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Raising standards for produce and soil quality with Laura Llewellyn of Chimalow Produce in Washington State
Episode 139
With over 20 years of farming experience, hear how Laura Llewellyn grew Chimalow Produce to maximize soil and veg quality, based on the idea that healthy soil will lead to better vegetables. Learn ho…
Published on 13 hours ago
Scaling up and growing 60,000 dahlias with Grace Lam of Fivefork Farms in Massachusetts
Episode 138
Scaling up means different things for different farms; hear from Grace Lam how Fivefork Farms has scaled up to the point where they are growing 60,000 dahlias both for flower and tuber sales and over…
Published on 1 week ago
How farmers can help breed varieties tailored to their farms with Michael Lordon of the Organic Seed Alliance
Episode 137
Discover how farmers and researchers are collaborating to develop seed varieties tailored to farmers' needs with Michael Lordon of the Organic Seed Alliance. Since vegetable and flower varieties are …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Insects as a solution to food waste and a new farm “crop” with Pat Crowley of Chapul Farms in Oregon
Episode 136
“Get your fresh local insects, and frass too!” If Pat Crowley had his way, insects and their byproducts (most notably frass used as fertilizer) would take their place alongside vegetables and flowers…
Published on 3 weeks ago
30+ years of scaling up without lowering standards with Jack Hedin and Abby Benson of Featherstone Farm in Minnesota
Episode 135
Over more than 30 years, Featherstone Farm has grown their CSA and wholesaling to the point where they are now growing on 135 acres and have scaled up some of their major crops- for one example, they…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Expanding regional markets for farmers with Anne Massie and Virginia Pleasant of Region Roots Local Farm & Food Hub
Episode 134
Anne Massie and Virginia Pleasant share how they’ve grown Region Roots Local Farm and Food Hub to increase opportunities for famers to feed their regional communities. “The Region” is how the area of…
Published on 1 month ago
Building soil to feed your plants with Josh Kruszynski of Tilth Soil
Episode 133
Tilth Soil composts millions of pounds of food waste every year, and we’ve got their soil guy Josh Kruszynski on the pod this week to talk about how to build soil including not just compost, but also…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The business side of growing a farm and balancing family with Diane Aboushi of Halal Pastures
Episode 132
Growing up in Brooklyn with a career as an attorney, Diane Aboushi of Halal Pastures farm did not follow the most traditional path to becoming a farmer. However, researching how to provide the health…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Decades of incredibly diverse CSA farming with 7th generation farmers Steve and Lisa Cooper of Cooper’s CSA Farm in Ontario
Episode 131
Though their family has been farming in Ontario for over 200 years, success looks different in the 2020s than it did in the early 19th century! Hear how the Coopers changed their family farm in order…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sharing the lessons learned growing from urban gardens to Unvarnished Farm in Indiana with Megan Ayers
Episode 130
On this week’s podcast Megan Ayers shares what she learned as she built Unvarnished Farm from a series of urban gardens into the farm in southeastern Indiana that it is today. A first-generation farm…
Published on 2 months ago