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Tell us a little about yourself.

In Denver CO, one of a big family

I’m 59 years old

we were nature kids

IDK if they understand that they are nature kids

being one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a day

climbing trees

digging holes in the backyard

At age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollar

He was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I’m such a nerd! and I’m on my 5th grade. I ask him

what are you doing?

why are you focused so much on this?

I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I’m talking to people at the oil company.

I thought the adults have it under control

first earth day was in 1970

10% of the population

it was really started as a teach in

series of teach in

people just get together and talk to each other

what do you feel like is important

what do I feel is important 

and what do we need to make the environment personal to them

working on projects together

demanded the government change them?

That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixon

started the EPA

clean air act

clean water act

I thought great we got this thing together!

1978 President Carter came to colorado

opened the solar energy institute

I went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don’t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don’t have it under control

got into engineering

my way to make a big impact

results weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expected

no culture around it we just did projects and left

we didn’t ever deal with the people

I wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my own

spending up a lot of effort and not having much impact. 

I ended up in Longmont

became a non-profit

in less then 2 years

I don’t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That's sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results!

We’re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be:

start a TEAMclimate action

grow more food

do recycling in your kids school or start a community garden

bike share

make a huge impact

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That's how near and dear to my heart this is, and do you know the senator who got that started is a play I have about Senator Gaylord Nelson. The play is about this little Bear Sally Bear who is upset about not having anything for earth day prepared and her bother billy bear is like why do we celebrate earth day anyway and she explains everything you just said and the other is the Turtle Mishap about a turtle stuck in a six-pack holder.

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This is so exciting I haven't met a lot of earth day nuts like me.

that was a long answer

doing so much already

One of the big things that changed things in Longmont was having an earth day festival

What was so weird for me was, as an engineer, the biggest thing I had ever organized was a family birthday party we ended up with this fairgrounds space and it was like 10 times bigger then we wanted, but the deposit...

So I just did an interview with the amazing Diane Belzak at the National Garden Bureau who has the most awesome mission and sent me an email about building Victory Gardens and so I wanted to share this update with you and my recipe for Carrot Soup. What are you cooking during this crazy time of quarantine?

Mike planting carrots seeds: One every half inch and then thin... (https://youtu.be/bVeLoHnrGXA)

https://youtu.be/bVeLoHnrGXA

Carrot SoupSaute some garlic or onions... add a bit of red pepper chopped up (like a sweet red pepper from the grocery store, not hot red pepper seeds)

add carrots cleaned (and peeled if you like) and cut into pieces. I added a bag of small carrots from school, but I would say about a 2lb bag full?

add some water to just about covering the carrots and let simmer for about 15-20 minutes.

Add some chopped kale at the end with the ribs cut off.

I forgot the Peanut Butter!!! and the COCONUT MILK!!!! First I blended the coconut milk in the food processor before adding the cooked ingredients to the food processor.

I think I added some spices like curry, nutmeg, and turmeric.

Take the thick mixture and pulse in food processor. Save the liquid.

When reheating add a little mixture of the broth to make a soup consistency and add a dollop of yogurt and chopped cilantro. OH So good. Serve with a slice of Mike's homemade whole wheat bread and ummm emm good!

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National Garden Bureau (https://ngb.org/) It’s hard to keep up. Our role isn’t answers its information and inspiration so that’s what we’re trying to do!

Well, all sorts of people have been asking me about victory gardens so I am so excited I saw your email and here you are already! It's Friday, March 27, 2020 and we are right in the middle of the Great CoronaVirus Pandemic and here is: 

Diane Blazek from the (https://ngb.org/)

I am very happy to be here, thank you for asking, it's kind of a funny story and don’t we need funny stories at this time? I have been with the organization for 10 years and the organization celebrating our 100th anniversary. 

So as a group, as we were planning for the anniversary we had no idea that this pandemic was going to happen. Last week when we could still go to the office, we were sitting around the office, when we could still go and I looked up on my shelf and I looked up and saw the manual and thought why not roll out what was produced and published

our founder wrote the manual and was part of the whole 

the timing would be right

mr. james burdett

in the 1920s and 30s and 40s by pulling all this information together.

It is a great time in our history. I have been talking to seed suppliers and today a facebook group was looking for someone to go the 65 miles to the local cow dairy for manure. I'm an elementary school teacher and I'm hoping my parents are going to grow some gardens with their students.

Today we just published another blog post, we're working with kidsgardening.org (http://kidsgardening.org) , with 10 ideas to get kids involved. 

I spent like 4 hours yesterday just trying to create a 20 minute math lesson video.

you can get your kids involved in a victory garden. It can be fun for kids to research

1943 or today

2 things to start withyou must know your growing zone (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/)

last frost date

but there are tools online which they dd not have back in 1943 you can enter your zip code into the USDA (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/) and get your zone. There are multiple sites too.

you can enter and using your zone

without knowing those things

what it is to plant

Those are our two tips.

know your zone

know your last frost date.

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the next step is very important for what you grow in your garden. I'm very bad at this part, I'm more of an impulsive buyer.

Do your planning.Make a list of what your family will eat

Think about how much will they consume.

Are you doing this in a community garden? Will you share with other family members or neighbors?

Think about when it will be ready to eat? How much of it will you be able to eat. If there is more then you can reasonably eat what are you going to do with it? Can you can it or freeze or otherwise preserve the extra produce you will have. I can see a produce sharing app etc popping up this year. 

That will carry on to thinking about specific varieties of what you want to grow.

If you are a beginning gardener and you want to grow a tomato that's fine just grow any tomato but as you get more experienced

difference in varieties

amount of space when they grow

some are more unique

color variety

different tasting produce

exactly what you want to put in your garden.

This is so timely, I was just talking with my mom, and her experience with vegetables. My mom has been a gardener forever, and I can't remember a weekend or summer day with her without her pruners in her hand. And she said she

Won't You Be My Neighbor?I’m gonna just gonna hit record ok

OK ~ I’ll deliver!

Here’s a listener and awesome teacher! (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/250-edible-weeds/)

Listen here to my interview with Matt about Edible Weeds (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/250-edible-weeds/) It’s a privilege to be back here, it’s now the second time I have done a podcast like this the first one was with you jackie like 2 years ago.

so many people have listened to your episode before, I think you are even in my organic oasis guidebook where It all about growing chickens in the suburbs, I spent so much time reading it last year and then I haven’t seen it for a year and then I was on someones podcast the other day

how nutritious they are usually people switch off the station not download it so, this is a cool place to be on the fringe organic gardener podcast which you’ve had some pretty bad-a**ed published guests lately.

I think you are just being humble. I know you dropped lots of great golden seeds. But since I did have Melissa Norris and Jeff Ditchfield my numbers have practically double and so there are a lot of new listeners who haven’t heard

I came up with an acronym…. My name is Matt Zoeller, I teach high school, I have a masters in education but all things health and plants, maybe wearing the color green I do wear a lot of green is something I love but it is not academic, I just have an organic interested, I am always reading and listening!

I live right in Denver, in a suburb, in a neighborhood, IDK how big my house is but it’s not big either

we have a good solid amount of garden space

chickens

salvaging wood

raccoon issue

we got 3 more hens

actually 7 chicks

that are 4 weeks old that’s really exciting

the thing I am kind of becoming famous for

love of eating weeds

my analogy

if you were to move into a house

spring rolls around and suddenly

there’s kale everywhere would you walk out and say we didn’t plant this kale we have to dig them all u

hire some ruminant

you would probably eat it because its kale an its health

most of the main ones we hate the most and probably Canadians

a lot are edible and nutrition

we went there

nutrients panicking

what advice would I have for people if the supply runs out

can’t count on my neighbor

you’re like the perfect guy for this

I came up with an acronym

take it or leave it

Compost

Oeuf (french for egg a plug for chickens)

Vegetable

Immune System

Dehydrate

In the spirit of survival

if I had a blog or we making a book

squeezed it into COVID

Chickens or compost -

I think that is annoying

make a big pile

talking kitchen stuff

do something with it

here’s some ideas

burry it

dig a trench slowly

so practical

your mom does it

whenever this comes up

oh my grandma used to do that

IDK what happened to make altho stop

really good for the soil

I have always

most people have a wrong sense of

don’t throw away biodegradable

the way we compost here

with our food scraps is feed to the chickens

I’l say

that’s it letter

let’s move onto the

Oeuf

so a little

you're listeners

no curses here (12:18

make a little plug for chickens

they’re so low maintenance

got chickens for 2 year

more stuff

more space

eat worms

kids love them

our neighbors

yeah

V for veggies

yeah veggies of course

I don;t want any emails

this is me

my ting always my thing

veggies vs fruit

I’ll eat fruit

if we are thinking we’re gonna be indoors

grocery stores are what they are

more bean for my buck

ratio or plants

I hate beets by the way

I have that gene

I can eat almost everything else

beat seems like the solid bet

tomato

maybe spits out a

leafy...

In my recent episode with Ira Wallace she talks about the work Craig LeHoullier does for the

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I am very lucky I have had a hand in reintroducing a couple of hundred different seed catalogs and availability. Kind of turning back the clock.

over 3000 tomato varietiesI’ve been seed saver exchange  (https://www.seedsavers.org/) tomato advisor for over a decade now and it’s been so much fun!

Listen to the whole interview here!

Ira Wallace serves on the board of the (https://www.heritageharvestfestival.com/) , a fun, family-friendly event featuring an old-time seed swap, local food, hands-on workshops, demos, and more. She currently writes about heirloom vegetable varieties for magazines and blogs including Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, and Southern Exposure.

Tell us a little about yourself.

At this trying time, the number of people who started buying seeds this last week, people with children

we homeschooled

to have a homeschool moment everyday

so much math and science

good nutrition and taste for your amid

Mineral, VA

east coast earthquake

epicenter between Charlottes Ville and

(https://www.southernexposure.com/) ,

mid atlantic and southeast

people who have ea. yanking for

With climate change people are growing different things, I've heard of people growing okra here in Montana.Tell me about your first gardening experience?

well, It looks like our internet is a little unstable so that might be a problem but we'll try to keep going

started gardening with my grandmother about 71 years ago

in Tampa Fl

we had a double lot in one of the lots in the town was our big garden

pecan treehot in the summer

summer garden was partially shaded

okra

southern peas

however we had a 3 season garden in terms of the fall, winter spring

turned around from the way that I am used to now

my grandmother who raised me gardening

passed away when I went off with college

motivated me with my student friends to start a garden, it was a pitiful over by the art studios but we thought it was the best garden ever!

(https://www.ncf.edu/) in Sarasota Florida

private college at that time, since it has become the honors college of UFLA system

yeah

so I was lucky that I had been admitted and had a scholarship

when my grandmother passed

How did you learn how to garden organically?

I learned the basics from my grandmother

David Bradshaw

I learned the sensible things from family and back it up from science in collegeI took taxonomy classes

I never thought anyone would make a living out of farming, my grandmother said you garden for yourself, but only rich people can make a living at farming. But we small farmers have proved that to be wrong. I was lucky enough to come up in the florida where I grew up to Carolina, I was lucky of the part of the start of the farmers market

one of the early great farmers markets in north Carolina

same time

work with little kids

before I moved into being a crafts person and professional farmer and seeds person I did a lot of volunteering in botanical gardens and local garden initiatives. Especially with kids. The thing that I did with the North Carolina Botanical Garden was plant rescue of native plants so when they destroyed by buildings volunteers would come so with the botanical gardens would try to figure out easy to propagate them and save seeds

Tell listeners about the (https://www.southernexposure.com/) ,

it is a small seed companyWe have as a mission to provide information so customers can learn about seed saving so they have more independence in seed growing!

In the early days there was a lot of the exchanging these were the people who were the early members of the (https://www.southernexposure.com/) listening things in the yearbook and exchanging things with each other.

Not really so much thinking of it as a business that was going to be viable

grow heirloom seeds who were not as hard core about it as some of us

the opportunity to read about and purchase and grow some heirlooms

seed company developed

continued providing educational opportunities

about 14 years ago

We approached Monticello 25 miles from us about doing an educational event there heritage

Guests wanted Hey everyone just a little rant on the mic, callout for guests, I could really use some I have no 0 nada episodes in the bank. Do you want to share your garden journey?

Help ~ What do you need?And if you need anything don't hesitate to reach out. I'll do my best to help in any way I can. My cell is 406-890-5167. My email is [email protected]

Juniper BundlesDacia and I went for a walk and she suggested that I make some juniper bundles to burn in my house to help clear the air. Juniper is a native plant in Montana and a great and beautiful bush to grow. Sage also helps cleanse your area.

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Red Cross UpdateSo I went to the red cross to donate blood. For the last month they have called my phone and asked me to donate. This not something I normally do, I did once before because a friend asked me to. But I would if it was just like stop in and drop by I would probably donate regularly. It's super easy for me. Anyway then the press briefing (https://www.wbrz.com/news/president-trump-s-coronavirus-task-force-to-hold-press-conference-thursday-morning/) on March 19:

"SURGEON GENERAL ADAMS:  Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Vice President. Today, you heard a wonderful announcement from the FDA, and I just want to give a shout-out to Steve — Dr. Hahn — and the folks at the FDA, where about — where several hundred of my Commissioned Corps officers work. You’re right, Mr President, they are tireless. They’re doing things that have never been done before to bring the most — most prudent advances to the American people.

But I want to talk about something different, briefly. We know many of you are home practicing the President’s guidelines for social distancing. But one thing we should all consider, especially our millennials and Gen Z, is donating blood. As an anesthesiologist who still practices at Walter Reed, taking care of our wounded warriors and our soldiers, I know donated blood is an essential part of caring for patients, and one donation can save up to three lives. Blood centers are open now and in need of your donation. I want America to know that blood donation is safe, and blood centers are taking extra precautions at this time, based on new CDC recommendations, including spacing beds six feet apart, disinfecting surfaces between patients, temperature checking staff, and encouraging donors to make appointments ahead of time so we can space them out.

Social distancing does not have to mean social disengagement. So give blood today. You’ll feel good about it and you’ll be helping your country and your community during this crisis. And you might even save a life."

And they did all of these things, I guess the beds were 6 feet apart but I didn't like the fact that the woman who took my blood etc wasn't wearing a mask, I didn't like the fact that all of us sitting there together in the waiting room were maybe 6 feet apart, IDK, and the volunteer taking my temp wasn't wearing a mask, plus there were plates of pizza laying around... But I stayed, and gave blood and I hope it helps save a life someday.... so use your best judgement if you decide to donate wherever you live.

Ira Wallace serves on the board of the (https://www.heritageharvestfestival.com/) , a fun, family-friendly event featuring an old-time seed swap, local food, hands-on workshops, demos, and more. She currently writes about heirloom vegetable varieties for magazines and blogs including Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, and Southern Exposure.

Tell us a little about yourself.

At this trying time, the number of people who started buying seeds this last week, people with children

we homeschooled

to have a homeschool moment everyday

so much math and science

good nutrition and taste for your amid

Mineral, VA

east coast earthquake

epicenter between Charlottes Ville and

(https://www.southernexposure.com/) ,

mid atlantic and southeast

people who have ea. yanking for

With climate change people are growing different things, I've heard of people growing okra here in Montana.Tell me about your first gardening experience?

well, It looks like our internet is a little unstable so that might be a problem but we'll try to keep going

started gardening with my grandmother about 71 years ago

in Tampa Fl

we had a double lot in one of the lots in the town was our big garden

pecan treehot in the summer

summer garden was partially shaded

okra

southern peas

however we had a 3 season garden in terms of the fall, winter spring

turned around from the way that I am used to now

my grandmother who raised me gardening

passed away when I went off with college

motivated me with my student friends to start a garden, it was a pitiful over by the art studios but we thought it was the best garden ever!

(https://www.ncf.edu/) in Sarasota Florida

private college at that time, since it has become the honors college of UFLA system

yeah

so I was lucky that I had been admitted and had a scholarship

when my grandmother passed

How did you learn how to garden organically?

I learned the basics from my grandmother

David Bradshaw

I learned the sensible things from family and back it up from science in collegeI took taxonomy classes

I never thought anyone would make a living out of farming, my grandmother said you garden for yourself, but only rich people can make a living at farming. But we small farmers have proved that to be wrong. I was lucky enough to come up in the florida where I grew up to Carolina, I was lucky of the part of the start of the farmers market

one of the early great farmers markets in north Carolina

same time

work with little kids

before I moved into being a crafts person and professional farmer and seeds person I did a lot of volunteering in botanical gardens and local garden initiatives. Especially with kids. The thing that I did with the North Carolina Botanical Garden was plant rescue of native plants so when they destroyed by buildings volunteers would come so with the botanical gardens would try to figure out easy to propagate them and save seeds

Tell listeners about the (https://www.southernexposure.com/) ,

it is a small seed companyWe have as a mission to provide information so customers can learn about seed saving so they have more independence in seed growing!

In the early days there was a lot of the exchanging these were the people who were the early members of the (https://www.southernexposure.com/) listening things in the yearbook and exchanging things with each other.

Not really so much thinking of it as a business that was going to be viable

grow heirloom seeds who were not as hard core about it as some of us

the opportunity to read about and purchase and grow some heirlooms

seed company developed

continued providing educational opportunities

about 14 years ago

We approached Monticello 25 miles from us about doing an educational event there heritage

Hey everyone just checking in and saying hey! I recorded this Thursday March 19, 2020! What a crazy week! I truly believe we are going to come out stronger on the other side. I know it's scary and crazy things are happening, I truly believe the good in humanity and that we should all donate blood if that's a possibility. Our schools all closed Monday, our governor said we were closed Sunday right after I bleached my classroom... and my principal said be ready to teach online when spring break is over (our spring break is 3/20-27/20) in case they ask.

Listeners I know I go oh! at the end, but it was probably just something in my car. I am jumpy! haha... don't panic no big deal... anyway, I will try to post soon. My storage is almost full out!

I did post a good instagram/facebook post of mike's minifarm and his lesson he learned about tarping.

Be safe and Let's Get Growing!

Hi Jackie!

I am a new listener who has been (vegetable) gardening all my life & in the last few years added fruit trees to my repartee. I live in NW PA, tho my garden is about 30 miles away in Conneaut, Ohio, a few blocks South of Lake Erie. I listened to the show with Melissa K. Norris today & enjoyed it very much. I will definitely be listening more! (& I entered the book give away, too!)

Keep up the good work!

Cindy Ondish

Tell us a little about yourself.

The way this weird situation started is a long story

where I live in NW PA I had a garden

trees grew up

we live amongst woods

My garden got worse and worse eveyryeareveryyear

tomato plans around my house

separate from this

my husband bought a place

boat garage

lot with weeds taller then me

hacked them down with a cycle

he noticed there was an asparagus

there’s where my garden is

the ground is like a gardener’s dream

person who owned it before was friends

there’s my garden

I resisted the whole thing a bit of the time

nothing grows at my house because there is no light

we’re there all the time in the summer

we cleared an acre out of the woods 

some of it I want to turn back to woods

didn’t want to cut anymore down

such a gradual thing

I will

always had tomato plants around the house

pepper plants

pots on the deck

it was ok

I guess if I do raised beds

right in the middle of the lawn

gradual thing

worked

how wonderful this stuff grows

expanded

I came from an Italian family

everyone grew tomatoes

which is weird

we canned teammates

we ate a lot of pasta

that’s all I really knew

he came over on the boat from Italy

knew about other plants

my first garden

out of college

live in an apartment and stuff

as soon as I had space

I did 

I have a lot of house plants

I have kind of a green thumb

good place to grow then at that time

I grew corn

whole range of things, my family never grew

so nice

feel like you can take care of yourself

empowered

I am going to the store

can it

grow it and can it

as I had my children 

got bigger

trying to feed them

knew what I was feeding 

Tell me about your first gardening experience?

How did you learn how to garden organically?

4 

Tell us about something that grew well this year.

4

I was head over heels in love with parsnips

always had good luck growing parsnips

I know now my garden was such clay

even thought I tried to work things in it

if they dry out

once they dry out they’re dead

old timer

teaching me how to grow parsnips

never eaten a warship

boiling water on them

board over top

never did the top

mine would grow

because my ground was so nasty and wet

so I have been trying to grow them in my good garden

drainage

mulching them

could not get parsnips to grow

bummed out of it

more that I read

what do I have to lose

let them start sprouting on the sink

tedious job of picking up the sprouts

biggest most beautiful

start them first 

plant them

plant them

pour boiling water over the row

seeds make them float to the top

waxy coating that has to get through the coating

worked because my ground was so wet

didn’t drain

new garden is drains 

my husband introduced them to me

cravings for them

sometimes

bounty of parsnips

we started out

my husband cooks everything starting with a stick of butter

long pieces

cut out the center bitter center

fry them in a butter

carrots and potatoes

quicker then the carrots did

then I wanted to try

cutting them in kind f chunks

brushing them with butter

get them with a little crisp

brushed over the top of...