Healthy Soils Support Life By Guest Blogger Mary Tiedeman,Listen to her podcast episode HERE As Urban Farm U patrons, we can all attest that healthy soils are better than their unhealthy counterparts, right? But what is the definition of “soil health”? According to the Natural Resource Conservation Service, soil health (or quality) refers to its’…
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325: Liz Whitehurst on Starting a New Small Farm. Operating a small-scale diversified farm. Liz is the owner/operator of Owl’s Nest Farm, small-scale diversified vegetable farm 15 miles outside Washington, DC. Before starting her farm, she worked on a wide variety of farms and gardens as a grower and educator, including the Arcadia Center for…
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Bonus Episode 9: Seed Chat September 2017. A chat with an expert on Seeds, Bill McDorman. In This BONUS Podcast: There is always a bounty of information available in conversations with Bill McDorman. This is the September 2017 episode with a Seed School Chat Class continuing the conversation on Seed Saving Principles, Intellectual Property…
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324: Jessica Walliser on Container Gardening. Making the most of small spaces for gardens. Our Returning guest Horticulturist Jessica co-hosts The Organic Gardeners, an award-winning program on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The American Horticultural Society. Don’t miss an episode! Click here to sign up for podcast…
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323: Kari Spencer on Farming in the City. Growing crops and raising livestock in urban spaces. Kari is a popular local gardening & homesteading speaker. As a Master Gardener and a Master Farmer, she enjoys sharing her passion for growing and raising food with others. In addition to teaching classes all over the city of…
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Looking Back and Forward to the New Year Ahead by Anne-Marie Miller (Dash) I don’t know about you, but on my homestead the looming projects and improvements can seem a bit overwhelming! Take for instance my fence; part of it is trying it’s hardest to emulate the yoga position of downward dog, while the other…
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322: Henry Rowlands on Pesticide Awareness and Testing. Checking for the presence of pesticides in our food. Henry was raised on a family-run, organic sheep farm in Wales. This led to his deep interest in issues related to sustainable agriculture, and he worked for a time as a news agency journalist in many countries across…
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321: Adam Brock on Social Permaculture. Attuning our minds to social permaculture solutions. Adam is a facilitator, author, and designer working at the intersection of urban agriculture, sustainable business, and social change. As co-founder of The GrowHaus, Adam helped transform an abandoned half-acre greenhouse in Colorado’s most polluted zip code into an award-winning hub for…
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320: Shannon McCabe on Heirloom Seed Stories. Documenting the histories of seeds in Baker Creek Catalogs. Shannon is a writer who found her passion melded beautifully with farming and growing heirloom vegetables when she landed the perfect job as the farm manager and catalog writer at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. She has traveled the…
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319: Melissa Caughey on How to Speak Chicken. Translating fowl language for urban farmers. Melissa is the author of How to Speak Chicken and A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens published by our friends at Storey Publishing. She is a backyard chicken keeper, beekeeper, and gardener who writes the award-winning blog Tilly’s Nest. She writes…
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