Daily farm and garden talk. All about growing vegetables profitably and efficiently on small farms and in gardens.
Each episode focuses on one specific topic - growing practices, how-to, farming challenges and struggles, sales and marketing, soil preparation, weed management, farm startup, market selection, and work-life balance.
Hosted and produced by Diego Footer's Modern Grower Podcast Network.
Darren Doherty discusses Holistic Management planned grazing, energy, and farm marketing.This is the sixth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open consultancies. The consultancies themselves a…
Today's story is one about a unique focus. Someone who has dedicated a whole lot of time on mastering one subject. One subject that is dually quite simple yet extremely complex: water.Today I am talk…
How many people want to be a homesteader?Living off the land, off the grid, working for themselves, and around their family - The Good Life, just like Helen and Scott Nearing described so many years …
Darren Doherty discusses his farm setup and various broadacre topics - perennial grasses, silvopasture.This is the fifth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open consultancies. The consultancie…
This is the full presentation from one of Greg Judy's talks from PV1.
Greg and his wife Jan are farmers from Rucker, Missouri. On their farm, Green Pastures Farm, they raise cattle, sheep, horses, go…
Chad Sentman of Action House Productions joins me to about video, permaculture, and business. Chad is the videographer that filmed PV1. He is also an permie entrepreneur who started his own video pro…
Shannon Jones, a young farmer from River Hebert, Nova Scotia joins me to talk about what it is like to be a young farmer on her farm, Broadfork Farm. She started the farm with her partner Bryan Dyck …
Michael Jordan, The Bee Whisperer, joins me to talk about bees and bee keeping.Michael is a holistic bee keeper who is doing beekeeping the right way. He has worked tirelessly to promote sustainable …
John Pugliano of Investable Wealth joins me to talk about navigating the fear of leaving one job and starting a fresh career.One key theme that I hear from a lot of people is that they want to transi…
Ben Falk and Grant Schultz join me to talk about permaculture as a survival preparedness strategy. How can we use whole systems design to create systems that work passively to increase our resiliency…
Mark Shepard of Forest Agriculture Enterprises joins me to talk about the future of agriculture. Mark has a pretty clear view on how he thinks the future of agriculture could be.. restoration agricul…
Bob Hamberg of Omega-Alpha Recycling Systems and Dragon Husbandry joins me to talk about anaerobic digestion and biogas. How we can use "waste" to close the loop and get beneficial by-products in the…
I am talking to my friend Tall Paul who helped out at registration with PV1.
In this episode we talk about why I did what I did when I planned out the conference and what my goals are for the future.
…Toby Hemenway joins me to talk permaculture - how permaculture has changed and how we can work more permaculture into our lives.Toby also talks about being one of instructors for the new Ecological L…
Darren Doherty discusses soil mineralization, value adding on farms, and farm water systems.This is the fourth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open consultancies. The consultancies themselv…
Darren Doherty walks Doniga and Eric Markegard through some basic farm design. Working with contour maps. Where to hold water in the landscape. Various uses for tree systems on the farm.This is the t…
Dave Whitinger of All Things Plants joins me for a to chat about different [permaculture] plants that he grows.
Most of these plants are class permaculture plants. They are plants that perform multip…
Kevin Muno is on the show talking about his new start-up restoration agriculture style farm, Montado Farms.
Kevin talks about why he is doing what he is doing against a lot of heavy odds - highland p…
Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture joins me to talk about the business of permaculture - a right livelihood.We live in a world where we are surrounded by environmental liabilities that have a real econom…
Grant Schultz joins me to talk about developing a perennial polyculture in the middle of row-crop corn and soy country Iowa.
He discusses a lot of the innovation and developments taking place on his …