Farm Answers

John Clendaniel from Delaware State University talks about offering a Farm School program to Nanicoke and Lenape tribes. 

cast.desu.edu [website]

@DSUSmallFarms [Facebook]

Marianne Cufone of Recirculating Farms talks creating food access via urban gardening, hydroponics, and aquaponics, in Louisiana and surrounding states.

recirculatingfarms.org [website]

@RecirculatingFarmsCoalition [Facebook]

@RecircFarms [Instagram]

@RecircFarms [Twitter]

John Munsell from Virginia Tech discusses his program that helps people add value to “goods from the woods,” such as shrubs, mushrooms, and botanicals.

appalachianforestfarmers.org [website]

@AppalachianBeginningForestFarmerCoalition [Facebook]

@AppalachianBeginningForestFarmerCoalition [Facebook Group]

@ForestFarming [YouTube]

Joanna Winkler of Future Harvest discusses a tiered training program for all types of beginning farmers.

futureharvest.org [website]

@FutureHarvest [Facebook]

@FHCASA [Instagram]

@FHCASA [Twitter]

Micaela Colley of Organic Seed Alliance talks about its program that teaches people how to grow seed via on-line, cohort, and mentorship programming.

seedalliance.org [website]

organicseedcommons.org [website]

@OrganicSeedAlliance [Facebook]

@Organic_Seed_Alliance [Instagram]

@Seed_Alliance [Twitter]

Leslie Schaller of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACENet) talks about growing the regional economy in the hills of southern Ohio through a beginning farmer program.

acenetworks.org [website]

@AppalachianCenterforEconomicNetworks [Facebook]

@ACENetAthens [Instagram]

@ACEnetAthens [Twitter]

Rigoberto Delgado of the National Immigrant farming Initiative joins the podcast to talk about his group’s work with Latino farmers.

nationalimmigrantfarminginitiativeinc.org [website]

@NationalImmigrantFarmingInitiative [Facebook]

Frank Taylor and the team from Winston County Self-Help Cooperative is on the podcast to talk about rural America and their efforts to renew it.

www.wcshc.com [website]

@WinstonCountySelfHelpCooperative [Facebook]

Dr. Samuel Scott, Scotty, of the North-South Institute, joins the podcast to discuss risk management for fruit growers in Florida and the Southern U.S.

www.nsied.org [website]

@North-SouthInstituteTrainings [Facebook]

@NorthSouthInstitute_NIS [Instagram]

@NSICEED [Twitter]

Liza Marron of the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition shares how her group created a farm incubator program and farm park in Southern Colorado.

riograndefarmpark.org [website]

@RioGrandeFarmPark [Facebook]

@RioGrandeFarmPark [Instagram]