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The amazing Patti Armbrister is going to teach a composting class for Organic Garden Podcast listeners completely online Saturday July 18, 2020 at 10:00 am MST/12:00pm EST for only $37.00Get your seat hereWe will be learning how to make not only more compost, but Great Compost and Easy Compost too!What's new in our garden, my inability to deal with Facebook anymore and my desire to double down on podcasting, and a bit about the world. Just a typical JMB rant in the middle of summer in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of NW Montana. Stay safe and thanks for listening! [gallery ids="137017,137018" type="rectangular"]https://youtu.be/6w1_mtbgY-4[caption id="attachment_137019" align="aligncenter" width="449"] Broccoli Harvest 2020[/caption][caption id="attachment_137020" align="aligncenter" width="464"] Buckwheat growing in compost and grass clippings on top of cardboard[/caption]https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/17/coronavirus_spread_yemen_us_backed_saudiSo join the amazing Patti Armbrister and I tomorrow for a composting class for Organic Garden Podcast listeners completely online Saturday July 18, 2020 at 10:00 am MST/12:00pm EST for only $37.00Get your seat hereWe will be learning how to make not only more compost, but Great Compost and Easy Compost too!Join us on the Listen app using code: GREENThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

17 Juli 202032min

Natalie Forstbauer is a TEDx speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, author, organic/biodynamic farmer and traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor. She is passionate about human potential and seeing people live their best lives. Raised on an organic farm, trained in Polarity Therapy, alternative medicine, Neurofeedback and Transformational Leadership she brings a wealth of knowledge and life experience to her audiences and clients.In 2003 Natalie acquired a life changing brain injury.Gardening and farming with a brain injury showed her healing is not always about "fixing what we perceive to be broken". Compassion and grace can to turn brain injuries and adversity into brain upgrades and new opportunities. Getting dirty in the fields, taking equipment apart and leaning into the powerful wisdoms of nature, Natalie learned what it is to nurture and harvest one's gifts and to compost adversity into something meaningful and valuable.Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soil Magazine she brings together quality information and advice on regenerative agriculture and global health. Free copy of my book, Health in a Hurry, Simple Solutions for the Time Starvedwww.healthinahurry.com www.heartandsoilmagazine.com Social Media:https://www.facebook.com/NatalieForstbauerhttps://www.instagram.com/natalieforstbauer/TEDx Brain Injury to Brain Upgradehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AinF06mBUhs Welcome to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast. Today. It is Friday, June 19, 2020, and what a day and the most exciting thing was you can't wait for this. The amazing Patti Armbrister actually came to our place and let me take video footage of her telling us what's going on in our garden, what we can do to improve it and just all the great things Mike's doing right. Also the Apple pruning trips and we're in touch with somebody else. You can see that episode here:https://mikesgreengarden.com/2020/07/12/patti-armbrister-at-mikes-green-garden-with-the-green-organic-garden-podcast-fortine-mt/ So we all know Patti Armbrister is an amazing soil specialist. Today. We are going to talk to somebody else. Who's also going to talk about the importance of healthy soil. So my guest today is a TEDx speaker and award-winning entrepreneur and author and organic biodynamic farmer and traumatic traumatic brain injury survivor, which is something super passionate to me because we had a first grader at my school, get hit by a car going 40 miles an hour, crossing the highway, getting off the bus. And she is recuperating down in Texas after being in a coma and had major. 1I was born and raised on an organic and biodynamic farm in BC, British Columbia, Canada in the phrase of Valley. So my parents were pioneers in the organic industry in, in Canada and really in North America, my mom was recognized throughout the organic industry and they helped put together the guiding principles for certification and verification of organic farming. And I kind of grew up, you know, the girl who went to school with odd...

13 Juli 20201h 32min

https://youtu.be/SVHh5wS-cLE 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. The amazing Patty Armbrister is going to offer the most incredible composting class you'll ever take completely online. Saturday, July 18th, 2020, it's only $37 and you will get a seat. You will get a copy of the replay. You will get to pick her brain question in the answers. We're just gonna rock the composting, how to do composting the most efficient, effective, and best way to improve the results in your garden today. Yeah, there we go. All right. Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast. It is Friday, June 26, 2020, and Patti Armbrister talked me into doing a video live. So here we are doing video, but she's going to do some screen share and I'm going to turn it over to her so she can tell us all her amazing golden seeds. So welcome to the show. Patti, welcome back to the show Patti. 00:01:380Well, yes, thank you, Jackie. I just see later that we are going to get to have a conversation to share and listeners posted about coming to visit. I haven't posted the advice you gave me, but I talked about, well, maybe I recorded it.It was one we met with Robin in Whitefish. Actually I recorded it on the way home. So I haven't done an episode about you coming to visit. So I guess listeners you'll hear that soon, but in the meantime, what are we going to talk about today?00:02:130Yeah, they'll be good. Oh, we're going to talk about all kinds of stuff for one thing. It's here in Eastern Montana. It is like the most phenomenal growing season you've ever seen or I've ever seen. And I've been here since 1990 to give you an idea that then every single season has been different, right? But this year, this spring is just unbelievable. The plants can't ask for anything more than what they've received this year.00:02:470So they're just looking amazing and producing! So, yeah, I'm pretty excited that I've been able to eat kale out of my garden for the month!Previous to that, I was eating out of the passive solar greenhouse as a school. My goal is to eat kale year round, growing in Montana. So that's what I want to be...

5 Juli 20201h 16min

I am totally loving Tori Williams Douglas' podcast White Homework! It is exactly what I was looking for. Forget reading #WhiteFragility if you want to know how racism exists around you this is the podcast to listen to. She's authentic, knowledgeable, insightful, and manages it to do it with humor and passion at the same time! Her laugh is almost as contagious as Jill Angie on the Not Your Average Runner Podcast.Anyway in one episode I listened to Tori says imagine what life would look like if we were going to restore justice. Would we give North America back to the Native Americans? Would we quit leaving our homes to our children? Almost all white people plan to inherit their home from their parents. Where would we go? If we didn't give our home to our children. What would it look like?So after thinking about it for a short while, I thought most of all, we need to start by rethinking our incarceration system. We need to turn that upside down. IDK where I read it but someone said once we could put every prisoner through a Harvard education for the cost of keeping them in jail. IDK if that's true but it sure seems like if we took the money to incarcerate so many people and put that into our schools and communities we would see real change.https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/30/2018-09062/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarcerationhttps://www.scholarships.com/news/prison-incarceration-costs-more-than-harvard-university-tuitionTo me the biggest problem in our country is pure ignorance.I blame the media for much of it, but our schools are pretty bad too. When I tell colleagues that the average person on food stamps is on it for 6 months and gets $1.72 per person per meal, they say really, I didn't know that. I have worked side by side next to so many hardworking parents.https://www.snaptohealth.org/snap/snap-frequently-asked-questions/The other one, oh we can't change minimum wage and the only people who work for min wage are college kids or stupid people. Well when minimum wage is $7.75 or whatever it is, that means businesses can pay managers with college degrees $8.75.When I worked at Head Start it drove me crazy that they had teachers who had no college education being a child's first experience with schools and dealing with parents who are already struggling.I have said Head Start is segregation ever since I worked there. We need universal pre-school for every child everywhere, in our country, and everywhere in the world. We need to help every mother everywhere have access to healthy food, clean water and an education.I am so sick of people telling me well why do they have so many children? Don't they know about birth control? Duh, of course they don't have access to birth control. We hardly have equal access to birth control in our country.I hate people who say oh, people don't have health insurance because they are too lazy to get a real job or go to college. I'm so sick of Republicans that say I am not going to have my money that I work so hard for go to people to rip off the system and lay on their couch.I have seen so many parents I have worked side by side with that work day shift and night shift so their kids have a parent home, barely see each other and still have no insurance option. Now some of that might have changed thanks to Obamacare.Anyway my point today was...

3 Juli 202019min

Friday • June 12, 2020 Recently Robin Kelson from the Good Seed Company was on the Beauty of Conflict PodcastWhat disruptive change is and why it can be a good thing.How we can tap into the intelligence and resilience in our bodies.What six behaviors we need to become more resilient.How we can thrive in the aftermath of the coronavirus.Why collaboration and cooperation are crucial to our existence.Why engaging the prefrontal cortex will enable us to be more resilient.Why we, as humans, are not as individual or unique as we might think!I can't believe we didn't see each other at Free The Seeds. I was downstairs trying to promote the Organic Oasis Guidebook. I have been so busy. School got out and my goal was to clean for 3 days and be done at noon today for this podcast and then relax before I start my new job for Gregg Clunis of Tiny Leaps on Monday. I have been listening to my new favorite podcast the Clutterbug!Get your copy of the Organic Oasis Guidebook and get started building your own earth friendly garden today!Tell us a little about yourself.Sure! I have worn many hats among them as a biochemist and attorney with an expertise in intellectual property law so I come with that background, and I have always been really interested in what constitutes resiliency, although I didn't call it that back then.I got interested in what was the core of what I saw about 30 years ago an epidemic of chronic disorders in our culturephysical bodies and impacts on our bodies. I didn't understand it, and I couldn't get any satisfaction from the western medicalchemicalscientific approachI looked into it, i’ve led lots of creating soil enhancements re-nourishing the soilnow as the owner of the Good Seed Co that sells heirloom seeds adapted to our region in montana where we live and particularly in the selecting and saving and sharing seeds for common usewithout eating we are not nourished and we don’t keep the species goingI’m also a co-executive director of AEROMTjust metal to the petal particularly in response to the covid epidemic and it's impact on the food system in Montana, all the work so many of our organizations have been doing on resiliency and sustainabilityevery single Montanan has ben impacted by itopportunity to regrow our own food supply1950 we grew about 70% of our own food and now it's down to about 7%a little bit about mein my journey as you mentioneda curiosity about resiliencyexamples that exist in nature. I have been studying that because it intrigues me for 30 years. I have been talking about it recently from my own perspective there's some really good systems for developing a resiliency. I call it developing resiliency intelligence.I didn't really hear the term resiliency till you and I went to the <a href="https://aeromt.org/"...

28 Juni 20201h 21min

Join Patti Armbrister for the Composting Not Just GOOD But GREAT Workshop with the Wise Grower Guru!IDK why it seems to me it's easiest for me to talk when I am either walking or driving, when I have my computer out it seems like my mind is blank! So today I am driving, I am so excited I just got back from having lunch with Patti Armbrister and Robin Kelson and it was so good to see them.AERO - Alternative Energy Resource OrganizationRobin has been so busy! She became one of the co-directors of AERO the Alternative Energy Resource Organization and they are working really hard to help change four food systems to sustainable food systems.One question people ask me a lot about my Jeannette Rankin book is why do women make better representatives? And it's not necessarily that they are better but they do make up 50% of the population so they deserve 50% of the people and they tend to work more cooperatively finding solutions to problems.What can we do to help solve food systems?So we were saying what are the things we can do to help and I think I also talked about this with Bob Quinn, that Americans just don't spend enough of a percentage of their income on food. And that when Americans spent more of their paycheck on groceries they grew more of their own food. That up until the 1950s Montanans grew 70% of the food consumed here and that we need to get back to growing and eating locally.Also food subsidies, and you might not think that food is that cheap right now but it is compared to what other people pay in other countries and what we have paid in the past. So that makes it really hard for organic farmers to compete. For local famers. We had a big conversation about wheat in Montana, we have huge ranches and none of the wheat grown in Montana is shipped out of Montana, probably none of it is eaten here. So that's part of the problem.This article from 2015 shows that we export 80% of Montana wheat to Asia mostly Japan.So she's working onreducing food milestrying to get rid of the subsidies to the big cheap corporations for food and helping some of these local farmersa big piece is the government getting involved and forcingshe was talking about these farm unions that it is not ok for the giant corporations to own all these gigantic farms but no one is really enforcing itThis all leads to the poor health in the US. We could solve a lot of health issues in the US by and this is where Patti Armbrister was jumping in about how a lot of organic farms are struggling with their soil after just tilling and tilling and tilling and their not taking good enough care of the food soil web to keep growing food after 10 + years.Anyway that's what this is supposed to be about Patti teaches this composting webinar training, that she does and she has done it in Whitefish at the Spirit farm in Whitefish I think she said it was an hour long workshop and then there is 45 minutes of questions people ask. She said at the workshop they go outside and do some things but a lot of it is online and if you are composting properly and creating these worm castings is just the biggest way to be successfulAlso getting the most bang for your buck because if you are going to do the composting you might as well be getting the most nutrients you can from it!And when I just talked to Chrisitina Mcinnis from...

22 Juni 202014min

May 24, 2020Blog and Newsletter Writer, Instructor for Nutrition, Gardening, and WildcraftingTell us a little about yourself.Wild Abundance is more then a website it's a school, I live here and the school is here in the Southern Appalachian mountains just outside of Asheville, North Carolinacornwinter squashsweet potatoesmicro dairy, one Jersey cow and mostly Alpine dairy goatsflock of ducksbeekeepermedicinal and edible mushroom cultivationmedicinal plantsthe school that i work for is located just down the road campus is run by my dear friend, Natalie dog walkertogetherthis yearwe are walking on an online gardening schoolteaching people all over the worldpretty much becausewe love it an are passionateafraid of breakdown of supply chainssurge and your listeners have noticedinterested in gardeningwhen you first start out gardening it can be overwhelmingdiscouragingsteering them in the right directionfolks who have that inspiration can have that success and keep goingI always think it's interesting, I always dreamed of going to Montana, I knew a girl who always wanted to go to Maryland. She's like doesn't that just sound beautiful?can really20 acreswe have 23 acresbigger farms in this statepiedmonteastup in the mountainsAppalachian mountain chain in the southern part of that mountain chain. It's one of the oldest mountain formations in the worldLots of endemic species that live hereIt's a beautiful verdant jungle in the spring and summertemperate rainforestlots of raingets chilly changing with climate changeA big chunk of that is wooded hillsidefarm per se flatland 3-4 acreswhere we have the animalsharvest timber obviously for wood heat cooking and mushroom cultivation My partner is just dedicated at working away at developing a silvapasture and nut orchard up on the slope.I'm sure your listeners know 23 acres can mean a lot of different things if you have top soil and if it's hilly landso we are somewhere in betweenflat for the mountainsdo grow our vegetablessteep land marshy boggy landThat's similar where we are surrounded by doug fir forest and you can see before and after pics on our website. where he has cut the forest to build the minifarm.Tell me about your first gardening experience?well, I didn’t grow up gardeningI grew up in the suburbs in the bay area in Northern, CAsmall rural western part of the countyalternative school that happened to be a public school, was really a blessing for me and my family getting to go to a private school that was public and freealternativeproject basedinterdisciplinaryopen classroomin marinmore rural partbest friend mom had dairy goatsmade her own beerapple sauceMy other friends momgrew beautiful rosesberries and fruitsI did have early exposurewe had a garden at my schoolearly childhood exposure I was drawn to plants and animalsI didn't tend my own garden till I was in collegeI knew I wanted to studyagri-cologyenvironmental studiessustainable food systemsavid cookvegetarainlove vegetables and cook lotsAnyone who cooks a lot has a visceral understanding of the difference of quality

22 Juni 202047min

Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast it’s Friday, May 22, 2020 and I have the most awesome guest online. I feel bad we were chatting about school. She is from SoilKit.com They sent Mike and I a sample I got the results back already, I made videos of me using it. Here today a rockstar Millennial is Christina, I don’t know your last name! That was a great intro! Thank you Quick thing just about myself, my name is Christina Woerner Mcinnis. I am a Mom of 4 born in the 80s. My family has been farming for over 100 years. I am a 5th generation farmer. I just got my bicentennial membership for the state of Alabama.I am very proud to be a farmer! I love raising kids to be farmers.My passion if I were to tell you my hobby!#1 would be politics#2 would be international agI am fascinated about traveling around the world and learning about it! As a tid bit, the most fascinating country I have been to with organic farming is:CUBA organic practice I have ever seen!hands down, most fascinating organic practices!That’s my hobby those are my passions.now to tell you about SoilKit.commy dad is the Woerner family fromWoerner.com he has farms all over fromHawaiiColoradoSouthEastgrows everything fromavocadoscacaoturf grassI kept having homeowners come in and saying somethings wrong withcitrus treesmy lawngardenWhat should I be doing?It’s just like going to the doctor, you can come in for a well checkup and he wants to take a look at your blood results.They come in and there’s a diagnostic? I say what is the soil sample what did it look at.Homeowners here have a soil sample but the process was difficult for a homeowner to understand.I asked dad, I wanted to do this project. I want to make this a digital process, it's too difficult for the homeowners to understand. let’s take this the pain point out of the market place, it’s the most important test you can do.I aligned with a very talented person, Michaal Raines who did tech for the medical industry if you can dot his for them you can do it for dirt so come on let's get this project off the groundpaired the agronomy offarmingchemistryand the tech side with his engineering and digital sideSo now we have rolled out SoilKit, turned out to be a more extensivelawngardensSo you get soil kit what you do, it comes in the mail. You can get it with or without a trowelYour listeners probably everybody has a trowelhttps://youtu.be/0GNaMdyThcQ#1 thing to do is register kiteverything will be populated to you, you will get a google satelite imagegardening in the soil land you can go drop the pinscalculate with google satellite imageryclick confirm and a little tutorial will be there.go take your four samples from a 10,000 foot areaWhen you are gardening I need it at leastgrass will reside2-4 inches deep4 inches with the root leveltake the soil at that levelraise the red flagAll you have to do is put in your information is put in your information, then the lab knows the second it gets there they know this is Jackieit’s a gardenwe’re gonna go the basic testb3...

8 Juni 202047min