May 2020

1. How to raise backyard chickens organically by Leslie Berg

2. Rebekah shares about the 2nd annual Truckee Meadows Earth Day event

3. Laurie Martin shares a non-profit offering a financial navigator program to help people trying to work through issues related to the COVID-19 situation.

6. Local Events & Alternatives to using toxic herbicide sprays

7. Bonus - ways to have a little fun with family, friends or co-workers

Vanessa Robertson is currently the Executive Co-Director of Envirolution, in Reno, NV which works with teachers and students, K-12 for "youth leadership development, and community outreach programs centered around energy efficiency, sustainability, and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) career development."

Josie, originally from the Midwest, traveled to Reno, NV to participate in the Americorp program and ended up making Northern Nevada her new home.  After Americorp she went on to found a non-profit called Urban Roots.  Now working as a Montessori teacher, she looks back and shares the story of how she took her university education, Americorp training, and Permaculture training and used it to create something wonderful to share and inspire a love of organic, sustainable farming with children in the community.

Tanner Petrilla has been working as a farm intern at four different organic farms learning what works best with various growing conditions, types of crops, and holistic land management methods.

Kasey Crispin shares her and her partner Zach Cannady's successful 1.5-acre, organic no-till farm.  They share how they live their green values to care for people and the planet as they supply nutrient-dense food to northern Nevadans while equally caring for nature and the soil on their farm.