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Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We'll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opp ...
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809: Enoch Graham on His Garden Story. Passionate about encouraging others to Garden. In This Podcast: From houseplants, to a single cucumber plant that actually makes a cucumber to growing groceries on your carport roof and having the police come and investigate what you are growing...wink, wink. He wasn't, he was growing groceries and turned his …
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808: How to Help Pollinators A Garden Chat with Charlotte Wiggins. In This Garden Chat: Ever wonder about pollinators and their impact on our environment? Why are they important and how do they impact the environment around us? Join us as we chat with Charlotte Wiggins and explore all things pollinator!. Our Special Guest: Charlotte Ekker Wiggins i…
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807: Seeds, Are They Dead or Alive? A chat with an expert on seeds. In This Seed Chat: This is the March 2024 Seed Chat - Don’t throw away seeds collected for years. Do a germ test. Germination testing is a vital step to ensure seed viability before planting. We will talk about the process and show you how to determine the ratio of successful germi…
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806: The Rogue Food Conference with Joel Salatin and John Moody Showcasing those who are making a difference in our food systems. In This Podcast: The Rogue Food Conference" is an annual gathering of innovative thinkers and passionate advocates who are challenging the status quo of the food industry. Hosted by Joel Salatin and John Moody, this conf…
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805: Jennifer Jewell on the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds. Saving an iconic resource almost lost to history. In This Podcast: We chat with Jennifer Jewell on her journey discovering the significance of seeds. She shared "that my tiny life will end and I will have spent a lot of hot air talking to gardeners, but the seeds a…
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804: Janis and Ray on Journaling a New Habit A Rosie On The House Radio Show Replay In This Podcast: Janis Norton and Ray Jess join us for our monthly Rosie on the House Radio hour talking about journaling for gardens and orchards. Our Guests: Janis Norton is the General Manager at The Urban Farm, where she manages several major projects including …
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803: Joe Villines on Reviving a 123-Year Old Farm Living a Dream. In This Podcast: We speak with Joe Villines about his history as a media person in the Army and how it has impacted the process of rebuilding the 123-year old farm he and his family purchased. Our Guest: Joe is a father, husband, US Army veteran and co-owner of ‘HalfAcre Farms at Arm…
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802: All About Chickens, Goats, and Sheep A Garden Chat with Judith Horvath. In This Garden Chat: Judith joins our Garden Chat and she shares the ins and outs of getting into raising small backyard animals. This includes goats, sheep, and chickens. In this Chat, we explore the pitfalls associated with having small animals and how to avoid them. Our…
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801: Flower Parts for Dummies. A chat with an expert on seeds. In This Seed Chat: This is the February 2024 Seed Chat - Bill McDorman and Greg Peterson simplify the intricate world of flower anatomy into digestible insights for any level of gardener. Emphasizing the relevance of understanding flower parts, the duo investigates flowers, and fruits, …
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800: Robbie Shaw on American Chestnut Blight and Rescue. Saving an iconic resource almost lost to history. In This Podcast: What if you discovered a long lost tree, one that there used to be billions of two centuries ago, but are now functionally extinct? Today's guest found one and rather than do nothing, she wrote a book about their story. Join R…
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799: Prepping Soil for New Gardens A Rosie On The House Radio Show Replay In This Podcast: Soil the most important thing you can be investing in for your garden. Made up of 5 components and if all you have is the dirt component your chances of success are low. Invest the time to learn then invest in soil. This is our Rosie on the House segment with…
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798: Cami Prada on Being a Beginning Farmer A Journey to a more fulfilling lifestyle. In This Podcast: What if it was time for you to leave your corporate life and jump into a life of farming? Well that is exactly what Cami Prada did. She left her life in Miami to start anew in a small town in North Carolina. Now she works at a farm that has an hon…
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794: John Collet on Growing From Home Gardener to Market Gardener Encouraging people to grow food and sell their extra produce at a farmers market In This Podcast: John Collet is a long distance runner that decided after a lifetime of hobby gardening to jump all in to market gardening, without knowing he was doing it. After successfully growing a t…
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796: Rebecca Newburn on Documenting Seed Libraries Connecting Seed Communities Worldwide. In This Podcast: Join Rebecca Newburn as she shares just what a seed library is and her organizations efforts to document where they are. They have had incredible success in first encouraging people to start seed libraries and now to document their world wide …
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795: William Horvath on Permaculture Farming in Croatia Encouraging and assisting aspiring permaculturists In This Podcast: Join William as he shares his story of growing up in war torn Croatia in the early 1990's then exploring Australia and discovering permaculture first hand from David Holmgren. And finally he tells how he returned home to start…
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794: Kristin Parsons on Guilds A Rosie On The House Radio Show Replay In This Podcast: Kristin Parsons joined us for our monthly Rosie on the House Radio hour talking about plant guilds. What is a guild you say? It is a beneficial collection of purposely planted plants that self generate in the future. Ya know kinda like nature does. She also share…
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793: Lee Reich on Growing and Pruning Fruit Trees Teaching us about where to cut and trim our orchard trees In This Podcast: Lee Reich joins us to share his multi decade journey from perpetual college student to author and fruit tree grower. Lee shares his incredible journey from a chance meeting with Elliot Coleman to his present farmden and beyon…
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792: Bryce and Brita Lundberg on Growing Organic Rice Continuing a multi-generational practice of regenerative organic farming. In This Podcast: Brita and Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms join us to share their four-generation family journey into Regenerative Organic farming. It is an amazing story that started in the great American dust bow…
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791: Jeff Robinson on Grow a Lot with Little Space Growing way more food than one could eat by oneself. In This Podcast: Join us in a conversation with Jeff Robinson about how he grew from a environmental science professional into a professional farmer. In a quarter acre of land and with a little planning he is growing and processing strawberries, …
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790: Tom Spellman on Best Fruit Tree Pruning Practices. Keeping fruit trees manageable for typical backyards. In This Podcast: What are the best practices for growing fruit trees in our front and back yards. It is not the way fruit trees are grown in orchards. So then what? Join Greg, and Janis as we chat with Tom Spellman from Dave Wilson Nursery …
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784: Wildflower Seed Chat. A chat with an expert on seeds. In This Seed Chat: This is the December 2023 Seed Chat - Who doesn't love wildflowers? Contrary to popular belief, you don't toss wildflowers on your land and hope that they grow. Like most crops, they need special tending to get them started. If you're really daring, you might mimic the pa…
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788: It’s Not Too Late to Plant Your Fruit Trees A Rosie on The House Radio Show Replay "Rosie on the House is a father and son weekly radio show on home-improvement advice that is found on several key Arizona radio stations. It is a trusted source of home-improvement advice and know-how. Rosie and Romey Romero consider that an honor and a responsi…
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787: Paul Wheaton on Horticultural Techniques. Teaching an effective way to build hügelkultur gardens. In This Podcast: In this episode we talk to Paul about what is and what isn't hügelkultur. Greg was pretty sure he knew going in what and how to and was really surprised that he was way off base. Join us as we discover how to build our own 7 foot …
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786: Judith Horvath on A Resilient Food Supply Chain. Helping small farmers get started successfully. In This Podcast: Twenty years ago, driven by her children's allergies, Judith unknowingly started homesteading—ripping up her lawn to grow clean produce. This journey expanded to a farm. After eight years of a corporate-farming double life, the pan…
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785: Vermicomposting A Garden Chat with Enoch Graham. In This Garden Chat: Vermicomposting is an incredibly useful gardening skill that converts kitchen scraps and garden waste into gardener's gold. Join us as we chat with our good friend Enoch Graham to discuss the process that most any gardener can do in their own space. Our Special Guest: Enoch …
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