and frequent collaborator with Joe Lamp’l of the Joe Gardener TV show… Craig LeHoullier. In addition Craig wrote one of the great books on tomatoes, It's called Epic Tomatoes. Beautiful to look at and a very good resource for all of us tomato geeks.

My guest today is Nick Skeadas a Connecticut man who has a business that makes him a living and helps the planet at the same time. Nick manages Curbside Compost, a resource recovery company in Southern Ct. Nick and his wife Erica are raising their two children in Ridgefield, where the family practices thoughtful living. Nick is here because I personally believe that we are not going to get out of...

A continuing conversation with the Vice-President of Novamont N.A. NOVAMONT is a leader in the world of bioplastics. It promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.

My guest on this episode of Digging in the Dirt is President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Paula J. Ehrlich. The Half-Earth Project's purpose is to inspire informed collective action to save the biosphere.

I have been interested in Black Garlic ever since two fans of DITD Anne and Jim suggested I check out Black Garlic and do a show about it .Then my friend and colleague, the sorely missed Guy Beardsley, gave me two heads of Black garlic when I bought seed garlic from him for my garden a while back and I've been hooked ever since. Now I have finally found someone to talk to about Black Garlic with m...

My guests today are Hector Gerado and Liz Guerra owners of SeaMARRON Farmstead near Danbury CT. They have been community and union organizers and They are BIPOC NYers from the Bronx turned #homesteaders #hempfarmers #beekeepers 🐝|| Hosts of the @ bluedreamradio_ podcast Liz is also a Full spectrum doula/birth worker

My guest today on Digging in the DIrt is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association Dan Kittridge. Dan has been here many times before . He is a good friend of WPKN and Digging in the Dirt. We talk Bio-nutrious food and the Bionutrient Meter.

My guest today is Zach Loeks author, educator, designer and grower who specializes in edible ecosystems around the world. He is also the director of the ecosystem solution institute and author of the book “The Permaculture Market Garden” and he's here to talk to me about his new book “THE EDIBLE ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION".. Growing Biodiversity in your backyard and beyond.

My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arena. She...

My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success. She was taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative, The...

My guest on this program is Dave Carr Lead organizer for Pollinator Pathways West Haven. The goal of this group is to install native perennial plants while building community and educating people about the importance of pollinators to support insects that also feed migrating birds. The project started in 2019. Dave founded Earth lobbyist.com in 2018. Earth lobbyists is a nonpartisan educational re...

My guest on this program is my friend John Conroy, whom I went to H.S. with. He was telling me about his new interest as a Docent for Elepahant seals in the San Louis Obispo California area. Some of the males can be as large as 5000 lbs. I thought it would be interesting to hear all about his experiences on "Digging in the Dirt". John has had a life long interest in nature, the wild and wildlife....

My gueston this "Digging inthe Dirt" is regenerative Farmer, author and host of the popular "No till Market Garden podcast'" Jesse Frost. Jesse farms at a farm in Kentucky with his wife Hannah Crabtree called Rough Draft Farmstead. He is here on "Digging in the Dirt" to talk with me about his new book. The Living Soil Handbook - The no till growers guide to ecological market growing.

My guest here on DITD is Jessica Damiano AP gardening columnist, Journalist, Garden Coach, Community Educator and Author. Her news letter is called The Weekly Dirt. Jessica's Gardening Calendar was named a winner in the 2021 Garden Communicators International Media Awards. The calendar can be Considered she says 365 visits from a gardening friend who stops by every day of the year with tips, advic...

Join Kevin this time, as he speaks with Adam Sacks, Executive Director of BIODIVERSITY FOR A LIVABLE CLIMATE, who's mission is Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. The concept is fascinatingly simple. Cure what ails the climate of the planet working with the natural systems of our planet.

My guest today on DITD is Arthur Davis a Director, researcher and Portable Toilet coordinator at the Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro Vermont. The Rich Earth Institute engages in research, education and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource. Arthur directs Rich Earth Institute's Urine Nutrient Reclamation Program, which is a community-scale urine recycling pro...

My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is Jon Stokes, was an editor and writer for a web site called ThePrepared.com. He is here with me today because I have a confession to make, I'm kind of a prepper. After Sandy and other storms, I have started gathering supplies in preparation for events that may be out of my control. So I looked around the internet for some good advice. I found Theprepard.com a...

My next guest here on "Digging in the Dirt" Is Louise Washer she is president of the Norwalk River Watershed Association, serves on the Norwalk Mayor’s Water Quality Committee and the steering committee for the Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership (H2H). She also serves on the steering committee of the Pollinator Pathway Northeast project, which she helped found in 2017 and has h...

My guest today on Digging in the Dirt is Linley Dixon. Linley is the Associate Director of the Real Organic Project, a non-profit farmer-led organization to protect the integrity of USDA Organic. She is here to talk about the January 2021 Real Organic Project Virtual Symposium coming up next year. Linley co-owns a 5-acre certified organic vegetable farm in Durango, CO with her husband and brother...

John D. Liu, Ecosystem restoration researcher, educator and filmmaker, has dedicated his life to sharing real-world examples of once-degraded landscapes newly restored to their original fertile and biodiverse beauty. He represents Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a grassroots movement where everyday people like you can have a real impact, directly. Their big goal is to have one million people come tog...

My guest this week on "Digging in the Dirt" is Frank Mortimer “The Beeman”. Frank has written a new book entitled “BEE PEOPLE and the bugs they love” on Citadel Press. A very personal book about his life long passion and the people who keep bees. If you ever thought about keeping bees you may want to listen to this Digging in the Dirt frankthebeeman.com/