The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson
Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We'll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you're informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system... and to have a great time doing it!
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 939
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
159: Brandon Peterman on Natural Building
159: Brandon Peterman on Natural Building
Constructing buildings and materials from locally sourced ingredients
Brandon grew up in Southern California and went to University of Southern California Riv…
158: Andrew Millison on Scaling up Permaculture
158: Andrew Millison on Scaling up Permaculture
Sharing a regenerative design system and the medicine our planet needs.
Andrew has been studying, teaching and practicing permaculture since he took his …
157: Elena Ortiz on Nature Education for Adults
Elena Ortiz on Nature Education for Adults
Making connections to nature through working in a college garden.
Elena has been teaching with the Phoenix College Biosciences Department in the Maricopa Comm…
156: Keri Fox on SPIN Farming
Keri Fox on SPIN Farming
Starting a farming business in an urban area and making it work.
Keri grew up on an organic farm in a small Saskatchewan community when organic wasn’t cool or trendy. After fee…
155: Lawrence Parkhill of the Veteran Farmers of America
155: Lawrence Parkhill of the Veteran Farmers of America
Helping our returning veterans heal through farming and agriculture.
Lawrence signed up for the infantry at age 16 when the towers fell, and le…
154: Julian Awad on Backyard Riches and SPIN Farming
Julian Awad on Backyard Riches and SPIN Farming
Taking a Small Plot and with Intensive Farming generate income.
Julian experienced entrepreneurship early at the age of 12 when he first started importin…
153: Forest Shomer on Seeds
Forest started urban farming in 1969 in Berkeley, California. Through the People’s Park Movement, he was launched into gardening and got the basic training and motivation for becoming a seedman.
He h…
152: Matt Powers on Regenerative Living
Making a difference through social permaculture and gardening.
Matt is an experienced teacher, family guy, author, consultant, farmer, seed saver, plant breeder, musician, blogger, & permaculturist. H…
151: Saskia Esslinger on Teaching Gardening
Saskia is a passionate gardener who believes everyone can grow some of their own food. She is trained in Permaculture, Environmental Science, and Regenerative Entrepreneurship. After turning a house …
150: Karine Kuchipudi on Going Vegan
Transitioning to a plant based diet for a healthy lifestyle.
Karine was once an extreme carnivore and she happily ate sweetbreads, blood pudding, lots of meats including game, and all kinds of raw mea…
149: Sean Quinn on Vertical Farming
Considering design in architecture and it’s impact on urban agriculture.
Sean complements his design practice with research in green building technologies including, among other things, urban and vert…
148: Michael Ableman on Street Farms
Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
Michael Ableman, the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms, is one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. He has crea…
147: Shawn and Beth Dougherty on Farmsteading
Utilizing managed intensive grazing for maximum benefit for land and animals
Shawn and Beth have been farming together since the 1980’s, for the last twenty years in eastern Ohio, where they manage 24…
146: Robert Colangelo on Indoor Vertical Farming
Robert is a scientist, author, and environmental entrepreneur who founded several leading market-based environmental concerns. Currently he serves as host of Green Sense Radio Show and Founding Farme…
145: Storm Kirk on Community and Gardening
Storm lives on the South Fork of the Cosumnes River in Northern California with her husband Allen and her youngest child Savannah. She is the founder of “Wings on the Wind Healing Arts Center and San…
144: Marianne West on Using Permaculture at Home
Marianne is the co-host/co-producer of the Sustainable Living Podcast, the co-organizer of the San Diego Permaculture Meet up group and the founder and organizer of the TOP Organic Edibles Garden Clu…
143: Cara Dafforn on Dehydrating the Urban Farm
Cara is passionate about the tradition of supper and takes Civil War history very seriously; So it made sense for her to couple her food passion with membership in MidStates Living History Associatio…
142: Craig Jenkins-Sutton on Tree Selection and Planting
Craig’s love of the landscape was a natural progression of his upbringing in central Minnesota where he grew up at a youth camp. When he attended college in Chicago, he maintained his connection with…
141: Sherrie Pelsma on Pollinator Parkways
Sherrie Pelsma on Pollinator Parkways.
Bolstering pollinators in urban spaces and expanding safe habitats.
Sherrie grew up on the rural Oregon Coast before moving to Portland to finish her degree. She …
140: Dr. Jack Wolfson on the Paleo Diet and Heart Health
Jack Wolfson D.O., F.A.C.C., is a board certified cardiologist who uses nutrition and supplements to prevent and treat disease. After ten years performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac pr…