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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 60,00…
6 months, 3 weeks 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 A…
6 months, 3 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…
7 months 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 u…
7 months, 1 week 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 reg…
7 months, 2 weeks 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 …
7 months, 3 weeks 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 farm…
8 months 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 …
8 months, 1 week 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…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Pushing back on the weakening of organic standards with Linley Dixon of the Real Organic Project
Episode 129
Linley Dixon discusses some of the challenges facing organic farming, particularly the issues of greenwashing and the need for maintaining organic st…
8 months, 3 weeks ago