2022 has been an intense year for me behind the scenes. I don’t often talk about my personal life here on the show, but I’ve had some major milestones this year that I’m excited to share with you. It’s been a long journey of almost 4 years since leaving the […]
Itās no secret that the farmer population in Europe and many other places has been diminishing and growing older for a long time now. There are however still lots of younger folks who are interested in becoming farmers, but are struggling to get their foot in the door. Barriers to […]
Welcome back to this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. This week weāll wrap up the two part interview I did with Philipp Gerhardt, the founder of the website baumfeldwirtschaft.de (which translates basically to tree farming) and managing director of Deutsche Agroforst GmbH. He is considered a leading expert […]
Welcome back to this ongoing series on tree planting and agroforestry. This week will be the first of a two part interview I did with Philipp Gerhardt, the founder of the website baumfeldwirtschaft.de (which translates basically to tree farming) and managing director of Deutsche Agroforst GmbH. He is considered a […]
Just as promised from last weekās episode exploring the wide and unknown varieties of fruit and nut trees for cold climates, weāre going to go deeper into getting forest gardens established in frigid zones. It turns out there are tons of planting options for people who live in hardiness zones […]
There are so many interesting perspectives to approach this topic from and today weāre going to hear from two people who turned a personal love of plants into a thriving botanical garden and nursery. Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano started creating a botanical garden in their backyard 22 years ago […]
How To Start A Profitable Elderberry Farm. Since I first arrived in the northeast of Spain a year and a half ago, Iāve been obsessed with getting to know the native plants in my area. Iāve been blown away by just how many edible and medicinal plants are all around […]
Since the last two episodes focused on earthworks, specifically water retention and catchment features, I wanted to revisit one of my favorite interviews that really helped me to understand the fundamentals of keyline design and how many different configurations it could take, even on the same piece of land. The […]
In the past Iāve talked to quite a few orchardists and agroforestry practitioners, especially in the series on Reforestation and Agroforestry at the end of last season, but I was really glad to be introduced to Michael Phillipsā work by a great friend of the show, Nick from Minnesota. After […]
