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 97: C.J. Sentell, Ecotone Farm, Joelton, Tennessee
March 13, 2012 17:53 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBCJ 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 W...
Episode 96: Orren Fox
March 06, 2012 18:40 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBThis 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...
Episode 95: Catherine Winters
February 28, 2012 20:40 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBRoots & 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 adu...
Episode 94: Learner Limbach
February 21, 2012 18:45 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBLearner 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 fo...
Episode 93: Mandala Farm
February 14, 2012 18:33 - 27 minutes - 25 MBGenio 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 cultivate...
Episode 92: Bob St. Peter
February 07, 2012 18:30 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBBob 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 patent...
Episode 91: Sleeping Frog Farms
January 31, 2012 18:30 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBSleeping 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 earthwor...
Episode 90: Brotha’ P
January 24, 2012 18:16 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBPeteh 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 othe...
Episode 89: Andy Schwartz
January 17, 2012 17:14 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBAndy 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 ...
Episode 88: Marci Miller
January 10, 2012 18:41 - 18 minutes - 17 MBAn 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 ...
Episode 87: Tim Biello of Greyrock Farm
December 13, 2011 18:32 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBTim Biello began farming in 2006 at a vegetable CSA in the Hudson Valley of New York. For the past 3 years, he has farmed using draft horses at Essex Farm – a full-year, full-food CSA in Essex, NY. He is currently a farm manager at Greyrock Farm in Cazenovia, NY, which is also a full-year, full-food and draft-powered CSA. Tim is in the midst of an on-going search for a farm of his own in eastern NY or western MA. This program has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
Episode 85: Henry Lau, Windermere Organic Garden in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
December 06, 2011 21:33 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBHenry 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 16×20 foot greenhouse, 13 garden beds, an aquaponics system, and an industrial-sized composter. When senior students started the project 5 years ago, Henry ...
Episode 87: Seed and Cycle
November 22, 2011 18:21 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBVinnie 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,...
Episode 86: Clinton Lindsey
November 15, 2011 16:45 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBClinton 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.
Episode 85: Jake Shapleigh
November 08, 2011 18:05 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBJake 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 h...
Episode 84: Cycle Farm
November 01, 2011 16:59 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBIn 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 ...
Episode 83: Anna Evans
October 25, 2011 17:42 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBAnna 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 Bal...
Episode 82: McKenzie Ditter
October 11, 2011 17:28 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBMcKenzie 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,...
Episode 81: Sheepscot General
August 18, 2011 21:12 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis 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.
Episode 80: Molly Nakahara
August 12, 2011 00:17 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBMolly 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 ...
Episode 79: Tomm Becker
August 04, 2011 21:21 - 22 minutes - 21 MBTomm 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 coh...
Episode 78: Renae Haug
July 28, 2011 18:43 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBRenae’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 Brok...
Episode 77: Matt Volz
July 21, 2011 18:09 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBMatt 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 grad...
Episode 76: Zach Zink
June 09, 2011 18:53 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBZach 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 & ...
Episode 75: Noah Kai Shitama
June 05, 2011 21:05 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBNoah 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.
Episode 74: Michael Tevlin
May 26, 2011 17:32 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBMichael 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 Neighborho...
Episode 73: Tanya Tolchin
May 19, 2011 17:57 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBTanya 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 Club...
Episode 72: Molly Rockamann
April 07, 2011 17:57 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThe farm is the oldest organic farm in the state of Missouri, and possibly even west of the Mississippi. Settled in 1883, the 3rd generation is now 89 years old, with no one to carry on the farm. Surrounded by a low-income neighborhood, this 14 acre farm has resisted the surrounding development and an experienced tenant farmer on the land says that it\’s the best soil he\’s ever seen. This week’s guest on Greenhorn Radio is Molly Rockamann of EarthDance Farms. EarthDance takes a unique appr...
Episode 71: Scott Chichester
March 31, 2011 17:51 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBScott Chichester, Production Manager at Nash’s Organic Produce, was raised in Sequim. He liked to garden and was curious about where food comes from, so it was natural for him to find a job at Sunny Farms after he graduated from high school. He worked there for three years, acquiring skills in retail sales, produce displays, and customer service. Organic agriculture was what really intrigued Scott, and he also realized that he wanted to find work that would allow him to be outdoors most of t...
Episode 70: Karyn Williams
March 24, 2011 19:08 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBKaryn Williams is the owner and operator of Red Dog Farm. Karyn has been farming since 1998 and first started running her own farm in 2005. Red Dog Farm was established in 2008. Karyn is aided by a crew of awesome workers and her faithful red border collie, the farm’s namesake, Rupert Dandelion.
Episode 69: Matthew Jose
March 17, 2011 19:45 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBMatthew Jose got his first taste of the farming life while tending livestock and running various educational programs at Overlook Farm in central Massachusetts. After his stint there, he moved way out west to Portland, OR to work in a fancy French bakery, making croissants and other delectables. While there, Matthew began to get involved with small-scale community garden projects. Tired of waking up at 2 a.m., Matthew made his way back east to assist community garden groups in New York City....
Episode 68: Eric Herm
March 10, 2011 18:54 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBEric Herm grew up on a cotton farm near Ackerly, Texas. He left the farm to pursue other interests, traveling to various places across the world before returning to his roots. Upon arriving back on his family farm, he noticed many changes in not only the landscape but the methods of commercial agriculture that were causing more long-term problems. He began searching for answers to these problems, slowly discovering healthier organic methods which provided the inspiration for his book, Son of...
Episode 66: Neysa King
February 10, 2011 19:52 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBNeysa King of Green Gate Farm in Austin TX.
Episode 65: Josh Morgenthau
February 03, 2011 18:50 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBGreenhorn 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.
Episode 63: Amber Reed
December 16, 2010 19:04 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis 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.
Episode 62: Kristin Kimball
December 02, 2010 18:52 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBJoin 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 ...
Episode 60: Erin Bullock
November 11, 2010 18:46 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 59: Sandor Katz
November 04, 2010 19:34 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBThis 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 con...
Episode 58: Houston Wilson
September 16, 2010 18:40 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBThis 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 sp...
Episode 57: Ann Larkin Hansen
September 09, 2010 18:11 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBThis 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 ...
Episode 56: Mother Plants Nursery
September 02, 2010 17:56 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThis 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 ...
Episode 55: Jarrett Man
August 26, 2010 18:20 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis 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 ...
Episode 54: Growing Washinton
August 19, 2010 17:13 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBThis 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 ...
Episode 53: Falling Sky Farm
August 12, 2010 17:08 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis 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 ...
Episode 51: Sarah Petranek
July 08, 2010 18:28 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBThis 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 lo...
Episode 50: Andrew Mariani
July 01, 2010 18:25 - 1 hour - 56 MBThis 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 epis...