This episode explores Arizona’s local food community through a conversation with Shannon Perciballi, publisher and editor of Edible Phoenix.

Dana Choquette, the Executive Director of the Western North Carolina Food Coalition, shares how a first-generation regenerative livestock farmer became a regional leader in local food system infrastructure.

In this rebroadcast of Episode 185, Greg honors the late Dr. Elaine Ingham, a global leader in soil biology and founder of Soil Food Web Inc.

Noel Ruiz shares his journey from urban Southern California to rural Southern Oregon, where he and his family run Homestead Culture.

Gigi shares how permaculture extends far beyond gardening into communication, community resilience, and social systems change. From EcoVillage living and military service to composting toilets after Hurricane Helene, Gigi explores earth care, people care, and fair share as a lived philosophy.

Greg chats with sourdough baker, teacher, and cookbook author Amy Coyne of Amy Bakes Bread to demystify sourdough from starter to slice.

Edmund Williams returns to discuss the LEHR Garden system and a breakthrough soil product emerging from it: LEHR Soil Amplifier. By combining ecological soil biology with engineered water flow, the LEHR system grows plants in primarily woody materials while composting beneath living roots.

Beatrice Nathan joins the podcast to explore how permaculture principles can be applied to family life, childcare, and community resilience.

Clinical herbalist Kimberly Kling returns to discuss regenerative health in a highly toxic modern world.