Organic Gardener Podcast

Brian Moody shares his passion for organic food gardening and AERO Montana in this must listen interview. A rockstar millennial to boot, he worked at Terra Birds in Arizona where Reagon Emmons worked as well. Listen to my interview with her here as well. Tell us a little about yourself. East of Yellowstone in Wyoming avid gardeners looking back on it is pretty impressive now all throughout the rocky mountain early and late frosts lots of other challenges I remember growing up and eating fresh carrots and peas from the garden, big influence on me. We moved around quite a bit moving back to Montana and then Flagstaff, Arizona ~ down there, I gained a whole other perspective on farming indigenous folks down there and hopi people. Learning about how they farm and gardenI I never had my own farm or garden business How do we connect with you? you can connect though my work email bmoody@aeromt.org a lot of what missions gardening comes into that been around since 1974 comes out of the early years of AERO origina

I’m so excited! It’s Monday March My guest has been here before but he’s started his own podcast the No-Till Market Gardener Podcast and from Kentucky he’s here to tell us about their  garden journey and a rockstar millennial right? There’s Jesse Frost to tell us about his podcast and farmstead! Tell us a little about yourself. I am one half of the farm team, my wife Hannah Crabtree is the other half, arguably the better half. We’re in Central Kentucky about 25 min hour from Louisville nw of lexington. Kind of in the middle of the state it’s a pretty hopping spot as far as Kentucky goes. We have 3/4 of an acre mixed vegetables Our 4 year old has 10 chickens! Mostly we have vegetables. Our entire farm is 100% no tillage I’m happy to talk about that The podcast is geared towards that No-Till Market Gardener Podcast growers like ourselves who are small production but trying to make a living off our vegetables. farm ecologically eliminate tillage various people all over the country all over the world And talk a

I thought I should replay this episode from last winter because the applications for School Gardens opens in 2 weeks on September 1st and I thought educators and people who want to help get a garden in their school would be interested. Applications are due by October 15th. I’m just thrilled to be back behind the mic it’s January 7th. I have a great guest that was recommended by Lem Tingley from Growing Spaces in episode 256 and here from the Whole Kids Foundation is Nona Evans! Whole Kids Foundation Facebook Page It’s always so much fun to see how seeds that you sprinkled about germinate. It’s so fun to know how we connected! Thank you so much! I reached out to you and you said you checked out the podcast and thought it’d be a perfect fit. Tell listeners about the Whole Kids Foundation  because I had never heard of it! We are on the order of things, a pretty moderate size non-profit organization. We are Whole Kids Foundation  and our mission to improve kids nutrition because we

Today I am so excited to introduce my guest Bob Quinn who is back to tell us about his new book Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food You can read the Golden Seeds Issue #7 here if you prefer! Here’s my 5 star review, make sure you write yours! Thanks so much for sending me your book, you were worried if I would be able to read it and then I whipped through it in under 48 hours was so engaging! Thanks Jackie! It was a lot of fun to write  with Liz who is a great partner who made the story easy to read. She was able to keep it free flowing from one topic to another. There’s so many things to discuss, it’s a bit of a challenge to meet the limitations that they place on us from keeping the book  from being a gone with the wind version with so many topics. We tried to hit the highlights of subjects I’m passionate of The High Cost Cheap Food Decline of Rural America and the Disappearance of Our Farms all because we have been encouraged to look at our farms lik

Happy August! Announcing the winner of Andrew Mefferd’s new book: The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers And the Winner is drumroll please John Keith! Remember you can get a 20% discount by using the code: garden on a subscription to Andrew’s awesome publication  Growing for Market magazine or any of his books or the books in their online store. The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook: Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture Congratulations to a listener, Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge participant and hopefully future guest! Carrots going to seed make great flowers for beneficials that eat pests  Scott Mann and I just talked about how he plants onions and other umbel shaped flowers at the end of his rows of vegetables because they attract a parasitic wasp that eats pests. Herbs in the garden Should have mulched my lavendar… This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:...

So in this update I go through the questions I usually ask others on my way to work. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Clark gardens and I hated it. How did you learn how to garden organically? My mom, Mike and Organic Gardening Magazine Tell us about something that grew well this year. So far potatoes and carrots. Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? Strawberries Tell me about something that didn’t work so well this season. My blueberries and raspberries Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden? Anything that requires me to get down in the dirt. I like raised beds and keeping my jeans clean. What is your favorite activity to do in the garden? Eat the food. I’m not the biggest fan of harvest I just like to cook it. What is the best gardening advice you have  ever received? Water your blueberries. A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. The broadfork, although

Jennifer Smith a Rockstar Millennial is here from DeerBusters today to tell us about fencing. DeerBusters has been leading the fencing industry for over 30 years with reliable DIY garden fence in poly and metal fence materials for homes, farms, forests, colleges, orchards, vineyards, and gardens. We are proud to work with wildlife conservation agencies and landscape architects as well as deer farmers who are looking to keep in deer and elk herds with our fencing.  Don’t forget to ask about Jon Moore – portable fence Tell us a little about yourself. I was born and raised in S Florida, I was always an outdoor enthusiast. I was brought up with this preconceived notion that Bambi is innocent and cute. Then I grew up and realized: Deer are very destructive most come about animal between farmers and gardeners IDK I still think deer are pretty cute, they are all over the place although we have had our struggles with deer in the garden and can cause a lot of heart break, also, lyme disease is a very dangerous d

The Permaculture Podcast host Scott Mann shares his amazing journey into permaculture and podcasting in this must listen episode. Learn about The Possibility Handbook: A Toolkit for Transformation    So I ask myself today what lesson can I learn since all the work I did this weekend evaporated when my computer crashed yesterday. I am going to release it so I can listen on my way to work tomorrow and hope for the best. Sorry if there are any mistakes but I think Scott was an amazing guest you will enjoy hearing from unedited! To see my unedited notes click here. But I did put on my rose colored glasses on my way to work and ended up enjoying the sunny skies and beautiful Montana forests! Enjoy Green Future Growers! Here’s to technology challenges and hopefully better solutions! At least I didn’t lose my whole computer as I still have about 6 episodes in the bank to release! Show notes coming someday! I did want to make sure I include some important links Scott mentions. Two books and a website

I just want to make sure everyone has the link to enter the contest The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers to win a copy of Andrew Mefferd’s amazing book here’s the  link to enter the contest and listen to the interview here: Interview link Andrew’s book outlines the advantages and disadvantages of different methods of no-till agriculture that are being practiced today by many small scale farmers and how they can easily scale down to backyard gardens which has been a challenge in the past.   Key to the Mountain I also have some updates about our garden in Montana and also I talk about Melissa from Key to the mountain who has a small business I met at the Missoula Farmer’s Market and I just loved her Ener-ghee packets I got to run the Missoula half marathon. Our biggest challenge in Montana is probably just getting everything in so late mixed with lots of cool weather and rain. the link to enter the contest by filling in the poll

Part 2 of Denise and Tony Gaetz, from Bare Mountain Farm are here to share their flower farming journey. Their belief is that healthy soils equal healthy plants which provide for vibrant, strong long-lasting blooms. Over 10 years of Growing at Bare Mountain Farm Living in the Willamette Valley of OR, they’ve been on their farm for about 27 years, they have 10 and 1/2 acres grow flowers on only about an acre and 1/2. They’ve been doing this for over 11 years, starting next year will be their 12th season. This is a second career. Both had previous lives and sort of semi-retired, but not really retired because this is a lot of work. But they’re doing something that both of them really love, it’s hard work but it’s super they enjoy it! How do we connect with you? Bare Mountain Farm as in Bare Naked. We also have a Facebook page, and Pinterest page, and Instagram. Full show notes This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us

Originally published  Jan 1, 2016 Denise and Tony Gaetz are featured in Andrew Mefferd’s book  The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers And most of all I want to make sure you have the link to enter to win a copy of Andrew’s awesome book Denise and Tony Gaetz, from Bare Mountain Farm are here to share their flower farming journey. Their belief is that healthy soils equal healthy plants which provide for vibrant, strong long-lasting blooms. Tell us a little about yourself. Denise: We live in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, we’ve been on our farm for about 27 years, we have 10 and 1/2 acres. We grow flowers on only about an acre and 1/2. We’ve been doing this for over 11 years, starting next year will be our 12th season. This is our second career. We both had a previous life and are sort of semi-retired, but not really retired because this is a lot of work. But we’re doing something that both of us really love, it’s hard work but it’s super we

A replay of one of the most downloaded episodes of all time from last spring! In Search of the Next P.O.T.U.S.: One Woman’s Quest to Fix Washington (In Search of a Popular America) Judy Frankel shares her incredible gardening knowledge, her expertise in the pesticide and sustainable agriculture industries, and journey to grow  nutritious food for her health and family. Tell us about yourself. I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania believe it or not, and I have the farm genes in my genes… It was eating those unbelievable tomatoes. Uou just can’t buy those tomatoes in the supermarket. I moved out to California it was because I wanted warm weather all year. Wrong! So when I tried to grow them on a balcony… When I met my first master gardener. I took the 10 week course, and passed the test. You have to do a bunch of volunteering.  Then we moved to Massachusetts. I took it again there… This zone is completely different. California is all about growing food. The mission is to teach low income families to g

A replay of one of the most downloaded episodes of all time from last spring! In Search of the Next P.O.T.U.S.: One Woman’s Quest to Fix Washington (In Search of a Popular America) Judy Frankel shares her incredible gardening knowledge, her expertise in the pesticide and sustainable agriculture industries, and journey to grow  nutritious food for her health and family. Tell us about yourself. I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania believe it or not, and I have the farm genes in my genes… It was eating those unbelievable tomatoes. Uou just can’t buy those tomatoes in the supermarket. I moved out to California it was because I wanted warm weather all year. Wrong! So when I tried to grow them on a balcony… When I met my first master gardener. I took the 10 week course, and passed the test. You have to do a bunch of volunteering.  Then we moved to Massachusetts. I took it again there… This zone is completely different. California is all about growing food. The mission is to teach low income families to g

It’s July 16, 2019   Hey Everyone! So I just wanted to give a little July update, make sure you heard about the Andrew Meffered interview and giveaway  and had the link to win a copy of The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers Also Organic Gardener Podcast listeners can receive a 20% discount at Growing for Market Organic Oats In my interview with Judy Frankel she talks about how when her daughter became ill they found non-organic oats contributed a lot to her health decline and that oats are sprayed with glyphosate 168. Judy Frankel | In Search of the Next P.O.T.U.S.: One Woman’s Quest to Fix Washington (In Search of a Popular America)   @NomadikDreamer on Instagram The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers Giveaway ends Sunday July 28, 2019 Enter to win a copy of Andrew’s Book by filling in the poll here: https://forms.gle/qTWJcDxhtZiMjoA18 What podcasts do you listen to? Are there any sho

Announcing The RegenEarth 2019 Online Conference: Living Soil   Growing Your Backyard Regen Garden Reversing Climate Change through Regen Gardens The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. ~ Bill Mollison Because change means all of us Do something that actually makes a difference to your life and the planet’s. The RegenEarth 2019 Online Conference: Living Soils will be presented from 16 – 18 September 2019 from 7pm to 9pm. What’s On? Time 16 September 17 September 18 September 19:00 – 19:40 Why Regen Matters! Climate change, future proofing and building a carbon sink. The greatest secret: No-dig Gardening! Animals in the system! Chickens in a backyard permaculture system. 19:40 – 20:20 The importance of food, how it’s produced and community nutrition. Building soil with earthworms. Intro to Backyard permaculture. 20:20 – 21:00 What is soil? How do we build it? How

To win a copy of Andrew’s Book answer this poll where you can enter the raffle. And remember you can get a 20% discount by using the code: garden on a subscription to Andrew’s awesome publication  Growing for Market magazine or any of his books or the books in their online store. I know you are going to love this interview as much as I did. Remember to share this episode with a friend! The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook: Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture Andrew Mefferd is editor of Growing for Market magazine. He has spent 15 years working on farms in six states, including a year working on a no-till research farm, and worked for seven years in the research department at Johnny’s Selected Seeds . He travels around the world consulting with researchers and farmers on the best practices in greenhouse growing and sustainable agriculture. He is the author of The Greenhouse and Ho

The Farmer’s Office One of the things my guests have talked about a lot is effective bookkeeping and record keeping whether your a small backyard gardener or a busy market farmer. Today Julia Shanks is going to share her knowledge of business, farming, cooking and restaurants, her books and her new course on how to be the most effective producer you can be and how to enjoy growing a successful garden. Julia Shanks Author of the The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business is here today to share her brilliance and talk about her new course the Farmer’s Edge starting January 11th, 2017! FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON! Let’s Get to the Root of Things Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden. No, I love it all. I can’t get into the garden enough. I love weeding in the morning with my coffee I find it meditative . . . What is your favorite activity to do in the garden. Probably, I do enjoy the weeding I get the weeds

Since Ellen Polishuk and I talked about my interviews with Richard Wiswall and Julia Shanks last week I thought I’d replay them for listeners this week. Here’s the amazing Richard Wiswall. Welcome to today’s episode of the Organic Gardener Podcast! I am thrilled to introduce my guest who has written an amazing book about the business of organic farming  that I think will inspire listeners to think about the options for their future. His book starts out peaking interest with a quote from a talk a fellow farmer gave at the New England Vegetable and Fruit conference “Sometimes I think I should have listened to my parents and become a doctor or a lawyer, but you know, I don’t think I could take the pay cut.” Eventually he would write the Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff – and Making a Profit.  This book comes with a companion CD that included templets for creating worksheets, budgets including cash flow projections, and even payroll. He’s ma

I am delighted to introduce my amazing guest from Plant to Profit Farm Consulting Ellen Polishuk is here to share her amazing knowledge and story as well as her new book available on amazon or her website! Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer Listen to your first audio book for free by clicking on our audible affiliate link Tell us a little about yourself you were telling me today in Washington DC you had snow today. Yup! as you said, just the end of January having a little bit of snow raised in the DC Suburbs 55 been here a long time whole career has been in agriculture vegetable gardener part of a farm called Potomac Vegetable Farms  25 year career there growing and selling organically grown vegetables herbs cut flowers Tell me about your first gardening experience? It’s good story everybody has to start somewhere easiest way to describe it I think I was just born loving plants, they were sort of my sort of pets as a little child I would collect indoor

I’m super excited to introduce my guest today Julia Henderson from Confluence Farm who is not just a gardener but a chef who is going to share their garden journey from restaurants to organic farming and more! Sorry folks show notes to be completed in the future! Enjoy the audio! Rockstar Millennials Confluence Farm is an organic vegetable and flower farm located in Sebastopol, CA along the picturesque Green Valley & Purrington creeks. Julia and Andy are chefs turned farmers who truly understand high quality products and making people happy. We focus on generating the healthiest soil we can in order to grow the most nutrient dense and healthy vegetables possible. A confluence is when two entities come together, be it water or people. Our food and flowers bring people together, whether it be at on our farm, self grown and catered events, or nurturing our own community and family through markets. Our motto is “Come Together, Eat Well”. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Julia I own a 3 acre