Digging into Healthy Soil with Dr. Faye Smith
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nina Prater is joined by Dr. Faye Smith, a soil scientist with a focus on sustainable soil and landscape management. They talk about the importance of soil health, science-backed approaches to soil health, important benchmarks for measuring soil health, and more.
ATTRA Resources:
Managing Soil for Water Publication
Additional Resources:
Ologies, Indigenous Pedology Episode
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Forest Farming with Joe "Ginseng"
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In this episode of ATTRA’s Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist, Eddy Labus, is joined by Joe Boccardy, better known as Joe Ginseng. Joe has a small farm nestled in the mountains of Northwest North Carolina where he cares for a small herd of Scottish Highland cattle, pigs, and chickens. Joe farms the forests on his farm, raising several different types of threatened or endangered species like Ginseng and Golden Seal. In this episode, Eddy and Joe talk about growing plants in Appalachian forests, preservation methods, and value-added marketing ideas.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Other Resources:
Appalachia’s ginseng goldmine may not last much longer
Forest Farming: An Agroforestry Practice
Cultivating Native Woodland Botanicals
Appalachian Forest Farmer Coalition
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Vertical Mushroom Farming in Florida
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez goes in-depth into the world of mushroom production and market diversification in a conversation with Russell Hollander from Care2Grow, a vertical mushroom farm located in Naples, Florida.
They talk about how to start producing mushrooms on any scale, the uses of spent mushroom blocks, the health benefits of edible and medicinal mushrooms, and Russell's marketing journey.
Related ATTRA Resources:
- Container Production of Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms with Care2Grow Farm
- Establishing a Wine Cap Mushroom Bed
Other Resources:
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Functional Movement in Farming with Cynthia Flores
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In today's episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Specialist Audrey Kolde interviews Cynthia Flores the founder of Labor-Movement, an organization that believes when you move well, you work well. Audrey and Cynthia discuss the inspiration for creating Labor Movement and the importance of proper movement for those whose livelihoods depend on their bodies, especially farmers, fishers, foresters, and industrial athletes.
ATTRA RESOURCES:
Equipment – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture
Farm Stress and Emotional Well-Being, Part I – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture
OTHER RESOURCES:
Farmer Well-Being – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture
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Lessons from the 'Principal Farmer"
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Gulf States Regional Coordinator Felicia Bell sits down with “The Principal Farmer,” Patrick Muhammad, of Atlanta, Georgia. Patrick is the principal of the Chattahoochee Hills Charter School, where students from kindergarten through eighth grade learn about the world through the lens of agriculture, nature, and the arts. He also has a farm and enjoys helping adults learn to love the land and return to their farming roots.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Farmland Access
https://attra.ncat.org/publication/farmland-access/
https://attra.ncat.org/tutorial-beginning-farmer-training/
Other Related Resources:
Chattahoochee Hills Charter School
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The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico
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Episode 367: The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico
This episode of Voices from the Field explores the ancient Taino Conuco farming systems of Puerto Rico in a conversation between NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez and researcher Joseph Navarro. They discuss how these sustainable practices supported self-sufficiency during pre-colonial times, their evolution through colonial and industrial transitions, and their potential to transform Puerto Rico’s future and address modern challenges like soil erosion, food insecurity, and climate resilience.
Related Resources:
Can Indigenous Agricultural Methods of Puerto Rico Mitigate Climate Change and Feed the Island?
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History – and Us
Precision Ecology
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Guy Ames: Living and Farming with Head and Heart
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Ag Specialists Nina Prater and Lee Rinehart are joined by recently retired Ag Specialist Guy Ames to celebrate his life and work. Guy is deeply knowledgeable about his area of expertise, fruit trees, and is also a font of wisdom about how to live the good life. This conversation includes how Guy found his way to farming in the Ozarks, the many failures that guided him toward success, and like most conversations with Guy, contains many wonderful, circuitous meanderings. He also shares about what it was like in the early days of ATTRA in the distant pre-internet past. We will all miss Guy here at NCAT and are so grateful he joined us in this episode to keep the "cultural cycle," as Wendell Berry puts it, turning.
ATTRA Resources:
Soils and Sites for Organic Orchards and Vineyards
Tree Fruits: Organic Production Overview
Battling Borers in Organic Apple Production
Blueberries: Organic Production
Fruit Trees, Bushes, and Vines for Natural Growing in the Ozarks
Other Resources:
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Calcium: The ‘Premier’ Soil Nutrient
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialists Nina Prater, Darron Gaus, and Lee Rinehart explore calcium – an essential plant nutrient and basic soil cation that has a big impact on soil pH. Whether your soil is naturally high or naturally low in calcium, this episode will guide
you in managing this nutrient.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Episode 164. Soil Sessions. Understanding Soil pH
Episode 304. Phosphorus and the Beauty of Biology
Episode 260. Rising Fertilizer Costs. Look to History for Answers
Episode 323. Potassium from Past to Present
Other Resources:
Soil Fertility and Animal Health
The Marl Pits Around the Upton Area
Soil Acidity and Adjusting Soil pH
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Understanding Through Listening: Connecting with Indigenous Foodways in Montana
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Local Food Systems Specialists Maura Henn and Molly Kirkham talk with Indigenous Food Sovereignty Consultant Cheyenne Robinson about their project, “Understanding Through Listening: Connecting with Native Food Ways in Montana.”
The project focused on holding listening sessions in Native American communities in Montana, primarily on Indian reservations, to learn if community members would be interested in developing an Indigenous Harvest of the Month program. Harvest of the Month is a farm-to-school educational framework designed to promote locally grown food in Montana schools and communities.
Maura, Molly, and Cheyenne talk about what they learned conducting the sessions, the process of developing the listening-session framework, and what their next steps will be.
Related ATTRA Resources:
• Farm to School
Project Partners:
• Grow Montana
• Montana Cooperative Development Center Distribution Study – Challenges and Opportunities for Grocers in Rural and Tribal Communities
• No Kid Hungry
• Montana Partnership to End Childhood Hunger
Other Resources:
• Understanding Through Listening
• Harvest of the Month
• Montana Harvest of the Month
• Menominee Harvest of the Moon
• Nebraska Harvest of the Month Indigenous Foods and Training
• National Farm to School Network
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Episode 363: The Lost Art of Seed Saving with Bonnetta Adeeb of Ujamaa
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez talks with Bonnetta Adeeb, founder of Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, a nonprofit collective of BIPOC growers, farmers, and gardeners who cultivate and distribute heirloom seeds and grow culturally meaningful crops.
Gabriella and Bonnetta talk about the cultural role of seed saving and heritage crops as well as the importance of agriculture in defining and protecting cultural identity.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Specialty Melon Production for Small and Direct-Market Growers
· Improving Seed Viability and Germination
Other Resources:
· UJAMAA Cooperative Farming Alliance
· UJAMAA Seeds
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Strategies for Selling to Schools
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Chris Lent has a conversation with Crystal Hampton-Davis, co-owner of Davis Grown, a Pennsylvania livestock and produce farm. They discuss how Crystal and her husband, Bradley, diversified the farm and made the move toward selling to local schools. Crystal is also passionate about educating children and others in the community about local foods.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Other Resources:
Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Farm to School Grant
Pennsylvania Department of Education Fruit Tree and Vegetable Program
The Food Trust Farm Tour: Davis Grown
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Understanding the Hawai'i Regional Food Business Center and Food Hub Hui with Dr. Saleh Azizi
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez sits down with Dr. Saleh Azizi, Director of the Hawai'i Food Hub Hui and the Islands & Remote Areas Regional Food Business Center. Together, they delve into the historical context of Hawaii's food system, exploring the impacts of colonialism and the resulting health challenges faced by the native population. Saleh explains the critical role of food hubs in supporting local agriculture and food security, and he and Gabriella discuss the unique collaboration between Hawai'i's Regional Food Business Center, the Good Food Alliance Hawaii, and the US Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition. Tune in to learn more about how these partnerships are shaping a more resilient and sustainable food system for island communities.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Feasibility Study for a Texas Organic Food Hub
· Episode 194. Kansas City Food Hub and KC Farm
· Farm to Food Hub to School
Other Related Resources:
· Islands & Remote Areas Regional Food Business Center
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Natural Dye Supply Chain: From Field to Fabric
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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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Teatime in Mississippi
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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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Abundant Montana “Meet Up” Meets with Success
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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:
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Soil-to-Skin: Laura Sansone of New York Textile Lab on the Intersection of Growers and Designers
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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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Soil-to-Skin: Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt Shares Her Journey
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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
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Soil-to-Skin: Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on Building Community
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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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The Rich Heritage of Chicken Breeds
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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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A Closer Look at Draft Horses
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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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Principles Before Practices with Jenny Pluhar
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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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The Home-Scale Forest Garden with Dani Baker
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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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Mid-Scale Biodigester with Matt Steiman of Dickinson College Organic Farm
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Northeast Coordinator and Agriculture Specialist Chris Lent talks to Matt Steiman, the Farm Energy and Livestock Manager at Dickinson College Organic Farm in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about the farm’s new biodigester.
A farm-based biodigester can turn cow manure and food waste into natural gas to produce electricity for the farm to use and to sell to the utility grid.
Matt and Chris discuss Matt’s research over the past 14 years on turning waste streams into biofuels and how that research led to the new biodigester’s design and its installation at the farm.
The discussion covers the unusual scale of the project, which was designed to manage the manure from 150 dairy cows and up to three tons of food waste daily. The project is meant to demonstrate to mid-sized farms across Pennsylvania and elsewhere that it is possible to manage waste streams in an environmentally sound way by
transforming them into a source of carbon-neutral energy.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Biodiesel Use, Handling, and Fuel Quality
· Micro-Scale Biogas Production: A Beginners Guide
· Anaerobic Digestion of Animal Waters: Factors to Consider
Other Resources:
· Biogas – Dickinson College Organic Farm
· Dickinson College YouTube Channel
· USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) On-Farm Energy Initiative
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Farm to School with Ridge to Reef Farm on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez talks with Nate Olive, the owner of Ridge to Reef Farm on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Nate talks about the innovative market- diversification strategies that have contributed to his farming success and the challenges and opportunities of the St. Croix market.
Related ATTRA Resources:
· Subtropical Soil Health Initiative
· Cover Crops for Hot and Humid Areas
Other Resources:
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Poke Salad, Mullein, and Other Crop Alternatives in Southern Arkansas
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In this episode of Voices from the Field, Kandi Williams of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s Small Farms Program talks with Arkansas farmer Michael Henegan about his farming heritage and some of his methods to reach markets that others don't by wildcrafting local herbs and plants, including mullein and poke salad.
Kandi also works with the Silas H. Hunt Community Development Corporation, which partnered in producing this podcast.
This podcast was also produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology
through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative
agreement with USDA Rural Development. This podcast was also made possible in
part by funding from the Southern Risk Management Education Center, USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the University of Arkansas.
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Digging into Healthy Soil with Dr. Faye Smith
48:53
Forest Farming with Joe "Ginseng"
43:47
Vertical Mushroom Farming in Florida
47:54
Functional Movement in Farming with Cynthia Flores
40:06
Lessons from the 'Principal Farmer"
52:43
The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico
52:22
Guy Ames: Living and Farming with Head and Heart
1:01:26
Calcium: The ‘Premier’ Soil Nutrient
1:00:06
Understanding Through Listening: Connecting with Indigenous Foodways in Montana
53:58
Episode 363: The Lost Art of Seed Saving with Bonnetta Adeeb of Ujamaa
52:26
Strategies for Selling to Schools
31:35
Understanding the Hawai'i Regional Food Business Center and Food Hub Hui with Dr. Saleh Azizi
39:33
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
Mid-Scale Biodigester with Matt Steiman of Dickinson College Organic Farm
48:32
Farm to School with Ridge to Reef Farm on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
48:32
Poke Salad, Mullein, and Other Crop Alternatives in Southern Arkansas
44:15