The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson

764: Dee Stevens on Easy Fruit Picking A solution to the challenge of easily picking fruit in our orchards In This Podcast: We meet Dr. Dee Stevens, one of group of friends who took an idea about harvesting fruit easier and safer, and created a product that is innovative and simple to use. They worked through several designs until they came up with one they loved. Greg learns how they came up with...

763: Diane Blazek on New Plant Evaluations Organizing trials of new plant varieties with professional judges throughout North America In This Podcast: We are introduced to the organization behind the AAS logo found on seed and plants found most everywhere. Diane Blazek explains how different plants and plant breeders get recognized as standout winners amongst their peers and earn this logo through...

762: Denali Canning on The Future of Home Preservation Building a path to better food preservation and homesteading. In This Podcast: Two friends Prince Singh and Trent Pezzao share their journey of bringing a small business with Big community goals to life! As the founders of Denali Canning they have focused on building a relationship with their home preservation customers, and have really enjoye...

760: Pro Gardening Tips . A Garden Chat with Zach Loeks. In This Garden Chat: This month we will chat with our friend and author Zach Loeks about his tips and tricks for getting the most out of your garden. He is willing to share some of what he learned managing his award-winning farm.. Our Special Guest: Zach grew up on a permaculture homestead in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Working alongside his famil...

761: Tom Spellman on Heat Stressed Trees .  A chat with an expert on trees. In This TREE Chat: This is an excerpt from our July 2023 TREE Chat discussing Heat Stressed Trees. We have our mentor Tom Spellman join our monthly Tree Chat to talk about how the heat is affecting our trees in the southwest and how we can help them survive the brutal extremes of the summer season. Tom brings decades...

759: Seed Support and Where to Find It.  A chat with an expert on seeds. In This Seed Chat: This is the July 2023 Seed Chat discussing Seed classes, seed libraries, seed companies, books and teaching tools. We’ll talk about (and link) our favorite resources whether you are starting a community seed library, launching a seed business or looking for that fabulous book you can cuddle up with to...

758: Jon the Farmer Larson on Seed Sharing in Seattle Spreading seeds in the local community  In This Podcast: How do you start a farm?  You quit your job, become a stay at home dad, and convince your neighbors to let you use their yards to grow food.  Well that is how Jon the Farmer did it. He now farms over 20 yards outside of Seattle, connects the other food growers in the area,...

757: Extreme Heat and Ways To Kill Our Plants A Rosie on The House Radio Show Replay "Rosie on the House is a father and son weekly radio show on home-improvement advice that is found on several key Arizona radio stations. It is a trusted source of home-improvement advice and know-how. Rosie and Romey Romero consider that an honor and a responsibility, a feeling that Greg shares." In This Show: Th...

756: Richard Heinberg on Power, Energy, and Climate Change Working to remove fossil fuels from the food system In This Podcast: Richard Heinberg joins the show to talk about how our power and energy systems affect our food system and how that affects the planet's ability to sustain our species. He shares his insight on how we've gotten to where we are now and some proposed solutions that are based...

755: Water Harvesting For Our Gardens. A Garden Chat with Don Titmus. In This Garden Chat: "Rain, Rain, go away?" Whoever said that never had to water a garden in the summer months. Join us as we chat with our good friend and water harvesting educator Don Titmus about boosting our water resources for our gardens with a few simple systems that can quickly pay for themselves. Our Special Guest: Don...

754: Daniel Sweeney on Seven Springs Farm Supply Pt 2 What is Healthy Soil? In This Podcast: Greg recently interviewed Daniel Sweeney and part of that conversation was worth it's own breakout podcast episode.  This episode is focused on the questions around what healthy soil is and how to improve your own soil. Listen in and see what Greg found out.  Daniel has been the Crop Adviser at S...

753: Seed Saving and Climate Change.  A chat with an expert on seeds. In This Seed Chat: This is the June 2023 Seed Chat discussing Seed Saving and Climate Change. Have you noticed anything odd recently? Perhaps climate change has your community a bit up in arms. Unexpected rain, hotter high temps, lower low temps. How do we prepare for changing climatic conditions in terms of growing and sav...

752: Daniel Sweeney on Seven Springs Farm Supply Bringing farming supplies to the organic grower  In This Podcast: Greg has a great chat with Daniel Sweeney to more about how the Seven Spring Farm Supply organization began and what they are doing now. Greg really wanted to know more about their values and how they treat their customers. Listen in and see what Greg found out. Plus see what sp...

751: Mike Crimmins and Gary Woodard on Logging The Rain Collecting rainfall information in a cooperative community project In This Podcast:  Rainlog.org is one of the coolest Citizen science projects available.  Simply purchase a rain gauge create an account and track your rain.  Join Farmer Greg as he chats with the creators of the site.  Mike and Gary came together 20 years...

750: Rainwater for Our Landscapes with Don Titmus A Rosie on The House Radio Show Replay "Rosie on the House is a father and son weekly radio show on home-improvement advice that is found on several key Arizona radio stations. It is a trusted source of home-improvement advice and know-how. Rosie and Romey Romero consider that an honor and a responsibility, a feeling that Greg shares." In This Show...

Connecting people to the cycles and rhythms of growing food In This Podcast: Maayan Chelsea and Scotty Karas share how they integrated their interests in sustainability with their desire to grow food and build community, and along the way recognized the rhythms and cycles of nature that connect people to the earth.  They’ve been able to eat meals that but for the spices are 100% from their ow...

Small Space Gardening, a Garden Chat with Enoch Graham In This Garden Chat: If you only have a little space to grow food, let's chat about how to make the most of that space. This month we chatted with Enoch Graham, of the YouTube channel The Urban Gardener, about some of the best ways to maximize a harvest out of a minimal space. Our Special Guest: Enoch is a small space gardener who's been growi...

  740: All About Gexing, a Seed Chat. A Chat with an Expert on Seeds. In This Podcast: This is the May 2023 Seed Chat discussing a gardening concept that involves mixing seeds on purpose before planting with a goal of cross-pollination. A Grex is a mixture of varieties growing together and encouraged to cross-pollinate. The seeds from those crosses are grown out again and again. Instead of cr...

Learning about Collecting The Rain and Sharing the Journey. In This Podcast: Renee Dang wanted to learn more about Rainwater Harvesting, and as she jumped into researching this topic, she used her lack of experience to ask important questions that every new water harvester wants to ask. She explains how using this unique perspective, and her strength in technical writing, she works to help others...

745: Native Edibles with Peggy Sue and Mike. A Rosie on the House Radio Show. Join Farmer Greg on his monthly segment on the Arizona Radio Show "Rosie on the House". This is the May 2023 show discussing Native edibles and Mesquite. Native edibles in the southwest are a fun way to experience the local desert. Greg and Romey chat with guests Peggy Sue Sorenson and Mike Clow and talk about some of th...

Changing the world one podcast episode at a time In This Podcast: This is part two an extraordinary interview where Greg discusses personal permaculture beginnings with Scott Mann. In this episode we start with our signature questions and learn more about what he thinks his biggest failure is and how he overcame it, what his biggest success is, and what drives him. This conversation goes off into...

Changing the world one podcast episode at a time In This Podcast: In an extraordinary two-part interview, Greg discusses personal permaculture beginnings with Scott Mann . After finally finding a permaculture design course that fit his schedule, Scott journeyed into a world of solutions was so impactful that it changed his life direction. He weaves a story for us that is both moving and inspiratio...

Using to bamboo to help address the climate crisis In This Podcast: David Sands shares his journey from trying to be a better steward for the planet and how that evolved into him starting a business offering bamboo wood for building lumber. We learn why this is such a renewable resource and some of its unique aspects that can help as we seek solutions for the climate crisis. David is the Founder,...

Soil: The Easiest Way to Get Great Results A Garden Chat with Zach Brooks Let's talk about the science and the beauty of the soil that our food grows in. Zach Brooks joins us to share his secrets on making organic, no-till gardening the laziest and easiest way to get great results. Zach's work at Arizona Worm Farm has given him a chance to experiment with a variety of soil building methods and he...

740: Companion Planting, a Seed Chat. A Chat with an Expert on Seeds. In This Podcast: This is the April 2023 class discussing seed and plant selection. Join Farmer Greg and Bill McDorman as they explore what it means to companion plant, and it depends on what you want to accomplish. From a permaculture perspective, can also be called the whole systems perspective, companion planting looks at...