309: Lisa Steele on Hatching Chicks and Raising Chickens. Getting ready to raise chickens from eggs with your kids. Lisa is a 5th-generation chicken keeper, top-selling author and the creative mind behind the Better Homes & Gardens award-winning blog Fresh Eggs Daily® (www.fresheggsdaily.com). Lisa inspires both the newcomer as well as the seasoned chicken keeper…
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This “Movement” by: Guest blogger Rodger Wasson, owner of Idea Farming and creator of The Farm to Table Talk Podcast. Food can be more efficiently and justly produced in some fashion everywhere but not in the same fashion everywhere. It will need to be both globally distributed (oranges don’t grow well in North Dakota)…
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308: Ann Larkin Hansen on Seasonal Planting for the Homestead. Recognizing the seasonal commonalities in different areas. Ann is a homesteader and small-scale organic farmer, as well as a farm journalist specializing in sustainable farming and forestry. After she retired from farm reporting, she authored a number of books. Her latest book The Backyard Homestead…
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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 the past few summers teaching chemistry for Upward Bound at the University of Maine at Farmington. But what he is excited about is after he…
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Wildcrafting, Foraging, and Growing Native From Guest blogger and podcast guest Mark Lewis, Learn more about him and listen to his podcast HERE. Every day, we walk through a miracle. Our brother and sister plants and animals have always called out to us and given us the confidence to really live in and engage the…
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A Peek into my Garden Journal: Successes and Failures in the Summer Garden by Anne-Marie Miller I always like to record my successes and failures for each garden season so that I can improve my yield every year. After all, my definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect…
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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 family’s food supply on a daily basis. Additionally he demonstrates sustainable foraging of 200 indigenous plants and 50 mushrooms at Phoenix area farmers markets, universities,…
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305: Lee Stewart on Healthy Eating Through Gardening. Finding healing in gardening and peace in helping others grow healthy food. Lee, the owner of Veg Up Get Dirty was only 4 years old when she made the 2-year journey from Vietnam to the United States. She has been gardening since she came to the US,…
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304: Karen Lanier on Wisdom and Wonders of Women Farmers. Recognizing the feminine nature within all and how this benefits farming. Karen is a naturalist, documentarian, teacher, artist, and gardener who explores the interconnections of nature and culture. She holds degrees in photography, foreign language, conservation studies, and documentary studies as well as a professional…
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303: Rodger Wasson on Farm to Table Matters. Learning about how food gets to our tables and where it comes from. Rodger is a graduate of Illinois State University and a food and agriculture veteran. He comes from a family with five generations of American farming in their blood. And although he was the first…
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