Want to grow sweet, tasty fruit in your own backyard? In today’s episode, author and fruit tree expert Susan Poizner is joining us on the podcast to share some fruit tree knowledge and talk about her latest book Grow Fruit Trees Fast.

We'll be talking about choosing the right fruit trees for your space, feeding the soil to keep your fruit trees healthy and how to prune your trees to maximize production. Susan will also tell us stories about her community orchard, her early life as a journalist and so much more!  

Susan is the author of two books about growing fruit trees, Growing Urban Orchards and Grow Fruit Trees Fast. She’s also the founder of Orchard People, an online educational program for folks that want to learn all about growing their own fruit trees right at home! Susan hosts a weekly podcast all about fruit trees too! 

You can learn more about Susan’s work, her online programs and her informative podcast at  https://www.orchardpeople.com

During the interview, Susan mentions her list of reputable fruit tree nurseries. You can find that list here. https://orchardpeople.com/where-to-buy-fruit-trees/

Before the interview Bevin talks about the signs of Autumn that are slowly creeping in at Small House Farm. We’re busy getting things ready for winter and that includes harvesting herbs and processing seeds.

You can check out our latest video on our Youtube channel if you’d like a sneak peak of some of the unique varieties of heirloom seeds will be offering from this year’s gardens. https://youtu.be/Ni_EPc0H7OE?si=_lQiND2bvQBihopk

You can also listen to the Seeds & Weeds Podcast on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@SmallHouseFarm

 Want to browse our collection of heirloom seeds? You can check out the selection at: https://www.smallhousefarm.com/seed-collection/

And as always, big thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

 Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

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Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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What do seeds mean to you? In today’s episode we’re talking with Jennifer Jewell, host of the Cultivating Place podcast and author of the new book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.

We'll be discussing Jennifer's personal journey with seeds, the significant impact that seeds have on the world around us and why saving these precious seeds for future generations is more important now than ever before.  

Jennifer is a garden writer, educator and host of an award-winning radio program and podcast. Her previous books include Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from The Rockies to the Pacific Coast and The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.

Connect with Jennifer through her website www.cultivatingplace.com and purchase her books everywhere that books are sold, including:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Sow-Ecological-Significance/dp/164326107X

Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-we-sow-on-the-personal-ecological-and-cultural-significance-of-seeds-jennifer-jewell/19724340

If you’re new to saving seeds or looking to learn more, check out my book Saving Our Seeds. https://www.smallhousefarm.com/product-category/books/ It’ll guide you through harvesting and processing seeds from 43 different species! 

And as always, big thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

 Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Gardening for health, happiness and delicious produce! Author and educator Leah Webb joins us on the podcast to talk about whole foods cooking, why she gardens and so much more when she answers 5 Questions.

Leah is an avid gardener, edible landscaper and accomplished author and educator. In today’s episode we learn what she loves to grow the most, lessons she learned in the garden and how her children’s health started her on her small-scale homestead journey.
Learn more about Leah’s work and find her two books, The Seven-Step Homestead and The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook at www.leahmwebb.com

Leah’s shout out today was about a presentation she recently saw at the Mother Earth News Fair. Bevin, along with Amyrose Foll and Ira Wallace, shared stories of seeds and their keepers during the festival seed swap. Amy-Rose manages Virginia Free Farm and Ira is the James Beard Award winning matriarch from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

You can learn more about Mother Earth News, their online classes, and subscribe to their magazine at https://store.motherearthnews.com/products/mother-earth-news-membership-domestic-us?ref=057dg01m

If you’re new to saving seeds and looking to get started, check out my book Saving Our Seeds. https://www.smallhousefarm.com/product-category/books/
It’ll guide you through harvesting and processing seeds from 43 different species!

And as always, big thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Pine nut skin scrub? Sour cream face mask?!  Author and natural beauty expert Janice Cox joins us on the show to talk about these incredible products and so much more! We’ll also talk about beautiful lavender and eating loofahs!

Janice Cox teaches workshops across the country on making your own body care products with simple kitchen and garden ingredients. She is the author of six bestselling books on the topic and the education chair for The Herb Society of America!

Follow Janice's work and purchase her books at
https://www.naturalbeautyathome.com/

Janice is a regular speaker at the Mother Earth News Fair. You can find her fair schedule of workshops at https://www.motherearthnewsfair.com/

During the interview Janice mentions how she loves to use witch hazel in her daily skin routine. We have some handcrafted witch hazel available for you here: https://www.smallhousefarm.com/product/small-house-witch-hazel/

Autumn has arrived and that means that it’s time to start saving our garden seeds! We’ve already harvested quite a bit of seed from our gardens including beans, some herbs and lots of tomatoes!

We just recorded our annual Tomato Tasting video for our Youtube channel. It’s not uploaded just yet, but you can always subscribe to our channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/smallhousefarm You don’t want to miss this one, it’s the most fun video we make every year!

If you’re new to saving seeds and looking to get started, check out my book Saving Our Seeds. It's available at https://www.smallhousefarm.com/product-category/books/ and everywhere else books are sold. It’ll guide you through harvesting and processing seeds from 43 different species!

And as always, big thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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This episode is packed full of info! Certified Aromatherapist Amy Anthony joins us to talk about the difference between hydrosols and essential oils, lavandin vs lavender and so much more! Then, Amy shares her Top 5 essential oils!

Amy is a certified clinical aromatherapist, owner of NYC Aromatica and host of the Essential Aromatica podcast. Amy left her career in marketing to pursue what is closest to her heart: working with plants - and today, she’s considered to be one of America’s most influential aromatherapists!

This interview was so jam-packed, we couldn’t even fit it all in today’s episode! You can check out the rest of the interview, available exclusively to our Patreon members, right here: www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

You can connect with Amy through her website www.nycaromatica.com, Instagram or Youtube channel. You can also tune in to the Essential Aromatica Podcast!

As always, big thanks to all of our Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Join us on a mushroom adventure! Today we’re sitting down with Erin Hamilton, founder of The Mushroom Conservatory to learn how plants and mushrooms are so radically different from one another, why we need more mushrooms in our lives and then we’re going to find out how to get one of her special kits to grow our own mushrooms right at home!

Erin Hamilton is a mushroom farmer and agricultural educator from Howell, Michigan. She and her husband Elijah have three children and together, they run The Mushroom Conservatory, where they help people around the world learn to produce their own food with hands-on mushroom growing kits.  I first learned about Erin at the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania ands today she’s joining us on the podcast to chat about mushrooms!

You can learn more about The Mushroom Conservatory here.
Erin will also be at the Mother Earth News Fair in Wisconsin Sept 16-17
Learn more about Mother Earth News, their online classes and subscribe to the magazine at https://store.motherearthnews.com/products/mother-earth-news-membership-domestic-us?ref=057dg01m

Heather and I just returned home from a trip to southern France where we had some amazing adventures! We visited the lavender fields of Provence, drove around the countryside and sampled so much delicious food! One of our favorites was a chickpea flatbread called socca. It's so easy to make, we went and bought all of the ingredients as soon as we got home! You can find our recipe for this traditional delight on our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Big thanks to all of our recent Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!
Join our special Seeds & Weeds Facebook Community!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Nerd alert! Gardenerd founder Christy Wilhelmi joins us on the show to talk about small-space fruit orchards, Russian tomatoes, reclaiming food waste and all sorts of groovy stuff! 

Christy empowers people to grow their own food, to be more self-reliant, and to reduce pollution and waste, one garden at a time. Christy is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes newsletters, her popular blog, and top-ranked podcasts. Today, Christy is joining us on the podcast to answer 5 questions..

Bevin was recently a guest on Christy’s Gardenerd Podcast. You can listen to that conversation here: https://gardenerd.com/blog/podcast-seed-oils-start-to-finish-with-bevin-cohen/

 Christy’s shoutout today was FoodCycle LA. You can learn more about their important work reclaiming food waste here: https://www.foodcyclela.org/

Before the interview, Bevin shares some news about his recent travels. The entire Cohen family headed up to Erie, Pennsylvania for the Mother Earth News Fair! It’s a beautiful venue and a wonderful event. You can stay up to date on all of the Mother Earth News Fair happenings at https://www.motherearthnewsfair.com/

When this episode airs, Bevin and Heather will on their way to Nice, France for a short summer vacation! If you’d like to follow the adventure, we’ll be sure to post pics along the way on our Instagram feed… www.instagram.com/small_house_farm

 Big thanks to all of our recent Patreon subscribers.. we appreciate every one of you! Thank you for supporting the show!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Herbalist Crystal Stevens joins us to answer your questions and Bevin shares a recipe for a healing salve made from yarrow and comfrey!

We’re so excited to have Crystal Stevens join us for ‘Ask an Herbalist.’
*Learn more about Crystal and her farm* -  https://flourishfarmstead.com

Crystal is an herbalist, author, educator and co-owner of Flourish Farmstead in Godfrey, Illinois. You’ve sent in your herb questions and Crystal is here to answer them! Some of the questions we talk about include:

·        What herbs would you recommend for making a salve or lotion for aging skin?

·       When is the best time to harvest herbs and the best way to dry them for storage?

·       Is there a way to make a tincture without using alcohol? Is it as effective?

·       What are some of the best uses for Elderflower tincture?

Before the interview, Bevin talks about harvesting, drying, and storing herbs. He also shares a recipe for making a topical healing salve from yarrow and comfrey. This is the same healing salve that we offer online!

Simply combine equal parts dried comfrey and yarrow in a quart jar. Fill the jar to the top with high quality sunflower oil, then cover, label, and let steep for four to six weeks. Once the oil is ready strain out the herbs and discard.

To turn your lovely herbal oil into a salve just combine 16 fluid oz of oil (volume) with 1 ¼ ounces of beeswax (weight) in a double boiler. Heat the oil to melt the wax, then pour the mixture into a container to cool... so easy! This salve is perfect for cuts, scratches, bruises and minor abrasions. 

If you’re interested in learning more about working with medicinal herbs, check out Bevin’s book, The Artisan Herbalist, which is available here.

Bevin was recently a guest on the Pantry Chat podcast where he had the opportunity to talk about small-scale seed and nut oil production. It was a great interview! You can find it here.

During the interview, Bevin talks about our Oil Pressing Kit, which comes with everything you need to get started pressing your own oils right at home! You can order the kit here!

Remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Small-space gardening, sustainable living and the Mother Earth News Fair! Today we're sitting down to chat with Jessica Mitchell, host of the Mother Earth News & Friends podcast.

Jessica is an editor for Ogden Publications, where she helps to produce issues of Mother Earth News and Grit magazines. She moved from Pennsylvania to Kansas in 2017, when she started working for Ogden, and she quickly fell in love with the small towns, beautiful prairie, and open skies — though she does miss the Pennsylvania mountains. Outside of editing, Jessica enjoys reading and writing, wandering the Kansas trails, small-space gardening, and brewing a delicious cup of tea or coffee.

Jessica joins us for a chat that started off as a simple '5 Questions' but we really covered a lot of great topics during our conversation, including how Jessica's small-space garden is growing, as well her thoughts on sustainable lifestyles.

Learn more about Mother Earth News, their online classes and subscribe to the magazine at https://store.motherearthnews.com/products/mother-earth-news-membership-domestic-us?ref=057dg01m

Check out the Mother Earth News & Friends Podcast here.

After the interview, Bevin talks about seed saving and the various seeds we're already harvesting this spring at Small House. We've collected seeds from komatsuna, which is a Japanese mustard green and spigariello, a very old Italian broccoli relative. Seed saving is really a year-round activity!

To wrap the episode, Bevin reads an excerpt from his 2019 book, Saving Our Seeds. This is a great seed saving how-to guide but it also features stories from a handful of inspirational seed keepers form around the country.
You can get a copy of Saving Our Seeds here.

And remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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Saving seeds, growing trees and eating peaches! Today we’re chatting with Greg Peterson, host of The Urban Farm Podcast. We’re going to talk about the importance of seed banks, how to grow elderberries and delicious homegrown peaches, when Greg answers 5 Questions. 

Greg Peterson is the creator and chief visionary of The Urban Farm and in 2015, he launched The Urban Farm Podcast. In Phoenix, Arizona, Greg created one of the first environmental showcases for urban farming on a ¼ acre plot that featured more than 80 fruit trees! Greg is passionate about providing people the tools and information they need to grow their own food! Learn more about Greg’s work and check out his podcast at www.urbanfarmpodcast.com

During the interview, Greg gives a shoutout to Enoch Graham from the Let’s Get Growing Youtube show... you might remember when Enoch  was on our podcast for an episode of ‘Ask a Gardener.’

Check out Enoch’s Youtube show: https://www.letsgetgrowing.live/

Bevin was recently a guest on the program: https://www.youtube.com/live/m7EdpDAYHg4

And here’s a link to Seeds & Weeds episode #3 featuring Enoch!

https://www.smallhousefarm.com/seedsandweedspodcast/ep3_jon-jackson-enoch-graham/

Before the interview, Bevin gives a shoutout to our latest Patreon subscribers. We’re getting ready to send out our summer gift baskets and they are loaded up with all sorts of great products, including a custom herbal tea blend, some freshly harvested spruce tips, or famous Shoo! Bug spray and more! You can sign up for your herbal gift basket and support our podcast at: www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

 It’s been so hot and dry here lately, but we’ve been getting our planting done the best that we can. Recently in our Seeds & Weeds Facebook group we were talking about our favorite bean varieties… what beans are we growing at Small House Farm this summer? You can find out in today’s episode!

If you’re looking for seeds for your garden, we have a great selection at www.smallhousefarm.com/seeds
And remember, you can always support our podcast by joining our Patreon for as little as $3/month at www.patreon.com/smallhousefarm

Connect with us!

IG: @small_house_farm
FB: @smallhousefarm
YT: @smallhousefarm
www.seedsandweedspodcast.com 

Support the show

Support for the Seeds and Weeds Podcast comes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. Baker Creek offers America’s largest selection of heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties from around the world – and right here at home. For more than 25 years, saving, sharing, and celebrating heirloom seeds has been their mission and their passion. Find out more at rareseeds.com.

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