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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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28:35

Sherri Brooks Vinton Author Put Em Up! Canning,...

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2025/02/25

My guest today is here to talk about ways to save your garden excess for later enjoyment. Sherri Brooks Vinton has written a few very useful books called PUT EM UP! , The Put em Up! Perserving answer book. And Put Em Up, Fruit.

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25:57

Khadijah Muhammad Urban Farmer of Blissful Awakening...

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2025/02/25

Khadijah Muhammad is a Urban farmer in Bridgeport Connecticut. She talks with me about the struggles to foster her passion of growing healthy food and educating her community to the advantages of gorwing and eating your own food.

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39:01

Dr. Zach Bush - The Microbiome and the Gut/Brain...

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2025/02/25

I sat down with well known author and speaker, Triple board certified, Dr. Zach Bush, to talk to him about the state of American health today. Among other thing, specifically the relationship between gut health and the microbiome and how that can translate to a healthy immune system. We also get into the major threat posed to all of us by glyphosates, better known as the weed killer Roundup.

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38:18

The ideal soil - Michael Astera Author 2017

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2025/02/25

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Michael Astera the author of the book the ideal soil is kevins guest, as he talks about the secrets of soil mineral balance that create ideal soil, plant, and animal health are revealed here for the first time. The amazing results that can be achieved by balancing the major cation minerals Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium in the soil according to the teachings of Dr William Albrecht and Dr Carey Reams have changed the world of agriculture.

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55:04

Michael E Mann - The Madhouse Effect - Climate Change...

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2025/02/25

On "Digging in the Dirt" Host Kevin Gallagher spends one hour talking with Michael E. Mann about Climate Change. The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have written a new book together entitled "The Madhouse Effect". Mann and Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the

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35:34

Wakeman Town Farm in Westport Ct. - Kelsey Brennan &...

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2025/02/25

My guests on this episode are Kelsey Brennan currently the farmer at Wakeman Town Farm in Westport Ct. She studied sustainable agriculture and development economics at the U of Conneticut and Christy Colasurdo – Events Director for the Wakeman Town Farm and author of The CT Farm Table Cookbook, a cookbook she co-wrote about 4 years ago paying homage to hardworking CT farmers and the talented local chefs who support them. She is the former co-chair of Wakeman Town Farm .

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46:36

Plastic Pollution Coalition - Dianna Cohen Executive...

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2025/02/25

My guest on DITD this segment, is Dianna Cohen the co-founder and Executive Director of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. A group of over 700 organizations and individuals dedicated to,.. at the very least, stopping the use of single use plastic. Dianna and I delve into the major crisis that is Plastic Pollution. It's everywhere and causing major problems. What's going on and what can we as consumers do about it. Listen in. www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/

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30:08

Organic Consumers Association - Ronnie Cummins...

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2025/02/25

There is a fight to protect the definitions of Organic and fraudulent mislabeling of organic products and your right to know what you are eating. My guest is Ronnie Cummins a co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) www.organicconsumers.org,and its Mexico affiliate Via Organica, and they are at the forefront of that fight.The Organic Consumers Association is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic

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32:26

"The Potlikker Papers" John T. Edge - “A food History...

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2025/02/25

Join me for a fascinating conversation about the food and the people behind the stove of our southern states. John T. Edge calls himself a Cultural Spelunker going after tales of the south. He is the Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and has written an extremely interesting, complex book about the South. Using Southern food as a jumping off point, John T. digs deeply into the history of it's people and their struggles with the legacy of Slavery, race relations and the food their

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32:40

One Tree Planted with Matt Hill Chief Environmental...

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2025/02/25

On this "Digging in the Dirt" we talk to Matt Hill of One Tree Planted, A non Profit organization focusing on Global reforestation. They work with reforestation organizations around the world that need financial support to help them get more trees in the ground.One dollar. One tree.

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22:59

Bob Halstead Bridgeport Ct. - Community Garden...

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2025/02/25

My guest on segment of DITD is Bob Halstead a well known person in Bridgeport Ct. Bob has worked this 28 years in housing & community development and real estate in Bridgeport, and is president of the Bridgeport Community Land Trust which has been around for 40 years. Bob is an architectural Preservation advocate and a community Garden and land use activist, Sometimes known as the Garden Guy, early on Bob had great success advocating turning the empty the lots of Bridgeport into

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38:47

Vermicomposting - Worms - Rhonda Sherman of NC State...

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2025/02/25

Recently I started Vermicomposting in my basement. That's right, I have 1000 worms (soon to be 6000), reducing our kitchen waste and the New York times into "Black Gold", WORM CRAP! Join me on "Digging in the Dirt" to hear my conversation with my guest Rhonda Sherman. Rhonda is a solid waste specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. She is considered one of the leading authorities on vermicomposting. She was formerly a member of the Board of

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32:58

Growing Organic Mushrooms - Tradd Cotter

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2025/02/25

My guest on this episode of DITD is Tradd Cotter author of the book 'Organic Mushroom Farming and Myco remediation'His book is an exploration of the best organic mushroom cultivation practices, Whether the goal is to help a community clean up industrial pollution or simply to grow your own mushrooms to enjoy in your meals...Tradd's book is geared toward readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pesticides. Cotter takes "organic" one step further by introducing an entirely new

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31:24

Worms with "Wiggle Room"- Monique Bosch & Justin Hawrysh

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2025/02/25

On this episode of " Digging in the Dirt" on listener supported community radio WPKN.org , I have invited on 2 guests who are CT. locals right here in WPKN 's backyard running a cool little business called Wiggle Room for their lively hood, while trying to make a difference at the same time. Monique Bosch and Justin Hawrysh are the Mother and son team behind Wiggle Room a Vermicomposting company based in Bridgeport, CT. In simpler terms they sell worm castings, worm poop, BLACK GOLD, .

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24:44

Sarah Mabruch - Director The Food Cure (Film)- Hope...

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2025/02/25

On this episode of Digging in the Dirt, join me in a conversation with Director Sarah Mabruck. Sarah followed the lives of six aggressively ill cancer patients for nearly eight years with her camera, as they tried an alternative cure based on a radical diet change. The Food Cure - Hope or Hype is an extraordinary film that runs the gamut of emotions and will change the way you think about what you eat.

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29:41

Organic Lawns - Chip Osborne Founder Organic...

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2025/02/25

The most chemically toxic environment you and your children and pets are exposed to is your landscaping. Find out what you can do about it, when Kevin Gallagher talks to “Chip” Osborne, Jr. , President of Osborne Organics. Chip has over 10 years experience in creating safe, sustainable and healthy athletic fields and landscapes through natural turf management and 35 years experience as a professional horticulturist. Chip is also a board member of Beyond pesticides. Chip has recently founded

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33:10

Dan Kittredge Exec. Dir. of the Bionutrient Food...

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2025/02/25

Dan Kittredge is Executive Director of The Bio-Nutrient Food Association. Dan is making his 4th appearance on Digging in the dirt as we follow the BFA's effort s to develop a Bionutrient meter.Listen in to hear about the Bionutrient Meter and the upcoming 8th annual Soil and Nutrition Conference in Southbridge Mass.The conference will be.... “Exploring principles, techniques and practices at the intersection of farm and human ecosystems that can be applied to improve environmental

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31:07

The Hidden Connection - Kathleen DiChiara -...

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2025/02/25

Kathleen Di Chiara is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, among other things and Author of the bestselling book, The Hidden Connection. Her personal journey through a major health crisis and "cure" has brought her to her current calling as a nutrition educator and researcher, Kathleen has dedicated her work to increasing the public’s knowledge about the connection between nutrition and patterns of disease. She advocates a wide range of nutritional wisdom, food savy and

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23:07

Suzanne Duesing - Northeast Organic Farming Assoc....

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2025/02/25

My guest this afternoon is Suzanne Duesing. Suzanne lived and worked with her partner Bill Duesing on the Old Solar Farm for three decades. Together they raised animals, fruits and vegetables for their family and community ...Her husband Bill is the founder of the CT chapter of NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, part of the larger network of chapters throughout New England, New York and New Jersey. He dedicated his entire adult life to the perpetuation of a sustainable, local

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29:20

Open Sesame - The story of Seeds - Film Director Sean...

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2025/02/25

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Director Sean Kaminsky to discuss his film about one of the world’s most precious resources that is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving documentary illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink…but given far less attention.

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