Well known for his development and workshops around management intensive rotational grazing, rancher Cody Holmes is also the author of Ranching Full Time on 3 Hours a Day. In the last few years, he’s expanded into multi-species grazing, delivery and farmers markets. Now he’s working to build a local food hub based on real foods. Join me for this conversation with Cody Holmes.
What: Deep Roots Radio live conversation with Cody Holmes. When: May 9, 2015, 9:00-9:30AM Central Time Where: Broadcast and streamed live from the studios of WPCA Radio 93.1FM and www.wpcaradio.org
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
Tune in! What: According to USDA stats: Who is farming, and how many acres equals a farm. Deep Roots Radio takes a look. Taking a look at the 2012 USDA’s Agricultural Census When: Saturday, March 28, 2015, 9:00-9:30AM Central Where: WPCA Radio, 93.1FM and stream live at www.wpcaradio.org
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
John Jeavons
Connecting the dots between what we eat and how its grown
I get it: you want to eat healthy foods. You want to cook delicious meals. You want to get back to what’s real, and you want to do it yourself! But you’re apprehensive about 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. Tune in today as we chat about the cookbook and the thinking behind it. She makes fermentation, slow cooking and the principles of the Weston A. Price Foundation “do-able”.
What: Deep Roots Radio interview with Jennifer McGruther, author/blogger of The Nourished Kitchen
When: Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015, 9:00-9:30AM Central Time
Where: Broadcast and streamed live on WPCA Radio 93.1FM and www.wpcaradio.org
What: Live, Deep Roots Radio conversation with bovine genetics guru Gearld Fry When: Saturday, Jan. 3, 2014, 9:00-9:30AM Central Where: Broadcast and streamed live from the studios of WPCA Radio, 93.1FM and online at www.wpcaradio.org
Gearld Fry, bovine genetics expert
I met Gearld Fry five years ago. It was in a crowded hotel conference room in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Fry was one of four instructors taking us through a two-day grazing school. We were transfixed.
It was December and Dave and I had just bought our 72-acre farm in western Wisconsin. Fry’s presentation introduced us to principles we’re using to improve our herd and to produce healthful 100% grass-fed beef.
Fry talked about working seasonally, feeding only grass and why, how to identify a cow that will give rich milk for her calves, and the huge influence the bull has on the quality of future generations. He also stressed the importance of “line breeding,” using your own bulls to continually improve the quality of your animals.
Line breeding?
Join me and Gearld Fry tomorrow morning for a live chat about his approaches. Nationally known, Fry’s counsel is based on over 50 years experience with cattle – beef and dairy.
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.
Join me for this conversation with Cody Holmes.
