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Melissa Kagiyama from Key to the Mountain I buy all my food from local farmers and then cook it.How do we connect with you?I love sharing with everyone so grateful you are all listeningagain, my name is Melissa Kagiyamakeytothemountain.comwant to sharejust hit the contact usI respond to all emails!I love getting requests for new food and flavorshave an Instagram key_to_the_mountainOn Facebook at Key to the MountainAre you a millennial born between 1980-1995?Yeah Millennial!Awesome!Today is Friday August 2, 2019!So I am so excited to introduce my guest today who I met at the Farmer's Market when I was in Missoula for the 1/2 Marathon in June. And she gave me something that not only did I love but helped me complete the Missoula 1/2 Marathon standing up! From Key to the Mountain in Missoula Montana here's rockstar millennial Melissa Kagiyama!I have had guest come on and talk about food they cooked from the farmer's market. You said when you first moved to Missoula, you were blown away by the quality of food available at the farmer's market and then you started cooking with it. People often wonder about those things. I am more the organic eater at my house and I feel like you as we were saying the pre-chat that you struggle with water. Tell us a little about yourself.I really appreciate all our local farmers that are doing all that work. We cook it so we can preserve that amazing food that we grow for all year.Tell me about your first gardening experience?A brief background, grew up not cooking, eating everything from a can, not cooking dinner, which is a way a lot of millennials grew up, with both parents working, it takes a lot of time to cook fresh food so we didn’t eat a lot of fresh food. When I got into college, I got really exhausted all the time, I felt like something wasn't right, like I was sick, I went to the doctor. I was sleeping like 16 hours a day because I was so tired. Going to the doctors telling me I’m fine and it was all in my head, was very discouraging and disempowering. I said, I’m gonna find something out and I'm gonna do something about it.After much searching I found indian holistic medicine called Ayurveda what that is in a nutshell is directions on how to live and eat on a balanced lifeTells you how much to eatexercisesleepAyurveda: It's really about entire lifestyleReally for me, what shocked me so much was about the food I was eating, I thought for me if I was eating canned green beans, I was getting my vegetables, but that is not necessarily true sometimes its true it dependsI felt completely healed, I learned all this knowledge about how to eat. I finished my degree really great! I started teaching, so at this point I was cooking all my foodbasically really simple recipessaladspaghettiBut I was actually cooking my...

29 Des 20191h 27min

When Melissa K. Norris was on the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast recently we talked about the amazing tip I got from my interview with Sally Fallon about needing to eat a healthy fat with beets etc to get the full mineral and nutritional value from root vegetables. Check out the replay and see if you don't learn a ton. Sally Fallon and the Weston A. Price foundation was originally introduced to me when I interviewed the AMAZING Mandy Gerth From Lower Valley farm. Also great interviews. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

23 Des 201957min

Jeff Lowenfels author of the Teaming With Microbes Soil Trilogy shares his system for creating healthy organic ecosystems and how we can all work to save the world if we just answer the question What would Greta think?If you wondered why we changed the name to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast there will be no doubt when you finish with this amazing episode. Get ready for Jeff to drop Golden Seeds Galore!JEFF LOWENFELS "LORD OF THE ROOTS" AUTHOR OF THE SOIL TRIOLOGY:Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food WebTeaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant NutritionandTEAMING WITH FUNGIThe Organic Grower’s Guide to MycorrhizaeAND NOW HIS NEW BOOK: DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your OwnTell us a little about yourself.I was a lawyer, I worked for a fortune 500 companyalways been a gardenerTell me about your first gardening experience?my father had to take over a family8 acresfrustrated farmersall the magazinesJI Rodalecame over to the house for dinnerI must have been about 10-11How did you learn how to garden organically?My first memories are being pushed around in a wheel barrow by my father in the gardenThe first thing I planted was a wedding cake strawberry planterIm in Anchorage Alaska, the longest running garden columnistMy new book is on a brand new kind of cannabisIt will be the next tomato plantremember when the snap peas came outeverybody had to grow themstill growing them todayhas no photo periodsame size as a tomatoproduces from seed to harvestjust like a tomato plantsmall plantone of the things I love about the books is the diagram in the back with the plant diagram, leavesplant leavesnitrogen deficiencyif you don’t know what the photoperiod thing iscannabis has to have 12 hours day 12 hours nightthey require12 hours + one minutepoinsettiascactustriggered by length of lightIf you take a christmas cactus and leave it in a situation where it gets more daylight then darkness it won’t bloom no matter what.A Russian guy was...

14 Des 20191h 18min

Are you wondering why we are rebranding ourselves as the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast?Listen here to learn what's new!Get ready for our first episode as the Green Organic Gardener Podcast where Jeff Lowenfels author of Teaming with Microbes, Teaming With Nutrients and Teaming With Fungi and his new book on DIY Cannabis, from Anchorage Alaska prepare to be dazzled! Afterall what would Greta think?Love all of you green future growers out there!Do you have your climate story ready?Hey there Green Future Growers! thanks for joining us today. If you're new to the show, I hope you'll subscribe on iTunes or your favorite Android app and let's get growing. 18sJackieMarieHey everybody, JackieMarie Beyer here, I'm driving to work so there might be a little static in the background, but this is like a good place for me to record, I feel like because it's kind of quiet in my car for me and I don't know it's just a good time for me. Thoughts are fresh in my head, I find like when I get my microphone out and I'm sitting at my desk later in the day, or even if I get up on a Saturday morning and do it, I'm just like, what was I going to say? 48sJackieMarieSo anyway, in case you happen to notice there's a new word on the podcast logo, the Green Organic Gardener podcast. And it's funny because like, I've been trying to figure out how could I narrow my niche? And like reach out better to people. I mean, I feel like I have my avatar dialed in, but I don't know. I just, I just want to be unapologetic on my show and I, 1000% support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, and believe that, you know, just that my podcast, you know, definitely has an environmental focus. 1m 36sJackieMarieLike I call you Green Future Growers because I believe we're all dedicated to growing a greener future. And so I hope I'm not offending anybody. And if we lose some listeners, I think it's just like, I was listening to Sally Hogshead yesterday on the Marie Forleo show. If you don't know who she is, she wrote this book called Fascinate and like, I've taken her Fascinate quiz. If you're a listener and you've taken her Fascinate quiz and you want to send me your results, that would be so amazing. Or just like anything that you feel that would help. But like at the top of my, every time I do an interview with anybody like Sally Hogshead has this Fascinate quiz for businesses and she kind of like gives you these four powerful words. 2m 21sJackieMarieAnd I look at those four words every time I get on the mic to do an interview and talk about. Anyway, it's what Sally was saying like on the top of her front page, she has this thing about Hogshead means, I don't know, like 144 barrels of mead or whatever, if you don't like it. Like, I guess she gets a lot of flack about her middle, her last name, but she put something up there, like some kind of like curse word, or just like, if you don't like this, I don't know. But she says, people have actually written her and said, we were going to work with you until we saw your homepage. And then we decided not to, and she's like, what a greet screener. 3m 4sJackieMarieAnd so I do kind of feel like, and I know there are people out there that have very different political beliefs from me that have been listening to my show. And I, you know, you're more than welcome to listen. I've said before, I'm everybody's favorite Democrat. If you're a Republican, I have plenty of friends who are Republicans, but I...

14 Des 201913min

Don't forget to enter the Melissa K. Norris Giveaway to win a copy of her new awesome book! So, if you listened to the interview I did with Sarah Clark from the Get Pregnant Naturally Podcastwho challenged me to try an Elimination Diet where I gave up the top 5 allergens for 10 days. And I did it. And I wanted to share my results.It's EasyI mention theJill Angie Not Your Average Runner podcast too who talks about a mindset shift from "I Can Do Hard Things" to "It's Easy". Kate Erikson has a great saying "Gratitude is the First Seed of Abundance"And I tried it, I thought what am I going to eat if I can't eat:soycornglutendairyeggspeanutsSo I thought what could I eat? I can eat salad, fish, garbanzo beans (hummus)!I was like I can do that. I love salad! I love fish! I love garbanzo beans!And so it turned out it was easy!It was a little weird, I searched some vegan sites for recipes. I didn't really make any, other then the lentil burgers, which asked for eggs but I din't seem to have a problem. They also asked for bread crumbs, I was gonna make from some gluten free bread I did buy some gluten free bread boy was that expensive! I looked at gluten free brownie recipes but they called for eggs, again. I bought some gluten free flour which was super expensive! I made a gluten free vegan pizza, it was not very good, I had a problem getting the bread to rise because I think my yeast wasn't any good. It really made some good habits.I also put some ketchup in some lentil burgers from Making Thyme For Health that called for tomato paste. And it had cornstarch or corn syrup or something in it. So there's that I did on like day 4. And lentils were a great thing I ate. I don't think I have food allergies. I didn't really seem to feel any different. I am an Italian and I feel like my stomach can handle just about anything. I thought it would get rid of the sniffling sound in my nose but it didn't seem to do anything about that.I could eat chocolate, there are gluten free vegan chocolate bars from Endangered Species and they taste delicious and are frequently on sale! Just be advised they recently changed their labels, I stood staring at the chocolate display before I found them!I'm used to eating ice cream every night. I bought some almond milk, after I found out I could eat nuts just not peanuts, but I never had it. I drank rice milk, with granola a lot. So if you want to try the elimination diet think about what can you eat?It was definitely fun to say hey this is easy! and Hey I'm doing this!On day 6 I was ready to quit, on day 8 I really wanted to quit. Especially I mistakenly ate some edamame at school...

13 Des 201913min

Jackie,Great! Then I feel I may have something of value for your audience. We have a flock of Gotland sheep, and that is our main focus along with offering Farmstead vacations to people. Oh now that may be an angle you would like to explore, adding agritourism to your farm business! I can talk about that for days on end. We also raise pigs and use them to reclaim pasture and to add nutrients to the soil. We do have a small garden and hoop house, but I only grow for our own needs and do not sell produce. We do however, sell our pork. We, at some point, may offer lamb, as in to eat, however, right now we are growing our flock and concentrating on selling breeding stock. I am not a vegan, so if that would be offensive to your audience, then warning should be given. We are NOT certified organic, but 99% of what we do is organic. Ha! I graduated from high school in 1980. I think what may be inspiring for those listening is that our homestead grew out of a desire to teach our children about life and death and the value of working the soil with your hands and about having a strong work ethic and being self sufficient. I homeschooled my children from birth till they went off to college and much of what we do now was out of a desire for them to experience life fully. Life and death tend to be taboos in our society, lock people up to die and lock women up to give birth...well ok, that sounds a bit dramatic, but my point is that birth and dying are not talked about in general. I wanted my children to see that it is a natural process and it is to be celebrated and treated with great reverence. So, at age 40, we added sheep to our family homestead. We began knowing nothing and as a family learned together. There is so much value in the words from those who are older. My website is https://www.grandviewfarmvt.com/ and I keep an extensive blog on shepherding at http://www.livingwithgotlands.com/.And from this email we would share this awesome interview!FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON! Sign up for our newsletter full of Golden Seeds dropped by my awesome guests!To get a copy of the golden seeds issue emailed directly to your inbox!And to enter to win a copy of Melissa K. Norris’ new book The Family Garden Plan sign up hereThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

9 Des 20191h 25min

Read my this issue of the Golden Seeds Newsletter here.GoldenSeedsIssue15SarahHardingCompassionateConversationsAboutClimateSarah Harding from Coconut at Sea Soap Co.Friday, November 22, 2019I’m super excited and last time she shared a ton of golden seeds with listeners and she’s kind of changed directions so here she’s here to tell us about her new venture the Coconut at Sea Soap Company.We grew up in North County San Diego. We spent our childhood lives loving the ocean and surfing.We moved to Montana when we were 22 and spent the second half of our lives farming, fishing, and raising a family.Now we're Coconut at Sea Soap Company.A family business committed to giving our all in everything we do. We make soap because we want to save the planetWe love the ocean. We love the mountains.Seeing plastic clogging up our reefs and blowing across farm fields broke our hearts.So we decided to reduce single-use plastics. Bar soap and shampoo bars are an easy switch toward our goal of plastic-free showers.And we know gardeners are always getting dirty! Welcome Sarah McPhearson, Sarah Harding?McPhearson is my maiden name.You're in Whitefish where I got a job this year and I feel so excited about this because this week we are talking about saving the animals in Wonders McGraw-Hill we’re reading Kids to the Rescue about saving turtles and manatees. And we did a puppet show called the Turtle Mishap about a turtle who get’s stuck in a plastic six pack holder. Tell us a little about yourself.It’s kind of a long story. When I last talked to you, we were farming full mite growing asparagus, microgreens, cut flowers, it just got the word I think of most is relentlessRelentlessElizabeth Gilbert when she talks about jobs, that every job has a poop sandwich and you have to be willing to eat the poop sandwich that comes along with that job. And we just we got tired of the poop sandwich that came with farming. The relentless with it, we were growing microgreens year round, and how we never got a break and how we never got to spend quality chunks of time with our kidssold our microgramsleased the asparagus field outI still do cut flowers, because after all they’re beautiful!And then I kind of flopped around for a few years. And we were on a family vacation, with my husband and his two brothers, and we were on vacation in Indonesia and we would pull up to this amazing island!on a boatdreamywhite sandlittle spit in the middle of the indian oceanwith coconut...

30 Nov 201944min

Melissa K. Norris from Modern Homesteading the Pioneering Today Podcast where everything is homegrown and homemade!The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food Gardeners are so excited to share what we have learned with others who are interested and I feel like that is what we get to do on garden podcasts! And I love podcasts!Want to read my Golden Seeds Shownotes? There's even two versions a long version that's the full transcript and a short version.I’m a 5th generation homestead and as a youngster I didn’t appreciate it. My dad lived through the Great Depression so if hey didn’t raise it they didn’t eat through the winter. I thought everyone grew up like that. With agardenpreserving foodraising beef cattleIt wasn’t until I hit high school really, I didn’t realize I was an anomaly. When my husband and I got married, I was working 40 hours a week and we started our family and I was trying to balance family, and growing our food and all of that, and it has been a 20 year journey to get here.I feel like my husband grew up in a similar situation on a cattle ranch, growing a lot of their own food, baking their own breads and cookies.I feel blessed now to have all that insight as an adult it has served me well, but as a teenager I didn’t really appreciate it. My husband and I got married, had kids and I was working as a pharm -tech. I loved the Little House books as a child, my mother instilled in me a deep love of reading. For us to have tv where we lived you had to go out in the snow and turn the antenna. So I read a lot.I wanted to write books, my lifelong dream was to write historical fiction. I was always writing about dutch oven cooking and barrel riding and all these things. I was at a writer’s conference and they said you had to have a platform with a blog etc. I was like what’s a blog?But I learned, we had dial-up internet. And I wrote this blog about things my heroine did that I was also doing. I thought well I cook in a dutch oven so I’ll share my favorite recipes and hopefully people who wanted to read that would read my books and I eventually got a literary agent, and wrote lots of manuscripts but none got accepted. But then the last publishing house said how would you like to write non-fiction, your blog is amazing. And I said YES! Yes, I will!We raise all of our own beefporkincreasing a gardenBoth of my first books I was doing all of this. Just 2 years ago I was able to “retire” and stay home to focus on writingpodcastinge-coursespioneering today Academy And of course raise our own food! Learning how to do all that while I was working was very Powerful!because so many people are working and want this lifestyle and aren’t able to leave their regular jobs and I was able to say, YES YOU CAN!This is what I didAnd how I can help you do it too!And you do! And you give away lots of free content, but then you also go way in-depth in your classes etc. Being able to feed our family and grow our own food.My new book, <a...

30 Nov 20191h 15min