Organic Gardener Podcast

Things I talk about today blueberry bushes mason bee disaster buckwheat cover crop Mike’s Minifarm Weeds • Weeds • Weeds – in the garden Summer Solstice Challenge coming possibly June 20, 2019 New Job in a New Restaurant learning about recipes and sharing gourmet recipes Health Club Bliss – massage therapy for gardeners So what’s going on in the garden? Mason Bee Confession https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/264-rent-mason-bees/ (Olivia Shangrow from Rent Mason Bees) https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/pollination-podcast/ (Dr. Andony Melathopoulos ~ PolliNATION Podcast) http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/ () Apple and Pear Trees Blooming Blueberry Plant Update Blueberry Plants from Lowes   My arugula past it’s prime is a bit bitter really strong already If you’re not in the Facebook Group I’ve been posting pics about the minifarm and updates etc. Mike planted 5 rows of potatoes all from our potatoes last year

https://smalltownhomestead.com/modern-homesteading-podcast/ (Modern Homesteading Podcast) Tell us a little about yourself. East Central Indiana nice and cold here https://smalltownhomestead.com/modern-homesteading-podcast/ () married to my wife Mary for a little over 26 years 3 daughters couple of grandkids running around Most of my life I was a truck driver Had my own trucking company led to me being gone a lot led to some bad eating habits  Sure! It’s tough when you’re on the road. It lets you listen to a lot of podcasts but it definitely makes being healthy a challenge. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Kind of I grew up on a homestead really, we didn’t call it that but we had animals large garden more property did all those things always grew up working in the garden in garden never thought about it being my garden first time it was about 3rd or 4th grade Really got the bug for growing something on your own! in school believe it or not bean plant

I know you are a going to love this interview I did with RockStar Millennial  Nick Lubecki as much as I did because I listened to it today as I drove to work. So the shownotes are  completely raw from the day we actually spoke. I didn’t have time to fix them but they are great! I have 20 episodes in the bank I can’t wait to share. In an ideal world, I would share them all right away! But in reality it’s all I can usually do to produce one a week. I will try though to get them caught up so they are current! In the meantime I hope you enjoy as much as I do. I’ve been having some sound problems too it seems in Andony’s podcast last week I thought I was too loud, this one I feel like I am can’t always hear everything I say? I’m as frustrated as you are that way, as I just copy and save everything, the settings don’t really change? I feel like ever since January 2018 I’ve been struggling with my sound? But I think you will love the content as much as I enjoyed

Do you want to know how to recognize Bees in your garden and neighborhood? Do you want to plant flowers that will invite more bees to your garden? I’m super excited because for Earth Week, it’s April 27,2019. I have the Assistant Professor Pollinator Health Extension from the Department of Horticulture | Oregon State University, Dr. Andony Melathopoulos from the http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/ (Pollination Podcast!) http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/ () Oh there’s more then one bee?! When I do master gardener training is I help people identify 5 bees that are in North America. When you garden for bees it gets kind of complicated. If you can identify these 5 bees then you can go visit a neighbor’s garden and say oh! I see that bee on this plant. https://oregonstate.app.box.com/s/0q0bbxfofc7lrdr03rudepapp0lvlds8 (Identify 5 Bees |  10 tips to use in their garden tomorrow cheat sheet) Pollinator Habit Tell us a little about yourself. I’m in beautiful O

I have lots of guests that have been booking and lots of great interviews coming up! A Montana rockstar running the food truck here in Montana!  Tell us a little about yourself. I did grow up on a farm and a ranch A little bit about my past I was raised in a world of agriculture I grew up on a farm and ar ranch that was not always organic, my dad converted to organic in 2007 I was 10 years old it was interesting as a young child to see that process of old ways and shifting to new ways of organic and how much better everything becomes with that process with that conversion we moved to a lot of diversified crops Before we had converted to organic we were just doing the same old thing everyone else does. Switched to doing a lot of wheat and same clover alfalfa growing ancient grains kamut farro lentils chickpeas while we were learning and growing all those I was also at a pretty young age learning to bake native to Montana at that time I think that was where I got a pretty strong b

Tara Caton https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/articles/update-industrial-hemp-research/ (Rodale Institute) Senior Lab Technician Industrial Hemp Project Lead Want to read the unedited computer generated transcript provided https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/59060021 (by Podscribe, just click here.) It all started when this listener said, every time I hear you say millennial I think of this video of this guy bashing millennials sitting around in their yoga pants and so I made my own video of the amazing millennials I interview who are so not ever lazy. I was going through some old Organic Gardening Magazines. A lot of my listeners are asking me how to get rid of pests organically and there were all these letters to the editors saying I’m not ever reading to you again because you are too political and they answered back and said we believe they are integrated and you can’t have one without the other.  I have always wanted to sell ad space for Rodale’s so I would see Organic Gardening Magazine in every store

I’m super excited because my guest is as passionate about social justice as I am and she’s used her life and skills to really connect social justice and food justice together. I think you will love this interview with Leah Penniman from http://www.soulfirefarm.org/ (Soul Fire Farm ) in New York!   http://www.soulfirefarm.org/ (Soul Fire Farm )is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. 20 years of experience as a soil steward and food sovereignty activist. Tell us a little about yourself. https://amzn.to/2uEWpNq (Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land)Definitely, I’d be happy to! I’ve been farming 22 years and I am the founding co-director of http://www.soulfirefarm.org/ (Soul Fire Farms) IT’s a little community farm run by Black-Indigenous Latin and located up in the mountains of Grafton NY in love with farming my whole life, NY and really see it as a foundation for social justice and environmental stewardship. Here at htt

It’s Tuesday, January 15, 2019. You must be doing something right? I can’t seem to get anyone to watch my videos. The one thing I have noticed lately is, we don’t really watch tv so in the evenings, what we do, we’re about done with our day around 8:30ish. We stream Youtube. Watching on TV you can’t interact but I get on the iPad and if I like their video or make a comment I get a lot more people who seem to be interested in my channel. You have like 35, 53  views, etc. I have like no views. 0 views at all. Watching others, I’ll have to try that. You have to be persistence. We’ve been doing it for a year and we’re only just getting somewhere. I see it as you’ve only been doing it for a year! Honestly it’s been the easiest gardening method I have ever learned! https://savvyorganicsfarm.com/ () https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBA1qGJzUVUyevdEzPmhprw (Savvy Organics Farm YouTube Channel) https://www.facebook.com/SavvyOrganicsFarm/ (Savvy Organ

This replay is a must listen episode about building soil health that was originally published February 2017. It is Monday, January 2nd, very early in the morning and I am headed back to school today. I know you are going to love this guest from Black Swan Organics and Grow Ohio Valley in Appalachia! What a great guest to follow up after http://organicgardenerpodcast.com/170-jm-fortier-the-market-gardener/ (Jean-Martin Fortier) because Danny is basically doing everything JM Talked about. A great educator and farmer you are going to love this episode as much as I did! http://growov.org (Grow Ohio Valley.org) is a nonprofit organization working to improve food justice in Appalachia.http://growov.org (Grow Ohio Valley) is working to fashion a new economic landscape, one offering increased prosperity, improved health and a better environment. Things they do is change: • Vacant city lots become fertile and productive. • School children who think it is “normal” to grow and eat healthy food. One thing I am c

This episode was originally  posted August 2018. It’s a great resource for building soil health. If you want to join the Patti Armbrister Fan club send me an email!     https://www.facebook.com/AgrarianFoodWeb/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=100004076951852&fref=tag ()   https://www.facebook.com/AgrarianFoodWeb/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=100004076951852&fref=tag (Connect with Patti Amazing Arbrister on Facebook at her Agrarian Food Web Page!) I’ve been wanting to see some podcasts on you know the organic gardeners when we talk about soil health and composting and the principals of cover crops they just turn their lights off and don’t want ot talk because they are doing organic gardening and every single farmer including your household vegetable gardeners they’re doing production organics they’re on a fast pace to destroying their soils and don’t k

Justin Rohner is a presenter and speaker and owner of https://agriscaping.com/ (Agriscaping)! I didn’t realize you have a restaurant. https://agriscaping.com/ () Tell us a little about yourself. Serve a number of restaurants in the Phoenix. About me and who I am which is sort of a serial entrepreneur. honed my skills to put all my eggs in one  https://agriscaping.com/ (Agriscaping) I’m all about improving local food economies strengthening families strengthening communities what I’m doing fits into one of those categories. Tell me about your first gardening experience? born in Alexandra VA just outside Washington DC, my dad was in the FBI I remember a forest, living in a forest and went back and visited it was 4 trees thick by a busy road! It was nothing but a couple of trees but I was a kid. I moved to Arizona when I was young Being in the garden with my mom little kid probably about five years old peas seeing this caterpillar rolling across the slow motion tiny thing i

I feel like I haven’t explained exactly what is the big difference between the Free Garden Course itself and the 2019 Challenge that is worth $37.00? So the Challenge will officially start Monday, I want to give Progressive Radio Network listeners one more time to explain exactly what the challenge is enough. And really there is not that much! EXCEPT when you complete the 2019 OGP Challenge One if you live in the United States and you sign up for the challenge and you are one of the first 25 people, you will get a hard copy of the book and a hard copy of the garden journal delivered to you! When Mike reads it I know it’s good! And it keeps the checklists all together.     Remember you can get the https://amzn.to/2P8bRKo ( 2018 Garden Journal and Data Keeper )to record your garden goals in ourhttps://amzn.to/2P8bRKo () You can  https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/2018calendarjanuary.pdf (download the first 30 days here )  while you’re waiting for it to come in the

https://hippiefertilizing.com/ (Get Hippie Certified!) Welcome to the Organic Gardener Podcast today it is Thursday, February 28, 2019. I’m so excited to talk to my guest from Texas because I’ve been looking for someone to talk to us about Organic Lawn Care! So from https://hippiefertilizing.com/ (Hippie Fertilizing )here is AJ Olson! http://hippiefertilzing.com () What would you like to know, actually how you found me was you shared a https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/home-garden/garden/2018/05/25/turn-your-yard-into-micro-prairie-native-plants/607727002/?fbclid=IwAR0jLlNaxZjkGf5tVFoiVlAxNSQYXP6kw3Ia8pI5qatr0iU3co3j_aMGkgk (micro prairie) article that I had had shared on my https://www.facebook.com/hippiefertilizing (Hippie Fertilizing Facebook Page. ) So you posted something and I shared it and you liked it and I sometimes look at who like’s my posts so I can figure out what people like and look for more things like that to help them. http://hippiefertilzing.com (Hippie Fertilizing Na

I start out with the formal Arthur but by the end of this interview with this rockstar millennial you’ll be referring to him as your good friend AJ too because he speaks for the earth and is just one of the most awesome stewards of our planet out there plus he’s just a natural action taker and educator!   He said post it raw and I know you’ll love it,https://mikesgreengarden.com/2019/03/02/organic-lawn-care-hippie-fertilizing/ ( if you want to see my shownotes just go here) otherwise you’ll just have to listen to to here him share all these golden seeds every neighborhood should know. And don’t forget to sign up for: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and FREE Garden Course Webinar) I also want to invite you to our next webinar either Sunday, March 3, 2019 or Tuesday March 5, 2019. I am giving https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (an ONLINE Webinar) about https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505

I start out with the formal Arthur but by the end of this interview with this rockstar millennial you’ll be referring to him as your good friend AJ too because he speaks for the earth and is just one of the most awesome stewards of our planet out there plus he’s just a natural action taker and educator!   He said post it raw and I know you’ll love it,https://mikesgreengarden.com/2019/03/02/organic-lawn-care-hippie-fertilizing/ ( if you want to see my shownotes just go here) otherwise you’ll just have to listen to to here him share all these golden seeds every neighborhood should know. And don’t forget to sign up for: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and FREE Garden Course Webinar) I also want to invite you to our next webinar either Sunday, March 3, 2019 or Tuesday March 5, 2019. I am giving https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (an ONLINE Webinar) about https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505

Hey we made thehttps://blog.feedspot.com/organic_gardening_podcasts/ ( top 2 in organic gardening) and https://blog.feedspot.com/gardening_podcasts/ (#5 in regular gardening on Feedspot )for 2019! https://blog.feedspot.com/organic_gardening_podcasts/ () I didn’t really understand what https://blog.feedspot.com/organic_gardening_podcasts/ (feedspot) was till yesterday when I actually entered my email and got their newsletter this morning. Very cool. It basically sends you interesting news in your feed from your favorite sources. https://blog.feedspot.com/gardening_podcasts/ () https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and FREE Garden Course Webinar) I also want to invite you to our next webinar either Sunday, March 3, 2019 or Tuesday March 5, 2019. I am giving https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (an ONLINE Webinar) about https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/7039505946243042315 (Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and how FREE Garden Course

  Olivia Shangrow is an Awesome Rockstar Millennial and the biologist and operations specialist for https://www.rentmasonbees.com/ (Rent Mason Bees.) She completed her bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Washington. She’s passionate about teaching the public about wild bees and her research focuses on increasing the value of rural and urban habitats for native insects. I can share information on the mason bee lifecycle, what to grow in your garden to support them, and the best ways to care for/host them in your backyard We’re up north of Seattle in Bothel, we do some propagation in Oregon too! We travel a lot but when we’re actually hands on in Washington Tell us a little about yourself. I’ve always been interested in bees my whole life, myself have been hearing the bees are struggling and our bee populations are down.  I just decided when I was finishing school I wanted to do more to help bees and that’s how I ended up running a https://www.rentmasonbees.

So, I heard https://www.thomhartmann.com/ (Thom Hartmann) read the actual wording from https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdf (HR109) about the https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdf (Green New Deal )and thought that’s what I want but it’s taken me over 20 minutes to find the actual text so I’m going to share it with you and you can decide if you want to support it and the Sunrise Movement or not.  So I didn’t really mean to read it all but it was so good I couldn’t help myself and it only took 10 minutes.  Let me see if I can grab the highlights here especially as they apply to farmers and gardeners but the whole thing really applies to any environmentalist and if you listen to my show you probably are an environmentalist.  Based on: the October 2018 report entitled “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report

So this is our Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge for 2019: Complete Free Organic Garden Course in 6 weeks. Starting March 11, 2019 and ending on Earth Day April 22, 2019 Join the Private Secret Facebook Group of Green Future Growers and post all assignments each week by midnight Sunday. Complete all lessons, quizzes and bonus assignments. Submit midterm and finals for credit. Receive your certificate on Earth Day Monday, April 22, 2019 to celebrate! Do you want to learn how to improve your soil health? Do you want to know how we built our organic oasis over the years? Would you like extra help finishing Free Organic Garden Course? We know it’s a lot of material because we created it, but we’re here to help you finish and come out with a plan to create and most of all be able to enjoy your own organic oasis in 2019! https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/2019-organic-gardener-podcast-challenge.key-1.pdf (2019 Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge Tentative Schedule pdf) W

I know you are going to love her because she was our Crossfit gardener of the year in 2015! And you have taught me so much! I love all that you do and your delicious food and what you do! And she’s gonna share their new http://www.lowervalleyfarm.com/p/welcome.html (LVFarm Academy) Tell us a little about yourself. I am Mandy Gerth! Farmer and co-owner of http://www.lowervalleyfarm.com/p/welcome.html (Lower Valley Farm) in Kalispell, MT my husband Jay and I are are going in our 7th year of full time farming. We run, I think we’re at about  4 acres of production all organic primarily sell through a CSA 2 acres of that is using the intensive model that was kind of  pioneered byhttp://www.themarketgardener.com/ ( JM Fortier!) https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/170-jm-fortier-the-market-gardener/ (I know you had him on your show! ) community supported ag winter squash sweet corn potatoes separate rotation then intensive I think that is new since I last talked to you. We go really hard