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213: Nikki Golly on Nutrition and Wellness.  Recognizing the highly important nutrients that might be missing from our foods. In this Podcast: We get to meet Nikki Golly who’s focus on micro nutrients gives her a detailed perspective on the essentials of good nutrition.  Her chat with Greg is a chance to break down the descriptions of some important food terms in today’s vocabulary...

212: Jenny Beasley on Community Gardening Building a community revitalization garden project from scratch. Jenny received her certification as a health coach at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City along with her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University. She is currently the Director of Heart for the City Community Garden located in Glend...

211: Colin Austin on Wicking Beds and Healthy Food   Examining wicking garden beds and bio-intensive vegetables. In this Podcast:  We get to meet a gardening pioneer when Greg talks to Colin Austin who is known world-wide as the man who engineered a simple but highly popular garden bed called a wicking bed.  Greg learns why Colin was motivated to create the beds and how the wicking...

210: Don Titmus on a Synopsis of Permculture. Chat with an Permaculture Expert In this Chat with an Expert Podcast: Greg chats with Permaculture expert Don Titmus who has been teaching permaculture techniques for for more than a decade and working in landscape design for more than three decades. They talk about what Permaculture is, a synopsis of the key elements of Permaculture Design Course educ...

209: Alastair Monk on The Future of Indoor Ag. Creating technology to help gardeners and farmers control their greenhouse watering systems. Alastair, or Ally, is the CEO and Co-founder of Motorleaf, which created the first wireless, automated, indoor growing system.  A native from the UK, Ally has lived and worked in North America since 1999.  He has a history of success within the techn...

208: Chat with an Expert - Catherine Crowley "The Herb Lady" Catherine, The Herb Lady, is a self-taught, hands-in-the-dirt, Urban Farmer who experiments and researches constantly for new and interesting edibles as well as playing with old favorites. She was given the nickname "The Herb Lady" when vendors and customers at farmers markets would say "go ask the herb lady" for questions on herbs.&nbsp...

207: Megan Cain on Garden Planning Joining a Legion of Gardening addicts through sensible preparation and design. Megan grew up an urban girl in a row home in Philadelphia. She never saw a vegetable growing in the ground until well into her 20’s. A few years ago, she quit her job and traveled to Africa for two months to volunteer with a fair trade organization .  Now, she is a garden educator...

206: Allison Duffy on Food Preservation. Canning and other preservation techniques to safely store foods longer. Allison has been growing and preserving food for over fifteen years.  She is a Master Food Preserver, trained through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and holds a Master’s Degree in Gastronomy from Boston University.  She has written about food for various public...

Nancy Bailey on Prolific Vegetables in Small Spaces. Increasing the yield of a small garden through planning and care. Nancy had an idyllic childhood growing up in western New York State, right next door to her grandfather who she adored. He had a small farm where he raised a few head of beef cattle and always had a few dozen chickens. While much of the 10-acres was devoted to raising hay and grai...

204: Vanessa Sardi on Farm over Pharma. Learning how to prevent health issues through achievable diet changes. Vanessa is Certified Health and Nutrition Coach with a unique perspective on health and wellness. She has a Master's degree in Cardiopulmonary Physiology, a bachelor’s in Sports Medicine, clinical work in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and research/sales positions in pharmaceutical and g...

Anna Swanson and Meg Stratton on School and Community Gardens Helping kids and community members understand food origins. Megan is a student at Binghamton University, and was drawn into the world of food and agriculture as a powerful way to address a range of current environmental, social, and ethical issues. After graduating with a self-designed degree focused on sustainable food systems, she mov...

202: Andrew Mefferd on Hoophouse and Greenhouse growing. Improving crop production through the smart use of protected structures. Andrew spent seven years in the research department at Johnny’s Selected Seeds, traveling around the world to consult with researchers and farmers on the best practices in greenhouse growing. He put what he learned to use on his own farm in Maine. He is now the editor a...

201: Jake Mace on Gardening with Seeds Chat with an expert on gardening Jake Mace started his garden in 2011 with a peach tree, fig tree, pomegranate tree, and kumquat tree to save money on his food budget. Today, it’s a luscious green food forest. In Episode 001, we interviewed Jake about his urban farm, learned some of his best tips and tricks, how to avoid his failures, and became inspired by h...

200: Josh Trought on Community-Scale Permaculture Farming Appreciating the wonders of a community farm with a resilient lifestyle. Born to two service-oriented medical professionals, he spent most of his upbringing in the fields and forests of North Carolina which at the time was transitioning from a rural agricultural economy into a service based economy. The sprawl and destruction of the traditi...

199: Kanin Routson on Apple Tree Diversity Studying the genetics of an iconic and incredibly wide-ranging fruit. Kanin, has devoted his life to heritage apple tree diversity. In the pursuit of apple knowledge, Kanin has researched apple varieties from historic homesteads across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. During this research, he documented 34 known apple varieties and 110 unique tree...

198: Constantin Bisanz on sourcing healthy food. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through real food options. Health enthusiast, avid athlete and Austrian entrepreneur Constantin founded ALOHA in January 2014 with a mission to help others live healthier, happier lives. Along with his team, Constantin creates real food products made from simple, pure, sustainably-sourced ingredients, offering accessi...

197: Perrine Herve-Gruyer on Miraculous Abundance. Learning self-sufficient farming from scratch on an organic farm in France. Perrine has worked as an international lawyer and head of the legal department of a major company in Asia, and has volunteered with the High Commissioner for Refugees. When she turned thirty, Perrine radically changed lanes, and began taking courses in psychotherapy, speci...

196: Josh Volk on Compact Farms. Making the most from small farms for the best viability.  Josh is the author of Compact Farms by Storey Press in February 2017 . He is the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm in Portland, Oregon, and has been working on and managing small farms around the country for the last 20 years, studying the systems that make them efficient. He travels in the United States and...

195: Cricket Aldridge on Suburban Homesteading. Finding personal euphoria in your own backyard . Cricket is natural homesteader. Growing up in rural Idaho with a garden, a horse, and lots of home canned food, she brings those sensibilities to her suburban home in Phoenix. Add a little dose of cottage garden flavor and permaculture tendencies, and you’ll see why her blog, GardenVariety. Life i...

194: Kate Miller on Bioregional Herbal Medicine. Sourcing herbs and plants in the local ecosystems for health. Kate is a bioregional community herbalist, medicinal herb grower, & Permaculture Design Teacher.  She is both formally trained and self-taught in the field of Permaculture Design, with focus on Dry-land Herb Farming, Herbal Medicine, Mountain Ecology, & Ethical Wildcrafting P...

193: Chat With An Expert - Bill McDorman Bill McDorman is Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho. He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail-order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013.   He authored the book...

192: Gene Baur on Protecting Farm Animals. Making choices to help defend animals in industrial agriculture. Gene is co‑founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, a national non-profit organization working to end cruelty to farm animals and change the way society views and treats farm animals.  Hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine and recently selected by Oprah Winfre...

191: Petra Page-Mann on Certified Organic Seeds. Selecting bio-regionally adapted seeds and pursuing seed transparency. Raised in the Finger Lakes of New York, Petra spent over a decade traveling the world studying agriculture before returning to her hometown to start her own farm, Fruition Seeds, in 2012.  She has worked for one of the smallest seed companies in the world & also one of t...

190: Grace Gershuny on The Organic Revolution. Recollecting early food system activism. Grace is widely k nown as an author, educator and organic consultant. In the 1990's she served on the staff of the USDA’s National Organic Program, where she helped write the regulations. She learned much of what she knows through her longtime involvement with the grassroots organic movement, where she organize...

189: Manuel Gonzalez on Innovation in Food and Ag. Pitching food and agriculture related business ideas to potential investors. Manuel is the North America Head of StartUp Innovation at Rabobank, where he leads the growth of their start-up platform build through FoodBytes! and new Accelerator, Terra . At the same time, he focuses on developing plans around how relationships with startup firms can...