261: Brigitte Mars on Natural First Aid
261: Brigitte Mars on Natural First Aid. Preparing a resource for quick response to emergency incidents with simple and natural ingredients. Brigitte is an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural…
256: Tammi Hartung on the Versatility of Plants
256: Tammi Hartung on the Versatility of Plants. Discovering amazing uses for herbs, weeds and other common North American plants. Tammi is an ethnobotanical herbalist, organic farmer, author and international…
251: Shane Jordan on Minimizing Food Waste
251: Shane Jordan on Minimizing Food Waste. Making recipes from those leftover ingredients that might have been tossed. – – – – Shane is a vegetarian chef and author based…
Dehydrating Your Home Grown Herbs
Dehydrating Your Home Grown Herbs By Stephany Jess A natural extension of an urban vegetable garden is growing herbs. Grown side-by-side with vegetables, herbs add a special flavor to the…
248: Ellen Zachos on Wildcrafted Cocktails
Ellen Zachos on Wildcrafted Cocktails. Blending naturally wild flavors to delight the palate and stir up the conversations. – – – – A former Broadway performer (she was once in…
222: Heather Szymura on Hydroponic Container Farming
We meet Heather who decided to change directions away from a professional one towards one more in tune with nature and healing and to her surprise ended up becoming a farmer! She is selling lettuce and kale she is growing year-round in the suburbs near Phoenix and tells Greg how she is doing that in a shipping container in her backyard.
208: Chat with an Expert – Catherine "The Herb Lady" Crowley
Chatting with Herb expert Catherine Crowley about growing herbs and using them in cooking other beneficial ways. She and Greg explore many of the different unique and awesome aspects of a myriad of herbs that can be grown in the home gardens and urban farms, with a special emphasis on garlic.
195: Cricket Aldridge on Suburban Homesteading
Fellow permaculturist and gardener Cricket Aldridge joins Greg in the studio to talk about her urban farm and how much she loves everything about it. She tells about some of her favorite aspects and what she’s able to grow or make from her harvests, from canning to mead making and many other things besides.
194: Kate Miller on Bioregional Herbal Medicine
Greg interviews Kate, an herbalist with a focus on healing her community. She tells how she found her calling in herbalism and becoming a partner in an herbal product company and she explains why ethical harvesting of herbs is so important.
143: Cara Dafforn on Dehydrating the Urban Farm
We venture back in time with Cara Dafforn to learn how the women homesteaders of the mid 1800’s cooked, gardened, nurtured, and survived during the trials of the Civil War. She explains to Greg that as a history buff she was intrigued enough to try to replicate many of the processes in use during the time period
