My guest today is... my dad! Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm. We had such a lovely conversation during season two, so I wanted to invite him back for a listener Q&A to end season three of The Winter Growers Podcast.

WinterClara ColemanAugust 22, 2022Comment

Wolfgang Palme of Zinsenhof Farm

Wolfgang Palme is the horticultural director of Zinsenhof Research Farm west of Vienna, Austria, at the 48th parallel and runs a project in Vienna called City Farm. He's a botanist, author, hortaculturist, and farmer.

WinterClara ColemanAugust 15, 2022Comment

Finegan & Jason of Steelbow Farm

Finegan and Jason of Steelbow Farm, in Austin TX, may seem like unusual guests for the Winter Growers Podcast. Year round growing is primary to their farming model, but it's not without it's challenges, even in Texas.

WinterClara ColemanAugust 8, 2022Comment

Vivian Glover of Gemusegarten Hoxhohl

Vivian Glover of Gemusegarten Hoxhohl, Germany, always knew she wanted to become a farmer. With just under 1 acre in production, her no-dig market garden supplies a 180 member CSA, 90 of those members being year-round.

WinterClara ColemanAugust 1, 2022Comment

Patty Gentry of Early Girl Farm

Patty of Early Girl Farm grows on Long Island. She has been described as "the Picasso of vegetables" and is featured in a documentary film, The Soul of a Farmer, that follows her farming journey and takes a raw and honest look at the challenges facing small-scale farmers today.

WinterClara ColemanJuly 25, 2022Comment

Charles Dowding of No-Dig Gardening

Charles Dowding is a pioneer of no-dig gardening in England. He is a creator, developer, author, and teacher of no-dig methods for the last 40+ years. He currently has 1/3 acre under production at Home Acres.

WinterClara ColemanJuly 18, 2022Comment

Tim & Caroline of Kitchen Garden Farm

Tim Wilcox & Caroline Pam of Kitchen Garden Farm in Sunderland, MA, began their farm as a 1-acre market garden in 2006. Sixteen years later, they've expanded to 70 acres and employ 20 employees year-round.

WinterClara ColemanJuly 11, 2022Comment

Evan Chender, The Culinary Gardener

Evan Chender, The Culinary Gardener, is passionate about variety selection, soil health, crop quality, and meticulous harvest/processing techniques. 95% of his sales are to restaurants. A big portion of his Winter production is radicchio.

WinterClara ColemanJuly 4, 2022Comment

Myrtha Zierock of Agricola Foradori

Myrtha Zierock of Agricola Foradori farms in the Italian Dolomites of northeast Italy. Mytha's goal is to bring year-round vegetables to the same level of appreciation as the bio-dynamic wine her family produces.

WinterClara ColemanJune 27, 2022Comment

Andrew Adams of Hope Farm Organics

Andrew of Hope Farm Organics in BC, Canada is at the 54th parallel, experiencing less than 7.5 hours of daylight on December 21st. With winter lows as cold as -40, where C* and F* meet, he still grows and sell produce year-round!

WinterClara ColemanJune 20, 2022Comment

Kamal Bell of Sankofa Farms

Sankofa Farms aims to improve the perception of agriculture as a profession through it's Sankofa Farm Academy that exposes African-American youth to high-level farming techniques including bee-keeping and year-round caterpillar tunnel production.

WinterClara ColemanJune 13, 2022Comment

Mike & Kelli Roberts of Roots Farm

Kelli & Mike of Roots Farm grow year-round on 1.5 acres using no-till, intensive farming methods and six moveable high-tunnels, each 30' x 48' in size. The moveable tunnels maximize time and space, utilizing three moves each year.

WinterClara ColemanJune 6, 2022Comment

Mr. Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm

Clara Coleman interviews farmer & father Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm for the season two finale of the podcast... on his 83rd birthday! They talk about his 50+ seasons of farming, the little gems of insight he received along the way, family farming, and so much more.

WinterClara ColemanDecember 21, 2021Comment

Cheyenne of Sundance Harvest & Alex of Old City Acres

Cheyenne of Sundance Harvest & Alex of Old City Acres, former podcast guests, comment on the recent social media response from JM, structural racism in agriculture, and how race has impacted their farming experience.

WinterClara ColemanDecember 8, 2021Comment

Alex Ball of Old City Acres

Alex of Old City Acres joins Clara to talk about creating a farm from a forest, moving farms every season, his experience being a young black farmer, offering a flexible year-round CSA, and winter growing in southern Michigan.

WinterClara ColemanDecember 1, 2021Comment

Pavel Orvechkin of Pavel's Garden

Pavel's Garden joins host Clara to talk about the sustainable ag roots of his Russian childhood, his progression into year-round growing in a mild winter climate, pest/disease issues with small-scale intensive growing, and a rad intercropping system.

WinterClara ColemanNovember 24, 2021Comment

Jess Niederer of Chickadee Creek Farm

Jess of Chickadee Creek Farm joins Clara to talk about farming family land, finding local mentors, tractors & ecology, selling 100% direct-to-consumer, spreadsheets, & how having twins changed her relationship to her farm for the better.

WinterClara ColemanNovember 17, 2021Comment

Katherine Nietmann of Moose Meadow Farm

Katherine of Moose Meadow Farm joins host Clara to talk about her experience on university farms, winter growing in Idaho, income vs hours worked over the winter, how wholesale microgreens cashflow their farm, and farming with a newborn.

WinterClara ColemanNovember 10, 2021Comment