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The 4 principles of soil health is this week’s Backyard Bounty podcast topic as we join Nicole as she talks with Tony, Farm Manager at the Columbia Center or Urban Agriculture

What You’ll Learn

• The 4 principles of soil health and how to apply them to your soil
• Why to use cover crops
• How and why to minimize soil disturbance
• Some great ideas for tools you may want to add to you tool shed
• How to reduce the time that soil is left bare
• Using transplanting as a benefit to soil health
• How soil testing and mineral prescriptions can help your soil

Our Guest

As the Urban Farm Manager for CCUA, Tony oversees the day-to-day growing operations for CCUa’s Planting for the Pantry program. He is engaged in facilitating volunteers, Americorps service members, and staff toward seeing their crop plan through to ensure that the freshest, tastiest, most exciting vegetables are grown for local consumption where it’s most needed.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Columbia Center or Urban Agriculture website, Faceboook, Youtube and Instagram
• Market Farming with Rotations and Cover Crops: An Organic Bio-Extensive System – The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture

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This week on Backyard Bounty podcast we Nicole talks with Greg from UrbanFarm.org about fixing the broken food system in our backyard.

What You’ll Learn

• Why fixing the broken food system in your backyard is important
• Ideas on how to urban garden within an HOA area
• How to get started with permaculture even in a small area

Our Guest

Greg Peterson is passionate and driven with his mission in life is being fuelled by the idea that “I am the person on the planet repsonsible for transforming our food system.”

Greg is the founder of The Urban Farm where on the website you will find free and paid courses, classes, and podcasts, that will help you gain the understanding, the confidence, and the inspiration to grow your own food. We have included links in the show notes below to The Urban Farm website and podcast.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Urban Farm Website, Podcast, Instagram, Facebook page and email [email protected]
• Other resources mentioned by Greg Monthly Garden Chat , HealthySoilHacked.com
• Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison
• Permaculture Manual – Bill Mollison
• The Edible Ecosystem Solution: Growing Biodiversity in Your Backyard and Beyond – Zach Loeks

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Learn some great tips for raising ducks in your backyard on this week’s Backyard Bounty podcast. We join Nicole as she chats with Liz from The Cape Coop.

What You’ll Learn

• Common beginner mistakes and how to avoid them
• What to feed duckings
• Integrating new birds into the flock
• What to consider when choosing a mixed or same-sex flock
• What to feed ducklings
• Tips for keep ducks in winter
• Advantages of selling duck eggs

Our Guest

Liz is a backyard farmer in Massachusetts and began her backyard farm adventure in 2012 with 4 chickens. At the time she thought that would be the extent of the “farm”, fast forward 9 years and she now has 21 chickens, 11 ducks, 3 rabbits, 3 alpacas a large garden and has moved to a different house with more land and a huge barn!

Liz encourages everyone to give backyard farming a try, from apartment dwellers growing tomatoes on a balcony to people with a little more room that want to get into keeping livestock. Starting without any special training, just a love of animals and a desire to provide some of her food, she believes if she can grow a backyard farm, anyone can! She is also a strong advocate of finding community and support which is vital to success when you start out. Liz loves to add to that community with her farm blog, where you can find tips for raising ducks, and much more!

Liz also runs a soap business at the farm where she makes artisan soaps & spa products. Check out the links in the resources section below for more info.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• The Cape Coop Website, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Liz’s DIY Blog
• Chicken nipple waterers
• First Saturday Lime

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This week on Backyard Bounty podcast we join Nicole as she shares 7 top tips for raising backyard chickens from some of her most loved podcasts

What You’ll Learn

• How to raise a large flock of chickens on pasture
• The dangers of heat lamps and safe alternatives
• How to use essential oils with chickens
• The basics of fermenting chicken feed
• Top tips for building the perfect chicken coop
• How to keep chickens safe from predators
• How to get started raising chickens

Our Guest

Nicole is a Colorado native and an outdoor enthusiast. A retired firefighter and paramedic, Heritage Acres Market and her family are now her main focus. When not working on the farm, she enjoys creating new content for the blog and recording new episodes of the Backyard Bounty Podcast.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• How to raise chickens on pasture (Will Vogl)
• Dangers of heat lamps (Brad Davidson)
• Essential oils for chickens (Kerrie Hubbard)
• Fermenting chicken feed (Scratch & Peck Feeds)
• Key features of coops (Carolina Coops)
• Prevention and management of predators (Dr. Matt Springer)
• How to raise chickens (Annette of Azure Farm)

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Periodical Cicadas are this week’s Backyard Bounty podcast topic as we join Nicole as she talks with Gene Kritsky

What You’ll Learn

• What are the different types of Cicada?
• What is the life cycle of a periodical cicada?
• What role cicadas play in the environment
• Where and when do cicadas emerge.
• How you can help map the 2021 emergence of the periodical cicada Brood X. 

Our Guest

Gene Kritsky, PhD is Professor of Biology and Dean of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. He is a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his BA in Biology from Indiana University in 1974, and his MS and PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 1976 and 1977 respectively.

Gene lives with his wife, the artist Jessee Smith, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Cicada Safari – download the free app from the Apple app store or Google play
• Cicada safari website
• Gene’s website
• *Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition book
• Cicada jewelry made by Genes wife,

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Plant Pathology and powdery mildew is this week’s Backyard Bounty podcast topic as we join Nicole as she talks with plant pathologist David Gadoury.

What You’ll Learn

• What is Plant Pathology and what do they do?
• How work in plant pathology helped with the control of grapevine powdery mildew
• Learn how to combat plant pathogens in a backyard environment
• What are the different types of plant pathogens and how they affect the plants they infect
• Learn how to become a plant pathologist, including where to find paid internships!

Our Guest

David Gadoury is a Plant Pathologist at Cornell University specializing in epidemiology and pathogen ecology. His specialty means he tries to learn as much as he can about how pathogen populations cause disease and then use that information to design better ways to control them.

David also hosts a podcast called Plantopia for The American Phytopathological Society, which deals with how plant pathogens affect our everyday lives.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• American Phytopathological Society website
• Plantopia Podcast
• APS Bookstore

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In this episode of Backyard Bounty podcast we explore the incredible world of the food soil web with Nicole and her guest Dr. Elaine Ingham.

What You’ll Learn

• How and why Dr. Elaine became fascinated with the soil food web.
• What is the Soil Food Web
• Why the Soil Food Web is vital
• How to turn dead dirt into healthy living soil
• How healthy, living soil can lower our carbon footprint and increase the quality of produce, which in turn improves human health

Our Guest

Dr. Ingham uncovered the Soil Food Web nearly four decades ago and has been pioneering research about Soil Food Web ever since.

Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their communities back to life.

Dr Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on more than five million acres of farmland all over the world. The courses offered by Dr Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with, or without, a science background – making them accessible to individuals who wish to learn and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• *Soil Food website / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube
• FREE- Click here to learn more about how the Soil Food Web works

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• How do pesticides affect honey bees?
• Why corn planting can lead to Honey Bee deaths
• What is being done to reduce Honey Bee death from pesticides

• Ohio State University Department of Entomology Website,
• Ohio State University Bee Lab Website

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 Heather from Herbal Academy joins Nicole to discuss herbalism basics for humans and animals in this episode Backyard Bounty podcast.

What You’ll Learn

• Where can you find research on various herbs in the Herbal Academy* platform
• Which herbs beginners should focus on
• What space you will need to get started growing herbs
• How to preserve your herbs

Our Guest
Heather is a clinical herbalist, While she was learning her craft she made her living in or around farms and horticulture, or allied with naturopathic medicine in a rural community.

Herbal Academy is founded by Marlene Adelmann who came to learn about herbalism after using herbs in a culinary way and after studying and practicing herbalism joined herbalists with many different talents to build a school that could reach more people.

The Herbal Academy has become a wildly popular program with participants worldwide. Courses are aimed at both brand new herb learners as well as those who are becoming more advanced or starting a business.

Offering various programs The Herbal Academy* caters to those who wish to be in an online community, or for those who prefer self-study only or want to pick and choose from the content, The Herbarium is also available with many participants doing both a course and subscribing to The Herbarium.

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Herbal Academy Website*, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest
• VIVOHOME Electric 400W 8 Trays Food Dehydrator Machine with Digital Timer and Temperature Control*
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

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