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Deep Roots Radio interviews with ranchers, farmers, policymakers, teachers and scientists, film makers and chefs, authors and home-makers. They all help connect the dots between what we eat and how it’s grown.
One way to move America’s food system to great taste, high nutrition, environmental stewardship, humane animal welfare, and fair wages is through thoughtful investment – slow money. What is slow money? How does it work and what does it mean to you and me? How can you and I make a difference? Find out in this Deep Roots Radio interview with Brett Olson, co-founder and creative director of Renewing the Countryside. Minnesota’s first Slow Monday event is June 17, 2015, 5:00-8:00PM at Como Park, St. Paul, Minn. For information on this event, click here.
Seed swapping and seed libraries - illegal? SELC's Neil Thapar and freeing the seeds.
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In this Deep Roots Radio interview, attorney Neil Thapar describes the technical glitch that makes it illegal to organize seed libraries or trade seeds with fellow gardeners.
Thapar practices with the Sustainable Economies Legal Center (SELC), Oakland, California. Its mission is to provide legal expertise needed to move communities, governments and organizations from destructive economic systems to innovative, cooperative alternatives. the nonprofit works to create a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. SELC provides legal tools – education, research, advise and advocacy – so that communities can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs and other assets that promote thriving communities.
To find out more about its Save Seed Sharing Campaign, visit www.theselc.org/save_seed_sharing.
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In this Deep Roots Radio interview, chicken guru Harvey Ussery describes ways the small flockster (chicken keeper) can start chicks off right, use natural feed and manure management approaches, and consider improving the breeds.
Ussery’s focus in the small-scale livestock producer – keeper of the small flock for the homestead and market. Based on over 30 years experience, Ussery continues conducting on-farm research and adding to the insights and lessons he shares in talks and workshops across the country. His book and blog“The Small-Scale Poultry Flock” are full, up-to-date resources for the new and experienced poultry keeper.
A great resource for the experienced and new chicken keeper
Jennifer McGruther - pulling traditional, highly nutritious and delicious foods back into today's kitchens...beautifully
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You want to eat delicious, healthy foods. You want to get back to what’s real, and you want to do it yourself! But you’re not sure where to start, and you wonder if you’ll spend the rest of your life in the kitchen!
Worry no more. Jennifer McGruther recently published an absolutely beautiful cookbook that goes by the same name as her wildly popular website – The Nourished Kitchen. Based on sound science, as well as time-tested approaches, Jennifer’s book will guide you back to great taste and high nutrition. In this Deep Roots Radio interview, she explains how you can do it!
Bringing traditional health and taste back into cooking
Jim French, rancher and ag advisor to Oxfam America
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A long-time Kansas rancher, Jim French is Senior Advocacy Advisor for Agriculture to Oxfam America. He has traveled the world in Oxfam’s efforts to work with local communities to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice.
Jim has come to believe that you must meet people where they are in their efforts, tap their local traditions and support their goals for prosperity. It’s not about exporting US agricultural products to foreign countries, but rather supporter their abilities to boost their local food production and economies.
I hope you enjoy this interview. For more information about Oxfam, visit www.oxfamamerica.org.
John Jeavons - author, educator, researcher, eco-farm guru for mini-farm success anywhere
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In this Deep Roots Radio interview, John Jeavons describes how biointensive gardening and farming is being used to increase yields, restore soils at unprecedented rates, cut water consumption by two-thirds and yield net income.
Jeavons in author of “How to Grow More Vegetables* on less land than you can imagine”. Now in its eighth printing and with over 500,000 sold, the principles described are at work in 151 countries worldwide.
Why so popular? Because Jeavon’s approach – GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming – addresses real needs with a real solution: more food for a growing population, soils restored so that they can grow more food, soil composition improved to hold and store water much more efficiently, ways to build compost up to 60X faster than nature, and the ability to earn a net income that’ll support a family.
I hope you enjoy – and will share – this podcast.
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By John Jeavons
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Connecting the dots between what we eat and how its grown
Chicken guru Lisa Steele writes/lives "Fresh Eggs Daily" Cluck!!
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A fifth-generation chicken keeper, Lisa Steele is also an engaging writer and terrific photographer – proven skills that earned her Better Homes & Gardens recognition as one of the Top Ten Garden Bloggers in 2014. Author of Fresh Eggs Daily, and the power behind the blog by the same name, Lisa offers sound advise on how to raise your backyard flock naturally.
I hope you enjoy this Deep Roots Radio chat with Lisa.
Free-range chickens checking out the changed landscape
A rose is a rose is a rose, or so the old song goes. But is it? The more we learn, the more we become aware that every living thing is unique. While two roses may appear identical at first glance, a closer examination reveals hundreds of differences – many of them critical. While both are red, one can thrive in drier soil, while another is resistant to aphids. In both cases, the traits can be passed on to the next generation: they are heritable.
Full Throttle, registered BueLingo bull, herd sire
Genetic variability and inheritable traits are true for cattle as well. (You knew I was going to get to farming, eventually.)
And what bovine expert Gearld Fry has learned over many decades is that the bull plays a dominant role in setting the health, conformity and vigor of your herd, including the body features of daughter cows.
I hope you enjoy this Deep Roots Radio chat with Mr. Fry – his insights are powerful. It was recorded live in the studios of WPCA Radio, Amery, Wisconsin.
You can learn about Mr. Fry’s work at Bovine Engineering dot com.
FERN Investigative reporter/editor Sam Fromartz on "The Search for the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey"
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Sam Fromartz is Editor in Chief of the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN). His interest in food isn’t limited to the academic or mud-raking, however. He grew up on the great rye breads made in his native Brooklyn and has been a devoted bread baker for decades. His passion for crusty artisan breads collided with his journalistic career several years ago to send him on a three year journey around the world in search of the perfect loaf.
Growing agricultural tourism - good for farmers, good for visitors
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A well-established tradition in Europe, agricultural tourism is now growing rapidly in the United States. In this Deep Roots Radio interview, Steve Peterson, President of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association, describes the educational, entertainment and economic benefits of this sector.
He recommends farmers explore resources at luv-r-ag.com.
Similarly, if you want to visit to a local winery or micro-brewery, or find a weekend farm-stay, travelwisconsin.com.
Enjoying the warm at Bull Brook Keep
If you’d like to visit our sustainable grass-fed beef farm, Bull Brook Keep, just give a call, 651-238-8525. We’d love to walk our pastures with you, and explain why we’re committed to raising our herd on grass, and only grass. No grains. No growth hormones. No sub-therapeutic antibiotics. We hope you’ll visit.
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