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Plant Profile- Shallots (Allium fistulosum)
Season 1 Episode 15
Shane reflects on his oldest vegetable landrace crop, the humble shallot or spring onion (Allium fistulosum), an indispensable fresh leafy vegetable …
1 year, 7 months ago
Jason Howard
Season 1 Episode 14
Shane talks to Jason about his extraordinary passion for breeding diverse, aromatic and hardy basil that goes so far beyond the common leafy green ty…
1 year, 8 months ago
Direct Sowing versus Transplants
Season 1 Episode 13
Shane argues for the advantages of direct sowed seed over transplants, and outlines the key ingredients to achieve success sowing your own seed where…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ugo Bardi
Season 1 Episode 12
Shane talks to Professor Ugo Bardi about his recent book "Exterminations: Preparing for the Unthinkable" about the limits to growth and social, cultu…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Minimum Human Habitat
Season 1 Episode 11
This episode calculates the minimum area of land needed to provide water, calories, protein and vegetables to a perfectly efficient human being under…
1 year, 8 months ago
Evalisa McIllfaterick
Season 1 Episode 10
Shane chats with Evalisa McIllfaterick about her collaborative watermelon breeding project in chilly Canada.
Evalisa's Market Farm- Root Cellar Garden…
1 year, 9 months ago
Book Review- Agriculture of the Hidatsa
Season 1 Episode 9
This episode reviews the book "Agriculture of the Hidatsa" which can be read for free online. Rare first hand accounts of pre-industrial agriculture …
1 year, 9 months ago
Professor Porcupine
Season 1 Episode 8
Shane interviews Professor Porcupine about the ways that young people without access to their own land can nevertheless get involved in crop breeding…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Three Times Plants (Almost) Destroyed the Planet
Season 1 Episode 7
This is an audio version of a blog post from the Zero Input Agriculture substack.
In it, Shane explores the deep history of life on Earth and the recu…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sam Bonney
Season 1 Episode 6
Shane interviews Sam Bonney about his journey into low input agroforestry and the challenges of breeding slower growing crop species.
You can find mor…
1 year, 9 months ago