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

Chris & Owen of Truelove Seeds

Chris & Owen of Truelove Seeds, a farm-based seed company, offer seeds grown by 70+ small scale urban and rural growers. They discuss their seed stories, how they came to be seedkeepers and Truelove's network of seed growers.

SeedDan BriseboisJuly 6, 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

Building a Relationship-Based Model, Tianna Kennedy of 607 CSA

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.

CollaborativeJackson RolettJune 30, 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

Liz & Matthew of Muddy Fingers Farm

Liz and Matthew of Muddy Fingers Farm have been growing veg for CSA and market on about 3 acres for about twenty years! and now grow a handful of seed crops on contract for seed companies and for on-farm use.

SeedDan BriseboisJune 22, 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

Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed

Frank is a renown seed grower and sells seed through their seed catalogue and website, Wild Garden Seed. You can also follow them on Instagram. Frank talks about his farming career, how he scaled up and down (and why), and imparts some farm wisdom.

SeedDan BriseboisJune 15, 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

When a CSA Partnership Scales, Molly Flerlage of Full Plate Farm Collective

The 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.

CollaborativeJackson RolettJune 9, 2022 Comment

Helen Skiba of Artemis Flower Farm

Helen of Artemis Flower Farm sells cut flowers through farmers markets, wholesale, and a flower CSA, and sells dahlia tubers and flower bulbs through her online store. Get ready for EVERYTHING about dahlia tuber propagation and sales.

SeedDan BriseboisJune 8, 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

Commons Author & Podcaster, David Bollier

Author 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.

CollaborativeJackson RolettMay 26, 2022Comment

Rowen White of Sierra Seeds

Rowen White is a seed-keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous food and seed sovereignty. She grows seed outside of Nevada City, California, in the foothills of the Sierras.

SeedDan BriseboisMay 25, 2022Comment

Annie & Nathaniel of Deep Harvest Farm

Annie & Nathaniel of Deep Harvest tell us about running both a veg CSA and seed company on Whidbey Island, outside of Seattle, how they navigate seed/veg on the same farm, and break down growing beets from seed to seed.

SeedDan BriseboisMay 18, 2022Comment

Immigrant Farmers Growing Together in Nashville, w/ Tally May

What 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.

CollaborativeJackson RolettMay 12, 2022Comment

Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm

A living seed LEGEND, Kristyn of Namu Farm grows veg & seed crops in Ca. She is also a part of Second Generation Seeds, a collective of Asian-American growers devoted to the deepening of culturally adaptive seed/veg production.

SeedDan BriseboisMay 11, 2022Comment