260: Amanda Jordan Starks on Vacant Land into Urban Gardens. Nourishing a community and its youth through transformative garden programs on vacant properties. Amanda is third generation Californian, raised in a small coastal town near the Oregon border. She went to the University of California, San Diego to pursue a degree in International Studies-Political…
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259: David Montgomery on Bringing Our Soil Back to Life. Using a geology background to understand regenerative soil processes. David is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington. He is an internationally recognized geologist who studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies.…
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Bonus Episode 2: Seed Chat June 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 June 2017 episode with a Seed School Chat Class covering Seed School Online, de-hybridization, seed patents, and so much…
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258: Deb Burns on How to Get a Farming Book Published. Writing and publishing books for urban farmers, homesteaders and nature lovers. Storey Publishing is a prolific publisher of farming and gardening books. Having roots going back to the 1970’s, their in-house editors and designers embrace the challenge of complementing each author’s work with…
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257: Laura Allen on Greywater. Exploring low-tech, sustainable water solutions for urban homes and landscapes. Laura has spent the past 15 years exploring low-tech, urban, sustainable water solutions, while earning a BA in environmental science, a teaching credential, and a master’s degree in education. Plus, she participated in the CA and WA state greywater code…
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Death on the Urban Homestead By Anne-Marie Miller Editor’s Note: The Urban Farm U community is made up of conscious eaters, including vegans, omnivores, and everything in between. At Urban Farm U, we have not taken sides on the ethics of raising animals for meat, but hope to provide balanced information from both perspectives so that urban…
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Way too many apples!!! Part 2: Juice and Dehydration By Greg Peterson Step two in my apple processing adventure was to press apple juice (cider) which can be used for juice (no fermentation), hard cider or in our case apple wine. For this process, you will need some method of extracting the juice from the…
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Way Too Many Apples!!! Part 1: Applesauce By Farmer Greg Peterson When nature is really in balance (this usually happens in my yard when I stand back and let nature be), the abundance is mind blowing. And that is exactly what I have right now with apples…so many that I am not sure I…
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256: Tammi Hartung on the Versatility of Plants. Discovering amazing uses for herbs, weeds and other common North American plants. Tammi is an ethnobotanical herbalist, organic farmer, author and international speaker. She has been working with plants for more than 37 years. She and her husband, Chris, own Desert Canyon Farm, a certified organic farm…
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Featured Farmer: Beth from Phoenix, AZ Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? We have a 0.8 acre irrigated lot in Central Phoenix. We haven’t named it. We bought the property in 2006. At the time it had a gravel front yard with a few cacti, and Bermuda grass…
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