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Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good is a podcast with and about hobby farmers, small-scale farmers and sustainable farmers. More than that, it’s about the important work these folks are doing for themselves, their families and their communities on and off the farm. Each episode, host Lisa Munniksma sits down to chat with someone doing the good work to discuss how they started, what they"re doing now, and what drives them to keep growing. (A presentation of Hobby Farms® magazine, an EG Media

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Episode 28: Cheryl Browne on permaculture, herbal...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/04/27

On this episode of "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good," host Lisa Munniksma talks with permaculturalist, urban farming educator and New York City garden designer, Cheryl Browne. A co-founder of the Black Permaculture Network, Browne helps people bring the outdoors in through her business, Urban Permie, connecting them with opportunities to experience nature and connect with more natural living. Learn about what herbs you can grow indoors to enhance wellness in your life, how an effective

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Episode 27: Mariel Gardner on urban farms, pollinator...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/04/06

Urban farmer Mariel Gardner talks about 5th Element Farms (aka Apocalyptic Acres), where Dope Beets, Dope Rhymes is the motto for the vacant city lot they reclaimed as a space to grow food for their community. Their food access model is to feed the people as best they can with the hope that others will want to support them in this “economy of decency.” Listen in for tips for finding and reusing discarded items for your farm and for starting your own pollinator garden, in the city or the country

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Episode 26: Zoe Fuller chats about Alaskan farming,...

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2022/03/23

Young farmer Zoe Fuller talks about the growing agriculture scene in Alaska, where US farming statistics are being turned on their heads. You’ll hear about small-scale farmers coming together in the Matanuska Valley and creating a community-based economy in Alaska. Hear also about indigenous foodways and salmon-safe farming practices to protect salmon sources and waterways. Learn about what it’s like to farm at Singing Nettle Farm in Southcentral Alaska’s short but productive growing season. And

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Episode 25: Tyler Eshleman talks desert farming,...

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2022/03/09

At Virsylvia Farm in the high desert of New Mexico, Tyler Eshleman and his wife raise goats for dairy and fiber; sheep for dairy, meat and fiber; alpacas for fiber; laying hens; and some vegetables. Hear about the realities of regenerative farming at 8,000 feet above sea level, from the challenging growing and land conditions to the cooperative workings of fellow farmers. Learn about Tyler’s innovative marketing means to get more local food into the hands of more people in his area: a year-round

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Episode 24: Missy Singer DuMars talks egg CSAs,...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/02/16

Missy Singer DuMars tells us about her 13-acre Crown Hill Farm, outside Buffalo, New York, from the Lake Erie sunset views to her sheep and market gardens. Learn about fiber production, the art of scaling up slowly, and how to choose the best varieties to grow and sell. Missy has been hosting dinners and events for a few years, and she tells us about the evolution of the events and why it’s important to connect people to the source of their food. Find out about Missy’s Women in Food podcast,

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Episode 23: Juliann Salinas on Women, Food & Ag...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/02/02

From her .25-acre mini farm in New Mexico, Juliann Salinas talks all about beekeeping, the fragility of the local food system exposed by the pandemic, the Women, Food & Ag Network, and more. You’ll learn a quick history of WFAN’s 25 years, from environmental justice to racial justice, all focused on co-creating a just, equitable and ecological food and agricultural system that includes a place for strong women and nonbinary leadership. See where you fit in to the Growing Community Resilience program

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Episode 22: Bevin Cohen on home-pressed oils,...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/01/19

On this episode of "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good," host Lisa Munniksma talks with herbalist, seed enthusiast and Hobby Farms contributor Bevin Cohen. Cohen and his family left city life some years ago to pursue simple living at their 3-acre Small House Farm—only to find his farming whims pulled him right back to the kind of profit-driven lifestyle he was trying to escape. Hear how Cohen left a marketing career for simpler endeavors in rural central Michigan. Learn about pressing your own

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Episode 21: Sharon Stone on urban farming, gardening...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2022/01/05

Listen in as Sharon Stone—an urban farmer at Two Sons Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and coordinator of the Woodhill International Market—tells us about serving the community through gardening education and increasing access to farm-fresh food. Sharon is a retired teacher and has the most incredible community of people working alongside her to bring fresh food to the Woodhill neighborhood—with something like 32 countries represented in the local school—in a sliding-scale market. She also tells us how

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Episode 20: Rasheed Hislop talks vermicomposting,...

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2021/12/22

Listen as Rasheed Hislop, a Master Composter, offers you his best tips for small-scale vermicomposting. Get your worm bins ready! Hear about how this Brooklyn-raised farmer’s grandparents, in the Hudson Valley and in Trinidad and Tobago, instilled in him an interest in food production by way of gardening, fishing and cooking from scratch. Rasheed talks about his work supporting farmers, first with urban farmers and community gardeners through NYC Parks GreenThumb and now with farmers in

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Episode 19: shiny Flanary on growing healing herbs,...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2021/12/08

Alinee “shiny” Flanary shares with you her top three tips to improve your farmers market sales in this episode. She talks about what it was like to go from “zero to farmer” when she jumped into a farmer incubator program a few years ago. She now manages her own Scrapberry Farm as part of the Raceme Farm Collective, growing primarily herbs for medicine making. Hear about the microfarms and the individuals—including the strengths, skills and challenges they bring with them—comprising the collective

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Episode 18: Michelle Howell

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2021/11/24

Four-season farmer Michelle Howell works at the intersection of farming, health, art and equity. In this podcast episode, hear about how Michelle has woven these aspects together at her family’s diversified Need More Acres Farm in Scottsville, Kentucky. Michelle walks us through what a week looks like on the farm, beginning with their harvest day, working with 20 to 30 different produce items, year-round. Learn from their creative, community-centric marketing approach (some customers get 80% or

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Episode 17: Celize Christy

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2021/11/10

Celize Christy talks poultry keeping with Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good host Lisa Munniksma. Listen in for her tips for homeopathic care for our home flocks and the secret to the brightest egg yolks. Hear about her work with poultry farmers in Uganda and Rwanda and her thinking on the intersection of livestock and livelihoods. Through her work with Practical Farmers of Iowa, Celize organizes farmer-mentorship, land-link and Spanish-language farmer education projects, and she tells us how you

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Episode 16: Pantaleon Florez Talks Incubator Farming,...

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2021/10/22

Through his Maseualkualli Farms in Lawrence, Kansas, Pantaleon Florez has big ideas for farming and food systems equity. Starting out at Common Ground Incubator Farm just before the COVID-19 pandemic began required Panta to be creative in his marketing outlets, shifting away from farmers markets and toward value-added items, restaurant sales and mutual aid food support. Learn about his research in growing corn using traditional Mexica indigenous methods from the 1500s (spoiler alert: it yielded

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Episode 15: Tara Rodríguez Besosa

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2021/10/08

How does a farming community recover after a disaster? By coming together. Tara Rodríguez Besosa talks about Puerto Rico’s agricultural and economic situation, including the role that the U.S. plays and, more importantly, the neighbors providing for one another in Puerto Rico’s food system. Hear how they started their own food journey when their mother left the city to become a farmer, then sold sprouts they grew in their city apartment at the farmers market, and then started big-picture thinking

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Episode 14: Nathan Harben

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2021/09/24

Nathan Harben is a farmer at Local Forage Farm in Glenora, British Columbia, a 2-acre homestead that grows ethically raised livestock, fruits and vegetables. He also works with the food recovery team of Cowichan Green Community, a non-profit organization that has focused on environmental sustainability in Vancouver Island's Cowichan Region since March 2004. Listen in as he talks about farming in extreme heat and meeting water needs during times of drought. Learn about local food security measures

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Episode 13: Anita Ashok Adalja

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2021/09/10

Listen as farmer Anita Ashok Adalja lets us in on what it’s like to grow okra in the Southwest, including how to “convince” neighbors to try a new-to-them vegetable. Learn about the Not Our Farm farmworker visibility project, telling the story of and celebrating folks who are non-farm-owning and working on others’ farms. Find out how to have your own story told and hear about the farmworkers guide that’s about to be released. Dig in to food safety for your small farm with advice from Anita’s place

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Episode 12: Sinéad Fortune

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2021/08/20

Listen in as Sinéad Fortune, living in Scotland, explains how Brexit—Great Britain’s exit from the European Union—has left farmers in the United Kingdom in a precarious place. Imagine not being able to purchase French cheese and Spanish olives … and the seeds and supplies you need to keep farming … because of this shift in political borders. Sinéad, the seed sovereignty program manager in the UK and Ireland for The Gaia Foundation, talks about her work in training farmers and community gardeners to

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Episode 11: Ariana Taylor-Stanley

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good ·

2021/08/06

You asked, and we found your answer! Everyone is looking for funding for farm projects, and this episode’s guest explains the ins and outs of popular and less-known USDA and NRCS grant programs. Ariana Taylor-Stanley talks about her work with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and why that matters to each of us farming. Learn about “organizing”—but not the kind of organizing that your tool shed desperately needs—and about how you as an individual can help to shape farm policy and shift

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Episode 10: Garth Kahl

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2021/07/23

What’s it like to go from knowing nothing about farming to traveling around the world as a consultant to farmers? In this episode, organic farmer and farm consultant Garth Kahl tells us how that path unfolded in his life, how he came to love working with livestock and why he still believes the USDA organic label is the best baseline standard for responsible farm production. Learn how to help get your organic inspection and other vital farm projects paid for with FSA and NRCS funds! Get Garth’s best

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Episode 9: Nate Kleinman

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2021/07/09

Farmer, seed developer and activist Nate Kleinman talks with Growing Good host Lisa Munniksma about his work in the food system and advice for growing some unusual perennial crops. Hear about Experimental Farm Network’s development of perennial staple crops to adapt to various growing conditions—and about how you as a citizen scientist farmer can take part in developing these seeds. Learn about seed rematriation and the work of relationship building behind that effort. And find out how the

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