295: Emily Mickley-Doyle on Community Agriculture. Bringing healthy food and education to urban tables through community engagement. Emily earned her degree in Sociology from Loyola University New Orleans in 2008.…
How to Find the Right-Sized Tractor for Your Urban Farm By Will Nelson Urban farming has experienced an uptick in popularity in the past decade, and it’s easy to see…
Featured Farmer:Matthew Mays from Pittsburgh, PA Editor’s note: Matthew sent this information in an email to me in March, and I was so impressed that I had to ask him…
277: Joseph Martinez on Microgreens. Building a business on the tiniest greens. Joseph is a co-founder of Arizona Microgreens, an urban farm in Phoenix which produces microgreens for restaurants, schools,…
Wicking Bed 2.0 By Raymond Jess Editor’s note: Check out our podcast interview with Raymond here, and read his first wicking bed article here. The influence behind the ingenuity… Two…
Improving results in your garden through planning and record keeping: Putting a brand new edible landscape together for homeowners and even apartment communities in the Seattle area is just another work day for Colin McCrate, and he loves it. So, after several years and many gardens built & maintained, he…
265: Kateen Fitzgerald on Designing Dynamic Food Systems. Shifting a food-growing landscape into a more natural system. Kateen is a tree of many branches; she’s a design consultant, mentor, teacher,…
234: Ruth and Grace Pepler on Agritourism. Experiencing life on the farm as a vacation destination. – – – – Ruth has been a registered nurse, private chef, and caterer,…
My “farm” consists of 170 square feet of raised beds. We designed the space to have beds arranged in a U-shape with a center raised bed and walkways that make it easy to access all corners of the garden without stepping inside a bed. I affectionately call our garden Honey Hill Farm because my husband and I live at the top of a hill and Honey our beloved dog oversees all activity in and out of the garden.
Expanding the habitat of an essential pollinator through garden choices. Greg chats with Matthew of the Xerces Society to learn more about their latest book titled 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, as well as some of the projects the Society has been working on. Matthew’s story of how he got to work for the Xerces Society is a little world tour and then he helps explain more about different bees and what they need.
