Meet Tamara Bigelow, Culinary Consultant for brands like Campbell's Soup and Prego Pasta Sauce. In this episode, Tamara shows us how the simplest of herbs and veg, combined with a couple in-season ingredients and pantry staples, can make fabulous, fresh meals.

Today we'll make Kale Salad, Tabouli, Peach Caprese and Tzatziki.

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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Winning the Cuteness Award of the Year, join us as we visit and snuggle with baby goats at The Bubbly Goat farm. They are absolutely adorable and quite naughty too. They will climb all over you- nibbling on your earrings, clothes and shoelaces if you aren't constantly vigilant!

Learn all about what it's like to have a mini goat farm and what it takes to care for these beyond adorable little guys.

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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This is the weekend of all weekends! While Branch Brook Park in Newark is always amazing, this weekend is the Cherry Blossom Festival- all 5300 Japanese Cherry Blossom trees are at their magnificent peak. Pink petal explosions everywhere. DC- don't be jealous.

Then we will discuss the hard-hitting question: With the price of eggs these days, should I get my own chickens??? (Answer: Heck yeah! Just not to save money but for the sheer joy of it!)

Lastly, we touch on listener quesions, these about getting those seeds started for Springtime! It is coming... really...

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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Join me on a trip to one of NJ's famous shopping experiences- Patel Brothers. Lucky for you, I have my friend Shilpa Tikekar as our food guide, sharing her favorite fruits and vegetables from her home country of India. We will be trying all kinds of new fresh produce that you would never see in your typical markets. Learn about "roadside snacks", savory masalas, and Indian dishes that will make you think "yeah, I think I could become a vegetarian!".

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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In this action-packed episode we go into the grow rooms of Fat Caps Gourmet Mushrooms. We learn about a variety of mushrooms from Peter Mahal and what it takes to grow them: hint- no backyard required! 

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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Are you suddenly thinking more about mushrooms lately and seeing mushroom products all over the place?
Are you curious to know more about fabulous fungi; their health benefits, how people are using them as a meat substitute, and why people are putting them... in their chocolate?!
If so, do we have a show for you!

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
Experience it all from a wide range of chicken lovers, veggie enthusiasts and other creative outdoor endeavors.

Just because cold weather is upon us, doesn't mean we must give up our terrace plants! We can overwinter some of the hardy ones, enjoying them year-round, and have them ready for an early Spring debut.
Meet Alex Koslow and Amy Gordon, apartment residents and terrace gardeners, who share their tips and tricks to making seasonal growing into a year-round experience!

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
Experience it all from a wide range of chicken lovers, veggie enthusiasts and other creative outdoor endeavors.

Met one of my favorite people, Silvio Mazzarese, a mushroom hunting guide, jewelry designer and teacher and hobby farmer.
Today we will learn all about caring for sheep, chickens, and guinea fowl. We'll also learn about living in a yurt year-round with your whole family in Northern Vermont. Sooo much to unpack here!

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
Experience it all from a wide range of chicken lovers, veggie enthusiasts and other creative outdoor endeavors.

Ever been to a garlic festival? This was my first time.
Meet really interesting people at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival including:
*Kevin, purveyor of Black Garlic. Learn what black garlic is, how he makes it, and how a robber became Employee #1!   https://www.myonsemiro.com/
*Farmers Lisha & Shawna Lifson of Lifson Garlic Farm.  https://lifsongarlicfarm.square.site/
*Courtney Churchill of the Ulster County Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Master Gardeners group. Gardening help is available for free and they are brilliant!
https://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
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Meet Ryan Sugarman of Sugarman Farm!
Ryan has an incredible personal story of becoming a 20-acre farm owner here in NJ without a high school degree and an uncertain career path ahead of him back in his teens.
Learn from him what it's like to be in charge of 3000 egg laying hens! (Hint: No Thanksgiving Day off for him.)
Listen to the challenges of having to pick veg in the dark of night.

Backyard Chickens! Urban Farming! Really cool community gardens, backyard plots and actual farms!
Experience it all from a wide range of chicken lovers, veggie enthusiasts and other creative outdoor endeavors.