Tianna is a founding member of Star Route Farm in NY and owner/coordinator of the 607 CSA. She talks about how Star Route Farm began as a partnership, how/why they incorporated a third owner and how it’s multiform CSA component split off to form a whole other organization which she now coordinates.
Read MoreThe Full Plate Farm Collective began in Ithaca NY nearly 20 years ago. Since, it has grown to 700 members, enough to have a full time coordinator (ie. Molly Flerlage), and brings in product from dozens of other farms and value added producers throughout the region.
Read MoreAuthor and podcaster David Bollier! David has written extensively on commoning for the last 20+ years. For those not familiar with that word, commoning is simply the act of managing shared resources like land or information.
Read MoreWhat does it look like to give Burmese and Bhutanese elders and families, and by extension immigrant and refugee peoples, meaningful growing opportunities? With Tallahassee May, farm director of Growing Together Nashville.
Read More"Liberation Farms is food justice in action. It is a demonstration of the success that is possible when marginalized communities have the opportunity to organize and lead themselves." A conversation with Lana & Muhidin…
Read MoreA conversation I envisioned since the beginning of this podcast, I talk with Brent Lackey of the Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development about cooperative development, step by step.
Read MoreAs a follow up to last week's Aliments Farmhouse Food conversation, Hannah and Natalie from Ferme Agricola share a bit about what it's like being a member of a producers cooperative from the perspective of the farmers.
Read MoreAliments Farmhouse Food is a multifarm cooperative of seven farm members co-markting their produce, meat, dairy, and more through a home delivery CSA to some three to four hundred members throughout Ottawa, Canada.
Read MoreMikey & Erin of Boxcar Acres provide a multi-farm, full-diet, full-choice CSA in KY. They aggregate/distribute veg from their own farm and several others, along with protein, dairy, honey, & value-added goods, all full-choice at a flat rate.
Read MoreTalking cooperative composting with Nathan & Michael from Tilth Soil & Rust Belt Riders, who have been collecting and diverting food waste from landfills and, as a result, have been making some of the best composts and soils around.
Read MoreCody & Mel of Speedwell Farm & Gardens and Helen of Farmette Flowers, making up two thirds of The Treehouse Farm Collective, talk about their shotgun wedding farming collectively for the sake of land access.
Read MoreA quick conversation with Col Gordon about Farmerama's LANDED podcast series which explores the colonial roots of the small family farm. It's some of the best three hours of farm podcasting out there and you can listen to it here. Cannot. Recommend. It enough.
Read MoreToday, we revisit Eric & Jill of Green Things Farm Collective. I couldn’t think of a better way to end the series than with one of the first farm collectives from last year. Maybe we’ll make it a tradition to check in with them every season!
Read MoreThe mission of Agrarian Land Trust is to build local agrarian commons to hold farmland to ensure its sustainable and productive stewardship for generations to come. Ian McSweeney explains how agrarian commons work, why they’re important, and where to begin.
Read MoreRob is the director of Viva Farms, an incubator farm that offers access to land and infrastructure AND opportunities for on-farm education and on-site aggregation/distribution for nearly 30 farms in the Skagit Valley in Washington.
Read MoreIra & Mary of the Acorn Community & Southern Exposure Seed Exchange not only grow food crops for the community, they also grow seed crops and manage the seed business which contracts with 70+ seed producers.
Read MoreSarah Mock, author of Farm and Other F-Words, talks about how our love of small family farms is counter-productive & shares a vision for a path forward: Big Team Farm. Order her book RIGHT F-ING NOW & follow her awesome substack.
Read MoreValley Spirit Farm is a two-family partnership farming together "over the fencerow" & The Berry Center is connecting farmers across Henry County with, Our Home Place Meats, of which Valley Spirit is a part. #KentuckyRepresent
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