Oct 29, 2019
This week on the podcast I interview Alex Mackay-Smith of Juniper Farm in Wakefield, Quebec. He and his wife Juniper Turgeon have been farming organically and biodynamically for over ten years and serve their community by growing vegetables, fruit, meat, and eggs. They sell through multiple venues, have a fermented...
Oct 22, 2019
Today's guests on the show are Cara Fraver and Caitlin Arnold from the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC). We talk about the different services and resources that they offer young farmers, including policy work, business resources, a national network of local chapters and how you can benefit from those. We also...
Oct 17, 2019
We've got a bonus episode for you this week! This is a follow-up to Episode 38 with Adam Turtle (who has been growing bamboo for decades and started a bamboo nursery in Tennessee). In this episode, I talk to Roseann Classic who is a rep for a bamboo company that partners with farmers to grow bamboo in Europe, China, and...
Oct 15, 2019
This week, I talk to Adam Turtle, an 80-year-old scholar and researcher who has spent much of his life, researching a lot of rare plants in the US that can be used for regenerative purposes. We spend a lot of this episode is discussing bamboo. We talked about his Research Farm that has over 300 varieties of bamboo,...
Oct 8, 2019
In this episode, I talk to Jonathan Bruderlein who started
farming with horses, then took a break to spend a couple of years
traveling to farms around the US and Canada and is now back in
Quebec to start version 2.0 of his farm.
You'll also hear about:
>> How Jonathan managed field cultivation with horses
>> How...