410. Seed To Spoon | Dale and Carrie Spoonemore | Oklahoma City, OK

The biggest question I’ve gotten this year again. Is what do I do for my earth friendly landscape and what do I do with all these dandelions? But I was at someone’s place the other day, I could just tell right off the bat, looking down, you don’t have very healthy soil, so I suggested planting some clover, and then also  IDK if they have a bag for their lawnmower so when they mow they might be spreading those seeds, where if they put them in the compost pile it would be better. I think… Anyway… It’s Thursday May 30, 2019. I’m feeling a little mic shy as I haven’t been on my mic for almost a month! David Thompson from Food Is Free Tacoma is here to share his journey. Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a navy veteran, 35 year mechanic, and I am retired. Wht I do is I have a free table and everything I grow in my garden I give away. Tell us a little bit more, how did you get started with this? Did you just say one day I want to put a table in front of your house? I saw food is free project on Facebook, it was about veterans and  giving away our extras to your neighbors. I started with a small garden about 700 sq feet and now it’s 4000 tried to give it to family kids I tried a table where the food is free and started from there its grown into quite the little non-profit.  I like the way it started with Facebook. I have my FB page food is free Started a new project called gardens for the people Parkway gardens throughout the city of tacoma for people to share their food directly between the sidewalk and the curb. Hoping to do 10 of those this year. I love that idea, because where my mom lives there’s all these places just like that are covered in these little yellow flags and that’s where you’re talking about growing the ood? We ammend the soil and remove the sod with local compost and plant straight into the ground. I love this idea! Tell me about your first gardening experience? I used to watch Crockets victory garden, I used to dream about having a garden but it wasn’t till I got older got this house with a small garden 10 years now. I made a lot of mistakes, vertical gardening, I tried a lot of different things before. Tell us about something that grew well this year. my cabbages grew really well tomatoes didn’t do too bad last year either? I think we had a cool summer last year. That really helped the cabbage a lot. Did that help with the tomatoes? Do you put them in a greenhouse, they don’t like the cold do they? Yes, that’s true. The only thing I grow in the greenhouse is peppers. Is there something you would do different next year or

25 Nov 201924min

Interview 289 with Health Coach Sarah Clark | Author of Fabulously Fertile + Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/ Thursday May 2, 2019 I have another podcaster on the line we are going to talk about eating healthy today. The Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast. Thanks for being on the show today. This is something that touches me personally, because Mike and I never had kids. I always tell people if I would have had my iPod touch when I was trying to get pregnant I’m sure we would have had kids. But anyway tech has come so far so I’m glad you have some solutions for people! Tell people about your podcast and business. I help couples who are struggling with infertility. I had my own struggle I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at the age of 28 and that is the loss of function of the ovaries before the age of 40. For me I had these weird health systems cycles were irregular urinary tract infections acne in early 20s cycles were irregular I got married at 25 kids at 28 my cycles were still irregular so I went to my OBGYN and that’s when I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. I remember her reaching up for the packet to the IBF clinic and off I went. Basically being told that my only option was to have donor eggs. I never looked back to any of the health systems I was dealing with. So I went straight to the clinic and got a list and I got a donor egg and had my daughter. She is 17! So this is the back in the day you say donor eggs and people are like IDK what you are talking about. Now with western lifestyle people are having effects. I was wanting to have kids close together, I was super stressed, I went in and those embryos failed. On the second list with another donor I was lucky enough to have my son will fresh transfer he’s 14. After that my health took a nosedive, after I had my daughter, I took antibiotics for every sinus infections. I ended up gut vertigo toenail infections dandruff chronic bladder infections peeing blood yeast infections sinus infections just wouldn’t go away I was in HR at the time, I wanting to bring life coaching into the corporate environment. I took a life coaching course. Health and wellness That’s where I discovered I had these food sensitivities I found out I was intolerant to diary and gluten low and behold by making lifestyle changes bladder infections went away sinus infections <li...

18 Nov 201953min

Read the text version of my interview here: Golden Seeds Issue 13 Tad Hussey My interview with Tara Caton At the Rodale Institute Hemp Botanist I’m curious how you found out about me. Haha, IDK? Well, one I’m always looking for guests! But I did just release for Earth Day April 22, 2019, this interview with Tara Caton from  the Rodale institute last week and since then I have been online researching hemp and cannabis and I am just flabbergasted at what has changed because when I started my podcast in 2015, I couldn’t find someone to come on my show and talk about hemp or cannabis for 4/20 day. The other thing is I have always dreamed of being a sunflower farmer, and originally I thought I would sell sunflowers to florists, but then I thought bird seed would suit me better but this last winter, I thought I would like to grow sunflower sprouts after I was going crazy looking for fresh greens and my step-daughter gave me some and I was so excited, after the romaine recall. My husband planted so much kale and swiss chard etc last year for me, I didn’t have to buy any greens from August to November! Wow, I can tell you’re a plant enthusiast. Well, I’m a sunflower and hemp enthusiast! It’s Thursday, April 17, 2019! Earth Day is coming up on Monday! I have another podcaster on the line. His business is KiS Organics. Welcome Tad Hussey! I know we’re gonna learn a lot! Are you in Oregon, Washington? Somewhere by the Pacific Coast? I am in the North West. About 20 minutes east of Seattle in Redmond, Washington. Tell us a little about yourself. Sure so, I’m 41 years old, I grew up with father actually both my parents running a commercial nursery and landscape business here on 7 acres in Redmond. So, I grew up around plants, but wasn’t that into them. I kind of moved away from it but after college I came back with a masters degree in another field and I had trouble finding work in that field I really enjoyed. So I ended up coming into my parents business  which was all about compost tea at that point so I ended up learning all about: compost tea microbes and gardening from that we sort of expanded we got the property where they originally had the landscape country. This was about 2011. This was sort of the time of victory gardens and backyard chickens. Nurseries were sort of failing so we knew we didn’t want to do that. So we started this thing: KIS Farm Keep It Simple Farm It started out as a feed store. I knew there...

15 Nov 20191h 9min

GoldenSeeds#12.NeilDiboll.Prairie The Golden Seeds aren’t perfect but it’s a start. I like to read them in PDF format better what about you? Neil Diboll, President of Prairie Nursery, Inc. On the Web:  www.prairienursery.com www.facebook.com/prairienursery 1-800-476-9453 (1-800-GRO-WILD) We would love to help you with anything and even help you find some seeds or plants that would grow! Gardens are  focused on needs desires of humans only life gardening for all farms plants          animals critters bugs sustainable ecosystem on people’s properties native plants. The real importance of native plants is that they have co-evolved with other linked to one brought to another long periods f coevolution support very few of other invertebrates adaptation foundation of the food change limited value ecology what resource was important doug bringing nature home more valuable the other thing to get the chemicals out of the environment native plants are great because 1 you don’t have to fertilize and you don’t have all the maintenance associated with it and opposed to a lawn you don’t have all the petrol chemicals and gasoline building it or running  the equipment. steal plastic most important if I don’t see holes in the leaves of my plants. I’m a failure as a gardener encourage my plants to be eaten insects are eating them and insects are eating the birds so I have an ecosystem in my yard. I mean birds eating the insects. You are creating a food chain, creating a food web, in your garden. So we are no longer just gardening for human interests and human returns gardening for all forms of life sharing revolutionary concept for gardening. Tell us about your very first gardening experience? I started out  in first grade with my first garden. Our class was raising money for some endeavor by selling garden seeds for ten cents a packet, door to door to neighbors.  I decided that if I was going to sell people a product, I should at least try it myself.  The garden was a miserable failure due to terrible soil...

3 Nov 20191h 21min

Tara Caton Rodale Institute Senior Lab Technician Industrial Hemp Project Lead It all started when this listener said, every time I hear you say millennial I think of this video of this guy bashing millennials sitting around in their yoga pants and so I made my own video of the amazing millennials I interview who are so not ever lazy. I was going through some old Organic Gardening Magazines. A lot of my listeners are asking me how to get rid of pests organically and there were all these letters to the editors saying I’m not ever reading to you again because you are too political and they answered back and said we believe they are integrated and you can’t have one without the other.  I have always wanted to sell ad space for Rodale’s so I would see Organic Gardening Magazine in every store i went to as I traveled around.  It is Tuesday March 26, 2019. I am so stoked because not only is my guest a rock star millennial but she is the Senior Lab Technician at the Rodale Institute on the Industrial Hemp Project . So welcome Tara Caton! Over the course of a four-year trial, we are exploring hemp’s powerful potential to heal soil and support farmers. Hemp, marijuana’s non-psychotropic cousin, was grown in Pennsylvania for more than 260 years as a valuable cash crop. Tell us a little about yourself. Shownotes coming ASAP!  to read what’s done already click here.  The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here. Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate links Please support us on Patreon so we can keep the show up on the internet. It cost close to $100 a month just to keep it up on the internet for the website etc so if you could help by supporting it with an $8/month contribution or $10/month to join the Green Future Growers Book Club where we can delve deep into some of the best gardening books that have...

14 Okt 20191h 3min

I’m so excited! On Tuesday I talked to Tara at the Rodale Institute and she got me so excited about all the things going on in the Hemp World. I’m so excited to introduce Josh Mezher from A Pot For Pot. If you want to read the Golden Seeds just click here. Are you a Rockstar Millennial born between 1980 and 1995? I was born in 1986 Awesome! I’m writing a book about the rockstar millennials I interview on my show! Tell us a little about yourself. Been in the cannabis industry for about a decade now. I moved from the UK to go to school at the USC Santa cruz. I moved here at a great time where you could legally grow your own cannabis at home and walk down the street and take it to a medical dispensary. I actually dropped out of school hobbies I always loved gardening and it’s an amazing plant to grow! I love all of this! Tell me about your first gardening experience? Did you say you grew up in the UK? My mom is actually a California and she is actually a fanatical gardener. As a young kid I was always trudging around vegetable patch. digging up the garden underrated species I give full credit to my mom, for everything she taught me, I have applied that vegetables flowers more utilitarian based plants! I love that answer! I am not sure I express enough on my show that what makes the rockstar millennials so amazing it’s because of their awesome parents! Of course my husband is a parent to 2 rockstar millennials! How did you learn how to garden organically or do you want to talk about what’s going on? i didn’t start hydroponic side of it focus on the product It’ funny the evolution of cannabis cultivation is really going traditionally this plant has been grown in small spaces inside houses. A lot of people are not aware of, is how much cannabis does the U.S. produce? and who produces it? now they get marketed PR impressions there are these huge cannabis predominately 11k tons grown annual low end estimate largest cannabis farms barely hitting one to five tons in production hundreds of thousands of people who are growing this in their garden larger scale <span...

14 Okt 201950min

Thursday, March 28, 2019! It is a pleasure to be here! Thanks for dealing with my tech problems gla we were able to connect! Back in the spring of 2009, my wife asked me to plant a small garden so she could can some salsa for the winter. Laid off- started farming with a tractor on 2 acres (terribly!), got into chickens, laying hens, pigs, and even a few cows. And after a radical diet and lifestyle change that followed our Daughter health crisis we started to consume large amounts of Vegetables, a lot less meat and in the fall of 2015 we made a leap of faith to sell our meat business, stop using a tractor, and farm using only one acre. Our farming friends thought we were insane, but we were pretty certain that focusing on just produce would allow us to master the lettuce crop in 2016. We had lettuce for sale every week that season! We were so thrilled to discover that we tripled our income on half the amount of land that year! Excited and inspired, we knew we were heading in the right direction. By focusing on creating better growing systems in our produce operation, changing our farm practices, we now have year round production, a near weed free farm (which makes me thrilled nearly every day) and being really aggressive and creative about our sales outlets for our area, we have been able to live a sustainable and enjoyable life, rarely working in the fields more that 8 hours, which was one of our top goals! wife ashley – 5 kids 1981 Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Ray Tyler with my wife Ashley of Rose Creek farms down here in Selma TN Between Memphis and Nashville Mississippi border Kind of in the edge of that zone 7-zone 8 depends on what kind of year we are having trying to grow as much food as we can on one acre Battling the pests that never seem to die and the endless weeds thanks to the humidity raising 6 young at the same time! And having a blast! Wow you must have had a new baby! 7 month old baby to 10 years old so there is never a dull moment! How great is that? These kids being raised amongst others by a garden like this! as they get older we don’t make them work on the farm We know a lot of children who were forced to work who hate it all do the house chores dishes farm they only work if they want to and we pay them for it It’s created a very healthy environment They look at the farm as a very positive aspect of their life fortunate every year they want to make more money do more things so it’s a kind of tremendous joy So we are homeschooling as well so they are <span...

7 Okt 20191h 10min

Permaculture Soil Science & Solutions KICKSTARTER campaign Matt Powers Rockstar Millennial, high school English and Social Studies Teacher, and Permacutlure Curriculum designer is here to share his amazing journey and passion to teach everyone he can reach about the power of permaculture. Working with some of the most scientific names in the field including Elaine Ingham, David Montgomery and the Geoff Lawton Matt is on a mission to change the way we look at soil in the 21st century. Matt was my guest on episode 132 where he shared his amazing garden journey from professional bass player to high school educator to science curriculum creator! This episode is a must listen for any master gardeners or even novices who want to learn about soil in a way that any high schooler can understand. With over 20 years of experience teaching and gardening Matt’s passion shines through as dad, husband and steward of our planet. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

28 Sep 20191h 1min