Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ
Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ Tell me a little about your urban farm. What is its name? Size? I’m not sure I can call my small backyard an…
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220: Ben Raskin on Practical Advice for Community Gardens
For those envisioning a perfect community garden, Ben has put together a fabulous resource to guide, inspire, and empower the designers and leaders of future neighborhood plots. He tells Greg about the purpose he had for writing his latest book and some of the lessons he’s learned during his years of farming.
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Building my Wicking Garden Bed
Building my Wicking Garden Bed By Raymond Jess Updated: May 2017 with new pictures at bottom.Check out Wicking Beds 2.0 and Wicking Beds 3.0 next!I discovered wicking garden beds when…
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219: Jennifer Osuch on Growing, Cooking, Preserving Your Own Food
219: Jennifer Osuch on Fundamentals of Self Reliance. Teaching back to basics food preparation and preserving skills. – – – – Jennifer is the author of the Preparedness Planner series,…
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218: Nafsika Antypas on Living a Plant-Based Life
218: Nafsika Antypas on Living a Plant-Based Life. Understanding the reasons and options for choosing a vegan lifestyle. – – – – Nafsika is the Host and Creator of the…
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217: Sine Lindholm on an Urban Farming 'Growroom'
217: Sine Lindholm on an Urban Farming ‘Growroom’. Creating and sharing an open-sourced growing sphere to create poetic spaces. – – – – Sine is from Denmark and has a…
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216: Emiley Kight on Loving Natural Foods
A chance meeting at the Farmers Market connected Greg to Emiley Kight, a Nutrition Consultant who tells about how she helps people to make little changes and enjoy natural foods. She explains about how her focus on food was taking her towards the kitchens of large food corporations until her mom’s illness and the realization that real food information and options were not included in recovery discussions and she decided to work on changing that.
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Cutting the Cost of Raising Your Flock: Growing Greens for Your Girls
Cut the Cost ofRaising Your Flock:Grow Greens for Your Girls By Anne-Marie Miller This is the last article of the series on cutting the cost of raising your flock. I…
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215: Suzanne Bontempo on Gardening without Pesticides
215: Suzanne Bontempo on Gardening without Pesticides. Contemplating the best options for:If, when, and what type of insect control to use in the garden. – – – – Suzanne has…
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214: Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty in the World
Examining the problems of poverty and solutions we need to reconsider. Greg gets a chance to talk about a serious social sustainability topic when he interviews Michael Matheson Miller, the Director-Producer of Poverty Inc. Michael has examined this issue at great lengths and tells why some of the things we think are helping are really fostering additional problems and why we should be asking if we are part of the problem.
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