Gardening tips, tricks, and advice in short, bite-size episodes: Greg is excited to speak with Andrew Faust about biodynamic tree paste, a concept Greg learned about years prior, yet it is not widely discussed. Andrew is an expert on biodynamics and he educates us on this…
Creating a full circle food system that connects family and community. – In This Podcast: Wholistic living has taken on a whole new meaning for Jolene Kuty! Through learning about health, she went from eating cheese infused hot dogs to working as a chiropractic physician surrounded by her…
Tapping into the many benefits of backyard botanicals. — In This Podcast: While becoming a licensed acupuncturist and doctor, Nicole Finklestein felt the carbon footprint of the medicinals and botanicals in her practice was extensive. She drew on her family farming background to start growing herbs and flowers. She discusses holistic practices used on her farm, as well as…
Bringing a whole system approach of design and nature to the farm. — In This Podcast:Taking a permaculture course as a young adult gave Raven Venturelli the confidence and inspiration to start her own farm. However, finding land in California to develop her nature-based farming concepts was difficult…
401: Duane Hebert on Growing a Healthy Diet. Homesteading in the Suburbs. Born and raised in Gardena, CA in the heart of South-Central Los Angeles, Duane grew up a typical…
272: Lori Rose on School Garden Programs. Motivating the necessary people to create and maintain a lasting grade school garden program.. Lori is a college instructor for biology, nutrition, herbal…
255: Gianaclis Caldwell on Holistic Goat Care. Considering the whole picture of raising goats and their benefits. In addition to actively managing their dairy goats, Gianaclis is the main cheesemaker,…
Greg has found an east coast twin when he talks to a fruit tree farmer named Michael Phillips who has been growing apple trees in New Hampshire with a care that works for the health of the trees and the ecosystem in which they live. Michael grows and sells fruit trees and he focuses a lot of offering tree growing education as well. He shares his main points of growing healthy fruit trees and explains why some of the steps are so beneficial to trees.
Digging into Aquaponics Pt. 2: The Fish By Sylvia Bernstein Intro Welcome back to aquaponics! In my last article we dug into plants. This time, we’ll explore the fish side…
Urban Beekeeping and Why You Should Keep Bees Bees play a vital role maintaining healthy ecosystems and they are immensely important for humans and indeed all of Earth’s life forms,…
