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Sow and Grow Podcast Sow and Grow Podcast
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With Agroecology and Food Sovereignty at its core the Sow and Grow podcast is produced and hosted by young farmers exploring the forces that shape Canadian agriculture. Through interviews and discussions the hosts and their guests seed the solutions needed to build a more just and ecologically sustainable food system.
www.sowandgrow.ca
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A Responsibility To Hope
Feat. Maddie Marmor, Stuart Oke, Aliyah Fraser
Join Aliyah, Stuart and Maddie one last time to reflect on the conversations, takeaways, throughlines of the past seven episodes. The power of nuance, semantics and intersectionality are all present as the crew shares what stood out to them. Keep your ear’s piqued for a series 3 too!
Continue learning at the links below.
Who Will Feed Us: New Farmer Perspectives on Agriculture for the future
National Farmers Union - Agroecology
La Via Campesina: Agroecology and Peasant Seeds
Rooted Oke Farm / IG: rootedoakfarm
Lucky Bug Farm / IG: luckybugfarm
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
National Farmers Foundation
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On Farm Solutions and Changing How we Farm
Feat. Maddie Marmor, Stuart Oke, Brenda Hsueh, Manish Kushwaha, Julia Smith, Anastasia (Ana) Fyk
Co-host Stuart Oke sits down with four farmers from across the country to learn how when you are forced to change, age-old skills and tools can serve us well, and the solutions are scalable if we use the values behind them as our guide - open-mindedness, adaptability, creativity, cooperation, reciprocity.
Check out the links below for more on what you heard in this episode.
Gaiaorganics.ca
Justblacksheep.com
Blueskyranch.ca
fyksoba.com
Surviving the Heat: The impacts of the 2021 heat dome in Canada
What are Atmospheric Rivers?
How to Survive the End of the World
Onbeing.org “adrienne maree brown “we are in the time of new suns”
www.rootedoak.ca - @rootedoakfarm
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Podcast Links
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
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Cultivating Land-Based Relationships
Feat. host Maddie Marmor, co-host Aliyah Fraser and guest Dave Skene
In our second episode on land, co-host Aliyah Fraser sits down with David Skene of Wisahkotewinowak to bring to the forefront the perspective that a deeper relating to the land around us would positively impact our decisions on land use, an often underreported cause of climate change.
Find out more about what you heard at the links below.
Wisahkotewinowak / IG: @wisahkotewinowak / FB: Wisahkotewinowak
Food Secure Canada - Indigenous Food Sovereignty Discussion Paper
Human Rights Watch - “My Fear is Losing Everything”: The Climate Crisis and First Nations’ Right to Food in Canada
Episode Sponsor
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Lucky Bug Farm / IG: luckybugfarm
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
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Climate Anxiety: Care in Crisis
Learn how the decisions farmers are making day-to-day and more so for the future are significantly impacted by the stress, anxiety and depression felt while farming in a time of crisis through the testimonies of young farmers across the country and by host Maddie Marmor and guest Toby Malloy’s conversation about the feelings felt farming in a time of crisis.
Feat. Host Maddie Marmor and guest’s Toby Malloy, Hannah Dyer, Ari Westhaver, Kishon Warmington, Jordan Rivers with contributions from Elizabeth Cyr and Jessie MacInnis
*Disclaimer* This episode deals with mental health issues like depression, anxiety and suicide ideation. From all of us here at the show, we want to express our sympathy and care - it’s hard out there. If we can offer anything, it’s to call/text/message a friend. Making this show helped all of us mentally, and hopefully you have someone to chat to too.
If you need more information about what you heard today, please check out the links below:
National Farmers Union - Resources and Support for Mental Health, Legal Aid and Financial Assistance
Academic Research Paper - Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and resilience in Canadian Farmers
Farmer Wellness Initiative (Ontario Specific)
Toby Malloy Counselling
Resmaa.ca
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
National Farmers Foundation -
How We Use Our Land
How do we use our land is a question that invites and warns us to take a critical look at the decisions we are making about the land we steward. Join co-host and show producer Aliyah Fraser as she brings forward this narrative of land use change as a major cause of climate change in her conversation with guest Thorsten Arnold.
Feat. Host Maddie Marmor, co-host Aliyah Fraser and guest Thorsten Arnold
Want more information about what you’ve heard? Check out the links below.
Persephone Market Garden
Eat Local Grey Bruce
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
Additional Reading on Dehesas
B.E.S.H
Agrarian Trust
Ontario Farmland Trust
NorthEast Farmers of Colour Land Trust
Not Just Bikes
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
National Farmers Foundation
Episode Sponsor
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Cold Myths, Hot Takes
Uncover the truths behind the big rallying cries of the current climate moment. Alongside our guest Ayla Fenton, the team will give their hot takes on some of the biggest myths and falsehoods when it comes to the narratives and representation of the relationship between farmers and the climate in mainstream culture.
Feat. Host Maddie Marmor, co-hosts Stuart Oke and Aliyah Fraser and guest Ayla Fenton
More on the myths you heard about today at the links below.
Nyeleni - Newsletter no 46 Dec 2021
La Via Campesina - Agroecology and Peasant Seeds
ETC Group / IG: etc_group_
ETC Group - Who Will Feed Us report
Hootwinked in the Hothouse - Third Edition
Bioneers - Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture: An Indigenous Perspective
Sow and Grow website link
Support the podcast
National Farmers Foundation