444: Sara Wolters on Healthy, Homemade Jams & Jellies
444: Sara Wolters on Healthy, Homemade Jams & Jellies. Taking fruits and berries to make tasty results. Sara and her husband own and operate Pomona’s Universal Pectin. Pomona’s Pectin has…
Grow Buckets
Several years ago, I started my adventure with wicking garden beds. I found the concept powerful and wondered, how can I use this concept in a different way? I consulted the internet and found a few good ideas, but not quite what I wanted. I needed something I thought might stand up to the unrelenting summer heat of Phoenix, Arizona and produce a nice vegetable harvest. I came up with this design of a grow bucket.
438: Christine Heinrichs on Raising Backyard Chickens
438: Christine Heinrichs on Raising Backyard Chickens. Building your food system with backyard poultry. Christine lives on California’s Central Coast, in an unincorporated rural community. She has a small flock…
424: John Jeavons on Biologically Intensive Gardening & Farming (Part 2)
Plant personalities and crops everyone should grow – This is part 2 of a great interview as we continue our visit with John Jeavons. Part one of this two-part podcast discussed John’s journey into Biologically Intensive Gardening, crop planning strategies, and watering strategies. Today in Part two we…
423: John Jeavons on Biologically Intensive Gardening & Farming (Part 1)
Empowering people globally to build food security while using very little land – Biologically Intensive Gardening allows farmers to grow more food, with less water, in a sustainable way. In this podcast, we speak with John Jeavons who has been a Bio Intensive pioneer for over 50 years. An Arizona native, his books have made…
401: Duane Hebert on Growing a Healthy Diet
401: Duane Hebert on Growing a Healthy Diet. Homesteading in the Suburbs. Born and raised in Gardena, CA in the heart of South-Central Los Angeles, Duane grew up a typical…
382: Lynn McMahon on A Century Old Urban Farm
382: Lynn McMahon on A Century Old Urban Farm. Building history with six generations on the same homestead. Lynn lives with her husband Mike and their Walker Coonhound on their…
307: Steve Knight on Gleaning for Your Community
307: Steve Knight on Gleaning for Your Community. Tackling local food waste and hunger through team effort. Steve taught high school science for 40 years and then retired. He spent…
306: Mark Lewis on Wildcrafting, Foraging, and Growing Native
306: Mark Lewis on Wildcrafting, Foraging, and Growing Native. Harvesting sustainable and nourishing foods found growing in the wild. Mark is a Wildcrafter extraordinaire. Wildcraft harvesting provides ¾ of his…
Bonus Episode 5: Seed Chat July 2017
Bonus Episode 5: Seed Chat July 2017. A chat with experts on Seeds, Bill McDorman and Julia Coffey. In This BONUS Podcast: Bill McDorman brings a friend and fellow seed…
