Guest: Ron Berezan, The Urban Farmer Big Idea: How Cuba’s drastic food reform system will help us grow. Topic Today:  In today’s podcast Ron says “The more the pandemic endures, the more I keep thinking back to Cuba, because, here we are. Many of us have begun to see some of the fragilities in our […]

Guest: John Mills, Eagle Creek Farms Big Idea: “Get your kids growing with you….” says Alberta’s John Mills, a 4th generation farmer but the first in his family to grow potatoes organically. “I didn’t start off pursuing organic vegetable production or transitioning the farm to organic production. It was just a slow evolution of realizing […]

Guest: Dr. Christopher Trobacher Big Idea: Big Idea: “Fertilizer is food. So you expect that that’s going to be the main thing, driving plant growth, but you add a little bit of kelp and it seems like the plant’s able to use it’s food and combat the stresses in its environment a lot better than […]

Guest: Dr. Ken Fry Big Idea: Big Idea: “I guess the word of the day would be biodiversity and that is having an abundance of different kinds of plants: different colours, different times of flowering, different sizes and statures, different fragrances. And that way you have all the different kinds of resources that are necessary […]

Guest: Steve Solomon Big Idea: Big Idea: Our Human Health depends on the health of the soil we grow our food in. Mineralize soil and grow the best possible food for health and happiness.   “I have often thought that our farming system is basically a system of mining. And what we have removed from […]

Guest: Ben Patarin Big Idea: Forage the best wild food while respecting nature “I could easily survive with just what I get from the forest, you know, if I had too” says Ben, who has collected or foraged since he was 2 because in France, “that’s the hobby you have with your family!” “So one […]

Guest: Rob Lavoie Big Idea: Biochar Builds Better Soils and Improves Food Security I boosted the quality of my garden soil with Soil Matrix biochar. Why is my soil better now than before? My garden grows on sandy soil so there is no way for minerals to be held in place. Before biochar, plants started […]

Guest: Steven Biggs Big Idea: Want to find out how to take cuttings, grow, prune, fertilize and overwinter figs? Tune in now. “I just like to say to people, [Figs are] such a fun plant to grow, so do give it a try and do just keep in mind that you want to find a […]

Guest: Khaled Majouji, Ingenius Farms Big Idea: “Give access to quality food at an accessible price to everyone” says Khaled, better known as The Plant Charmer among his 86,000 fans on Instagram and YouTube. Posting interesting tidbits about how to grow food in rain gutters on his urban farm in LaVal, Quebec is an ongoing […]

Guest: Donna Balzer, www.donnabalzer.com Big Idea: “It’s so clear everyone has become re-engaged in growing food during this pandemic, hence the run on seeds at the stores,” said Dinah via email. She went on to ask her many questions and suggest that Donna tape a special podcast on this subject. Well here it is! Donna […]