280: Nancy Lawson on Humane Gardening. Using native plants to creatively interact with wildlife and avoid landscaping conflicts. Nancy is a columnist for All Animals magazine, as well as the founder of Humane Gardener – an outreach initiative dedicated to cultivating compassion for all creatures great and small through animal-friendly, environmentally-sensitive landscaping methods. She speaks…
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279: Cindy Tran on The Moreland Food System Strategy. Helping one city understand the realities of food insecurity. Cindy completed a Bachelor of Biomedicine degree at the University of Melbourne with a major in Pathology and matured her quantitative research skills at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute as a research student. She subsequently completed…
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278: Margret Aldrich on Little Free Libraries. Inspiring creativity in communities everywhere. Margret is the author of The Little Free Library Book through Coffee House Press, and has published her work with The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Experience Life, and beyond. From Little Free Libraries to tiny houses, integrative medicine to introverted kids, digital detoxing to co-op bookstores, her writing hunts for happiness,…
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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, and individuals throughout the state of Arizona. Using a DIY approach of starting small and growing incrementally, Joseph and his brother built their start-up from…
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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 enthusiast Julia Coffey to the chat to help explain about running a seed business. Together they talk to Greg about being a seed grower, germination…
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276: Andy Schneider on Living the Chicken Dream Meeting the first ‘Poultry Personality’ of Backyard Poultry. Better known as The Chicken Whisperer, Andy has become the go-to guy for anything chicken related. He has helped countless people start their own backyard flocks and has assisted in changing more laws around the country to allow backyard…
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275: Gianaclis Caldwell on Cheesemaking Basics. Covering some basic questions about making cheese at home. Gianaclis is the main cheese-maker, milker and owner of Pholia Farm, a licensed dairy located on 24 acres in southern Oregon. Her farm is well known for its artisan, aged raw milk cheeses; as well as classes on small-dairy, goat…
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One Year of Vermicomposting:Updates and Things to Watch Out For By Anne-Marie Miller Editor’s Note: This is the third article in Anne-Marie’s vermicomposting saga. Read the first article, Black Gold for the Garden, here, and read the second article, Harvesting Black Gold, here.About a year ago, I invited some wonderful wriggly guests into my house.…
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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 factors influenced the development of this version of a wicking bed. The first factor was using an existing raised bed garden tended to in the…
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274: Deb Kolaras on Small Farming and Local Economies. Working together with other small farms to provide farm goods to a local economy. Trading her digital marketing agency in Boulder, Colorado, for a small farm in rural Virginia, Deb and her husband set out to expand their backyard hobby farming into a slightly larger and…
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