A chat with Kari Spencer.   In This Garden Chat: Did you know that keeping a garden journal can help you to grow bigger and better vegetables? Kari Spencer, author of City Farming and Vegetable Gardening Journal & Logbook, will discuss the kinds of records that are important to keep, how to plan, and what to log anecdotally in a garden journal. She will share her personal record-keeping style, as well as tips about various journaling methods and technologies. Discover how planning and journaling can make you a better gardener with less stress over time.On the last Tuesday every month we host The Urban Farm Garden Chats where Greg Peterson has a relaxed conversation in a Zoom room with a special guest to cover useful gardening topics, and they answer questions from the live listening audience. To join us for the next event, go to www.GardenChat.org or Click HERE to register for the Monthly Garden Chat with Live Q&A; Our Special Guest: Kari Spencer is a popular local gardening & homesteading speaker. As a Master Gardener and a Master Farmer, she enjoys sharing her passion for growing and raising food with others. In addition to teaching classes all over the city of Phoenix, she is the creator of Urban Farm U’s Growing Food the Basics & Backyard Livestock courses. She and her family operate The Micro Farm Project, a small farm in North Phoenix, where gardens and livestock animals provide her family with fun and food. Kari is the author of Vegetable Gardening Journal: A weekly tracker and logbook. Visit https://www.urbanfarm.org/2022/04/29/676-garden-chat/ for show notes and links.

676: Journaling and Learning, Growing from the Past

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816: Aaron Zaretsky on Creating Public Markets .Offering an alternative to Farmers Markets. In This Podcast:  Imagine a place not that unlike a modern-day mall, but with only local vendors of food and many other cool things. They are called Public Markets that are a centuries old concept that has been revitalizing local food economies in places like Seattle (Pikes Place Market) and Zagreb Croatia (the Dolac Market). Join Aaron Zaretsky and Greg as they explore the history and future of Public Markets. Our Guest: Aaron spent fifteen years as a Director at Seattle’s Pike Place Public Market, the nation’s most successful Public Market, with fifteen million annual customer visits. The Market’s redevelopment is credited with transforming downtown Seattle from the nation’s original “skid road”, with countless derelict buildings, into the nation’s healthiest and most prosperous downtown. Pike Place is also the #1 tourist attraction in the surrounding six state region. For 41 years, through his company, Public Market Development, Aaron has helped to analyze, plan, redevelop, develop, and manage over fifty Public Markets across the country and internationally.   Aaron's Book Recommendation: The Prophet by Kahil Gibran Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/PublicMarketDevelopment for  the show notes and links on this episode! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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816: Aaron Zaretsky on Creating Public Markets

815: Kareen Erbe on Resilient Homesteads.Helping people design food forests and gardens with a holistic approach. In This Podcast:   Broken Ground is Kareen's passion and a platform where people can learn how to work with and create from the principles of permaculture and sustainable living. Kareen is a passionate environmentalist with a deep-rooted connection to the land, and through Broken Ground she offers workshops, consultations, and design services to empower individuals and communities to grow their own food and regenerate the earth. Through her signature resilient homestead program, participants are guided through the principles of permaculture design, soil building, food forest creation, and water harvesting, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to transform their landscapes into thriving, biodiverse ecosystems. By fostering beneficial relationships between plants, animals, and people, Broken Ground is redefining the way we interact with our environment and inspiring a new generation of land stewards. At the core of her mission is the belief that everyone has the ability to cultivate abundance and resilience in their own front and backyard. By providing practical tools and resources, along with ongoing support and mentorship, Broken Ground empowers individuals to take control of their food supply and reduce their impact on the planet. Through education, community engagement, and hands-on learning experiences, Broken Ground is sowing the seeds of change and cultivating a future where regenerative agriculture is the norm, not the exception. Our Guest: Kareen is the owner of Broken Ground, a garden design consultant and educator. For over a decade, she has helped people in cold climates grow their own food so they can eat healthier, live more sustainably, and become more self-reliant. From getting clients started on their first ever garden, to working with couples on designing a full-blown homestead, to designing large-scale farms, she’s helped thousands of people grow nutritious food for their family through consultations, design services, her signature Resilient Homestead Program, and her YouTube channel. Kareen and her husband live on a suburban homestead in Bozeman, Montana, USA with their dog Beni, a greenhouse, pond, vegetable gardens, a food forest of fruit trees and berry bushes, and a flock of chickens. Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/BrokenGround for the show notes and links on this episode! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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815: Kareen Erbe on Resilient Homesteads

814: Albert Wilde on Wool Pellet Organic Fertilizer.Using an innovative resource to improve water retention in potted plants. In This Podcast:   Regenerative farming is all about using everything in the system and not having any waist.  What if you were a farmer and found a place that there was a 20% waste stream on your farm?  Albert Wilde of Wild Valley Sheep Farm invented a new way to fertilize his wife's houseplants and it is turning into an innovate new way to fertilize and have our soil retain water.  Join us as Albert and I chat about what is in my opinion one of the most innovative fertilizer inventions of the decade! Our Guest: Albert is a sixth generation sheep rancher, entrepreneur, and father of seven boys. He is pioneering a new market for US wool,  focusing on the use of wool pellets as a fertilizer and water holding soil amendment.    Albert started by making compost on the side as a little extra income for the farm.  This led to making wool pellets and trialing them with a local greenhouse.  Then in 2017, Wild Valley Farms won the Utah “Green Business Award for Innovation” and in 2018 Wild Valley Farms was chosen as a finalist out of 535 entries in the “American Farm Bureau Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge”.   Since then, Albert has worked with numerous universities around the world demonstrating the benefits of wool pellets.  Wild Valley Farms has expanded the market through distributors, online, and in stores establishing a new innovative product for gardeners and farmers.  Albert's Recommended book: Root Cellaring natural cold storage of fruits and vegetables, by Mike and Nancy Bubell, Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/WildValleyFarms for the show notes and links on this episode! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!

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814: Albert Wilde on Wool Pellet Organic Fertilizer

813: Carolina Farm TrustsA Garden Chat with Zack Wyatt.﻿In This Garden Chat:We chat with Zack Wyatt of the Carolina Farm Trust is focused on revolutionizing the food systems in the Carolinas through regenerative farming practices and sustainable approaches. The Carolina Farm Trust has four pillars—Farm Apprenticeship Program, Food is Health Program, Urban Farm Network, and CFT Market & Distribution Center that are integral to their mission of fostering a healthier, more sustainable food system from farm to table.Our Special Guest:Zack Wyatt grew up in Northern Virginia.  His family were caretakers of a 300 acre old dairy farm where they had a large garden, pigs, horses, chickens, and when he was young, he worked on neighboring farms. After graduating from Coastal Carolina University in 2003 with a degree in a business administration he worked in home mortgage lending and IT. But Zack's passion for bringing community together over food won out and his understanding of the importance of equitable food access and his drive to improve local food systems led him to create the Carolina Farm Trust in 2015.  As the CEO of Carolina Farm Trust, Zack has produced two documentaries: The Farmer That Feeds Us series, and an annual music festival fundraiser called Carolina Jubilee.  
﻿Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg or choose one of the senior members of our Urban Farm team to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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813: What are Farm Trusts with Zack Wyatt - A Garden Chat

812:  Seed Borne DiseasesA chat with an expert on seeds.In This Seed Chat:This is the April 2024 Seed Chat - Seed-borne diseases quietly jeopardize the vitality of crops, as seeds unwittingly harbor microscopic threats like fungi, bacteria, and pests. Bill and Greg will help you identify these pesky pests and guide you through the measures to screen for disease-resistant seeds to thwart these covert adversaries.  Visit www.urbanfarm.org/812-seed for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! What is the Seed Chat? At least ten times a year we have a live Seed Saving Class with Bill McDorman, the former Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho.  He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013.  Come join us for the next live class, or catch up on our previous classes through our podcast episodes.  Either way you will expand your seed knowledge and gain new perspectives on your food system. Register anytime for the next event.Register Here for the Monthly Seed Saving Class with Live Q&A;
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676: Journaling and Learning, Growing from the Past

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