In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Tyler Jenkins takes listeners on a journey through the natural-dye supply chain with three industry experts. Max Holden is a grower based in Washington state with a passion for cultivating dye plants. Bradley Todd is a fellow NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist who resides in North Carolina and is a processor skilled in dye extraction. Courtney Lockemer is an organizer and market builder based in North Carolina who is dedicated to advancing natural dyes in modern markets. Together, they discuss a pilot project that explored opportunities for farmers to produce natural dye plants and how these efforts can scale to meet growing market demand.
Related ATTRA Resources:
- Business and Marketing
- Fiber
- Specialty Cut Flower Production and Marketing
- Herbs: Organic Greenhouse Production
Related Resources
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Audrey Kolde talks with Timothy Gipson, co-owner and co-founder of The Great Mississippi Tea Company in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Their conversation touches on the challenges and successes the company has had growing this popular specialty crop in the Magnolia State.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· The Unsung Heroes of the Plants We Drink: Tea
· Farm Branding: Selling Your Products Through Story
Other Resources:
· The Great Mississippi Tea Company
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Local Foods Specialist Molly Kirkham talks with Erin Austin of Abundant Montana. Abundant Montana is a nonprofit that helps create a more resilient and reliable food system by developing educational campaigns about local foods, providing digital marketing and promotion assistance, and fostering business-to-business connections for Montana food and farming businesses.
Erin and Molly talk about Abundant Montana’s recent online producer-buyer “meet-up event,” Abundant Connections. Molly and Erin discuss the need Abundant Montana saw that led to creating the event, the event’s format, what went well, who connected at the event, and what the future looks like for Abundant Connections.
This podcast is part of the “Farm to School Technical Assistance-Cooperative Agreement, Bringing the Farm to School through New Connections” project. In this project, NCAT is collaborating with producer organizations to expand producer-focused training and technical assistance using NCAT’s widely adaptable Bringing the Farm to School curriculum, which helps local producers engage in the child nutrition programs market.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Episode 288. Using the Abundant Montana Local Food Directory as a Marketing Strategy
Other Resources:
Contact Molly Kirkham at mollyk@ncat.org
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This episode of Voices from the Field is part of our Soil-to-Skin podcast series, in which NCAT Carbon Farm Planners Allison Agee and Danielle Duni explore the relationships between soil health, fiber production, and market solutions.
It is part of NCAT’s Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership with Colorado State University, Carbon Cycle Institute, Fibershed, Seed2Shirt, and New York Textile Lab. The Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership is funded by USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
Today, Allison and Danielle talk with Laura Sansone from New York Textile Lab about the intersection of fiber growers and designers.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Episode 356. Soil to Skin: Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt Shares Her Journey
Episode 355. Soil to Skin: Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on Building Community
Episode 330. Meet NCAT: Carbon Farm Planner Allison Cooley-Agee of Montana
Episode 331. Meet NCAT: Danielle Duni, Carbon Farm Planner for Woolgrowers in Wyoming
Other Resources:
Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership
New York Textile Lab
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Episode 356. Soil-to-Skin: Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt
This episode of Voices from the Field continues our Soil-to-Skin podcast series, in which NCAT Carbon Farm Planners Allison Cooley-Agee and Danielle Duni explore the relationships between soil health, fiber production, and market solutions.
It is part of NCAT’s Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership with Colorado State University, Carbon Cycle Institute, Fibershed, Seed2Shirt, and New York Textile Lab. The Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership is funded by USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
Today, Allison and Danielle talk with Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt as she walks us through her journey to source a T-shirt made by a black company that included cotton sourced from African or African American farmers and how that journey led her to develop a global cotton merchant company.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Episode 355. Soil to Skin: Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on Building Community
Episode 330. Meet NCAT: Carbon Farm Planner Allison Cooley-Agee of Montana
Episode 331. Meet NCAT: Danielle Duni, Carbon Farm Planner for Woolgrowers in Wyoming
Other Resources:
Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership
New York Textile Lab
Contact Allison Cooley-Agee and Danielle Duni at allisonc@ncat.org and danielled@ncat.org.
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This episode of Voices from the Field begins our “Soil to Skin” podcast series, in which NCAT Carbon Farm Planners Allison Cooley-Agee and Danielle Duni explore the relationships between soil health, fiber production, and market solutions.
The series is part of NCAT’s Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership with Colorado State University, Carbon Cycle Institute, Fibershed, Seed2Shirt, and New York Textile Lab. The Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership is funded by USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
Allison and Danielle talk about the project with Rebecca Burgess, the Executive Director of Fibershed, about building community around grower-to-grower networks to help producers become “economically, ecologically, and socially successful.”
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Fiber
· Tips for Marketing Sheep and Goat Products: Fiber
· Climate Beneficial Practices
Additional Resources:
· Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Tyler Jenkins talks with Richard Udale and Anne Fanatico in an enlightening conversation about the world of poultry breeding, genetics, and the rich history of the chicken. Richard and Anne, both renowned experts in the field, discuss the evolution of various chicken breeds and their unique traits, along with the intricate science behind selective breeding.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Poultry
· Eggs
· Growing Your Range Poultry Business: An Entrepreneur's Toolbox
Other Resources:
· American Pastured Poultry Association
· American Poultry Association
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Tracy Mumma talks with her husband, David Sturman, and daughter, Lina Sturman, about using draft horses on the farm. They discuss some of the jobs horses can do, including logging and agritourism, and some of the different hitches that can help make effective use of horsepower. They also cover some important considerations for anyone considering using draft horses on the farm, based on decades of shared experience using draft horses in Montana.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Draft Animal Power for Farming
· Episode 333. Draft Animals 101
· Episode 334. Teaming Up with Oxen
Additional Resources:
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Darron Gaus joins Peggy Sechrist, a pioneer in the organic beef industry in Texas and a long-time Holistic Management International educator.
Darron, who is based in Victoria, Texas, co-leads a working group with Peggy in Texas as part of NCAT’s Soil for Water Southern SARE project. That project includes some great conversations with members of the working group – a four-state team of producers, scientists, and universities trying to key in on some of the barriers keeping more operations from adopting regenerative grazing methods.
Today’s conversation is between Peggy and Jenny Pluhar, Executive Director of the Texas Grazing Land Coalition, and ranch manager for Taylor Ranches in the panhandle of Texas. She is also the co-author of the book Texas Range Plants. Jenny details her work with the Texas Grazing Land Coalition and the new project the coalition is working on, called “Principles Before Practices.”
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Soil
Related NCAT Resources:
Other Resources:
· AG Proud
· Texas Grazing Land Coalition
· Texas Grazing Land Coalition Facebook page
· U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez talks with author and farmer Dani Baker. Since her retirement from another career and subsequent inspiration from an Extension class on permaculture, Dani has become well known for her takes on creating “resilient edible landscapes.” She and Gabriella discuss the benefits that come from realizing that nature knows what it is doing.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Climate Change and Perennial Fruit and Nut Production: Investing in Resilience in Uncertain Times
· Weekly Wednesday Workshop: Permaculture 101
Other Resources:
· Home-Scale Forest Garden with Dani Baker preview
· The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape
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Natural Dye Supply Chain: From Field to Fabric
46:20
Teatime in Mississippi
28:31
Abundant Montana “Meet Up” Meets with Success
23:28
Soil-to-Skin: Laura Sansone of New York Textile Lab on the Intersection of Growers and Designers
45:04
Soil-to-Skin: Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt Shares Her Journey
40:29
Soil-to-Skin: Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on Building Community
40:15
The Rich Heritage of Chicken Breeds
1:08:18
A Closer Look at Draft Horses
36:16
Principles Before Practices with Jenny Pluhar
39:20
The Home-Scale Forest Garden with Dani Baker
36:16