Today we meet Jordan Mara of Mind and Soil. He will discuss his company mission, how gardening can be one of the best activities for our mental health, some of the research into specific soil microbes that help our brains and so much more. This is a very exciting and inspiring episode, and Jordan shares about following his bliss to start Mind and S…

This is the second part of the interview with Judy Fitzpatrick of Microbiometer. Today we deep dive into microbiology and the workings of the microbial marketplace. We discuss the current state of research, the balance between competition and cooperation of soil microbes, and the environmental influences on these microbes. Then we discuss what some…

Today we meet Judy Fitzpatrick, cofounder of Microbiometer. The first few minutes of this episode, Judy shares her back story, her history in medical diagnostics and then about cofounding soil microbial biomass measurement company, Microbiometer. Judy shares about the distinctions of different available types of soil testing on the market, which is…

Today we meet Leo Horrigan, a documentary filmmaker with the Center for a Livable Future at John’s Hopkins University. He is helping us understand the food system from farming to food access, and creating educational programs around their research. We learn the five most important components to look at as we repair our food system. Leo shares about…

Today we meet Hunter Buffington, Executive Director of the Hemp Feed Coalition. We talk hemp as an animal feed, why it isn’t legal for animal feed yet, some of the roadblocks in the US and Canada, and how the Hemp Feed Coalition is working to change this. Then Hunter shares details about cannabis plant byproducts, many of these potentially being an…

This is the second half of the interview with Nina Folch of Compost Santo. She shares about why she likes composting in the winter, how she looks at microbes in the microscope, and some of the realities of running a Soil Food Web Lab as a career. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/get-in-my-garden-podcast/message…

Today we meet Nina Folch of Compost Santo located in Northern New Mexico. She is a student of the work of Dr. Elaine Ingham and others, and I’m so grateful to her for sharing so openly about the composting business she manages, the things she most loves about this work, and some of the challenges they have faced while the business has grown over th…

I’ve been wanting to have an show for a while about the benefits of getting children back into nature. I recently read, Last Child In the Woods, now a classic book from 15 years ago about nature-deficit in children. If you have younger kids in your life, today’s interview is with Jenny Bailey co-creator and author of a new book series for younger c…

This is Episode 75 with John Craig the master composter who runs grassroots nonprofit, We Compost, located inside the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park at Irvine, California. John tells us how to get started in composting, some basic methods to try, and some of the experiments they are doing with worms and composting at the Farm and Food Lab. The…

Today we learn from Tom Marrero of Wakefield BioChar. He shares the background and history of biochar, plus the research and background that led him to start his family business. For those of you excited for a composting specific episode again, I promise that will come soon. So what exactly is biochar, what can it do and what can it not do? Tom tel…

Today Jennifer Lauruol will tell us about the ecologically-minded area of Lancaster England where she lives and some of the community and research programs they have there around sustainability and food security. She talks about how she markets herself as an edible landscape designer, helping to restore spaces with native plants using permaculture …

You are listening to Episode 72 of the Get In My Garden Podcast. Woniya was runner up on the survivalist show Alone, Season 6, where she survived two and a half months in the far northern region of Canada. Today she shares her ideas for how to foster the right mindset and have a high chance to surviving in any environmental conditions, some simple …

Today we meet my new friend Kyle Perry, second generation horticulturist and regenerative farmer based in Tennessee. We discuss his two new businesses, Beer Kashi and Native Soil Company and learn about the double fermented kashi he is created from spent brewery grain. Then we talk about his fungal dominant soil product he has created and the aweso…

Today we meet Elton Ray James, cannabis grower and lifelong mushroom activist, co-creator with his wife of the largest mushroom growing group on Facebook. He shares how he ended up developing a cannabis business with a California micro business license and what that can mean for growers getting into the industry. Then Elton discusses how mushrooms …

This is Part 2 of my chat with natural farmer and community activist Marco Thomas in Petersburg, Virginia. We talk more about the IMO solutions, Korean Natural Farming principles and building up the farmers market culture in his city. His mission is to share with his community and teach them that it is possible to feed a family low-cost, nutritious…

Today we learn more about Korean Natural Farming and making indigineous microorganism solution from Marco Thomas an urban gardener and natural farmer based in Virginia. His mission is to share with his community and teach them that it is possible to feed a family low-cost, nutritious food off a small piece of urban land. This interview will be publ…

We are back with William Padilla-Brown discussing how to grow mushrooms in a hugelkultur mound, how a myco-focused permaculture lifestyle has benefitted his young son, and then he shares some of the most interesting things he is working on right now such as mushroom breeding for traits and understanding their DNA. William is a great example of a su…

This is the third segment with Casey Ernst and Keisha Wheeler of Catalyst BioAmendments, a composting and soil company they run with business partners, Zach Ellis and Gregory Munn in Northern California. You can follow their adventure on instagram @catalyst_microbe_adventure, and you can follow mine @getinmygarden. If you want to hear more from the…

This is Episode #65 of the Get In My Garden Podcast, and today we are back with Steve Abbott of Abbott’s Family Farm discussing considerations when getting started as a market gardener and how to bootstrap your way to profits. Steve shares what he has learned about the importance of building relationships at the farmers market and building your loy…

This is Episode #64, and today we’re back with William Padilla-Brown who was on the podcast last year sharing about edible algae, and today he shares about how he has set up his new hugelkultur mounds for gardening and what he is planning for a new spiralina pond. He shares some more details about how he is successfully growing, testing and harvest…

Today we learn about the Soil Food Web, what exactly it is and then we explore some of the basics of fungi in the environment and how plants interact with them. We talk with Casey Ernst and Keisha Wheeler of Catalyst BioAmendments, a composting and soil company they run with business partners, Zach Ellis and Gregory Munn in Northern California. Fol…

Today we connect with Steve Abbott of Abbott’s Family Farm in Sumner, Maine. He is successful market gardener and farmers market organizer and has lots of great information to share about successfully running a farmers market business, farming only a small piece of land. We will dive into the most critical components of making a market gardening bu…

Hi everyone, The is the Get in My Garden Podcast. I hope you are all safe and happy and making the best of your at-home time! This is episode #61, and we meet Keisha Wheeler of Catalyst BioAmendments, a composting and soil company she runs with her business partners Casey Ernst, Zach Ellis and Gregory Munn in Northern California. Follow their adven…

Today we meet Elizabeth Lake, a long-time supporter of the podcast and local beekeeper and pollinator activist.She talks about her adventures in beekeeping, her local activism and building a community around her interests.Then she gives a breakdown of different types of bees and her learnings about native bees who are most hard to observer and rese…

Today we meet entomologist, researcher and author Douglas Tallamy. the book is called, Nature’s Best Hope, a new approach to conservation that starts in your yard.He shares about plant and insect interactions, ornamentals and how they are affecting the local food webs, and his ongoing research on invasive plants.Then Douglas gives a directive for c…

This is Episode 58 of the Get In My Garden Podcast, and we are back with Wyatt Bryson of Jewels of the Forest, makers of mushroom jerky.Wyatt is also an educator and researcher via his company Mycolab Solutions and has over 15 thousand subscribers on his youtube station, where he share the methods and strategies of growing mushrooms.He updates us o…

Today we have back Dan Long, Georgia Beekeeper discussing the life of bees and beekeeping in the winter. Dan covers shares some details about native bees and their lifecycles which are very different from honey bees,He tells us about what beekeepers can do for honeybees in years of shortage or if honey has been over harvested, and the number one th…

Today we are back with Sara Schuster of the Tending Seeds podcast sharing about fire cider, fermenting, foraging and preservation as we approach winter.She updates us on her projects, how her podcast and herbalism businesses are evolving, and how she is building a community to sustain her homestead and teaching lifestyle.Sara tells us what she has …

Today we meet Sebring Frehner of Sebring Seeds.He covers a lot of interest subjects such as microdosing cannabis,the soil science behind cannabis growing, and some of the newest products related to this.We learn about the nutrient cycling advantage of living organic growing systems and the process of breeding high CBD cannabis strains.He shares how…

Episode #54, Integrated Pest Management and Career Opportunities in Entomology with Amanda Skidmore by Aaron Moskowitz, Interviewing the brightest minds in Mycology, Soil Science, Natural and Agricultural Ecology, Technology and EcoBusinesses.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/get-in-my-garden-podcast/message…

This is the second of a series we will be doing on Korean Natural Farming this year with Eric Weinert, and more episodes will be up over the next couple months intermittently with other content. Eric is currently heading back to Korea, and we will learn more from him when he returns soon. He is Korean Natural Farming expert, author and natural farm…

Today we catch up with Eric Weinert who was on the podcast about a year ago. He is a Korean Natural Farming expert, author, and natural farming activist based out of Hawaii.He reviews the KNF philosophy, how to stimulate and grow indigenous microorganism in your own soil, and we go over the vital solutions that are cheaply and easily made in any en…

A couple months ago during my greenhouse visit at Growing Opportunities Hydroponics Farm, I learned about a new technology company, UbiQD (pronounced like ubiquity) with an amazing new product that greatly increases greenhouse yields. Since they are located about 30 minutes from Santa Fe where I live, I reached out to them to set up a little tour a…

Today we meet a local backyard homesteader who shares his wisdom with us from over 10 years of natural farming in downtown Albuquerque. Sam Lopez has created an amazing and flourishing oasis in this desert city.In our chat, we cover a lot of ground such as keeping laying hens and rabbits in your back yard, raised bed gardens, composting systems, a …

Today we meet Ed Williams, creator of the LEHR garden. LEHR is an acronym for the system he has created that includes elements of aquaponics, hugelkultur, composting, mushrooms, the soil food web and basically as many natural components as possible; he is an engineer after all! Ed is very interesting to listen to as he describes his backyard system…

Today we meet mushroom educator and entrepreneur Wyatt Bryon. He talks about the development of his fungi-focused businesses, the opportunities that currently exist in the mushroom-related market, how he is preserving knowledge and research for future generations, and how he is incrementally moving towards zero waste within his business.Wyatt talks…

This week I had the great pleasure of visiting with Kim Martin of Growing Opportunities Inc, a hydroponic farm focussed on tomatoes, located in Alcalde, New Mexico, about 30 minutes north of Santa Fe. Their business have been in operation for 20 years as hydroponic greenhouses, and they are now one of the largest in Northern New Mexic selling vine-…

Today we learn from landscape designer and consultant Pete Widin some of his principles of plant selection for an edible landscape beyond just the aesthetic, and his system of working with clients and implementing his version of edible meets native landscape design.We discuss ground cover options that are edible or herbal, research that’s going on …

Today we chat with Larry Hountz from City Hydro in Baltimore. He has a great story of starting out and created a business growing micro greens. He has looking at the economics of it while learning about what works and what doesn’t work for small indoor farmers. If you want to go to market with your produce or are curious about creating a local indo…

Today we visit with Sara Schuster who is an herbalist, homesteader and fellow podcaster based in Tennessee. Her podcast is called, Tending Seeds, Adventures in Homesteading and Herbalism.We discuss southern homesteading, how to get more involved with herbalism, foraging for herbs in your area even if you’re in a large city, planting in the woods to…

Today we have a very special guest, speaker, writer, entrepreneur, citizen scientist, mycologist and so much more, William Padilla-Brown. He is a Contributing Editor for Fungi Magazine, and today we discuss his work with algae, and the five algae species that are most promising for cultivation and economic feasibility.William talks about algae and …

Kim Sorvig, author of Sustainable Landscape Construction, A Guide to Green Building Outdoors catches us up with what’s going on with the sustainable landscape construction an design industry and where things might be moving in the future as we face ecological challenges. This episode was recorded at the Honeymoon Brewery in Santa Fe, New Mexico whe…

Today we have the much anticipated episode with Melanie Kirby who you may have seen on instagram TV or in any of the short videos I shared on social media recently. We met at her land up in the mountain village called Truchas, New Mexico where she and her partner have their mother breeder colonies and sells queens bees from their business Zia Queen…

Dylan Martin is back to discuss some very interesting women involved in mycology today and what they are up to.He mentions his involvement with the Controlled Environment Agriculture Program at the trades and technology program at the Santa Fe Community College, raising money from a mushroom program and all the awesome research and activism project…

Today we learn about observational beehives with Dan Long, Georgia Master Beekeeper, bee hobbyist since 1995, and serious beekeeper since 2011. He is a father of six and lives in Athens, Georgia where he is owner of a nursery specializing in clematis.Dan talks about the different types of observational hives and the people who build these small mov…

This is the second part of the interview with Matt Ladegaard where we talk about the basics of plant breeding and adaptations, seed saving and plant genetics.We also talk about the local food scene here in Santa Fe, New Mexico and how the distribution happens from farm to table.Matt also tells us a bit more about the experience of being a market ga…

Today we have a very special guest, Steve Raisner, of the Growing with Fishes Podcast and the Potent Ponics Youtube station.He is an extremely knowledgable guy and the type of person who is always gaining more knowledge and evolving his practices based on what he learns. he is a legitimate scientist and researcher.We discuss dual root zone planting…

Today we meet Matt Ladegaard, a market gardener, entrepreneur and marketeer, founder of Groundstone Farm in Pojoaque NM, just north of Santa Fe where he sells retail at the Santa Fe Farmers Market and wholesale via Squash Blossom Local Food and La Montanita Coop. He went to school for sustainable agriculture and has worked at several farms around t…

Today we have a very interesting and information-packed episode with Ayla Bystrom-Williams founder of the Honeymoon Brewery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and her partner James Hill, head brewer of Honeymoon Brewery.They tell the origin story of their new brewery that is focussed on alcoholic kombucha brewed in one of the most pristine environments in the…

Today we meet Adrienne Rosenberg, documentarian and Memphis native turned Northern New Mexican. We learn about pollinator insects, creating a pollinator refuge on your land, no matter how small, some of the very interesting history of acequias, the agricultural waterways and the water rights system that the Spaniards brought to New Mexico several h…