The Urban Farm Podcast
Grow food, wherever you are
Weekly conversations with growers, seed savers and teachers about getting food out of the ground, in hot climates and everywhere else.
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1009: Growing Your Farm Without Outside Inputs w/ Shawn and Beth Dougherty
Farmer Greg welcomes returning guests Shawn and Beth Dougherty, homesteaders with 40 years of experience growing food and building a farm ecosystem with minimal outside inputs. They discuss their philosophy of homesteading, living soil, biological wealth, and the patterns that…
1008: Worm Castings, Compost & Regenerative Gardening
What if the key to growing healthier, more productive gardens isn’t more fertilizer, but healthier living soil? Ben Lederer, co-founder of Regenerative Soil Company in North Phoenix, joins Greg to explore how compost, worm castings, mulch, and beneficial biology can…
1007: Building Peace Through Being Prepared with Wendi Bergin
Building Peace Through Being Prepared w/ Wendi Bergin In This Podcast: Wendi Bergin and Greg Peterson explore preparedness as a practical, positive part of everyday life
1006: Seed Libraries: Growing Community, Resilience & Local Seed
A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – Rebecca Newburn, co-founder of Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library and a leader of the Seed Library Network, joins Greg Peterson for a conversation about the power of community seed libraries. They explore how seed libraries differ from seed banks, why local seed matters, and how seed saving can increase biodiversity, food resilience, and community connection. Rebecca also shares new resources for seed saving, education, children, librarians, and communities that want to create their own seed-saving cohorts. The conversation ultimately comes back to a simple idea: seeds are life embodied, and they sprout hope
1005: Growing Urban Fruit Trees with Tom Spellman
Tom Spellman shares more than five decades of experience growing, propagating, and managing fruit trees, with a focus on what he calls urban fruit tree culture.
1004: Growing Epic Tomatoes with Craig LeHoullier
Craig LeHoullier shares his lifelong journey from childhood gardening memories to becoming a renowned heirloom tomato grower, seed saver, and plant breeder
1003: Community Gardens Grow People and Relationships
A Rosie on the House Radio Show Replay. Jenny Beasley of Heart for the City shares how a barren dirt lot in Glendale, Arizona, became a thriving community garden serving families, schools, volunteers, and gardeners from eight different cultures
1002: Compost, Fungi & The Living Soil w/ Landen Schaelling
A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – Greg Peterson, Bill McDorman, and Landen Schaelling explore how compost, fungi, microbial life, and living plant roots work together to build healthier soil
1001: Turning Garden Abundance Into Delicious Food
Greg Peterson and Wendi Bergin explore the “harvest mindset” and how to prepare for abundance before the garden starts producing more food than you can eat fresh
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