Greenhorns Radio
299 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsGreenhorns Radio is radio for young farmers, by young farmers. Hosted by acclaimed activist, farmer and film-maker Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Greenhorns Radio is a weekly phone interview with next generation farmers and ranchers, surveying the issues critical to their success. We hold no punches. Greenhorns is a six year old grassroots cultural organization with a mission to recruit, promote and support young farmers in America by producing media, events and stunts that connect and and inspire.
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Episode 196: Michael Sullivan
July 08, 2014 19:55 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBThis week’s featured farmer is Mike Sullivan: Churchill Orchard Manager, picker, tour guide, weeder, legal counsel, bricoleur, grafter, security guard, fruit packer, and laborer, Mike Sullivan, loves his work. After doing less physically fulfilling, psychically rewarding, and mentally engaging work, he is at home caring for avocados, Ojai Pixie Tangerines, and Kishu mandarins in Ojai, California. Mike works with owners Jim Churchill and Lisa Brenneis, who continue to make the serious busine...
Episode 195: Mary Bricker & Noah Jackson
June 24, 2014 20:56 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBToday’s featured farmers: Mary Bricker & Noah Jackson Mary Bricker is an ecologist with a passion for natural history and and teaching. She has worked with students in the classroom, in school gardens and local natural areas, and on backpacking and sea kayaking wilderness trips. Her ecology research on species interactions has given her the perfect excuse to get her boots muddy in a wide range of locations and ecosystems: temperate rainforests in Oregon, tropical forests of Central America ...
Episode 194: Peasants’ Plot
June 17, 2014 20:16 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBJulia and Todd met in 2002 around a barbecue in the backyard of a Chicago apartment. Todd revealed his “not very ambitious” desire to become an organic vegetable farmer. They married in 2007 and started Peasants’ Plot. Seven years later, the couple is living in a trailer outside of Manteno with 20 acres, chickens, a machine shed/woodworking shop, three high tunnels, two “guest trailers,” two tractors, a corn crib, a skateboard ramp, a massage practice, and a dog named Merle. They have realiz...
Episode 193: Nolan Thevenet
June 04, 2014 00:30 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBNolan Thevenet is the owner of Stryker Farm in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He is a first generation farmer, raising pigs and goats which he sells through grocery stores, restaurants, and off the farm at his brand new farm stand. His goal is to provide full transparency for those who want to learn more about their food and it’s origins. This program was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA. “We’ll keep raising pigs until we use up the land we have here. We don’t want to overcrowd so the...
Episode 192: Peter Allen
May 27, 2014 20:33 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBThis week’s guest on Greenhorns Radio is Peter Allen is an ecologist turned farmer focused on restoring functional and productive savanna ecosystems. He owns and manages Mastodon Valley Farm in Southwestern Wisconsin where he’s developing a farm and homestead, planting thousands of trees and grazing cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and poultry. He also runs Savanna Gardens, LLC, an education and consulting company focused on permaculture, restoration agriculture, holistic planning, and ecological...
Episode 191: Jeffrey Ellis and Rebecca Beidler, Peace of Earth Farm Owners
May 20, 2014 20:45 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBJeffrey Ellis and Rebecca Beidler, Peace of Earth Farm Owners, Albany, VT Jeffrey Ellis and Rebecca Beidler have owned and operated Peace of Earth Farm in Albany, Vermont since 2010. At Peace of Earth they have a sprouting operation year round. Jeffrey and Rebecca also grow a mix of vegetables, herbs and small fruits for their CSA and local wholesale accounts. Peace of Earth Farm is a no-till animal powered farm striving towards growing healthy soil, healthy plants and health in those that ...
Episode 190: Linda McCullough Decker
May 13, 2014 20:49 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis week’s featured farmer: Linda McCullough Decker Linda McCullough Decker is currently serving as a trustee and board member of the Steve Trigg Ranch in eastern New Mexico. She is one of twenty-three heirs who, rather than choosing to inherit a portion of the ranch, created a perpetual trust to own and operate the ranch. Now one of the challenges is learning to work with all the other heirs to operate the ranch. The other challenge is to keep the ranch prospering in a prolonged drought. ...
Episode 189: Rory Beyer
May 06, 2014 20:25 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week’s featured farmer: Rory Beyer, Co-Owner of Beyercrest, LLC, Rollingstone, MN. Rory Beyer is a recently married 35 year-old Organic Farmer from Rollingstone, MN. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in Animal Science (2000). Together with his parents they formed Beyercrest, LLC. in the spring of 2008. Beyercrest is a Dairy and Crop enterprise where they have a partnership between Rory and his parents Richard and Sharon. Beyercrest consists of a 13...
Episode 188: Devin Shea
April 29, 2014 21:18 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBDevin Shea, MSU Agriculture Grad Student, MI Devin Shea is a 20-something that has dedicated his adult life to the exploration of Americana and its future. After a few years of in depth traveling by any means available, hitchhiking to air travel, Shea found himself with his original goal of traveling to all of the lower 48 states met. The thesis that Shea accrued from these years was that small town America and its agricultural roots were shifting drastically. He took a few jobs in the beef...
Episode 187: Jason Bradford
April 23, 2014 00:17 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBJason Bradford’s journey to Farmland LP wound through college classrooms, South American forests, and California farm fields. A PhD in biology, Jason spent several years researching and teaching ecology at the university level. It was then that he became serious about sustainability and reversing the impacts of overconsumption and a global economy. Inspired to take action, he left academia and started a non-profit that championed local economies and an organic farm and CSA. At that time he e...
Episode 186: Wes Jones
April 15, 2014 20:16 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBThis week’s farmer: Wes Jones Wes Jones got his first taste of organic farming in 2012 while traveling through South America with his girlfriend, Nitana. For two months he and Nitana worked and lived on an organic, shade grown coffee farm in the cloud forest of Ecuador. Upon returning stateside they set off on a mission to find a place to settle and grow roots. They landed in the valley of Ojai, CA. The Farmer and the Cook, a local restaurant, market, CSA and farm, extended the opportunity ...
Episode 185: Antonia Partridge & Farmer Education
April 08, 2014 20:55 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBAntonia Partridge is Director for the newly formed California State Grange School of Agricultural Arts. She began teaching agriculture at Mendocino College in 2001, and from 2008-2012 Antonia managed 4 acre Willits High School Farm and 1 acre Brookside School Farm. She led students in farm production of diverse crops and livestock as well as linking the farm to practical business and marketing experience. School garden curriculum also included nutrition education classes linking gardens and ...
Episode 184: Dan Hobbs
April 01, 2014 20:37 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBThis week’s featured young farmer: Dan Hobbs Dan Hobbs is a cooperative development specialist with the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative and Economic Development Center. He has twenty years agricultural and rural development experience in the United States and South America and formerly served as executive director of Organic Seed Alliance, NewFarms and Nuestras Raices, all 501(c)(3) organizations. He is trained and skilled in the organizational aspects of setting up producer cooper...
Episode 183: Tyler Henderson
March 25, 2014 20:35 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBThis week’s young farmer is Tyler Henderson. As Farm Manager at Growing Places Indy, Tyler oversees all aspects of our farming operation as well as the educational components of our Summer Apprenticeship Program related to agricultural systems and food entrepreneurship. Tyler began his urban farming work in 2009 by creating micro-garden sites at restaurants in Indianapolis and then worked as a farmer for Big City Farms for two seasons. Like many farmers, Tyler has an off-farm job and is the ...
Episode 182: Jean
March 18, 2014 20:43 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBJean-Martin Fortier and his wife Maude-Hélène Desroches are the founders of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, a micro-farm located in Eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, they are able to feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands as well as supply vegetables to dozens of local establishments. Jean-Martin Fortier is a leading practitioner of biologically intensive cropping systems with more than a decade’s worth of ...
Episode 181: Josh Volk
March 11, 2014 20:31 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBJosh Volk been farming in the Northwest, Southwest, Northeast and California for the past 15 years since branching out from his start in mechanical engineering and home gardening. He has been a regular contributor to Growing For Market, writing about farm tools, and also works to develop tools for small farms through his Farm Hand Carts project. Currently he is managing vegetable production at Our Table, a startup farm cooperative outside of Portland, OR. He also teaches workshops on vegetab...
Episode 180: Cameron Molberg
March 04, 2014 21:44 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBCameron Molberg joined Coyote Creek as General Manager in April 2010, after several years in restaurant management including the founding of two organic restaurants in Austin. His educational background in institutional management, animal science, and food technology has proven to support his work in various ways at Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill and Farm. He is frequently invited to give educational talks on a variety of topics including beginning and advance poultry-keeping, GMOs in our fo...
Episode 179: Sam Mudge
February 25, 2014 21:47 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBSam started farming the family land in 2010 after working on several farms around the state of Maine. One of those farms grew grain for their dairy herd as well as for human consumption, and after a couple of seasons there Sam learned about the lack of regional organic grain production in the Northeast. The path was clear – Maine needed regionally produced certified organic cereals and beans! This year will be Sam’s third season growing grains and dry beans, continuing his focus on growing o...
Episode 178: Bob McFarland
February 18, 2014 23:46 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBBob McFarland, is serving his 3rd term as President of the California State Grange. Formed in 1867, the Grange is the oldest agricultural organization in the nation, with 10,000 members serving 215 communities in California. Since taking office in 2009, Bob has shepherded a return to the Grange’s agrarian roots, spurring unprecedented membership growth and an increased awareness of the Grange as a driving force supporting California farmers and consumers, and championing such causes as susta...
Episode 177: Nathan McClintock
February 11, 2014 21:31 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBNathan McClintock is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies & Planning at Portland State University. A geographer focusing on urban agriculture (UA) and food systems and urban political ecology, he integrates qualitative and quantitative methods (from social theory to soil sampling and spatial analysis) to understand food systems, cities, and the environment. He is currently conducting research on UA in Portland (with some comparative work in Canada and the Pacific NW), and is particularly int...
Episode 176: Charlie Johnson
February 04, 2014 21:31 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBCharlie Johnson is the director of the Community Integration for Training and Employment (CITE) program at Toledo GROW’s Botanical Garden in Toledo, OH. He developed the program to employ adjudicated youth in urban agriculture, helping them to gain the skills they need to get jobs when they finish the program. For the past 10 years, Charlie has been involved in implementing an urban agriculture training center, introduced small chickens and small livestock to Toledo, and helped start dozens ...
Episode 175: Heather Retberg
January 29, 2014 00:08 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBHeather Retberg and her husband Phil first met as young children in Mexico, where their fathers were missionaries. Led through many twists and turns by their faith and values, they now have children of their own and live on a small, diversified, grass-based farm in Penobscot, ME. The farm is conserved under the Blue Hill Heritage Trust’s Farmland Forever program and is a Maine Farmland Trust ‘Forever Farm’. Heather home-schools their three children, Alexander, Benjamin, and Carolyn. When the...
Episode 174: Neil Bertrando
January 21, 2014 21:40 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBNeil Bertrando lives with his family in Reno, NV on the edge of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada mountains on a 1.3 acre homestead. He is passionate about promoting and developing the synergies between resource production and regenerative land management. He is trained in Keyline Design and Permaculture, recently became a registered teacher with the Permaculture Research Institute, and studied Biology (BS) and Environmental Science (MS) in University. His passions are people, water, soi...
Episode 173: Cari Rincker
January 14, 2014 21:14 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBCari Rincker is the owner of Rincker Law, PLLC, a national general practice law firm concentrating in food and agriculture law. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington D.C. She is currently the Chair of the American Bar Association’s General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division’s Agriculture Law Committee and serves on the New York State Bar Association’s Agriculture & Rural Issues Committee. She is a prolific writer and blogger on a myriad of food...
Episode 172: Robin Kohanowich
January 09, 2014 00:23 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBRobin is the Coordinator and lead instructor for the Sustainable Agriculture Program at Central Carolina Community College. In this capacity, she has developed and taught an organic farmer education and training curriculum and worked directly with aspiring and beginning farmers since 1999. Thanks to our sponsor, Heritage Foods USA. “The focus of the degree is to be an entrepreneurial program. The people who designed were first-time farmers, and they knew what they were lacking.” [7:00]
Episode 171: Owen Hablutzel
December 17, 2013 22:10 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBOwen Hablutzel is a consultant, educator, and group-facilitator performing international work with a range of clientele to radically amplify practical whole systems design, thinking, and management for increasing land health, at multiple scales. Living, working, and learning across multi-cultural contexts (North Africa, Australia, Mexico, Middle-East, Canada, Zimbabwe, and most of the western United States), Owen brings a diverse constellation of experiences and training to his work with bro...
Episode 170: Easy Bean Farm
December 10, 2013 21:42 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBEasy Bean Farm is owned and managed by Michael Jacobs, his wife Malena Arner Handeen, daughter Hazel (13), and son Arlo (10). He began managine the 120 acres of prairie, grove, pasture and cropland in the fall of 1996 after working as a furniture maker in St. Paul. In their first two seasons they sold produce mainly through farmers’ markets with the goal of learning enough about growing food to begin selling produce to restaurants, food co-ops, and through their (now) 280 member C.S.A. While...
Episode 169: The Charm Farm
December 03, 2013 21:35 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBMike Kwasniewski is in his third year of farming in his hometown of Beverly, West Virginia. Coming back home after studying philosophy at Gonzaga University and working at a couple of diary farms on the West Coast, he and his mother, Pam Kwasniewski, began The Charm Farm with an emphasis on pasture-based meat production. Headquartered on the forty acres he grew up on, the farm also includes 220 acres of river bottom farmland while another 200 is rented for cattle and hay production. Along wi...
Episode 168: Rio Grande Community Farm
November 26, 2013 21:19 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBRio Grande Community Farm is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that farms in Albuquerque on public land (the Los Poblanos Fields Open Space in the North Valley) since 1997. The farm grows Certified Organic fruit and vegetable crops (primarily annuals), as well as grows 25% or more of our acreage in wildlife habitat/feed such as corn, sorghum, sunflowers, and an abundance of other flowers and grains. We have a 2-acre community garden which offers neighbors and school groups a place to learn about and grow ...
Episode 167: Tammy Horn
November 20, 2013 00:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBTammy Horn was born in Harlan County, KY, on March 21, 1968. Her parents taught history and English; both maternal and paternal grandparents kept bees on their properties in eastern KY. All of these interests coalesce in my research and vision for a world in which there is, to quote J.R.R. Tolkien, “hope without guarantees.”When she was ten, her parents moved to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The stark Badlands and their nuanced shadows continue to serve as her aesthetic ideal when writing. ...
Episode 166: Nolan Calisch
November 13, 2013 01:44 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBNolan Calisch is a farmer, photographer, artist, and educator, residing in Portland, OR. Nolan and his farming partner, Chris Seigel, own and operate Wealth Underground Farm, where they supply a CSA membership of 30 on their intensively cultivated plot of land. They also work with Portland State University to teach The Homesteader course, in which college students study agricultural practice and history at Wealth Underground. Nolan combines his interest in art, agriculture, and education wit...
Episode 165: Amanda Austin of Cardo’s Farm Project
November 05, 2013 21:18 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBA Denton native who has been inspired by her family heritage in farming since early childhood, Amanda Austin earned her degree in Visual Arts from UNT. Between college semesters, Amanda completed a season as a farm educator at Hidden Villa, an organic farm and education center in Bay Area, CA. During her final semester, she worked as a farm hand at Cardo’s Sprout Farm, on the land where CFP was founded. In 2010, Amanda lived and worked as an apprentice on Common Ground Farm in Beacon, NY. Sh...
Episode 164: Lee Rinehart of Pennsylvania Certified Organics
October 29, 2013 20:13 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBLee Rinehart has been Pennsylvania Certified Organic’s Director of Education and Outreach since the summer of 2011, where he is responsible for educational programs and project development. Prior to PCO he worked with ranchers on weed and rangeland management in Texas and Montana, then moved to Pennsylvania in 2007 as NCAT’s Northeast Regional Director and ATTRA Specialist. Lee is also a prior board member for PCO. Thanks to our sponsor, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. “Agricultural education is...
Episode 163: Geese with Wesley Bascom & David Huck
October 15, 2013 17:35 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBWesley Bascom grew up on a working dairy farm in the verdant valleys of the Connecticut River. He studied Ecological Design and Environmental Science at the University of Vermont – graduating in 2010. After pursuing interests in sustainable food and resilient landscape development in West Virginia and abroad, he returned to Vermont to continue these explorations and deepen his connection to the local community. To earn his daily bread, Wesley builds all kinds of wooden structures (farm to fi...
Episode 162: Duke Phillips IV
October 09, 2013 00:39 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBDuke Phillips IV was born in Santa Fe New Mexico but has lived in Colorado for 23 years. Duke is a fourth generation cattle rancher and grew up immersed in ranching. He attended Fountain Valley School for grades 9-12 and graduated in 2010 with a degree in English from the University of Denver. He has traveled and worked all over the US and world, most recently a 13 month trip to Australia working on large scale cattle stations. Duke currently oversee the agricultural divisions of our family ...
Episode 161: Little Peace Farm
August 20, 2013 20:15 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBLittle Peace Farm is a 20 acre, intensive family farm offering chemical-free produce, cut flowers, fruit and herbs, and pastured chicken and eggs through our CSA memberships, at our market locations and to several local restaurants. We employ organic and sustainable growing, pest management, and fertilization methods and offer our food year round (see our website www.littlepeacefarm.com). Our main season CSA and Farmer’s Market is 20 weeks long (first week in June until late October) and our...
Episode 160: Muriel Olivares
August 13, 2013 20:26 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBMuriel Olivares was born in Cordoba Argentina and moved to South Florida as a child with her family. She grew up in Miami studying art and eventually went on to the San Francisco Art Institute on a full scholarship. To support herself during collage she took a part time job at a flower shop, where the world of plants began to peak her interest. Becoming more interested in the horticultural and botanical side of flower arranging she enrolled in horticulture classes at San Francisco City Colla...
Episode 159: Jennie Merkel
August 06, 2013 23:25 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBJennie Merkel has always been interested in food. While in high school Jennie would look forward to the new issue of Bon Appetite arriving in the mail the same way that other girls would anticipate Seventeen Magazine. When having sleepovers, Jennie’s guests would stay up late, not gossiping, but baking an apple pie from scratch. However, it was not until she and her husband moved into their first house that Jennie started thinking about growing her own food. In the backyard there was a small...
Episode 158: FarmFest
July 30, 2013 22:40 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBSeverine von Tscharner Fleming is talking with Kyla Smith and Willa Paterson about farming in Central Pennsylvania and FarmFest! Be a part of it! August 2-3, Friday 4-10pm and Saturday 10am-10pm. FarmFest is a fun, FREE, community-building event that fosters knowledge of organic agriculture and sustainable living through educational opportunities, local foods, lively entertainment and interactive family activities. The event includes a 5K, Silent Auction, Book Nook, Live Auction and much, mu...
Episode 157: Joel Salatin
July 09, 2013 20:04 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBJoel Salatin, 56, is a full-time farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm full-time in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents’ ideas. The farm services more than 5,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 50 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship ...
Episode 156: Vermont’s Agriculture Secretary, Chuck Ross
July 02, 2013 21:34 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBChuck Ross was appointed as the Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets by Governor Peter Shumlin and took office in January of 2011. Prior to his current role as Secretary, he served as U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy’s State Director for 16 years. Before joining Leahy’s staff, Ross was a farmer and legislator from Hinesburg, Vermont. During his six years in the Vermont State Legislature, Ross served as Chair of the House Natural Resource and Energy Committee. He has se...
Episode 155: Dr. Sasha Kramer and Soil
June 25, 2013 20:29 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBDr. Sasha Kramer is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). Sasha is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University in 2006 and co-founded SOIL that same year while completing a postdoctoral research position with the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford. Sasha is currently an Adjunct Professor of International Studie...
Episode 154: Clare Sullivan of Feedback Farms
June 18, 2013 22:18 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBClare Sullivan of Feedback Farms is currently the Environmental Coordinator of the Millennium Village project in the Tropical Agriculture and rural Environment Program of Columbia University. Before that she worked in a variety of capacities in the food service industry – running a collective bakery in St. Louis, working as a pastry chef in New York and doing agricultural research at the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. Clare is also a serial crew leader for the Student Conservatio...
Episode 153: Pilar Reber & Sunnyside Organic Seedlings
June 04, 2013 20:29 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBSunnyside Organic Seedlings was founded in 2004 by Vernay ‘Pilar’ Reber, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems program. She and the rest of the Sunnyside crew are thrilled to be growing organic starts in the San Francisco Bay Area – a place where organic gardening is not only accepted, it is expected! Everything the crew at Sunnyside Organic Seedlings does is focused on providing quality certified organic plants that are produced in a socially an...
Episode 152: Joe Bossen of Vermont Bean Crafters
May 21, 2013 20:39 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBJoe 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 oper...
Episode 151: Saundra Ball
May 14, 2013 22:13 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBSaundra 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...
Episode 150: Greenhorn Audio Almanac: Luke Gran
May 07, 2013 22:24 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBOnce 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.
Episode 149: Greenhorn Radio
April 30, 2013 23:37 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBOnce 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 sub...
Episode 148: Greenhorn Audio Almanac: Charlotte Carter
April 23, 2013 23:14 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThis 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.
Episode 147: Chris Elder of Viva Farms
April 09, 2013 20:24 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBViva 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 year...