Homesteading Off The Grid.Join Aurora Rogers and Greg for a lively conversation about resiliency, home steading, low grid and becoming financially free.  Aurora is a Venezuelan designer and process consultant devoted to creating resilient frameworks for every area of her life. Her  usband of 24 years is Jason, who is an American engineer devoted to creating effective systems for growing food, generating fuel, and building sustainable homes. Aurora believes that the currency of the future are heirloom seeds and resilient living skills. Aurora Rogers and her husband, Jason founded Producing Freedom Academy for families and broadcast their Resilient Pioneer Podcast Livestream on Youtube where they interview their favorite experts and talk about off grid survival, primitive homesteading, and other related topics which encourage their audience to create healthy and vibrant ecosystems. Visit https://www.urbanfarm.org/2023/04/07/732-aurora-rogers/ for show notes and links.Aurora Rogers on Resilient Pioneering

732: Aurora Rogers on Resilient Pioneering

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812:  Seed Borne DiseasesA chat with an expert on seeds.In This Seed Chat:This is the April 2024 Seed Chat - Seed-borne diseases quietly jeopardize the vitality of crops, as seeds unwittingly harbor microscopic threats like fungi, bacteria, and pests. Bill and Greg will help you identify these pesky pests and guide you through the measures to screen for disease-resistant seeds to thwart these covert adversaries.  Visit www.urbanfarm.org/812-seed for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! What is the Seed Chat? At least ten times a year we have a live Seed Saving Class with Bill McDorman, the former Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho.  He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013.  Come join us for the next live class, or catch up on our previous classes through our podcast episodes.  Either way you will expand your seed knowledge and gain new perspectives on your food system. Register anytime for the next event.Register Here for the Monthly Seed Saving Class with Live Q&A;
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812: Seed Borne Diseases - A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman

811: All about Keeping Honeybees with Cricket Alderidge UngvaryA Rosie On The House Radio Show Replay In This Podcast:  Ever thought about keeping honeybees? It's a process and it's something we need to learn if you're gonna take it on and that's exactly what we're talking about today. Join our our monthly radio show called Rosie On The House in Phoenix, Arizona as we discuss with Cricket what it takes to keep honeybees; and oh yeah, what is mead. Our Guest: Today we have Cricket Aldridge Ungvary to talk about her experience with suburban homesteading in the desert. Cricket is a natural homesteader growing up in rural Idaho with a garden, a horse, and lots of home canned food. She brings those sensibilities to her farm in North Phoenix. Cricket adds a little dose of cottage garden flavor and permaculture tendencies, and you'll see why her blog, BloomingAZ. com, is a reflection of everything she does. Cricket is a longtime beekeeper, brought in to this new life skill by wanting to know more about making mead. Now she runs a farm called Blooming Ranch and teaches people every day about bees, chickens, and more. Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/811-Rosie for the show notes and links on this episode!Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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811: All About Keeping Honeybees  - a Rosie Replay

810: Randy Ritchie on Why Gardening Must Change.Helping gardeners weed out toxins from their gardens. In This Podcast:    Randy transitioned from landscaper to biodynamic farmer, along the way he discovered biodynamic compost and its incredible transformative impact on growing food.  Join us as we explore the principles of regenerative agriculture, the importance of creating insectaries and promoting biodiversity.  Along his journey he founded Malibu Compost whuch serves as a guide for individuals looking to create thriving, sustainable ecosystems in their own gardens and communities. Our Guest: Randy lives happily with his wife on their urban farm nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California and graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu. Randy is a Christian, a father of three, entrepreneur, disruptor, screenwriter, author, garden lecturer, eco-landscaper, organic farmer, podcast host and the founder of Malibu Compost and Number 2 Organics. He loves gardening, surfing, great music, healthy food, being and staying healthy and telling everyone he can, the truth about real organics and living a healthy lifestyle. Book Recommendation:  Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/RandyRitchie for the show notes and links on this episode! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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810: Randy Ritchie on Why Gardening Must Change

809: Enoch Graham on His Garden Story.Passionate about encouraging others to Garden. In This Podcast:   From houseplants, to a single 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 passion into a weekly YouTube show that inspires many people to grow their own.  Join Greg and Enoch for his very interesting story! Our Guest: Enoch is an small space gardener who has been growing some of his own food for over 12 years in his limited urban space in southern Oregon. By growing so many different varieties of fruits and vegetables he has taken his skills to a new level. So 7 years ago he started sharing his gardening adventures with his viewers on his Youtube channel "the Urban Gardener”. As his passion for growing his own food and gardening grew over the years he never imagined where it would take him. He is constantly surprised by what he gets back by sharing his growing adventure. Book Recommendation:  Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/TheUrbanGardener for the show notes and links on this episode! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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809: Enoch Graham on His Garden Story

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 is an award-winning author, lecturer, master beekeeper and master gardener. After careers in journalism, US Forest Service and US Navy, she’s now chairing an 8-state Midwest partnership to grow beekeeping instructors teaching scientifically-based best management practices.  Her 42-year old, one-acre garden, where her neighbors said nothing would grow, is a Monarch Way Station, Certified Wildlife Habitat and apiary. She featured how she developed Bluebird Gardens in her April 2019TEDx talk “Why Bugs Matter.” 
﻿Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg or choose one of the senior members of our Urban Farm team to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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732: Aurora Rogers on Resilient Pioneering

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