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Daily farm and garden talk. All about growing vegetables profitably and efficiently on small farms and in gardens. Each episode focuses on one specific topic - growing practices, how-to, farming challenges and struggles, sales and marketing, soil preparation, weed management, farm startup, market selection, and work-life balance. Hosted and produced by Diego Footer's Modern Grower Podcast Network.

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V: Chestnuts, Woody Agriculture, and Breeding Trees - Restoring a Piece of America's Past and Establishing a Piece of Our Agricultural Future with Phil Rutter - Part 2 of 2 [REPLAY] 11.11.2016 55:11

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/58 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. An interview with Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Corporation. We talk about why perennial based woody agriculture is important and how chestnuts and hazelnuts fit into that. We also talk a lot about plant breed and using mass selection to find genot...

AVJR: How to get kids to do work on the farm? - Ask Voices with Justin Rhodes 10.11.2016 8:20

Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com takes on the question - I have noticed that your kids do a lot of work on the farm, what has been yall's approach to introducing the kids to work and chores on the farm? To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK Justin episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/justin . Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support .

TUF32: Building Soil - Where Bio-intensive Growing and Market Farming Collide with Jodi Roebuck – The Urban Farmer – Season 2 – Week 32 09.11.2016 1:19:23

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/jodi Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Curtis is on vacation, so I am joined by bio-intensive farmer Jodi Roebuck. Jodi's been farming and studying under the originator of the Grow Bio-Intensive form of farming, John Jeavons, for 18 years. Jodi's well known for using Jeavon's bio-intensive method to build soil. Soil that's deep and loose enough...

V: Darren Doherty Talks The Keyline Design Process and the Importance of Building Soil in the Landscape [REPLAY] 06.11.2016 42:27

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/16 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to fill in some of the gaps surrounding Keyline design. While the whole Keyline design system is complex and way beyond the scope of this podcast. This episode should give you a bri...

AVPM: What are your thoughts on the integration of fungi into water catchment systems? - Ask Voices with Peter McCoy of Radical Mycology 05.11.2016 9:15

Mycologist and author Peter McCoy of RadicalMycology.com takes on the question - What are your thoughts on the integration of fungi into septic, grey water, swales, and/or other water catchment systems? To learn more about Peter and see all of the ASK Peter episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/peter . Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support

V: Chestnuts, Woody Agriculture, and Breeding Trees - Restoring a Piece of America's Past and Establishing a Piece of Our Agricultural Future with Phil Rutter - Part 1 of 2 [REPLAY] 04.11.2016 1:03:23

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/57 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. An interview with Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Corporation. We talk about why perennial based woody agriculture is important and how chestnuts and hazelnuts fit into that. We also talk a lot about plant breed and using mass selection to find genot...

AVJR: How has it been raising turkeys, is it worth it? - Ask Voices with Justin Rhodes 03.11.2016 6:36

Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com takes on the question - You have been raising turkeys for a few months now - how has it been, and has it been worth it? To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK Justin episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/justin . Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support .

TUF31: Why not add more land - How much land should YOU farm? - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 31 02.11.2016 50:09

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Today Curtis takes on the question - Let's say you are starting a a new farm. And I gave you a bunch of land, 15 acres. All pretty flat, all pretty usable. How would you go about deciding how much of that land you would farm? We get into the ideas around how much land he would farm and why...

V: Darren Doherty on Agriculture, Regrarianism, and Why Regenerative is Better than Sustainable [REPLAY] 30.10.2016 55:02

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/13 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to talk about the regrarian philosophy that he has put together and how it can be used to regenerate landscapes and farming enterprises. This is a system that borrows and includes t...

AVPM: Is there any advantage to taking mycelium back to grain once it is on sawdust? - Ask Voices with Peter McCoy of Radical Mycology 29.10.2016 9:42

Mycologist and author Peter McCoy of RadicalMycology.com takes on the question - In order to produce the most amount of Reishi mushrooms out of this sawdust spawn for home use, does it make sense to expand the sawdust spawn out by going back to sterilized grain first and then expanding out onto more sawdust bags or just take the sawdust spawn and expand it out onto more pasteurized sawdust bags? B...

V: Change the Job or Change the Level of Dissatisfaction with Javan Bernakevitch 28.10.2016 58:02

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/javan4 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Don't like where you are at? Today we take a look at analyzing your level of dissatisfaction. Looking at what is the current level is dissatisfaction? Is it to the point where you just need to get out? Or what does it take to bring your situation up to get it closer to a 10? Can you change the frame -...

AVJR: What did you learn in your 100 days of growing food series? - Ask Voices with Justin Rhodes 27.10.2016 7:49

Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com takes on the question - You recently finished your series of 100 days of raising food, what are some of the things that you learned over those 100 days? To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK Justin episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/justin . Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support .

TUF30: Going For It and Failing Above Other Peoples' Heads - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 30 26.10.2016 1:11:57

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Whenever you do something why are you doing it? Are you doing it because that something is pulling you towards it, is it the opposite, are you forcing yourself to do something and pushing yourself towards it. There's a big difference there. And depending on the answer to that question, it mean t...

V015: Joel Salatin On The Next Generation of Farmers. Starting Out, Interning, Mentoring, and Partnering with Existing Farmers [REPLAY] 23.10.2016 1:30:16

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/15 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm joins me to talk about his new book Fields of Farmers which focuses on the next generation of farmers. How young people can work with existing farmers to transition into farming. He talks about young people can do today to...

AVPM: Cultivation seems like a lot of work. What's a simple way to cultivate mushrooms? - Ask Voices with Peter McCoy of Radical Mycology 22.10.2016 10:45

Mycologist and author Peter McCoy of RadicalMycology.com takes on the question - What's a simple way to cultivate mushrooms? To learn more about Peter and see all of the ASK Peter episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/peter . Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support .

V137: Pasture Cropping with Colin Seis 21.10.2016 49:20

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/137 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Let's say that you own 1000 acres and you want to farm. What do you do with that land? One of the first decisions that many of you would come to is the decision of do I get livestock or go with annual crops. Both common. Both viable choices for farming big land. One system is based in perennials and grazin...

AVJR - When you first started the vlog, what was the goal? - Ask Voices with Justin Rhodes 20.10.2016 7:34

Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com takes on the question - Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com takes on the question - When you first started the vlog, what was the goal? To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK Justin episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/justin Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support

TUF29: Making More Money With Less Land – Maximizing The Farm versus Growing the Farm – Part 3 – The Urban Farmer – Season 2 – Week 29 19.10.2016 40:05

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Today is part three in our series focusing on more money, less land, where we are brainstorming ideas to make more money off of your farm without, without adding more land. Over the last few weeks we have focused on a variety of ways to sell more product and produce more product without adding mo...

Michael Pollan talks GMOs, Industrial Agriculture, and the Impact of Cooking your Own Food (PVP023) 16.10.2016 34:12

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/23 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Michael Pollan joins me to talk about GMOs, organic food, the industrial agriculture, and his new book Cooked. Points we hit on: What will it take to ultimately get GMOs labelled in the US? And what affect will that labeling have. Rewarding farmers for...

Paul Stamets Presents: BioDiversity is BioSecurity – Strengthening Foodwebs using Mycological Solutions (PVP121) 15.10.2016 1:51:54

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/121 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Paul's central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and mushroom forming fungi are the foundation of the foodwebs of land based organisms. Our close evolutionary relationship to fungi can be the basis for novel pairings that...

Willie Smits on Permaculture, Palm Oil, and Reforestation in Indonesia 14.10.2016 23:37

An archived interview that was conducted at PV1 in March 2014. Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support

Making More Money With Less Land - Maximizing The Farm versus Growing the Farm - Part 2 - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 28 12.10.2016 45:32

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Today is two in our series focusing on more money, less land, where we are brainstorming ideas to make more money off of your farm without, without adding more land. Last week we focused on two of the primary concepts that had a lot of ideas under them: If you aren't moving all of your current pr...

Building Soil, Healing the Land and Raising High Quality Food with Rotational Grazing f. Doniga Markegard [REPLAY] 09.10.2016 1:04:42

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/12 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support THIS EPISODE IS A REPLAY OF PREVIOUS PUBLISHED EPISODE. Doniga Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed comes on the show to talk about ranching, permaculture, and the regenerative power of rotational livestock grazing. She is a real life rancher, who is out there successfully doing things the right way. On h...

If I add mycorrhizal spores to my soil how do I know that the fungus is actually growing? - Ask Voices with Peter McCoy of Radical Mycology 08.10.2016 10:01

Mycologist and author Peter McCoy of RadicalMycology.com takes on the question - If I add mycorrhizal spores to my soil how do I know that the fungus is actually growing? To learn more about Peter and see all of the ASK Peter episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/peter. Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support.

The 8 Forms of Capital - Through Regenerative Cacao presented by Gregory Landua 07.10.2016 35:12

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/136 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support The 8 Forms of Capital is a dynamic and living framework to guide holistic and regenerative enterprise development by mapping the complex flows and pools of all eight forms of capital, not merely the financial capital. At first glance many people assume that the 8 forms of capital is simply a way to account...