001 - Land-based Livelihood - Dan Kuebler and Emily Wright
Our Farms, Our Future
English - March 31, 2018 16:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBNatural Sciences Science agriculture usda farming grants ranching research sare sustainable Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our first episode features Dan Kuebler and Emily Wright.
Dan Kuebler has been market gardening since 1990, providing a variety of organically grown vegetables and value-added products such as "Farmer Dan's Sauerkraut" for the mid-Missouri area. He is a fixture of the local agriculture scene, having served many years as a board member for both the Columbia Farmers Market and the Missouri Farmers Market Association, co-founder and board chair of Sustainable Farms and Communities, as well as president of the Mid-America Organic Association.
http://columbiafarmersmarket.org/2017/01/03/the-salad-garden/
Emily Wright is co-owner and operator of Three Creeks farm in Ashland, Missouri. She and her partner grow a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and recently began incorporating agroforestry crops and pastured pork into their operation. In 2015, Emily was awarded an NCR-SARE Farmer/Rancher grant for the project, “Assessing Productivity and Profitability of Vegetable Production in the Central Missouri River Bottomlands: Tools for Farm Transitions.”