with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

Stewart Lundy, of Perennial Roots Farm in eastern Virginia farms, is serious about applied biodynamic agriculture and has created a rich fertile farm with his partner Natalie. They heard about Biodynamics on a trip to Italy and returned to the U.S and began to practice on their farm in 2010. Bringing Biodynamics “down to earth”, Stewart shows how it works for him. Unique tips on saving seeds.

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• http://www.perennialroots.com/ - Perennial Roots Farm- Steward Lundy

Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.

with host Linda Borghi and guest Maria Blon

Maria Blon is a speaker, author and teacher who launched the “HEART in Haiti School” after the hurricane in 2010. Gardens and Moringa trees are grown at the school to teach the children how to grow and feed themselves. This oasis includes a biodigester. There is no garbage pick up in Haiti. Now with the biodigester to process all their garbage, they also generate energy for the school.

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• http://heartinhaiti.org/

• http://farmayard.podbean.com/ - Podcast webpage

Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan. Used with permission.

with host Linda Borghi and guest Liana Hoodes

Liana is an expert in America’s food history and the importance of being an advocate for  organic standards. We all need to take personal responsibility for the sustainability and safety of our food supply. Learn from the Cuban crisis and their shift to urban farming for their survival. America’s urban farming movement is vital for food security.

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• http://farm-a-yard.com/p001/  Episode 001- Link to Seedy Story Podcast

Liana Hoodes has worked since 1994 on a wide range of organic and sustainable agriculture policy issues, and is currently  Policy Advisor to the Northeast Organic Farming Association – New York, and the National Organic Coalition where she was the Executive Director from 2003 until 2015.  She has worked extensively on Farm Bills, annual appropriations, as well as on the implementation of the Organic Foods Production Act at the USDA National Organic Program and on organic standards at the National Organic Standards Board. She currently works on a variety of federal, state and local policy issues to support and advance organic and sustainable food and agriculture.

Liana  was the organic policy coordinator for the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture from 1994 through 2006, where she was the facilitator of the successful effort (led by many organizations) to garner hundreds of thousands of comments to repeal and re-write the first organic regulation.  

Prior to that she was the founding Director of Orange Environment,  a local environmental advocacy organization in Orange County, NY, and also worked for a  law firm specializing in civil rights and environmental law.  In 2001 Liana co-founded the Pine Bush Farmers Market  to support agriculture in the Pine Bush region, as well as to promote downtown economic development in the ha

with host Linda Borghi and Farm-A-Yard founder Evan Folds

Transform the way you think about the soil under your feet to seriously revolutionize your growing results.

Evan Folds, the “Soil Doctor” as we call him, does not give standard soil advice but shares proven methods that unleash soil regeneration.  Evan is a Farm-A-Yard co-founder, owner of Progressive Farms & manufacturer of the Microbe Maker compost tea system, and his passion about nurturing microbes, healing the Earth through carbon sequestering, producing nutrient dense food, advocating for personal agriculture, and healing people through vibrant local food economies will change your focus from the stem to the soil.

Through his consulting work, Evan has developed BioEnergetic Agriculture, which seeks to increase the life force of living systems through physical, mineral, biological, and energetic influence.

“…our food is not nourishing us to allow the expression of our humanity.” -- Evan Folds

1:00 - Linda introduces Evan Folds, owner of Progressive Farms and shares how they met.

5:50 - Evan Folds talks about regenerative agriculture and what biodynamic/BioEnergetic methods are all about.

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• www.acresusa.com/magazine  - Acres USA

with host Linda Borghi and guest Abby Porter

Abby Porter from the Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics shares the history of Biodynamic methods and preparations. Abby’s mother, Josephine Porter, founded the Institute. First in a series about biodynamics with Abby Porter which describes the 7 principles of Biodynamic Agriculture.

Get Part 2: http://farm-a-yard.com/p002-2

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• https://jpibiodynamics.org/  - Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics

Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.

with host Linda Borghi and guest Abby Porter

Abby Porter from the Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics shares the history of Biodynamics, organics and the relationship between Rudolph Steiner & Dr. Pfeiffer, a scientist, who proved the the science behind biodynamics. The establishing of Demeter, the international biodynamic certification organization. Abby also talks about her mother Josephine Porter’s history in the making of the biodynamic preparations.

Get Part 1: http://farm-a-yard.com/p002-1

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• https://jpibiodynamics.org/  - Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics

Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.

With host Linda Borghi

Seeds are very small, yet mighty! It is so easy to overlook the paramount importance and power of seeds. There is a worldwide seed diversity crisis today.  In this podcast episode, Linda reviews the movie, Seed: The Untold Story.  

Warning: listening to this episode could change your relationship with seeds forever!

00:52 - Linda’s personal story about her relationship with seeds

09:50 - Movie review: Seed: The Untold Story

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http://www.seedthemovie.com - Seed: The Untold Story movie website

http://www.rareseeds.com - Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds

http://turtletreeseed.org - Turtle Tree Seed Initiative

http://www.perelandra-ltd.com - Perelandra Center for Nature Research

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Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.

with co-founders Linda Borghi and Criss Ittermann

We are serious about turning the 48.5 million acres of lawn in America into food production!  Farm-A-Yard: It’s a movement… have ya heard?  Linda Borghi and Criss Ittermann, two of the co-founders of Farm-a-Yard, share about the birth of the Farm-A-yard movement as a response to the challenges of soil degradation and food insecurity issues facing our country and the world.

You’ll notice in this episode that Farm-A-Yard is all about solutions, sprinkled with plenty of laughter and gratitude to pave the way for sustainable, lasting change.

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https://gumroad.com/l/soildrexcerpt/episode_bonus_p000 - get the episode bonus video

https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-video-9620290 - Patreon video outtakes

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/farmayard/ - Facebook Movement Community

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Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.