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The Ruminant: Audio Candy for Farmers, Gardeners and Food Lovers
For people passionate about farming, gardening, food politics, food security, and the intersections among these topics. Jordan Marr, a certified organic farmer in British Columbia, interviews farmers, gardeners, academics, and journalists about stuff farmers and food system nerds care about. If where and how your food is produced matters to you, this podcast is produced for you!
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e.67: Things you may not know about organic certification
Episode Date: January 8, 2016I recently had a chance to speak with Rochelle Eisen, who is an expert on all things organic in Canada. Rochelle has been an organic inspector, AKA or...
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e66: The trouble with low paid farm apprenticeships
Episode Date: December 19, 2015Guts is a Canadian feminist magazine that recently published a piece by Natalie Childs called The Fruits of Unpaid Labour. Natalie's article is a thou...
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e.65: Your weeds are trying to tell you something.
Episode Date: December 12, 2015Jay McCaman has spent many years observing and cataloguing the weeds on his and his clients' farms, and over this time, by also observing the soil ty...
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e.64 We divorced flavour from nutrition, and it's making us fatter
Episode Date: December 5, 2015I recently read The Dorito Effect. It's one of the best I've read in the ag/food politics genre. It's about what happened when food scientists figured...
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e.63: Winter Work Ideas for The Idle Farmer
Episode Date: November 28, 2015This episode features submissions that came in from listeners after I asked you all what you do in Winter to make ends meet, if not farming. Your answ...
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e.62: The Rooftop Farm at Ryerson University
Episode Date: November 21, 2015This episode of the podcast features an interview with Arlene Throness, the coordinator of a rooftop farm operated by a Ryerson University Gardening c...
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e.61 Extra: Jim Riddle on the crops he grows at Blue Fruit Farm
Episode Date: November 14, 2015A brief summary of this episode
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e.61: Growing Perennial Fruits: Jim Riddle and Blue Fruit Farm
Episode Date: November 14, 2015At Blue Fruit Farm in Minnesota, Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford grow a range of perrenial tree fruit and berries of the blue and nearly-blue kind. In our c...
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e.11: Seed Production with Dan Brisebois
Episode Date: November 7, 2015This episode: Part 1 of 2 of my conversation with Dan Brisebois, editor of the seed production blog Going to Seed and co-author of Crop Planning for O...
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e.09: Grafting Tomatoes with Carol Miles
Episode Date: October 29, 2015This episode I have a really helpful conversation with WSU Veggie Extension Specialist Carol Miles about grafting tomatoes, eggplants, and other veggi...
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e.60: We've Missed the Point on GMO Food
Episode Date: October 23, 2015This episode, I'm joined by farmer and writer Forrest Pritchard, whose September 22, 2015 column in the Huffington Post suggests that the battle to pr...
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e.59 Spreading Straw Mulch Efficiently & Mentoring Your Way to Economies of Scale
Episode Date: October 9, 2015This episode features two segments on hard-won insights from farmers. My first conversation is with Delaney Zayac of Ice Cap Organics. His intensive...
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e.58 Community Financed Agriculture
Episode Date: October 2, 2015This episode, contributor Scott Humphries' interview with Sean Butler of Ferme et Foret. To finance part of their farm's growth, Sean and his wife Gen...
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e.05: Irrigation Tips from Troy Peters
Episode Date: September 25, 2015This episode: Troy Peters, an irrigation expert with the Washington State University Extension Service, talks about best practices in crop irrigation....
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e.57 All About Rotary Plows
Episode Date: September 18, 2015This episode, I speak with a couple of market gardeners about the Berta Rotary Plow, a really handy soilworking attachment for market gardeners. One o...
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e.56 Mostly About Cooking
Episode Date: September 11, 2015I own a cookbook by Ian Knauer, called The Farm: Rustic Recipes for a Year of Incredible Food. I love it, so I invited Ian to come on the show to talk...
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e.55: Why Everyone Who is Sure About a Food Philosophy is Wrong
Episode Date: September 4, 2015This episode, I'm joined by Tamar Haspel, who writes a column for the Washington Post called Unearthed. Tamar recently wrote about the problem with em...
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e.13: Jess Dennis on BioChar
Episode Date: August 28, 2015This episode: University of British Columbia grad student Jessica Dennis talks about her research on biochar and its potential as both a great soil am...
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e.07 Pest Management with Entomologist Tamara Richardson
Episode Date: August 14, 2015This episode: I speak with entomologist Tamara Richardson about strategies for insect pest control in the garden. We discuss the merits of crop rotati...