Greenhorn Radio
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 152 - Joe Bossen of Vermont...
Joe Bossen is the founder of Vermont Bean Crafters. Originally interest in renewable energies while attending Green Mountain College, Bossen found an opportunity in agriculture to make an impact on how we relate to energy consumption through promoting locally available, sustainably grown foods lower on the food chain, like beans. After working several years on a variety of farms, Joe realized he wanted to grow staple food crops like beans and grains but being unable to capitalize a farm...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 151 - Saundra Ball
Saundra Ball is in her third year of farming, having first apprenticed on a vegetable farm in Texas before moving to the Hudson Valley, where she’s worked on several small scale diversified farms. Saundra now works on a small dairy in Columbia County, milking Jerseys for direct market sales of fluid milk. While she pursues farming, Saundra is supporting herself in the meantime with a career in humanitarian aid. She hopes to have her own raw milk micro-dairy and a flock of sheep one day. Tune...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 150 - Greenhorn Audio Almanac:...
Once again, Severine Von Tscharner Fleming is digging into the Greenhorn archives. In this episode of the "Young Farmer Policy Podcast," von Tscarner Fleming talks to Luke Gran, Beginning Farmer Coordinator at Practical Farmers of Iowa, which is a farmer driven research and education group out of Iowa. This program has been sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
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Once again, we're digging into the Greenhorn archives, and revisiting the 2012 Farm Bill. Annette Higby, from the New England Farm Union, discusses Federal Farm Bill the various titles and programs, and the the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity act which is supported by the National Young Farmers Coalition. The National Farmer's Union is one of the oldest and best Farm advocacy groups in the country, with a strong family farmer focus. They are critics of the way farm policies have...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 148 - Greenhorn Audio Almanac:...
This week on Greenhorn Radio, we're digging into the archives of the Greenhorn Audio Almanac to bring you an interview with Charlotte Cater of the New York State Agricultural Mediation Program. Tune in to hear host Severine Von Tscharner Fleming talk with Charlotte about different legal issues that farmers face, and how representation can help young farmers in the realms of land access, leasing, and more. This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 147 - Chris Elder of Viva Farms
Viva Farms is a farm incubator for new and Latino farmers, but they also maintain a large production farm. Produce from the Viva farm and the incubator farms feeds into the Viva Farms "food hub" along with other local products, which is then distributed to a 1,200 member CSA and various wholesale accounts in the greater Seattle market. Chris oversees it all, helping to cultivate new farmers as a relatively young farmer himself. He has worked on farms and ecological preserves for over 10...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 146 - Kelly Mulville
For the past 25 years Kelly has managed and consulted with vineyards, farms and ranches throughout the western USA, Spain, Australia and China. In 2012 he spent two months in Australia and New Zealand giving presentations and workshops on extended-season vineyard grazing. His studies include Ecological Horticulture at UC Santa Cruz (Farm and Garden Program), Viticulture at UC Davis and Holistic Management with The Center for Holistic Management. For the past 15 years his work has focused on...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 145 - Justin Rich of Burnt...
Burnt Rock Farm is owned by Justin Rich and Lindsay Lyman-Clarke. Justin runs the day to day operations of the farm, while Lindsay works in town and provides vital labor on nights and weekends. Justin was first introduced to farming as a summer job at a well-established organic vegetable farm. He went on to earn a bachelor’s in environmental geology and then a master’s in horticulture and soil science. He met Lyman-Clarke, originally from Richmond, in graduate school at Cornell and the...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 144 - Gavin Raders
Gavin Raders is a co-founder and Executive Director of Planting Justice, a social justice activist, and a permacuture demonstrator/teacher. He dedicates his time to practicing permaculture wherever he can, having gone through extensive training with some of the most inspiring and effective permaculture teachers in the world: Geoff Lawton, Penny Livingston-Stark, Brock Dolman, Darren Dougherty, and Nik Bertulis. Before his stint as an intern at the Regenerative Design Institute, he studied...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 143 - Ann Riordan of Cayuga...
Born and raised north of Boston, Anne Riordan spent her childhood highly invested in music, horses, and athletics. After her undergraduate experience at Cornell playing lacrosse, Anne spent a year working at the Cornell Veterinary Labs and returned for a Masters in reproductive biology. During that time, she began visiting the farm at Cayuga Pure Organics and fell in love with the outdoor, physical work, involvement with the earth, and like minded peers at CPO. Her commitment to the farm led...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 142 - Mary Russ of Serenity...
Answering the call of the Earth, Mary Russ decided one day to leave college in order to become a farmer. She immediately developed a passion for growing organic food and animal husbandry. She has worked on several organic farms and formerly managed a large Certified Organic CSA farm in Tallahassee, Florida. Currently she has embarked on a new adventure and is managing Serenity Acres, an artisan goat dairy and non-profit education center. This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch....
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 141 - Julia Olmstead
Julia Olmstead is a senior associate in the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Rural Communities Program. She works on domestic biofuel policy, climate change, and Mississippi River navigation policy. For the last decade Julia has worked on issues related to agriculture and biofuels as a researcher and journalist. She serves on the Organizational Council of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and was formerly a graduate fellow with the Land Institute in Salina, KS. She...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 140 - Chaya Lipkind
Chaya Lipkind holds a B.S. in Liberal Arts from The New School and a Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Vermont. A Brooklyn native, Chaya spent 7 years working in a financial company before transitioning into sustainable agriculture. In 2012, she founded Dreamland Harvest, a diversified organic vegetable farm located in Monticello, NY that sells fresh produce to local and New York City residents. Currently the principal farmer at Dreamland Harvest, Chaya is...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 139 - Sean Dembrosky of Edible...
Sean Dembrosky, 32, owns and operates the 'Edible Acres' project just north of Trumansburg NY (www.edibleacres.org). Formally educated in the fine arts, but focused on agriculture for the last decade, Sean has developed a farming system based on permaculture principles and forest farming. Very low tech / no tech approaches to plant propagation, polyculture development, and a focus on long term perennial food and medicine crops has enabled Sean to begin the work of developing a resilient,...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 138 - Solomon Sweeting of...
Solomon is a first generation, beginning farmer in Loyalton, CA. After growing up in the 70s exposed to small scale urban agriculture in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as agricultural communities in Pennsylvania, Solomon attended Feather River College for Equine Studies and Ecosystem management with the intention of entering range management. But because the forest service eliminated the position, Solomon instead fought fire for ten years while maintaining a homestead operation with a...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 137 - Adam Huggins
Adam Huggins is a collectivist, (im)permaculturalist, herbalist, musician, and analog filmmaker living in the Bay Area, a sweater of the salt of the Great Ocean and a busybody garlic-peeling hand-processing dumpster-diving propagator of plants and emulsions. You can explore his work at http://sunfishmoonlight.wordpress.com. This program has been sponsored by Tabard Inn. "Why feed the world? The world can feed itself, if given the chance to." [21:40] -- Adam Huggins on Greenhorn Radio
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 136 - Erik Andrus of The...
Erik Andrus is farmer, writer, and inveterate tinkerer living in Vermont's Champlain Valley. A lifelong student of traditional approaches to farming, craft, and community life across cultures, Erik has devoted his career to the discipline of creatively reintroducing skill and sweat to areas of the food economy not commonly considered. Erik, with his wife Erica and two young boys, farms at Boundbrook Farm, which showcases integrated rice and duck farming in irrigated rice paddies and is a...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 135 - Mike Bowman of...
Mike Bowman and Maria Reynolds named their Groundswell Farm after their farming ideology and the topography of the 7 acres they are leasing in Solon, Maine. Their 4 acres of MOFGA certified organic seed and market vegetable crops and 3 acres in cover crops crest in small hills, lending the landscape, in Reynolds’ words, likeness to the swelling sea. The name also harkens to the groundswell of general interest around sustainable organic agriculture, including seed production. Bowman and...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 134 - Waste with Tristram...
Tristram Stuart is the winner of the international environmental award, The Sophie Prize 2011, for his fight against food waste. Following the critical success of Tristram’s first book, The Bloodless Revolution (2006), ‘a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas’, Tristram has become a renowned campaigner, working in several countries to help improve the environmental and social impact of food production. His latest international prize-winning book, Waste: Uncovering...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 133 - Ryan Sitler
Ryan lives in Asheville, NC and has spent past 2 years working at Hickory Nut Gap Farm where production was focused on grass-fed beef, pastured poultry and hogs, organic fruits, mushrooms, and asparagus. Ryan has also been working the past 3 years as an organic farm inspector, which he is now pursuing as a full time job. He is involved with the Young Farmer and Rancher program through the Farm Bureau. Ryan recently competed in a "discussion meet" that each state YF&R group holds annually,...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 132 - Nancy Grove of Old Path...
Nancy Grove is frequently asked why her farm is named Old Path Farm. “I chose that name because I am excited to remember the wisdom of old traditions—both in farming and in community life.” Now entering her 9th season, Nancy and her two LLC partners attribute the success of their 80-member veggie CSA to the many helping hands who have given abundantly to the farm over the years. This is the Old Path— the path where needs are met, not by purchasing the latest technologies or innovative...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 131 - Jeremy Andrews of Sprout...
The idea for Sprout Urban Farms germinated in 2009 when a citizen approached Jeremy Andrews (far right), a community organizer, about helping him start a community garden. After news spread throughout the city about the possibility of a new community garden, others expressed interest in community gardening. To better gauge the interest throughout the city, a like minded group of people decided to hold a community forum on community gardening. Attendees of the forum decided to collectively...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 130 - John Place of Keepsake...
John and his wife Amanda are new farmers who run a raw milk dairy which also produces ice cream, yogurt and cheese. John & Amanda Place along with their two children, Mia & Mason, own and operate Keepsake Farm & Dairy. John and Amanda met while attending the University of Delaware where they studied animal science. Amanda went on to attend veterinary college at the University of Georgia and is now a veterinarian at a local animal hospital. This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch. "I...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 129 - Danielle Nierenberg
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on sustainable agriculture, currently serves as Project Director of the Nourishing the Planet project for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental think tank. She recently spent a year traveling to more than 25 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia looking at environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and poverty. Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely in more than 3,000 major publications...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 128 - Roy Cowherd of Buster...
Buster Creek Farm owns 160 acres but farm about 800 now, 100% Angus/Hereford beef cattle. They mainly lease and restore busted dairy farms for hay, clover, etc. and normally run a herd of about 200, soon to be twice that. Just like Kinderhook and Grazin' Angus, they're in the fairly rapid expansion mode. Roy Cowherd is from a 1700-acre beef cattle empire in the Bluegrass of Kentucky, all Angus and Hereford, same as at Buster Creek Farm. In between that life and this one, Roy did the...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 127 - Sarah Edmonds of Good...
Sarah Edmonds and Anton Shannon completed The Seed Farm Apprenticeship program in 2010 and in 2011 launched Good Work Farm, a 60-member CSA on Lehigh County-owned land. Good Work Farm also hosts events, workshops, volunteer days, and group gleaning harvests out at the farm in Emmaus, PA, open to all members in the effort to help us reconnect to where their food comes from. Good Work Farm is dedicated to food justice, making sure that people of varying financial resources have access to...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 126 - Shelterbelt Farm with...
Shelterbelt Farm is owned and managed by Craig and Erica and their young children Rowan and Phoenix. Started as a homestead in 2005, 2010 was their first year of operation as an official farm. The farm is located in the scenic rolling hills of Caroline, NY, in the Finger Lakes region just southeast of Ithaca. It is home to three generations of Modishers, and pigs, chickens, turkeys, bees, and geese. Next year Craig and Erica will add 100% grass-fed cattle and goats, and eventually produce...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 125 - Joe Morris of Morris...
Joe Morris, with his wife Julie, has owned and operated Morris Grassfed Beef since 1991 when Joe took over the management of his grandparent’s 200-acre ranch near San Juan Bautista, just south of San Jose, California. Today, they lease an additional 7,000 acres and run 250 cows to serve their grassfed beef direct marketing business, as well as approximately 1,800 stockers. Joe comes from a lineage of ranchers stretching back five generations, the most recent of which was his grandfather who...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 124 - Anastasia Rabin Returns
Anastasia is back on Greenhorn Radio! Anastasia started her career as a seasonal agricultural worker at the age of 17 when a series of fateful events led her to the blueberry barrens of Downeast Maine. She raked berries every year for the next 8 years, and also did some apple picking, morel mushroom hunting, and tree-planting which eventually became her primary occupation. This lifestyle kept her on the road for the better part of 13 years and enabled her to become intimate with many parts...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 123 - Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
This week's guest on Greenhorn Radio is Gretel Adams of Sunny Meadows Flower Farm in Ohio. Steve and Gretel didn't grow up farming, they consider themselves serendipitous farmers. Steve had an apprenticeship at Anderson Orchards, which sparked their passion for farming. And, Gretel was blessed enough to inherit a 10 acre lot in Columbus that her father bought in the 80's. They both loved to be outside playing in the dirt and being more connected with nature, and their passion for farming...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 122 - Tina Bartsch of Walking...
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada on a big ag grain pig farm. Tina has a B.A in Native Studies and B.Ed in Adult Education. After teaching for 3 years in Patagonia, AZ Tina and her husband, Jim, started a business guiding and outfitting horseback trips into the Coronado National Forest in the San Rafael Valley. After closing that business, Tina and Jim moved to Tucson met a woman who wanted to buy our ranch in the valley but didn't have the money to do so. Tina and her husband ended up trading...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 121 - Hannah Rae Murphy
Hannah Rae Murphy grew up on a small farm in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with a large garden, sheep, chickens, pigs and the occasional turkey or goat. Now a Conservation Biology student at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT she is involved in the college’s organic farm and is an RA of the sustainable living house (Weybridge House). Weybridge House buys and preserves food from within a 100 mile radius each summer and fall for consumption throughout the year by the house’s 18 residents and...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 120 - Prairie Crossing Farm
Logan Beausoleil is the Farm Educator at Prairie Crossing Learning Farm in Grayslake, IL. The Learning Farm is part of the larger conservation community which was designed to combine responsible development, the preservation of open land, and easy commuting by rail. He joined the Learning Farm in April 2010 as Crew Leader in the Prairie Farm Corps Program, and joined full time as a Farm Educator in August 2011. He has a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Art from Augustana College, holds an...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 119 - Grant Schultz
This week's guest on Greenhorn Radio is Grant Schultz. Grant is a farmer, farmhacker, and writer known for his seed garlic, caveman tweets, and occasional essays. Grant is currently growing ideas in his prairie permaculture experiment at VersaLand Farm. Tune in to hear Grant's opinions on starting a farm, and why he thinks that legislation is only one consideration for beginning farmers. Hear about some of Grant's farm hacks, and learn about Iowa's young farmer culture. This episode has been...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 118 - Sebastian Aguilar
Sebastian Aguilar is the Farm Program Director and Course Instructor at the Greenbank Farm Training Center. He and his wife have three children and have been managing organic vegetable farms for the past 14 years in New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Washington State. Sebastian’s passions for top-quality produce, healthy soils, biodynamics and social outreach guide his farming practices. Sebastian has hosted apprentices on his farms since 1999 and always provided them a weekly class exploring the...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 117 - Dan Fillius
After five years as an outdoor educator Dan Fillius changed careers to organic farming. He is glad he shifted, and experiences a deeper connection to the cycles of nature because of it. Dan has been the Production Manager at the Michigan State University Student Organic Farm since December 2009. Before that he farmed in Wisconsin and New York, with stints on farms in California and Pennsylvania. Dan was also a student in the Farmer Training Program at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 116 - Vivian Lehrer Stadlin of...
Vivian Lehrer Stadlin is a founding director of Eden Village Camp in Putnam Valley, New York. She grew up in Jewish and outdoor camps and believes in camps’ power for good. She graduated from Columbia University and Columbia Law School, carried out a two-year legal fellowship at the Urban Justice Center, served as adjunct professor at Boricua College, and led Jewish service-learning trips for teens in Israel and New Orleans. Her interest in wellness led her to attend the Institute of...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 115 - Jessica Schmidt, New...
Jessie Schmidt is a coordinator for the UVM Extension New Farmer Project and the Vermont Women's Ag Network. The Vermont New Farmer Project is a collaborative of organizations around Vermont that serves new farmers. The project aims to streamline access to resources and services that shorten the timeline between start-up and success for beginning farmers. For more information, please visit www.uvm.edu/newfarmer. Today's episode has been brought to you by HeritageRadioNetwork.org. "Talking to...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 114 - Greg Asbed of the...
Greg Asbed is a Co-Founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a worker-based human rights organization. He works with farmworkers and their student, labor, and religious allies to organize the national Campaign for Fair Food, a breakthrough worker-based approach to corporate accountability in the agricultural industry known for its creativity and effectiveness. He writes and designs the CIW's main communication tool -- the website (www.ciw-online.org) and also coordinates the CIW's...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 113 - Courtney Banach
Courtney Banach has been spending time around Shelburne Farms for almost her whole life. About to enter her junior year of high school, her love of farming began when visiting the Farmyard in Shelburne, Vermont when she was very young and subsequently attending their summer camps. Her first summer camp experience led her to volunteering on the farm, when she became a Steward in Training (SIT for short) for both the animal side and the educational side of the farm. Courtney later became a...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 32 - Suko Presseau
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Suko Presseau to talk about the intersecting worlds of farming and art.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 112 - Stacey Murphy of...
Stacey is the founder of BKFarmyards, a coalition of experienced urban farmers dedicated to expanding food justice through agricultural production & education in Brooklyn. They manage 2 acres of farmyards spread across several farm sites and consult on new urban farm development. In addition to agricultural production, their educational agenda includes something for all ages: training programs, apprenticeships, free workshops, farm visits, and volunteer days! Stacey is leading efforts to...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 106 - Anastasia Rabin
Anastasia started her career as a seasonal agricultural worker at the age of 17 when a series of fateful events led her to the blueberry barrens of Downeast Maine. She raked berries every year for the next 8 years, and also did some apple picking, morel mushroom hunting, and tree-planting which eventually became her primary occupation. This lifestyle kept her on the road for the better part of 13 years and enabled her to become intimate with many parts of the country. She has been based out...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 111 - Megan Paska
Megan Paska grew up gardening with her mother and grandmother in Maryland, and spent her summers on her family's 450-acre farmstead in rural Virginia. When she moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2006, she found that her landlords were enthusiastic about her putting up a raised bed vegetable garden in the backyard. Soon after came bees and honey, then the chickens and fresh eggs. She created the Brooklyn Homesteader blog to chronicle her backyard and rooftop adventures in agriculture, as well as her...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 110 - Anna Duhon and Ginny...
Ginny Moore hails from the suburbs of Philadelphia. She studied agriculture and the environment (among other things) at McGill University, and has spent the last two seasons apprenticing on farms—in 2010, at Skunk Hollow Community Farm, a small vegetable CSA in her hometown, and in 2011, at Hawthorne Valley Farm, a biodynamic and organic vegetable and dairy farm in the Hudson Valley. For the last 6 months, she has been working with the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, interviewing...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 109 - Paul Cross
Paul Cross is the founder and head grower of Charybda Farms in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. He grows organic heirloom hothouse tomatoes, microgreens, flowers, and herb and vegetable transplants, irrigated from rain catchment in a region with an average of 12” annual precipitation, an 87 day growing season, at an elevation of 7,300 feet. His work in innovative sustainable agricultural techniques has been recognized in American Vegetable Grower, New Mexico Magazine, Edible Santa Fe, and many...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 108 - Steph Larsen
Steph Larsen lives in Lyons, Nebraska, where she works full time for the Center for Rural Affairs, a non-profit that seeks to engage farmers in advocating for the policies that will strengthen the future of their rural communities. Steph is also a "part-time farmer," growing food for herself and her community. Steph holds a master's degree in geography from her home state of Wisconsin and serves on the board of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. This program has been brought to you by...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 107 - Darina Allen of...
Owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, Co Cork, Ireland, Darina Allen is a teacher, food writer, newspaper columnist, cookbook author and television presenter. The Ballymaloe Cookery School is situated on her family’s organically run farm, and they believe that good food, good health and good farming practices are an inseparable part of the same process. Darina was the founder of some of the first farmers markets in Ireland, is a tireless advocate for artisan producers, and is...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 105 - Tim Corcoran of Twin...
Tim is a Change Agent, Cultural Creative, and Nature-based Mentor. He currently serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-Founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005 as a vehicle to support his life’s work of facilitating Deep Nature Connection Mentoring and Cultural Restoration. Tim is a certified Wilderness First Responder, a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and a graduate of the Vermont Wilderness School’s...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 104 - Reba Epler
Reba Epler grew up on her family’s ranches and farm in Tie Siding and Hillsdale, Wyoming. They raise commercial cattle, sheep, hay, beans and sunflowers. She has always loved agriculture and aspires to continue to build upon what her family has worked for so many generations to build. She is also a lawyer specializing in agriculture issues and conflicts, estate planning, business planning and water law. Reba specializes in implementing succession plans for family farms and ranches to help...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 103 - Mimi Arnstein of...
Wellspring Farm is owned and managed by farmer Mimi Arnstein (pronounced “Mi-mee”; rhymes with “Jimmy”). Mimi has been growing organically for CSA & wholesale markets for over 10 years. Despite the obvious pitfalls of pursuing a line of work in which one relies on nature, she feel grateful every day for the opportunity to grow food for her community and is thankful to her CSA members and community supporters for keeping her farm in active agriculture. Mimi’s favorite tools are large cheater...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 102 - David Rowley of...
David and Melinda Rowley, along with their daughter Sorrel, are the farmers at Monkshood Nursery and Gardens. David attended Hadlow College in England studying commercial horticulture while Melinda attended Cornell University and studied horticulture. Together, they started a potted herb nursery in 2001. Two years later, they leased an 82 acre parcel of land in Stuyvesant, New York and began growing vegetables for farmers markets. Since then, they have erected three greenhouses to expand...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 101 - Michael Meier & Brooklyn...
On this episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Michael Meier from the Brooklyn Grange Farm in Long Island City, Queens. Michael is a south Florida citrus country native who was introduced to farming as a youngster spending summers at his grandparents' farmstead in the North Carolina Smokies. He moved to New York City in 2005 and quickly became a part of the local food scene there. He spent a few years working in the ad industry and honing urban homesteading techniques to grow food...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 100 - Amy McMillin
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks with Amy McMillin. Amy grew up on the front range of Colorado and spent five years learning sustainable grass-based farming in Vermont. She has been back in Colorado for a few years now, and runs a raw milk dairy as part of a diversified farming project in Buena Vista called the Cottonwood Creek Dairy. While not weighing beans and bagging beans at the Buena Vista Roastery, you can find her out grazing her cows and promoting local food production...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 99 - Dan McManus
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks with Dan McManus of Common Hands Farm in Hudson, NY. Dan has lived much of his life around biodynamic communities, both from his early years in South Australia, and moving to New York working and apprenticing on numerous farms. Dan began to realize for himself, after desiring a more direct connection to what nourishes himself and others, that there is no art more beautiful or important right now than growing food and designing effective and low...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 98 - Jacob Cowgill of Prairie...
This week on Greenhorn Radio, our hostess Severine von Tscharner Fleming interviews Jacob Cowgill of Prairie Heritage Farm outside of Conrad, Montana. Prairie Heritage Farm is in the tradition of old-time Montana farms that existed decades ago: diversified, small-scale, and locally-based. Listen in as Jacob discusses the challenges of starting a farm with a full-time job and a family, selling in a small direct market, and some of the upcoming grain ventures of Prairie Heritage Farm. This...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 98 - Ben Abell
Ben is a full-time and part-time organic farmer. By day he works as the Organic Farm Manager for the University of Kentucky's Organic Farming Research and Education Farm, a job he has held for the previous five years. The university farm is home to a 80-member CSA, grant-funded research, and extension and education efforts relating to organic vegetable production in Kentucky. By night he operates his own (leased) farm in Fayette County, Kentucky where he grows organic sweet potatoes,...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 96 - Orren Fox
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews 15 year-old Orren Fox, a chicken farmer and beekeeper from outside of Boston. Orren has been raising chickens since the 4th grade, and he currently has 32 heritage breed hens, four ducks, and four bee hives. He also writes his own blog called Happy Chickens Lay Healthy Eggs. Tune in to hear Severine and Orren discuss topics such as starting a chicken farm, visiting The White House, and various beekeeping literature. This episode was sponsored...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 97 - C.J. Sentell, Ecotone...
CJ Sentell is a farmer at Ecotone, just outside Nashville, Tennessee. At Ecotone farm, they raise pastured eggs and poultry, heritage hogs, and grass-fed beef and lamb, all in an Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) manner. In addition to farming, C.J. is a doctoral student in the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University, where he is completing a dissertation entitled Freedom and Food, Slavery and Agriculture. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 95 - Catherine Winters
Roots & Wisdom, an urban organic gardening, youth and community development program of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Schenectady, New York, sparked Catherine Winters' interest in the environment. The summers before her junior and senior years of high school, Catherine worked for Roots & Wisdom as a youth (teenage) worker where she got firsthand experience growing vegetables organically, working at farmers markets, teaching children about plants and health, and passing her knowledge to...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 94 - Learner Limbach
Learner has been farming and gardening on Orcas Island for the past 7 years, where he is now homesteading, grazing French Alpine goats for milk, cheese, and meat, growing his own vegetables and seed, processing seaweed and other wildcrafted food and herbs, hunting, and bartering with his surplus. He is the director and founder of Food Masters, an organization working to increase sustainable food production and food security on Orcas Island, and to build community around a culture of local...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 93 - Mandala Farm
Genio Bertin and Sara Faull own and operate Mandala Farm in Gouldsboro, Maine, 8 miles from the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park and 1 mile from the ocean. They have been farming there since 2002 and are committed to running a sustainable, low impact farm and providing healthy, organic food for their animals and the community. Mandala Farm is a hundred acres with about 17 acres of pasture, 20 acres recently reclaimed for pasture, a 60 acre woodlot, and a little over 3 acres...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 92 - Bob St. Peter
Bob is the director of Food for Maine's Future and a family farmer living in Sedgwick, Maine. He serves on the boards of the National Family Farm Coalition and Family Farm Defenders. As an activist and farmer living near East Penobscot Bay, Bob identifies with peasant and indigenous people worldwide who struggle to maintain access to land on which to grow their food. In his food sovereignty advocacy he has initiated a seedsaving campaign and writes frequently on the need to oppose the...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 91 - Sleeping Frog Farms
Sleeping Frog Farms is an intensive 75-acre farm nestled in the Cascabel corridor of the San Pedro River Valley. Founded on permaculture design and biodynamic growing principles, Adam Valdivia, Debbie Weingarten, CJ Marks, and Clay Smith are dedicated to providing their community with seasonal heirloom fruits and vegetables through farmer’s markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Farm to School, Food Coop, and restaurant sales. Their laying hens, dairy goats, honey bees, and...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 90 - Brotha' P
Peteh Muhammad Haroon, affectionally known as Brotha’ P, is an inspirational Spoken Word Performance and recording artist and native of New Orleans, LA. Brotha’ P has been performing his unique style of poetry since 1995 as a member of Nommo Literary Society. After leaving Louisiana in 2005, Brotha’ P moved to Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he was reconnected to the world of agriculture--a world he was introduced to as a child. As a student of Arkansas State University, Brotha’ P, along with...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 89 - Andy Schwartz
Andy doesn’t think he’s a farmer in the sense that most people would recognize, but he cares about compost as much as most people care about their pets. He has been working the earth in the low country from Savannah,GA to Cumberland Island for about 5 years. He did not receive a formal education in agriculture, but grew up in the middle of rural Indiana surrounded by massive fields of corn and soybeans and studied tourism development in college. These days he spends most of his time working...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 88 - Marci Miller
An Idaho farm girl, Marci found her roots after meeting her partner Greg and traveling the world together. After graduating from the University of Idaho with a degree in Conservation Social Science and a certificate on Sustainable Small Acreage Farming and Ranching, as well as several apprenticeships each, they decided to venture out on their own and launched Deep Roots Farm & Design. Selling vegetables at the Tuesday Grower's Market in Moscow, ID and directly to restaurants in the area has...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 85 - Henry Lau, Windermere...
Henry Lau is 17 years old and in Grade 12 at Windemere Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia. He belongs to the Windermere Organic Garden, a student-led initiative that provides food for the school cafeteria while focusing on the importance of organic practices and educating students about food and agriculture. The garden has a 16x20 foot greenhouse, 13 garden beds, an aquaponics system, and an industrial-sized composter. When senior students started the project 5 years ago, Henry...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 87 - Seed and Cycle
Vinnie has been farming in the Washington, DC beltway, in Prince George’s County, for five years. He started designing and building school gardens for a number of elementary and middle schools, and co-wrote Growing Healthy Habits, a gardening and nutrition curriculum that is aligned with the Maryland State Standards for elementary education. He has been involved in designing and building a number of educational farm projects and organizations, such as the Master Peace Community Farm in 2007,...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 86 - Clinton Lindsey
Clinton is a young farmer interested in bringing sustainable farming practices to his farm in Corvallis, Oregon. He and his family are grass-seed farmers who are transitioning to organic bean, grain, and seed crops to supply local markets.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 85 - Jake Shapleigh
Jake has been working on farms since he was thirteen. He lives on his own family's farm, raises beef cows for show and for meat, and has a horse farm were he and his family do every thing. Jake has been working with Brookford Farm since their beginning when they were milking only 17 cows and had just a few chickens. He's seen amazing growth at the farm, and has been there to help out with just about all of it, from milking cows to cutting firewood. Jake is currently in high school and when...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 84 - Cycle Farm
In August, Jeremy and Trish bought a three acre piece of land just outside of Spearfish, South Dakota. What was historically a truck farm providing veggies to the mining communities in the Black Hills, it probably hasn't had vegetables on it for the last twenty years. Trish is currently working in New Mexico and Jeremy is learning to build utility bikes in Oregon, but they will both be moving to South Dakota in January to get things going, building bee hives, planning crops, and working out...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 83 - Anna Evans-Goldstein
Anna E. Evans-Goldstein grew up watching her father garden and her mother keep their house green with plants. She spent time in Madagascar, where she witnessed a culture transitioning away from agricultural living, and Cambodia, where farming is a fatal occupation as mines from the Khmer Rouge still litter the countryside. In Portland, OR, for college, Anna experienced what can happen in a city where everyone has a green thumb and the rain never stops. Now she is back in her home town of...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 83 - McKenzie Ditter
McKenzie and her fiance Jamie have been trying to start a farm for three years, but due to troublesome landlords, Canada Thistle, ravenous deer, and lack of money, it's taken time to realize the things they don’t know about agriculture. But they haven’t given up, and this past July they finally landed on a beautiful place in Finksburg, Maryland that they are returning a working farm. They have six sheep, two alpacas, bees, chickens, and 25 acres to transform. Things are taking shape quickly,...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 67 - BR Shute
BR Shute of Hearty Roots Farm
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 56 - Mother Plants Nursery
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Marguerite of Mother Plants Nursery in upstate NY. Mother Plants specializes in baby plants that are green-roof ready, so you can jump start the "green" part of your green roof. They have a seemingly infinite amount of low maintenance, draft tolerant, "plug-size" plants and can deliver anywhere UPS is willing to trek. Their goal is to be a catalyst for the public's growing interest in green roofs, and facilitate not only the start of new roofs, but...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 53 - Falling Sky Farm
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Cody Hopkins of Falling Sky Farm in Marshal Arkansas. Cody speaks on everything from the spark that inspired him (Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan) to his efforts to inspire others (leasing his own land to jump start interns who want to farm). Tune in for an in-depth conversation on what infrastructure is and isn't there for a small sustainable farmer. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed and finished beef from the...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 81 - Sheepscot General
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks with Taryn of Sheepscot General, a general store in Maine, and who also owns Uncas Farms. They talk raspberries, renovations, and going from farming into retail. They also learn that sometimes police publicity can be the best kind of publicity. This episode is sponsored by The Hearst Ranch.
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Greeenhorn Radio - Episode 80 - Molly Nakahara of Dinner...
Molly Nakahara founded Dinner Bell Farm in 2010 with Paul Glowaski and Cooper Funk. She is an educator, urban agriculture advocate, and as a Ninth generation Californian, she has a strong connection to the Golden State. Molly’s original Californian ancestors were the Peraltas, a Mexican Spanish ranchero family that raised cattle on the green hills of the East Bay Area from El Cerrito to San Leandro. In the 1930s and 40s, Molly’s great-grandparents, immigrants from Japan, farmed green onions...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 79 - Tomm Becker, Sunseed Farm...
Tomm Becker started farming due to his desire for adventure and loved it from the moment he began. While he studied to earn a degree in English Literature from Michigan State University, he worked at the MSU Student Organic Farm and at Owosso Organics, Pooh Stevenson's farm in Owosso, MI. After graduation, he began working as the Production Manager at the Student Organic Farm. It was through growing in all seasons for that CSA, training and guiding the student farmers, and teaching three...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 78 - Renae Haug from The...
Renae’s interest in food began while working summers in Alaska in the commercial fishing industry. Although very different from growing and tending to crops, she discovered the importance of where and how our food gets to our plate. After her college graduation, Renae decided to take a 10 month apprenticeship on ALM Farm in Sooke on Vancouver Island, BC. She took a season off to work back in Alaska before returning to agriculture at the Sunshine Farm (made famous by the documentary film...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 77 - Matt Volz
Matt Volz was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Cazenovia, NY and Philadelphia. He attended Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, where he studied philosophy and began working on farms. In his junior year of college, he connected with a crazy couple from across Lake Champlain in Essex, NY. He worked with Mark and Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm (made famous by Kristen’s book, The Dirty Life) during his last two years of college and continued to work there for another two years after...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 76 - Zach Zink, Cloudview...
Zach Zink graduated with a bachelor's degree in religion from Saint Olaf College in 2003. He worked at Holden Village in Chelan, WA for 2 years as a lead cook, developing a passion for cooking with fresh, local foods and wholesome ingredients. From Holden he went to Growing Things Farm in Carnation, WA for an organic farm internship, then to Bennett's Bistro on Mercer Island where he continued to cook with pure, natural whole foods. In 2007 he was hired by Pike Place Market's Preservation...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 75 - Noah Kai Shitama from...
Noah Shitama has been cultivating his knowledge of sustainable, community-based agriculture for over 8 years now, practicing on a small scale in Gainesville, and learning through visiting and volunteering on exemplary farms here and throughout the country. He is a father of two wondrous little ones, and has worked as a carpenter and builder. As a founding steering committee member of Citizens Co-op, he is committed to the creation of a local food system grounded in locality and community.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 74 - Michael Tevlin, Cully...
Michael Tevlin grew up in Lake Oswego and worked in many varied jobs before becoming interested in agriculture, including being a bus driver, delivery driver, concierge, camp counselor, and Americorps Volunteer. In 2006, he interned at Dancing Roots Farm in Troutdale and became interested in running a small farm. He traveled through Ireland volunteering on organic farms, then came back and spent some time with other Portland urban farmers getting ideas. He found the plot for Cully...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 73 - Tanya Tolchin, Jug Bay...
Tanya Tolchin and her husband Scott Hertzberg run a small diversified vegetable, flower, and herb farm called Jug Bay Market Garden (www.jugbaymarketgarden). The farm is located 20 miles outside Washington, DC and markets primarily through a CSA that delivers to Capitol Hill. Her first farm experience was on the Food Bank Farm in Western Massachusetts and later she worked on farms in Connecticut, England, and Israel. Tanya also worked for 10 years as an organizer and lobbyist for Sierra...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 65 - Josh Morgenthau
Greenhorn Radio is back! Tune in this week Severine is joined by Josh Morgenthau of FishKill Farm. Fishkill Farms is an apple orchard and diversified fruit and vegetable farm in the town of East Fishkill, New York. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch - the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 64 - Blair Randall
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 63 - Amber Reed
This week's guest on Greenhorn radio is farmer Amber Reed. Severine met Amber at the Young Farmers Conferene @ Stone Barns, and the two get a chance to catch up on the radio! Amber explains why Colorado is such a tough state for raw dairy, how byproducts can be best utilized, and how beer is sometimes used to wash cheese. This episode was sponsored by our good friends at Hearst Ranch: the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 62 - Kristin Kimball
Join Severine for another episode of Greenhorn Radio; chronicling the life and times of the young farmers in our country. This week she sits down with Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm. Kristin is also an author, her latest book being "This Dirty Life" - which is, as she puts it "the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer." This episode was brought to you by...
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Greenhorns Radio - Episode 60 - Erin Bullock
This week Severine checks in with Erin Bullock of Mud Creek Farm in Victor, NY. Tune in and hear the awesome story of how Erin became a young farmer, how she realized that you CAN make a living as a farmer, and what her day to day life is like right now. This episode was kindly sponsored by our friends at Hearst Ranch.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 59 - Sandor Katz
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev spoke to Sandor Katz from Tennesee, a internationally recognized master of fermentation. Sandor's goal is to stress to people that fermentation should NOT be intimidating, and is a great way to not just preserve foods at times of bounty, but to bring out flavors in foods that might not otherwise be available. Learn how Sandor used daikon radishes and cabbage to ferment and create 70 gallons of "kraut chee", plus why fermentation can be a way for people to...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 58 - Houston Wilson
This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev speaks to agro-ecologist Houston Wilson. Wilson discusses the primary goal of his science: eliminating "off farm" input. This essentially means designing your farm in a way that encourages nature to do the tasks we often leave up to chemicals or people. With enough crop diversification farmers will find that controlling pests, nutrient cycling, and dealing with diseases can all be executed internally if the farm is designed appropriately. This episode was...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 57 - Ann Larkin Hansen
This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev spoke to Ann Larkin Hansen, author of "The Organic Farming Manual". Hansen was frustrated that there didn't seem to be a single "one-stop-shop" source of information for someone who wanted to grow food organically--so she wrote one. Listen to hear Ann's journey from a kid growing up in the suburbs to a full fledged livestock and vegetable farmer, and how the Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network was a vital friend during her journey. This episode was...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 55 - Jarrett Man
This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev speaks with Jarrett Man of Stone Soup Farm in Belchertown, MA. Jarret speaks on the hurdles of working with volunteers--separating the dedicated vikings of the earth from the lackadaisical volunteers who disappear after the first bead of sweat. He and Sev praise The Small Farm Institute, an organization responsible for starting the farming career of Man and many, many others. Man also speaks on learning about farming; his school-born, formal, explicit...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 54 - Growing Washinton
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Clayton Burrows of the non-profit Washington State organization Growing Washington. Growing Washington has an extremely far reach in terms of their goals for the state, but the unifying theme behind all the work is helping resident Washingtonians. Clayton works to help spread sustainable agriculture, environmental and societal health, and whatever help Washingtonians need. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of grass-fed beef from...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 52 - Richard Wiswall
Richard Wiswall
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 47 - Seed Investors Project
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Kasey White and Jeff Brodey of Lonesome Whistle Farms plus Andrew Still and Sarah Seger of Seed Investors Project.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 51 - Sarah Petranek
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev spoke with Sarah Petranek, former radiologic technologist and current blueberry farm proprietor. Sarah conveys the story of her drastic decision to put her and her husband's love of hard work and the outdoors to use by moving their family 400 miles away to rural Kentucky. There she eventually fulfilled her dream of living off the land, leaving behind the material world, and having time to spend time with her family. Now she is a successful blueberry farmer...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 50 - Andrew Mariani of Scribe...
This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev celebrated her 50th show and spoke to Andrew Mariani of Scribe Winery. Learn about the rich history of this Sonoma Valley vineyard stretching back to the 1850's, through a sordid prohibition past of Road Ridge bootlegging, into a sustainable and delicious future. Tune in to learn how Scribe is breaking up the standard vineyard monoculture, rebuilding the local ecosystem for the better, and how it all stretches back to a life-changing trip to Europe. This...
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 49 - James Graves
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks to James Graves.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 48 - Green Gulch Farm
This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev speaks to Sarah Jane of Green Gulch Farm in Marine County, CA. Listen to Sarah describe why farming skills are not always transferable from climate to climate, and hear her speak on the "cradle" of a non-profit.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 46 - Natsuko Uchino
Sev speaks to Natsuko Uchino about her Green County farm in Cornwallville, and about the link between being an artist and a farmer.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 45 - Judith Winfrey
Severine speaks to Judith Winfrey of Love is Love Farm about her harrowing experience with a storm that put 5 feet of water over her entire farm!
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 44 - Kipchoge Spencer
Severine talks with Kipchoge Spencer of of Xtracycle and Worldbike this week on Greenhorn Radio.
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Greehorn Radio - Episode 43 - Tim Van Wagner
Sev speaks to Tim Van Wagner, a master agrarianist calling from the Sierra foothills.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 40 - Megan Fenton
This week Severine talks with Megan Fenton.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 39 - Tim Heuer
Severine talks with Tim Heuer of Common Ground.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 38 - Dan Machin
Sev speaks to Dan Machin of Lone Acre Farm, a farm in Long Island that is literally a lone acre!
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 37 - Drake Forum
Severine is live from the Drake Forum!
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 36 - Zone7 Farms
This week Sev speaks with Mikey from Zone7 farms.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 34 - Brooke Budner
Brooke Budner is this week's guest on Greenhorn Radio.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 33 - Alex Gifford
On this week's episode of Greenhorns Radio, Severine interviews Alex Gifford of Wilton, Connecticut about his baseball field-turned-farm.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 31 - Casey Knapp
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Casey Knapp of Cobblestone Valley Farm.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 30 - Mustard Seed Farms
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Arion of Mustard Seed Farms about starting a small farm in Iowa, and about the Christian Farmers Network.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 29 - Melanie Crawford
On this week's installment of Greenhorn Radio, Severine takes us to Missouri to visit with Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farms. The two discuss seed saving, bumper crops, and re-purposing the Missouri landscape.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 28 - Tom Stearns
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Tom Stearns of High Mowing Organic Seeds in the field from the 2009 Young Farmers' Conference.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 27 - Tycho Dan
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine takes the show to upstate New York to visit with Tycho Dan of Cayuga Pure Organics to talk about changing America's dependence on toxic, unsustainable foods.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 26 - Olivia Sargeant
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine takes the show to Athens, Georgia to visit with Olivia Sargeant, co-owner of Farm 255, a unique farm-to-table restaurant model.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 25 - Ray Sprague
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Ray Sprague of Edgewater Farm, a family-owned and operated farm in Plainfield, New Hampshire.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 24 - Brooke Silvaggio
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Brooke Silvaggio of Bad Seed Farm in Kansas City, Missouri. The two discuss the burgeoning urban farming scene in Kansas City, Bad Seed's Farmers' Market, and getting recent grads excited about farming.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 23 - Benjamin Shute
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Benjamin Shute, co-owner of Hearty Roots Farm in Tivoli, NY. Ben talks about CSA's, the difficulty of obtaining high-priced land in the Hudson Valley, and shares some quick tips for would-be farmers.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 22 - Eric Hoffman
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Eric Hoffman of Hoffman Farms in Trenton, Missouri. Eric runs an elaborate grass-based dairy program and is struggling to maintain margins as milk prices plummet.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 21 - Anya Kamenskaya
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Anya Kamenskaya, Greenhorn intern and event planner. Anya touches on her work at UC Berkley, its farm studies program, and a new way to combat pests without pesticides called Integrated Pest Management.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 20 - Ambika Conroy
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Ambika Conroy, Australian crocheter and rabbit farmer, about creating Sports Illustrated cover bikinis, raising rabbits in upstate New York, and the future of fur co-ops.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 19 - Paula Manolo
On this week's episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks to Paula Manolo of Heart Arrow Ranch about biodynamic farming in California and her radical new winter CSA model.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 18 - Amy Franceschini
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine visits with Amy Franceschini, artist, food activist, and new media guru.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 17 - Ethan Roland & John Good
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks with Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture and John Good of Quiet Creek Farm about carbon and composting.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 16 - Sam Comfort
Sam Comfort is this weeks guest on Greenhorn Radio.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 15 - Jules Emory
This week on Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks to hunting enthusiast Jules Emory about hunting traditions, & blood lust.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 14 - John Clark
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews John Clark of Applecheek Farm in Vermont about raw milk, its soaring prices and super-food attributes.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 13 - Annie Novak
This week's Greenhorn Radio features Annie Novak of the New York Botanical Gardens, who also works on a Greenpoint roof top farm profiled in New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2009/57477/
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 12 - Meg Gardner
On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Meg Gardner, of Pete's Greens, about Vermont CSA's, the burgeoning town of Hardwick, and startup land for young farmers.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 11 - Jude Becker
Eat them to save them: Severine talks with Jude Becker, sustainable agriculture advocate and breeder of heritage pork.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 10 - Josh Harden
Severine in conversation with Josh Harden of Laughingstock Farm in Arkansas. Talking points include big vs. small-scale production and the future of Arkansas farmers' markets.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 9 - Nora Saks
Severine scouts out a new talent in the young farming movement, Nora Saks, of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 8 - Mike Bosworth
Severine interviews veteran Northern California rice farmer, Mike Bosworth.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 7 - Ken Greene
Severine talks with seed scientist Ken Greene, co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 6 - Nik Bertulis
Severine interviews Nik Bertulis, an Oakland-based scientist and farmer researching and engineering ways to make use of urine in agricultural systems.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 5 - Kevin Skvorak
Severine interviews Kevin Skvorak of Regeneration CSA in High Falls, NY. Regeneration CSA is a community supported farm growing with permaculture based, no-till systems that use no chemicals and regenerate our soils.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 4 - Jacob Cowgill
Severine interviews Jacob Cowgill, innovative dryland vegetable grower and new farm owner!
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 3 - Lisa Hamilton
Severine talks with Lisa Hamilton, author of "Deeply Rooted," a survey of unconventional American farmers, due out in May.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 2 - Rusty Davis
Severine chats with Rusty Davis live from The Golden Gate Bridge! Rusty subverts conventional wisdom on topics ranging from permaculture, reforestation, biodiesel and veggie oil.
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Greenhorn Radio - Episode 1 - Antonio Roman Alcala
Our First Show! Severine interviews Antonio Roman Alcala, San Francisco based activist and farmer who spearheaded an effort to revive Alemany Farm, which had been deserted for two years.
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