Growing For Market Podcast

Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
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Growing For Market Podcast

Growing for Market is the farmer-to-farmer magazine for local food and flower growers, for 33 years and growing. GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables, cut flowers, plants, herbs, and other food products. If you are market farming or gardening, you'll find valuable information that will help make your business more profitable and enjoyable, all written by farmers, for farmers. Please join us today! Link: https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast

  1. 4 HR. AGO

    Making compost out of food waste destined for the landfill with Nathan Rutz of Tilth Soil

    Tilth Soil was born out of a desire to keep some of the millions of pounds of food waste that is discarded every year out of landfills, with their mission to “feed people, not landfills.” Hear about how their sister company, Rust Belt Riders, started out hauling food waste in bicycle trailers, and has subsequently scaled up to trucks in order to handle just some of the scraps generated in Cleveland, Ohio- in 2023 they composted over 10 million pounds and that’s not even all the food waste generated by Cleveland!

    1h 23m
  2. Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company

    OCT 29

    Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company

    Driftless Seed Company is part of an encouraging trend we are seeing with regional seed companies producing seed in and with adaptations to their specific region. On this week’s podcast, we have Cody Egan and Dylan Bruce of Driftless Seed Company, telling host April Parms Jones how they went from farming and working for a seed company to founding one. Dylan had to leave part way through the interview due to technical difficulties, so we get the rest of the story from Cody.

    1h 8m
  3. Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!

    OCT 22

    Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!

    Farming and parenting can each be demanding jobs by all by themselves, so it can be a real challenge to do both at the same time! Katie Kulla talked to over 25 farmers about their experiences and how they strike a balance between the two, and it’s all in her new book, Farm Raised Kids: Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead! The book will be available at the end of October, and you can pre-order it from Growing for Market Magazine’s online store now (subscribers always get 20% off all books).

    1h 6m
  4. New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!

    OCT 15

    New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!

    We’re so excited to be welcoming Rebecca Kutzer-Rice to the podcast team as one of our co-hosts, we wanted to make sure and record an episode to properly introduce everyone to her! Growing for Market Magazine readers will recognize Rebecca from her articles in the mag, including many about flower growing written from her experience running Moonshot Farm, a specialty cut flower farm in East Windsor, NJ. She grows flowers year-round including in a geothermal greenhouse, for retail markets in and around NYC.

    53 min
  5. How farmers can get help preserving farmland with Addie Candib of American Farmland Trust

    OCT 8

    How farmers can get help preserving farmland with Addie Candib of American Farmland Trust

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    1h 7m
  6. How to help new farms get started with Rowan Steele of the Headwaters Farm Business Incubator Program

    OCT 1

    How to help new farms get started with Rowan Steele of the Headwaters Farm Business Incubator Program

    On this week’s podcast we talk with Rowan Steele, farmer, farm advocate, and Manager of the Headwaters Farm Business Incubator Program for the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District. Headwaters Farm is located just east of Portland, Oregon. As manager, Rowan supports experienced, conservation-forward farmers get their farm businesses off the ground. On this podcast we’ve interviewed several farmers who got their start via incubator farms, so we’re excited to hear more about how this concept works from someone who helps manage such a program.

    53 min
  7. Bazile Panek of Good Sky Guidance on respectful agricultural learning and collaboration with Indigenous communities

    SEP 24

    Bazile Panek of Good Sky Guidance on respectful agricultural learning and collaboration with Indigenous communities

    On this week’s podcast, we talk with Bazile Panek about what farmers can learn from Indigenous knowledge in agriculture. Panek, CEO of Good Sky Guidance, shares his work on Indigenous knowledge, cultural revitalization, and environmental initiatives. He discusses the importance of conserving wild rice and the threats it faces, adapting to changing weather patterns and the use of controlled burns in ecosystem management.

    48 min
  8. Pest control by birds of prey with Alina Blankenship of Sky Guardian Falconry in Oregon

    SEP 17

    Pest control by birds of prey with Alina Blankenship of Sky Guardian Falconry in Oregon

    In case you’re wondering — this sounds cool, but why are we talking about falconry on a farming podcast? That’s part of what we’re going to talk about today, but the short answer is that one of the services Alina and other modern falconers offers is agricultural abatement — that is, using falcons and raptors to protect crops from bird damage. This is something that Oregon’s wine industry is beginning to embrace but there are potential applications for many crops. We’re going to talk about that and more today.

    1h 10m
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About

Growing for Market is the farmer-to-farmer magazine for local food and flower growers, for 33 years and growing. GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables, cut flowers, plants, herbs, and other food products. If you are market farming or gardening, you'll find valuable information that will help make your business more profitable and enjoyable, all written by farmers, for farmers. Please join us today! Link: https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast

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  • Creator
    Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    93
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Growing For Market Podcast

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