Featured Farmer: Ruth Pepler from Dogwood Hills Guest Farm Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? We are actually really rural. Dogwood Hills Guest Farm is a homestead farm on 72 acres by the Buffalo National River in Harriet, Arkansas. We are on a rocky hillside surrounded by “hollers” with…
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235: Colin Walker on Keys to Growing Nutrient-Rich Food. Connecting important ecology-centered concepts for producing nutrient dense food. – – – – Colin grew up in a rural community near Auckland, New Zealand, and learned the basics of growing by helping his grandfather maintain a small flower market garden. Initially, he went to college to…
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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, and has taught cooking classes, managed a farm, and homeschooled her daughter. She and her husband Thomas started their homestead near the Buffalo National River…
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233: Colin Walker on Gardening with Ecology at its Heart. Focusing on a larger picture to understand how to effectively grow a good garden. – – – – Colin grew up in a rural community near Auckland, New Zealand, and learned the basics of growing by helping his grandfather maintain a small flower market garden. …
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232: John Vespasian on Rational, Self-Reliant Living. Learning lessons of resilience from history. – – – – John is a personal development author of eight books about history and psychology, including his latest book “Thriving in difficult times: Twelve lessons from Ancient Greece to improve your life today.” As a lover of history, he is…
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231: Trent Lindsey on Converting to Plant Based Nutrition. Chronicling the transition to a vegan lifestyle and helping educate others. – – – – Trent is the founder of GoPlantBased.info, a website and blog on a mission to improve our world, one healthy person at a time. His blog educates his readers on the health…
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230: Katie Hess on Blooming into Full Potential. Connecting with nature to empower the natural self. – – – – Katie is a flower alchemist and the founder of LOTUSWEI, one of the world’s leading floral apothecaries. After 15 years of independent research of flower and plant-based healing, her flower-powered community is thriving in over…
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229: Barbara Pleasant on Gardening to fill your Pantry. Taking home-grown foods into food storage. – – – – Barbara is an Award-winning writer having been covering organic gardening and self-sufficient living for more than 30 years. As contributing editor to Mother Earth News, her work has garnered multiple awards from the Garden Writers Association…
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228: Sheri McLane on Soil and Plant Testing. Improving plant yields through expert analysis of growing mediums. – – – – Sheri was interested in science and how things worked from a young age. She was fascinated with paleontology in middle school and even participated in archeology digs with the local museum. In high school,…
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Adjusting to a new normal with predators near our farms. Permaculture can be understood as the growth of agricultural ecosystems in a self-sufficient and sustainable way. This form of agriculture draws inspiration from nature to develop synergetic farming systems based on crop diversity, resilience, natural productivity, and sustainability.
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