106: Jessica Piper on Jarden’s Can-It-Forward Day Jessica is a home canning expert and has worked for Jarden Home Brands for over 11.5 years. She currently is an Analytics Specialist (or Home Canning Expert) in Consumer Affairs and a certified process engineer through the USDA. Being a life-long resident in Muncie, Indiana, Jessica has a…
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105: Stacey Murphy on Urban Farming in Brooklyn – Stacey has taught hundreds of teens and adults how to grow, harvest and prepare fresh foods. She is a recovering engineer and architect turned garden geek and farm nerd. Stacey founded BK Farmyards, a cooperative of urban farmers in Brooklyn dedicated to social justice through urban…
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104: Jerome Osentowski on Growing an Indoor Food Forest Jerome has spent the last 30 years developing indoor and outdoor forest farming technology at his location in Basalt, Colorado. He is the founder and director of the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute dedicated to education, research, and demonstration. He is also the author of The…
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Palm Oil:Why You Should Avoid It By Emily Powell Palm oil is in half of the products sold in grocery stores. Looking through the labels on foods in my pantry, I’ve found it in my peanut butter, crackers, granola bars, chocolate chips, cereal, and canned soup. It’s all over my kitchen, and probably all over…
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103: DeBorah Prince on Learning How to Garden from the Internet Gardening has been DeBorah Prince’s passion and therapy for over 20 years. She grows a huge range of fruits and veggies from asparagus to zucchini, makes her own compost and vermicompost, and her latest project is building a chicken coop. She lives in New…
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102: Beth Terry on Living and Gardening without Plastic. After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth Terry began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic. Since then, she has reduced her plastic waste to less than 2% of…
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101: Paris Masek on Food Hubs and Small Farms Paris Masek is the Managing Director for Green on Purpose and the Director of Agriculture Programs for Quincea Social Enterprises. He is also a PhD candidate at ASU in English Literature working with Indigenous American Literature and Cultures. He is an active member of the Maricopa County…
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Featured Farmer: DeBorah Prince from Urban G4G Tell me a little about your urban farm.I usually tell people that I have a garden, but when they see it they say you don’t have a garden, you have a farm. I’ve been gardening for over 20 years now it went from a very small garden to…
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100: Toby Hemenway on A Permaculture Way of Life Toby is the author of a new book on urban and suburban permaculture, The Permaculture City, as well as Gaia’s Garden, the best-selling permaculture book in the world, which won the 2011 Nautilus award and was named one of the ten best gardening books of 2010 by The Washington Post. He…
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Agave Nectar: Friend or Foe? By Emily Powell If you’ve been paying attention to the “health foods” aisle of your grocery store, or you’ve stayed updated on your favorite vegan recipe website, or you happen to subscribe to the vehement lamentations of Dr. Oz, you’ve probably seen or heard a lot about a particular sweetener…
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