Episode 109: From Urban Organizers to Organic...

Jeff Kleypas is Distribution Manager and Senior Agronomist at Advancing Eco Agriculture, based in South Texas. He began his career 20 years ago as a crop consultant walking South Texas vegetable fields that were sprayed weekly with insecticides and fungicides. He started working ...  Show more

Wendy Mariko Johnson farms in Floyd County, Iowa, near Charles City. She grew up on an Iowa farm, left at 18 in the 1990s for an 18-year career in the Los Angeles fashion industry, and returned in 2010 with her husband Johnny Rafkin. Having watched farms close across Iowa in the ...  Show more

Ever since 2020, I have become increasingly aware of how fragile our food supply system is. My wife and I made the decision to start growing our own food and raising chickens, something that we had seen our neighbor do on a ¼ acre lot and we figured, if they can do it, we ...

Dani talks with Ryland Engelhardt and Finnian Makepeace about their organization <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Ground</span> and their 2020 documentary. <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Grou ...

In this episode I'm joined by Katie and Jon Tlush from Tlush Family Farm near Philadelphia. Among other things, Katie and Jon are growing and selling both mushrooms and microgreens, growing both indoors.This is a really interesting episode, especially if mushroom growing is somet ...  Show more

In this episode, farmer Becky Hume of VRDNT Farm drills down on the importance of sustainability as a key in keeping  a farm running for years to come. 

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