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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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33:51

Hidden Half Of Nature - David Montgomery - Author

Digging in the Dirt - Archives ·

2025/02/25

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt The duo wrote the book The Hidden Half of Nature which tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.

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45:42

Beyond Pesticides - Director Jay Feldman - Our...

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2025/02/25

Kevin Gallagher brings his guest Jay Feldman on Digging in the Dirt to talk about the effects the proliferation of chemicals in our food has on our health. Jay is a co-founder and Executive Director of the organization Beyond Pesticides and has served as its director since 1981. In Addition, Jay served a 5 year term on National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).Beyond Pesticides works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic

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27:16

Michigan Urban Farming Initiative - MUFI Tyson Gersh...

Digging in the Dirt - Archives ·

2025/02/25

My guest on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt" is Tyson Gersh Co-founder & President of MUFI The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, which is billed as the 1st sustainable U.S. "Agrihood". The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to engage members of the Michigan community in sustainable agriculture. They believe that challenges unique to the Michigan community (e.g., vacant land, poor diet, nutritional illiteracy, and food insecurity)

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28:06

"The Perfect Earth Project" - Edwina von Gal

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2025/02/24

On this segment of "Digging in the Dirt" I'll be Talking to Edwina von Gal about her Perfect Earth Project. Founded in 2013 by Edwina, Perfect Earth Project is a rapidly expanding non-profit organization operating from offices in East Hampton, NY.They raise consciousness about the dangers of synthetic lawn and garden chemicals to humans, animals, and the environment, and educate homeowners and professionals about natural, PRFCT (toxin-free) techniques that provide beautiful, safe results at

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38:22

Michael Mann - Countering Climate Change Denialism...

Digging in the Dirt - Archives ·

2025/02/24

On the eve of testifying in front of the US House of Representatives Science Committee eight years ago, Kevin welcomes back to another edition of Digging in the Dirt, Michael Mann. Michael is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, His latest book is entitled "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (2016)." The

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30:57

The Ground Beneath Us - Paul Bogard - Author

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2025/02/24

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt is author Paul Bogard - Author. I Paul Bogard's mission in THE GROUND BENEATH US is to find out Is there any untrodden foot of ground left? Paul takes a closer look at what is going on with the layers of soil beneath our civilizations.Increasingly we live separated from the natural ground itself, concealing from us our profound relationship to the source not only of our food, water, and energy, but to the many majestic, poetic, and yes, very basic, ways the

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27:19

Colorblends Tulip Bulb Company - Owner Tim Schipper ...

Digging in the Dirt - Archives ·

2025/02/24

My guest this time around on "Digging in the Dirt" is Tim Schipper founder and owner of a Bridgeport business, Tulip Colorblends …....a wholesale bulb distributor and a WPKN radio supporter. Tim's family has been in the tulip Bulb business since Tim's Grandfather started the business back n the Netherlands in the early 1900's and brought it here to the US after WW ll. Listen up all you flower lovers!

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37:09

Compact Farms - Josh Volk author

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2025/02/24

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt" this time around was Josh Volk talking about his new book "Compact Farms" 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency.Josh in addition to his new book Compact Farms. He is the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm in Portland, Oregon, and has been working on and managing small farms around the country for the last 20 years, studying the systems that make them efficient.

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28:55

"The Healthy soil movement" - Steven Rosenzweig -...

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2025/02/24

I was reading an article in Ensia Magazine about a subject near and dear to me, soil. In fact it's called the healthy soil movement. The author Steven Rosenzweig joined me to discuss the fascinating things happening with farmers and the soil they grow our food in. The ideas and practices apply to all of us who grow food...small, large and corporate farmers and you the backyard gardener.Ensia is an independent, nonprofit magazine presenting new perspectives on environmental challenges and

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25:04

Ira Haspel Bio Dynamic Farmer KK's Farm, Southhold NY

Digging in the Dirt - Archives ·

2025/02/24

My guest today is Ira Haspel Bio-Dynamic Farmer and owner of KK's Farm in Southhold, NY on The North Shore of Long Island. This is Ira's second visit to "Digging in the Dirt" because he's here to talk about his up coming annual Dandelion Festival at the farm, to be held all day Sunday May 5th. Plus we'll get into chemical free growing through Bio-Dynamic principles.BioDynamic FarmingKK's FarmIra HaspelDigging in the DirtKevin GallagherDandelion Festival

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31:46

Dave Chapman - Exec. Dir. Real Organic Project -...

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2024/08/05

My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is The executive Director of the Real Organic Project. We will be talking about The 2021 Virtual Symposium happening every Sunday this coming January from 3-5pm EST! Five sessions of Speakers including Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Dan Barber, Alice Waters, Jean-Martin Fortier, Karen Washington, and many more!

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31:15

Jennifer Jewell - The Earth in Her Hands 2021

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2024/07/05

My guest on this segment of "DIGGING IN THE DIRT" is Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998. Jennifer joins me here on DITD to talk about her book The Earth in Her

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31:07

Permaculture w/ Peter Bane - Digging in the Dirt

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2024/07/05

Join me and my latest guest Peter Bane author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country. For 25 years, he published Permaculture Activist, and serves on the Editorial Board of its successor, Permaculture Design magazine. Past President and now Executive Director of PINA (Permaculture Institute of North America), he has taught and designed throughout the temperate and tropical Americas from Canada to Patagonia, training thousands in his workshops, and educating

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