The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson
Urban Farm Team
Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We'll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you're informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system... and to have a great time doing it!
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Episodes
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Jan 21, 2016 • 39min
29: Troy Albright on Growing Healthy Food without Soil
We are continuing the conversation on the evolutionary and truly remarkable tower gardens with our guest today Troy Albright founder and CEO of True Garden in Mesa, Arizona. He started True Garden, a solar powered greenhouse that spans 5000 square feet, designed to drastically reduce water consumption by 90% and use 90% less space than a conventional farm.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/21/troy-albright/
Jan 19, 2016 • 26min
28: Renata Chalmers on Tower Gardens
She grew up gardening and farming. She had a farm and edible landscaping when she lived in Washington State. Then she moved to Arizona - Climate culture shock! After a couple of years, she gave up. She no longer had the energy to do it well. Until last spring, when she walked into True Garden in Mesa, Arizona, where she discovered the Tower Garden.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/19/renata-chalmers/
Jan 16, 2016 • 35min
27: Sheri Menelli on Being an Earth Friendly Homeowner
Today, we are meeting with Sheri Menelli, a fellow podcaster and an Earth Friendly Homeowner and member of the Secrets of Soil Society. Sheri has a green garden group and teaches people how to turn their lawns into a drought-tolerant landscapes. Sheri wanted to create a podcast because “I know if we just had a way to get out some of the information that we knew out to the public, we’d have less pollution in our water, healthier soil and less damage from droughts and floods.”Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/16/sheri-menelli/
Jan 14, 2016 • 23min
26: Christal Blessin on Using the Garden in the Kitchen
Christal is a writer, horticulturist, and cook. She spent many years in permaculture and interior scaping. Now, she blogs, with ongoing posts about how to start a garden from seed. She also includes recipes using techniques and ingredients that you can afford - all real food - good for you too!Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/14/christal-blessin/
Jan 12, 2016 • 43min
25: Benjamin Fahrer on Permaculture as a Culture
Benjamin Fahrer is joining us today on the Urban Farm Podcast. Ben is the owner and operator of Top Leaf Farms and has over 18 years of organic farming experience. Prior to starting Topleaf farms a year ago, Ben worked with Josiah Cain, a well-known landscape architect known for vertical systems. Ben was called in to consult on a new project: To design and convert a living roof into a food roof.
Jan 9, 2016 • 31min
24: Don Abbott on Urban Farming while Renting
The Snarky Gardener (AKA Don Abbott) is a gardener, blogger, author, educator, speaker, reluctant activist, and permaculture practitioner from Kent, Ohio. He became the Snarky Gardener, living in a rental property, when he had been a gardener for just a short time, but he had been snarky and sarcastic his whole life. In today's episode, Don discusses permaculture, Hugelkultur (a fascinating concept), and gardening while renting.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/09/don-abbott/
Jan 7, 2016 • 27min
23: Diane Kennedy on Simple, Inexpensive Abundance
Today on the show we talk to Diane Kennedy of Finch Frolic Garden, a food forest habitat and demonstration site in San Diego County. Diane is a former Senior Park Ranger, tour guide for the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, librarian, independent baker, and a long-time vegetarian, organic gardener, freelance writer, and activist. Along with her daughter Miranda, she lectures, gives tours of her food forest, consults, designs and in all ways promotes permaculture. Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/07/diane-kennedy/
Jan 5, 2016 • 34min
22: Peter Burke on Indoor Salad Gardening
Peter Burke is the author of Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening. He has been teaching garden classes since 2006, when he started presenting workshops on Indoor Salad Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Extending the Garden Season, and many more. He also started TheDailyGardener.com to support the need for specialized seeds for Indoor Salad Gardening. Peter believes that with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/05/peter-burke/
Jan 2, 2016 • 32min
21: Haley Cloud on Learning about Raw Foods
Have any food-related resolutions for 2016? I sure do, and Haley Cloud is an amazing example for foodies everywhere. Today on The Urban Farm Podcast Haley talks about Living Raw By Grace and her experience with a raw food diet.Check out our show notes at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2016/01/02/haley-cloud/
Dec 31, 2015 • 33min
20: Matt Gordon on Rogue Farm Corps
20: Matt Gordon on Rogue Farm Corps and Cully Neighborhood GardenMatt is an urban farming rockstar in Portland, Oregon. He not only is in charge of Cully Neighborhood Farm's CSA, but also the chapter coordinator for Rogue Farm Corps, a non-profit dedicated to training the next generation of farmers through hands-on farm internships in Oregon. Check it out!Check out our show notes page at https://www.urbanfarm.org/2015/12/31/matt-gordon/
