Digging in the Dirt - Archives

The most chemically toxic environment you and your children and pets are exposed to is your landscaping. Find out what you can do about it, when Kevin Gallagher talks to “Chip” Osborne, Jr. , President of Osborne Organics. Chip has over 10 years experience in creating safe, sustainable and healthy athletic fields and landscapes through natural turf management and 35 years experience as a professio...

Dan Kittredge is Executive Director of The Bio-Nutrient Food Association. Dan is making his 4th appearance on Digging in the dirt as we follow the BFA's effort s to develop a Bionutrient meter. Listen in to hear about the Bionutrient Meter and the upcoming 8th annual Soil and Nutrition Conference in Southbridge Mass. The conference will be.... “Exploring principles, techniques and practices at the...

Kathleen Di Chiara is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, among other things and Author of the bestselling book, The Hidden Connection. Her personal journey through a major health crisis and "cure" has brought her to her current calling as a nutrition educator and researcher, Kathleen has dedicated her work to increasing the public’s knowledge about the connection between nutrition an...

My guest this afternoon is Suzanne Duesing. Suzanne lived and worked with her partner Bill Duesing on the Old Solar Farm for three decades. Together they raised animals, fruits and vegetables for their family and community ...Her husband Bill is the founder of the CT chapter of NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, part of the larger network of chapters throughout New England, New York...

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Director Sean Kaminsky to discuss his film about one of the world’s most precious resources that is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving documentary illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the...

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt The duo wrote the book The Hidden Half of Nature which tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.

Kevin Gallagher brings his guest Jay Feldman on Digging in the Dirt to talk about the effects the proliferation of chemicals in our food has on our health. Jay is a co-founder and Executive Director of the organization Beyond Pesticides and has served as its director since 1981. In Addition, Jay served a 5 year term on National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). Beyond Pesticides works with allies in...

My guest on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt" is Tyson Gersh Co-founder & President of MUFI The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, which is billed as the 1st sustainable U.S. "Agrihood". The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to engage members of the Michigan community in sustainable agriculture. They believe that challenges unique to the Mic...

On this segment of "Digging in the Dirt" I'll be Talking to Edwina von Gal about her Perfect Earth Project. Founded in 2013 by Edwina, Perfect Earth Project is a rapidly expanding non-profit organization operating from offices in East Hampton, NY. They raise consciousness about the dangers of synthetic lawn and garden chemicals to humans, animals, and the environment, and educate homeowners and pr...

On the eve of testifying in front of the US House of Representatives Science Committee eight years ago, Kevin welcomes back to another edition of Digging in the Dirt, Michael Mann. Michael is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, His latest book is entitled "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial...

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt is author Paul Bogard - Author. I Paul Bogard's mission in THE GROUND BENEATH US is to find out Is there any untrodden foot of ground left? Paul takes a closer look at what is going on with the layers of soil beneath our civilizations. Increasingly we live separated from the natural ground itself, concealing from us our profound relationship to the source not only...

My guest this time around on "Digging in the Dirt" is Tim Schipper founder and owner of a Bridgeport business, Tulip Colorblends …....a wholesale bulb distributor and a WPKN radio supporter. Tim's family has been in the tulip Bulb business since Tim's Grandfather started the business back n the Netherlands in the early 1900's and brought it here to the US after WW ll. Listen up all you flower love...

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt" this time around was Josh Volk talking about his new book "Compact Farms" 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency. Josh in addition to his new book Compact Farms. He is the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm in Portland, Oregon, and has been working on and managing small farms around the country...

I was reading an article in Ensia Magazine about a subject near and dear to me, soil. In fact it's called the healthy soil movement. The author Steven Rosenzweig joined me to discuss the fascinating things happening with farmers and the soil they grow our food in. The ideas and practices apply to all of us who grow food...small, large and corporate farmers and you the backyard gardener. Ensia is a...

My guest today is Ira Haspel Bio-Dynamic Farmer and owner of KK's Farm in Southhold, NY on The North Shore of Long Island. This is Ira's second visit to "Digging in the Dirt" because he's here to talk about his up coming annual Dandelion Festival at the farm, to be held all day Sunday May 5th. Plus we'll get into chemical free growing through Bio-Dynamic principles. BioDynamic Farming KK's Farm Ir...

My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is The executive Director of the Real Organic Project. We will be talking about The 2021 Virtual Symposium happening every Sunday this coming January from 3-5pm EST! Five sessions of Speakers including Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Dan Barber, Alice Waters, Jean-Martin Fortier, Karen Washington, and many more!

My guest on this segment of "DIGGING IN THE DIRT" is Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998. Jennifer joins me here on DITD to talk about her book The...

Join me and my latest guest Peter Bane author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country. For 25 years, he published Permaculture Activist, and serves on the Editorial Board of its successor, Permaculture Design magazine. Past President and now Executive Director of PINA (Permaculture Institute of North America), he has taught and designed throughout the temperate and tropic...