548: Jeff Malkoon on Origins of Peanut Butter

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Blending nutty flavors for healthy spread options. When it comes to healthy food options, a common perception is that healthy doesn’t always taste good. After spending time in South America, Jeff Malkoon found inspiration to enter an untapped market and a mission to…

533: Amanda Fallis on Market Life.

533: Amanda Fallis on Market Life.

Building community and local food resilience through a Farmers Market. – In This Podcast: Have you ever thought about selling at a Farmers Market, but the whole process seemed intimidating? We spoke with Amanda Fallis, assistant manager of the Vernon Farmers Market to understand…

532: Lindsay Allen on Rooftop Farming

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Growing food on top of a hospital. – In This Podcast: Hospital food isn’t always the best cuisine, but Lindsay Allen is working to change that at Boston Medical Center. Listen in to learn how a hospital rooftop farm is improving hospital food to make it more nourishing as well as feeding the community through…

500: John Lee Dumas on Lighting Your Life on Fire

Moving others to taking the leap towards inspiration. — In this podcast: We normally focus on inspiring urban farming, but for our 500th episode, we wanted to educate on one way you can turn your urban farming passion into a business. John Lee Dumas is the creator of…

474: Amy Lacey on Cooking with Cauliflower

Taking an everyday vegetable to the table in delicious new ways. — In This Podcast: After Amy Lacey’s health took a downturn and she wanted to bring some normalcy back to her family’s routine, she tried a recipe for a vegetable she did not really like. Little did she know how a bland vegetable could make such a…

456: Raven Venturelli on Permaculture for the Small Farm

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…

441: Jill Shea as a Woman in the World of Aquaponics

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Finding purpose in educating about indoor farming . In This Podcast: We had the pleasure of talking aquaponics with Jill Shea from Trifecta Ecosystems. Trifecta Ecosystems practices sustainable farming in their aquaponics farm and educates the community to grow their own food as part of the…

133: Simon Huntley on Marketing a Small Farm

Simon shares his story with Greg about how he went from avoiding the farm as a kid, to now using his technology skills to help farmers promote their farms online.  Farmers who are just starting out with a small farm, are the people that Simon is focusing on helping

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Did You Know…? Statistics show that farmers’ markets are popping up all over the country, their numbers increasing substantially every year Did you know that the number of farmers’ markets in […]

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