The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson Urban Farm Team

819: How to Plant Your SeedsA chat with an expert on seeds.In This Seed Chat:This is the May 2024 Seed Chat - Whether you’re a gardening novice or a seasoned enthusiast, join us for an engaging session where we’ll identify the secrets of successful seed planting. Bill McDorman and Greg Peterson will guide you through the process, from selecting the right seeds to nurturing them into thriving plants. Learn about soil preparation, optimal planting depths, and the crucial role of sunlight and water. Discover insider tips for overcoming common challenges and ensuring a bountiful harvest. This interactive Seed Chat promises to cultivate your gardening skills and set you on the path to a vibrant, green future. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to sow the seeds of success! Come Chat with Us!
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What is the Seed Chat?
At least ten times a year we have a live Seed Saving Class with Bill McDorman, the former Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho. He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013. 
Come join us for the next live class, or catch up on our previous classes through our podcast episodes.  Either way you will expand your seed knowledge and gain new perspectives on your food system.
Register anytime for the next event.
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818: Soil - The most Important thing to grow in your gardenA Rosie On The House Radio Show Replay
In This Podcast: Join Farmer Greg for his monthly Rosie on the House Radio hour from Arizona. This month Romey and Greg are discussing in depth the ins and outs of growing healthy soil. Learn all about woody mulch and where to find it for free, the five components of healthy soil, why Greg loves weeds, the big reason not to use chemicals in his garden and so much more.
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Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!Become an Urban Farm Patron and listen to more than 850 episodes of the Urban Farm Podcast without ads. Click HERE to learn more.
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817: John Moody on Growing Elderberries.Growing a berry plant popular for its many health benefits.
In This Podcast: In 2023 Farmer Greg Became an elderberry farmer because of a conversation with Samara Price a podcast guest. Then he remembered that one of our past guests had written a book on Elderberries. Join John Moody and Greg as they navigate the history, traditions and propagation techniques of elderberries. Stick around till the end of the interview to find out what Count Dracula from Sesame Street has to do with elderberries.
Our Guest: John and his family homestead on 35 acres in the rolling hills of Kentucky outside Louisville.   Riddled with chronic illness and health problems, in his twenties John discovered the healing power of real foods, properly prepared from real farms.  He soon founded Whole Life Buying club, one of the largest alternative local food distribution approaches in the country.  He is the author of five books, co-founder with Joel Salatin of the Rogue Food Conference, and a well known speaker at conferences across the country on health, food, farming, and freedom.   
You can find him at Johnwmoody.com, or their forthcoming family Podcast - Resistance is Fertile.  
Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/TheElderberryBook for the show notes and links on this episode!
Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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816: Aaron Zaretsky on Creating Public Markets .Offering an alternative to Farmers Markets.
In This Podcast: Imagine a place not that unlike a modern-day mall, but with only local vendors of food and many other cool things. They are called Public Markets that are a centuries old concept that has been revitalizing local food economies in places like Seattle (Pikes Place Market) and Zagreb Croatia (the Dolac Market). Join Aaron Zaretsky and Greg as they explore the history and future of Public Markets.
Our Guest: Aaron spent fifteen years as a Director at Seattle’s Pike Place Public Market, the nation’s most successful Public Market, with fifteen million annual customer visits. The Market’s redevelopment is credited with transforming downtown Seattle from the nation’s original “skid road”, with countless derelict buildings, into the nation’s healthiest and most prosperous downtown. Pike Place is also the #1 tourist attraction in the surrounding six state region.
For 41 years, through his company, Public Market Development, Aaron has helped to analyze, plan, redevelop, develop, and manage over fifty Public Markets across the country and internationally.
Aaron's Book Recommendation: The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/PublicMarketDevelopment for the show notes and links on this episode!
Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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815: Kareen Erbe on Resilient Homesteads.Helping people design food forests and gardens with a holistic approach.
In This Podcast: Broken Ground is Kareen's passion and a platform where people can learn how to work with and create from the principles of permaculture and sustainable living. Kareen is a passionate environmentalist with a deep-rooted connection to the land, and through Broken Ground she offers workshops, consultations, and design services to empower individuals and communities to grow their own food and regenerate the earth.
Through her signature resilient homestead program, participants are guided through the principles of permaculture design, soil building, food forest creation, and water harvesting, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to transform their landscapes into thriving, biodiverse ecosystems. By fostering beneficial relationships between plants, animals, and people, Broken Ground is redefining the way we interact with our environment and inspiring a new generation of land stewards.
At the core of her mission is the belief that everyone has the ability to cultivate abundance and resilience in their own front and backyard. By providing practical tools and resources, along with ongoing support and mentorship, Broken Ground empowers individuals to take control of their food supply and reduce their impact on the planet. Through education, community engagement, and hands-on learning experiences, Broken Ground is sowing the seeds of change and cultivating a future where regenerative agriculture is the norm, not the exception.
Our Guest: Kareen is the owner of Broken Ground, a garden design consultant and educator. For over a decade, she has helped people in cold climates grow their own food so they can eat healthier, live more sustainably, and become more self-reliant. From getting clients started on their first ever garden, to working with couples on designing a full-blown homestead, to designing large-scale farms, she’s helped thousands of people grow nutritious food for their family through consultations, design services, her signature Resilient Homestead Program, and her YouTube channel. Kareen and her husband live on a suburban homestead in Bozeman, Montana, USA with their dog Beni, a greenhouse, pond, vegetable gardens, a food forest of fruit trees and berry bushes, and a flock of chickens.
Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/BrokenGround for the show notes and links on this episode!
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814: Albert Wilde on Wool Pellet Organic Fertilizer.Using an innovative resource to improve water retention in potted plants.
In This Podcast: Regenerative farming is all about using everything in the system and not having any waist. What if you were a farmer and found a place that there was a 20% waste stream on your farm? Albert Wilde of Wild Valley Sheep Farm invented a new way to fertilize his wife's houseplants and it is turning into an innovate new way to fertilize and have our soil retain water. Join us as Albert and I chat about what is in my opinion one of the most innovative fertilizer inventions of the decade!
Our Guest: Albert is a sixth generation sheep rancher, entrepreneur, and father of seven boys. He is pioneering a new market for US wool,  focusing on the use of wool pellets as a fertilizer and water holding soil amendment.  
Albert started by making compost on the side as a little extra income for the farm.  This led to making wool pellets and trialing them with a local greenhouse.  Then in 2017, Wild Valley Farms won the Utah “Green Business Award for Innovation” and in 2018 Wild Valley Farms was chosen as a finalist out of 535 entries in the “American Farm Bureau Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge”. 
Since then, Albert has worked with numerous universities around the world demonstrating the benefits of wool pellets.  Wild Valley Farms has expanded the market through distributors, online, and in stores establishing a new innovative product for gardeners and farmers. 
Albert's Recommended book: Root Cellaring natural cold storage of fruits and vegetables, by Mike and Nancy Bubell,
Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/WildValleyFarms for the show notes and links on this episode!
Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!
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