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Digging in the Dirt - Archives

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN

Kevin and his guests dig a little deeper into subjects and issues around growing food, gardening, farming, soil health and the climate crisis facing planet earth.

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29:22

Tianna Kennedy Executive Director - Catskills...

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2025/03/06

My guest today is Tianna Kennedy. She has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. She is the executive director of Catskills Agrarian Alliance, a multi-stakeholder food sovereignty project working on many food related issues in the NY Catskills foodshed. Tianna, Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen also own and operate Star Route Farm, LLC, a diversified vegetable and small grain farm growing exclusively for mutual aid. The CAA evolved from The 607 CSA, an 800+ person multi-farm

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28:45

The Church - April Gornik and Carl Safina 2024

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2025/03/06

My guests on “Digging in the Dirt" Monday afternoon are two committed environmentalists, renowned American landscape Artist April Gornik and McArthur fellow Carl Safina. Their respective organizations, The Church and the Safina Center are doing wonderful work in their own creative ways. They are coming aboard to talk about the April 1st 2024 Creativity Conference to be held at the Church. which is located in Sag Harbor long Island.

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32:04

Maureen Gallagher Insurance Expert - Extreme weather...

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2025/03/06

My guest today is a highly successful insurance agent Maureen Gallagher. I wanted to get Maureen's perspective on the the rise in Extreme weather events and the effects they have on the Insurance industry covering the losses incurred.Maureen Gallagher is the Risk Management Group Agency President. Gallagher specializes in insurance placement, risk management consulting and expert opinions. She began her career almost 50 years ago and has held the titles of insurance underwriter, broker,

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26:50

Teal Lehto - Westernwatergirl on TikTok

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2025/03/06

My guest today is a young woman who is very concerned about climate change and the water crisis in the west, in particular and elsewhere generally and it appears so are many others, because she has over 45,000 Followers. Teal Lehto who posts TikToks about serious stuff, in a surprisingly hip and engaging manner in rapid fire delivery to get all the facts in … in just minutes . Using humor and a bit of salty language to reach her young viewers.

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20:27

Joe Magazzi - Owner Green Earth Ag & Turf 2024

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2025/03/06

My next guest Joe Magazzi small business man here in CT would be helpful to everyone looking to do the right thing by our gardens organically. Joe is a good friend of mine and WPKN. Joe owns and operates Green earth Ag and turf up in Branford Ct. and he’s on line at Grow it naturally. Com. Where his company sells Proven & Easy Organic Products for Plants, Turf & Trees. I personally rely on Green earth to get quality products for my own garden.

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31:08

Vincent Kay Farmer - Garlic Grower/Beekeeper - Swords...

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2025/03/06

My guest here today on DITD is Vincent Kay a lifelong resident of Connecticut. Vincent happens to be one of Connecticut's top garlic growers. So I contacted him to buy seed and come to find out he worked for Pacifica Network News as well as NPR and as News Director at WPKN radio in Bridgeport From 1996-98.Now after 38 years he operates the State's largest commercial beekeeping business and is the sole proprietor of Swords into Plowshares Honey, producing Connecticut's finest wildflower

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12:01

Park City Compost Principals Thomas Iezin & Andrew...

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2025/03/06

My guests on this segment are Thomas Iezin Marketing Communications, and Assistant Operations Manager of the Park City Compost Initiative And Andrew Tyrrell, the Operations Manager for Park City Compost Initiative where they want to create a non-profit commercial composting site for Bridgeport and the surrounding cities and towns. Andrew Is a Master's Composter.Park City Compost started composting their neighbor's food scraps in 2019 and it now has over 100 participants from which they

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46:28

Woody Tasch - Founder Beetcoin & Slow money

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2025/03/06

Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Chelsea Green PressSOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, andAHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage, sustainability-promoting

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35:53

Daphne Dixon Co-Founder Live Green Ct. Network -...

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2025/03/05

Daphne Dixon is Co-founder and Executive Director at Live Green Network in Ct. Daphne along with Alyssa Murphy went on a coast to coast EV road trip, going from one United States coast to anotherin a Ford Mustang Mach-E all-wheel drive EV. In the middle of this trip Daphne came on Digging in the Dirt to fill us in on what was going on and now she is back to give her final report and assessment of what happened on this unique trip and talk about the future of electric vehicles.

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38:33

Craig LeHoullier Author "Epic Tomatoes 2023

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2025/03/05

I’m pleased to welcome back to “Digging in the Dirt… Gardener, author, educator, podcaster blogger and frequent collaborator with Joe Lamp’l of the Joe Gardener TV show… Craig LeHoullier.In addition Craig wrote one of the great books on tomatoes, It's called Epic Tomatoes. Beautiful to look at and a very good resource for all of us tomato geeks.

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29:33

Nick Skeadis - Curbside Compost - 2023

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2025/03/05

My guest today is Nick Skeadas a Connecticut man who has a business that makes him a living and helps the planet at the same time. Nick manages Curbside Compost, a resource recovery company in Southern Ct. Nick and his wife Erica are raising their two children in Ridgefield, where the family practices thoughtful living. Nick is here because I personally believe that we are not going to get out of many of the environmental problems we face without the help of business.

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28:26

Dan Martens of Novamont March 2022 "Digging in the Dirt"

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2025/03/05

A continuing conversation with the Vice-President of Novamont N.A.NOVAMONT is a leader in the world of bioplastics. It promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.

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38:25

Paula J. Ehrlich - C.E.O, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity...

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2025/03/05

My guest on this episode of Digging in the Dirt is President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Paula J. Ehrlich. The Half-Earth Project's purpose is to inspire informed collective action to save the biosphere.

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26:18

Pine Cone Kitchen Owners Kayla Burton and Greg Lusson...

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2025/03/05

I have been interested in Black Garlic ever since two fans of DITD Anne and Jim suggested I check out Black Garlic and do a show about it .Then my friend and colleague, the sorely missed Guy Beardsley, gave me two heads of Black garlic when I bought seed garlic from him for my garden a while back and I've been hooked ever since. Now I have finally found someone to talk to about Black Garlic with me. That's why these self described food lovers and Black Garlic makers Kayla Burton and Greg

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35:48

Freedom Gerado & Liz Guerra Seamarron Farmstead...

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2025/03/05

My guests today are Hector Gerado and Liz Guerra owners of SeaMARRON Farmstead near Danbury CT. They have been community and union organizers and They are BIPOC NYers from the Bronx turned #homesteaders #hempfarmers #beekeepers 🐝|| Hosts of the @bluedreamradio_ podcast Liz is also a Full spectrum doula/birth worker

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38:14

Dan Kittredge Executive Director The Bionutrient Food...

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2025/03/05

My guest today on Digging in the DIrt is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association Dan Kittridge. Dan has been here many times before . He is a good friend of WPKN and Digging in the Dirt. We talk Bio-nutrious food and the Bionutrient Meter.

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41:39

Zach Loeks - The Edible Ecosystem solution 2022

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2025/03/05

My guest today is Zach Loeks author, educator, designer and grower who specializes in edible ecosystems around the world. He is also the director of the ecosystem solution institute and author of the book “The Permaculture Market Garden” and he's here to talk to me about his new book “THE EDIBLE ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION".. Growing Biodiversity in your backyard and beyond.

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30:19

Vicki Hird - Rebugging the planet 2022

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2025/03/05

My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arena. She is here today to talk about her latest book - Rebugging the Planet - The Remarkable Things

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18:45

Sefra Alexandra Former Coordinator CTNOFA Ecotype...

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2025/03/05

My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success. She was taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative, The Ecotype Project. She is here today to talk about that project as well as the eco59 project.

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21:44

Pollinator Pathways - Dave Carr West Haven CT.

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2025/03/05

My guest on this program is Dave Carr Lead organizer for Pollinator Pathways West Haven. The goal of this group is to install native perennial plants while building community and educating people about the importance of pollinators to support insects that also feed migrating birds. The project started in 2019. Dave founded Earth lobbyist.com in 2018. Earth lobbyists is a nonpartisan educational resource containing original writing, original photographs and a virtual Art Gallery which was

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