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My guest today is Nick Skeadas a Connecticut man who has a business that makes him a living and helps the planet at the same time. Nick manages Curbside Compost, a resource recovery company in Southern Ct. Nick and his wife Erica are raising their two children in Ridgefield, where the family practices thoughtful living. Nick is here because I personally believe that we are not going to get out of many of the environmental problems we face without the help of business.

A continuing conversation with the Vice-President of Novamont N.A.
NOVAMONT is a leader in the world of bioplastics. It promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.

My guest on this episode of Digging in the Dirt is President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Paula J. Ehrlich. The Half-Earth Project's purpose is to inspire informed collective action to save the biosphere.

I have been interested in Black Garlic ever since two fans of DITD Anne and Jim suggested I check out Black Garlic and do a show about it .Then my friend and colleague, the sorely missed Guy Beardsley, gave me two heads of Black garlic when I bought seed garlic from him for my garden a while back and I've been hooked ever since. Now I have finally found someone to talk to about Black Garlic with me. That's why these self described food lovers and Black Garlic makers Kayla Burton and Greg Lesson are here today.

My guests today are Hector Gerado and Liz Guerra owners of SeaMARRON Farmstead near Danbury CT. They have been community and union organizers and They are BIPOC NYers from the Bronx turned #homesteaders #hempfarmers #beekeepers 🐝|| Hosts of the @bluedreamradio_ podcast Liz is also a Full spectrum doula/birth worker

My guest today on Digging in the DIrt is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association Dan Kittridge. Dan has been here many times before . He is a good friend of WPKN and Digging in the Dirt. We talk Bio-nutrious food and the Bionutrient Meter.

My guest today is Zach Loeks author, educator, designer and grower who specializes in edible ecosystems around the world. He is also the director of the ecosystem solution institute and author of the book “The Permaculture Market Garden” and he's here to talk to me about his new book “THE EDIBLE ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION".. Growing Biodiversity in your backyard and beyond.

My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arena. She is here today to talk about her latest book - Rebugging  the Planet - The Remarkable Things that Insects(and Other Invertebrates) Do – and Why we need to love them more. Chelsea Green Publishing

My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success. She was taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative, The Ecotype Project. She is here today to talk about that project as well as the eco59 project.

My guest on this program is Dave Carr Lead organizer for Pollinator Pathways West Haven. The goal of this group is to install native perennial plants while building community and educating people about the importance of pollinators to support insects that also feed migrating birds. The project started in 2019. Dave founded Earth lobbyist.com in 2018. Earth lobbyists is a nonpartisan educational resource containing original writing, original photographs and a virtual Art Gallery which was recently part of the New Haven Open Studios. The goal of Earth lobbyist.com is to engage climate change deniers where they live.