The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson

Tony's current project at the St Vincent de Paul urban farm is responsible for providing over 50,000 pounds of fresh produce to the needy and working homeless. He has also started a composting initiative, diverting over 400,000 pounds of organic waste from the city landfills. Tony has partnered with former Maricopa County Manager David Smith to create an agricultural division to the charity for therapeutic and vocational purposes, as well as revenue generation.  Tony has worked on multiple small farms around Phoenix, ran an organic vegetable seed company and is currently involved with consulting, designing and building edible spaces privately. He is focused on education and the empowerment of the individual, offering horticultural classes to special needs teens, recovering adults, and the chronically homeless. Cehck out our show notes athttps://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/22/tony-kasowski/

Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe holds a PhD in genetics from Harvard University, and specializes in developing Open Source varieties of crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years. She is author of:  The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity;  The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times;  and Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving.  Visit www.caroldeppe.com for her seeds, books, and further adventures.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/19/carol-deppe/

Jennifer is the Director of the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a project of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.  New Entry is a beginning farmer training program that assists limited-resource individuals to begin small-scale commercial agriculture in Massachusetts as a way to preserve farmland and to expand consumer access to locally-grown foods. Jennifer is also a vegetable and livestock farmer she raises chickens, eggs, pork, beef, rabbit, and specialty vegetables.   Jennifer serves on boards of the Urban Farming Institute of Boston and The Carrot Project, a small farm financing organization.  She is a farm business planning instructor for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and has organized farm labs and field trips for graduate students in the Tufts’ University Agriculture, Food and Environment program. Jennifer served as an agricultural Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Policy from Tufts University and a BS in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Indiana University. Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/17/jennifer-hashley/

52: Anne-Marie Miller on Overcoming Homesteading ObstaclesAnne-Marie, or Dash (for the hyphen in her name), is an urban farmer in Dallas, Texas. She raises chickens and rabbits on less than ¼ of an acre.  Plus, she has turned her front yard into a large stand-out-in-the neighborhood vegetable garden. In addition to the farming she does on her homestead, she helped create a community garden literally from grassy field to thriving garden. What stands out about her little urban homestead is her determined out of the box approach to overcoming obstacles. You can follow her adventures on her little urban homestead by visiting her blog, BloomWhereYourPlanted.com. Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/14/anne-marie-miller/ 

Joe Urbach is the publisher of GardeningAustin.com and is the author of Phytonutrient Gardening: The Guide to Understanding, Growing & Eating Phytonutrient-rich Antioxidant-dense foods. Living in the central Texas area for over 30 years, Joe can be found offering gardening talks and advice as well as teaching classes at local nurseries, libraries, garden clubs and Extension offices. He is an advocate for, "a kitchen garden in every home," and for the last several years he has installed raised beds and container gardens in homes throughout the Austin and San Antonio region. Joe is currently focusing on phytonutrient gardening and with the release of his new book he wants to help as many people as possible learn to live active, healthy, and productive lives by growing their own phytonutrient-rich, antioxidant-dense fruits and vegetables. Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/12/joe-urbach/

Sam Coffman has over 10 years of military experience as a U.S. Special Forces Medic, an interrogator and a linguist. He studied botany and bio-regional medicine both privately and at several outdoor schools in Colorado, and during his military service as a Green Beret Medic he logged thousands of hours in the field as a team medic, military emergency rooms and troop medical clinics.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/10/sam-coffman/

49: Roger Doiron on Seed MoneyRoger is founder and director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based nonprofit network of over 35,000 individuals from 120 countries who are taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the food supply. His work and ideas have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, International Herald Tribune, New York Times and the Washington Post. Roger’s successful proposal and petition campaign to replant a kitchen garden at the White House gathered over 100,000 signatures and international media coverage. He was voted the  grand prize winner of the “On Day One” contest sponsored by the United Nations Foundation.  Roger first became involved in food issues in Europe as head of Friends of the Earth’s European office in Brussels during the 1990s at the height of the Europe’s mad cow furor. He was also part of the American NGO delegation to the 2002 UN World Food Summit.  He enjoys cooking, gardening and eating with his three Belgian-American boys Francois, Maxeemm, and Sebastian and his wife Jacqueline.For more links and resources go to https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/08/roger-doiron/

At 11 years old, Doug began learning about the native plants of Colorado from his mother. He has gained a vast amount of knowledge about edible and medicinal plants through his experiences living in the Sonoran Desert and Gila Wilderness of Southern New Mexico. He lived primitively for over 20 years and now teaches about primitive skills, medicinal plants and wild edibles. Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/05/doug-simons/

Nathan Crane is an award winning author, inspirational speaker, and conscious filmmaker dedicated to helping make possible for every human being the possibility to live a healthy, sustainable, meaningful life.From addiction, dependency, jail, and homelessness, to a profound spiritual awakening becoming a highly sought after international entrepreneur of personal empowerment, Nathan found his life’s purpose in helping people experience more health, joy, and fulfillment in their lives -dissolving harmful habits and mental attachments – and experiencing physical, mental, emotional, financial and spiritual transformation. Nathan’s newest film series is titled, The Search for Sustainability.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/03/nathan-crane/

46: Ira Wallace on Seed Saving Ira Wallace is an owner of the cooperative Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, an organization that helps people keep control of their food supply through seed saving and sustainable gardening. Ira is also a co-organizer of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, a fun, family-friendly event featuring an old-time seed swap, local food, and hands-on workshops and demos.Her book, The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, is available online and at bookstores everywhere.For more links and resources on this podcast go to https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/03/01/ira-wallace/