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The Little Gardener: Inspire Children to Connect with the Natural World It's truly a book out of my heart. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Enter here to win!They are giving one to a listener.Connect with The Little Gardener author Julie Cerny Here:Find Julie on instagram @https://www.instagram.com/thehappylittlegardener/and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/The-Little-Gardener-101235494924539/Do you have any questions for me?Well, I was wondering about your journey a little bit.Well, I call my audience Green Future Growers, mostly they are interested in growing a lot of food, they have large backyard gardens, they are master gardeners, but I have gotten a lot of new listeners so there might be more new gardeners. I started my podcast in January 2015, and I have done 318 interviews with backyard gardeners, market farmers, etc and so I feel like since I started my podcast I could keep a class of students alive if I had to. My husband and I live on 20 acres in NW Montana, so deer is a big challenge here. Many listeners etc say that is a giant challenge. Mikes goal is trying to grow as much of our own produce as we can but this year we are trying to do more, we are even looking into having a WWOOFER coming to stay and maybe help Mike because we feel like this land should produce as much as it can and more then Mike can by himself in case we need food in the fall.It wasn’t until I saw children in a garden—holding seeds, planting them, touching the soil, and smelling, harvesting, and tasting food (nature)—that I knew they were truly perceiving their place in the natural world. And it made perfect sense. The most direct and intimate way to connect with nature is, clearly, to eat it. A small part of it becomes a small part of you—and it fills you up a little more every time. Eventually you begin to realize that you have always been 100 percent nature, that you are made of the same components of all that you see in the natural world—your body made of water and carbon, same as the flower stalks. Gardens remind us that everything is connected, and that “everything” includes us.The Little Gardener: Inspire Children to Connect with the Natural World Here's my amazon review:Five stars*****All you need to help inspire the little gardener in your life. Don't forget to leave yours so this book gets shared by all who need it: Illustrations bring gardening to life in this little workbook that is designed by someone who obviously knows kids + gardens and how to love and enjoy them together! Fantastic read. LOVE LOVE LOVE!It is Friday April 24, 2020 It's truly a book out of my heart. They are giving one to a listener.<a

27 Apr 20201h 23min

From the Evergreen Urban Bee Sanctuary Heather Wood is here to share with us about natural beekeeping and why it is so important for everyone to have a hive on their property big or small. Donate to the Evergreen Urban Bee Sanctuary and help Heather continue her work on her Shunpipe donation page here.Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast it's Saturday • April 18, 2020 and I have an awesome guest back here to talk to us because she is just like you and me and all the green future growers out there so I know you are going to love every single golden seed that is going to come out of her mouth! So, I have so many new listeners since I was on the Melissa Norris show so they maybe haven't heard of you. Bonus Care Bellamy's informative Permaculture garden tour of her food forest and pollinator beds:https://youtu.be/C6SQUlsQq8wTell us a little about yourself.Returned to college a little later in lifetaking a biodynamics class just different aspects of farm including beekeepingwatched a series of films, I said this is what I wanted to do. So I started a non-profit. Everything was in sync with other events.We got to host Corwin Bell of Backyard Hive He has done all sorts of research on Honeybee Geneticscoloradonatural style beehive that bees might preferhoneybee geneticsnon-profit to build natural beehives awareness to catch honeybee swarmsstraw hivesstarted to build his design which is the top bar hivestill have the sun hive which is the woven business just about 150 top bar behaves nowso that’s pretty phenomenal for me, I didn't know anything about woodworking and I have developed a proficiencyGot my certificate in bee keepingWhere did you learn all this? I guess from Corwin?local association before I We hosted him to come and speak that drew all these people to the area and through my class and I became aware of this movement natural bee keeping that is geared toward local organic farming as opposed to giant mono-cropping and opposed the artificial insemination of honeybeesI just graduated in 2014 and I'm in my 6th year so I'm learned about genetics, I knew it was important but haven't done a ton of homeworkstill scratching the surfaceThe male honeybee is derived from an unfertilized egg!You can imagine all of those worker bees you see, there are 10s of 1000s of bees in any colonymost are female!foragingdoing workqueen of course laying...

19 Apr 202040min

Bonus Care Bellamy's informative Permaculture garden tour of her food forest and pollinator beds:https://youtu.be/C6SQUlsQq8w and then listen to my interview with her last January while you're waiting for me to publish this great interview I did with Heather Wood yesterday!I’m so excited I have a listener on the line who is going to share a ton of golden seeds! I talked to her before from Florida and she is going to share with us about her Sustainability Project! 1. Tell us a little about yourself.By day, I’m a REALTOR® and beekeeper. I’m also a 3rd generation farmer. My grandparents owned a 100 acre wheat farm on the prairie in rural Dufresne, Manitoba. My family lived off the land, they grew their food seasonally in a 1 acre vegetable garden. After the local community collectively brought in the fall harvest, they would busily preserve and can their produce for storage in their root cellar.These people were a hardy bunch, they managed to survive the brutually harsh winters with minimal resources using a wood burning stove for heat, crude electric and no running water or indoor plumbing. They kept and cared for livestock and only took what they needed to survive, my ancestors practiced “The Tragedy of the Commons” method. That’s how they managed to raise a family of 8 in rural Manitoba.And Manitoba is where people go to see the polar bears right?Yes Churchill Manitoba is where the polar bears are.Then you went to the opposite end of the continent practically to Florida.Yes I did I got hired to work for Disney at the Epcot Center back in the early 80s and that’s where I met my husband two weeks later and we’ve been here ever since!That’s so romantic! I always wanted to work for Disney, I tried to get a job or get into art school at the California Institute of Arts in LA.Well, they must have liked me! I managed to beat out 64 other people fro the job! So yay for me!And you worked there for a long time right?Yes 35 years!2. Tell me about your first gardening experience?We used to visit the farm in the summer time every two years, however my mom! When my mother moved to the big city of Toronto, Ontario, she became a backyard farmer and composter carrying on her family farming tradition. I began helping my mother garden as a young child, she taught me valuable lessons in planting, harvesting and food preservation skills. All these years later I’ve been utilizing this and it’s been working out fantastic for me. Luckily for me, both my parents were award winning gardeners so pulling weeds or fresh carrots comes naturally. So then is it challenging down in Florida? Do you have to learn different practices to grow in that climate?Well, gardening is pretty much the same wherever you go. IT’s just the conditions and the climate. In Florida there is a sandy soil, where my parents lived it was a deep rich soil. You have to plant things things that grow wellI’m in climate zone 9b, it’s way different climate. They get snow and here we don’t get any snow, we hardly get any freezes?3. How did you learn how to garden organically? My mother taught me, she was a big time composter of our organic kitchen waste. In fact, she had 3 bins under the...

19 Apr 202059min

https://www.strawbalegardenclub.com/joel@strawbalegardens.comhttps://www.facebook.com/learntogrowastrawbalegarden800-901-9902 • 651-470-2096​Minnesota, Roseville Minn- St PaulTell us a little about yourself.12 days straight. I'm 3/4 of the way through a paitn job.Roseville, MN between St. PaulTuesday March 24, 2020! The beginning of a crazy time! We are on spring break so I hope youare getting outdoors. HEre's Joel Karsten from stra balegardeningI'm in MinnnesotaI grew up in Southern Minnesota on a crop and dairy farmgrew up on a farmmoved to the city in collegeWas gonna go back to the farm but I met a girl, never made it back to the farmauthorwriterspeakergardenerinvolved in several community gardenstravel around esp. in the winter and spring speaking at home and garden shows here in the US and some in Europe as well about the straw bale garden method29 springsWhere do you want to start Pioniering this method, one thing my shuanbend who grew up on a ranch is there is a difference btwetn straw and hay.straw is what remains cereal grains are harvested like Wheats and oatmealbale up the stalksbedding for livestockhas hollow stalksstems are hollowhold airacts like insulationlivestock can lay on the bed of straw has this amazing path to suck up and hold on to moisturethat’s what makes it so good at holding on to large capacity moisture inside a bale which will hold 5 gallons of wateracts as a reservoir for urine forson or pitchfork in the manure spreader so it's like a diaper for livestockhay is food ~ Fodderif you say I’m feeding my dairy cows a hay bale that usually meansalfalfa cloverif your are feeding horses it could mean alfalfa or clover but it could be grass haybale up grass that has seed headsnutritional valuealfalfa has lots of proteins so it's a very valuable crop it's easy to growgrow it to bale it and feed it to livestocknot a byproduct of oats or wheatstraw is a by-proudctreasons you grow hay is to feed it to livestrockmore expensiveheavierhas a lot of protein in itprotein breaks down into thecould use a hay bale but it's more expensivebreaks down quickerdoesn't hold moisture as wellhay bale you only get one seasons of growthhe uses it mostly for mulch, he says you get weed seeds in the gardenthe ifdepends on when you cut the crop when you get to 3 times4 times2 timescut when you get to 1/10th flower so when one in ten plants has a flower with seeds are matureweeds that have mature seedshopefully not too many weedsif you are balling like grass hay usually it depends becuase if you cut it a couple of times a year the seed has won’t matureIf you don't cut it at all and you just cut it in the fall and bale your ditch grass, that could have all kinds of seeds in itsprouting standpointdependssometimes same with straw if you get a really good combine that gets all seeds off when harvesting but if you have a combine that is not adjusted right you can get a bale of straw that has lots of seeds in it toohappens early in the seasonprepping the bales getting to plantspray with a little vinegar and knock them back, then you don't have to deal with the weedsdelights of straw bale gardening is you don't have to deal with weedsHow does somebody...

19 Apr 20201h 22min

I got a kale bed ready I am just about to plant. Mike started some heirloom tomatoes and broccolis. He's been working on the fence and we are getting ready to plant our garden! I have over 20 years of garden data and most of them say that Mike starts things in the soil between April 7-14 so this year we're just a little bit late considering there was a big snow the first of April we are doing good.What about you?! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

18 Apr 20209min

This is a replay from 4/21/15 my first year! And when I release this year's bonus Earth Day episode you will love her even more when you hear what she's up to now!Meet the amazing Heather Wood saving the world one compost pile and bee hive at a time as she shares her journey to connect communities and show what living locally looks like. You’ll be truly touched by this mothers passion and commitment to the environment and world she lives in as she peddles compost from hub site to hub site, and bravely gathers wild swarms of bees to be relocated in a loving home with tenderness and excitement. Be ready to celebrate Earth Day after you hear this fantastic interview with one of the world’s young and inspiring modern day movers and shakers.Tell us a little about yourself.I was looking forward to graduating college and I was researching alternative styles of composting all over the country. When I was young I saw a show about a learned about a community in Italy using mules for collecting garbage and decided that was what I wanted to do. At the same I time I was getting my apprenticeship in Beekeeping.Got two business licensesnon-profit: Urban Evergreen Bee Sanctuary Sun Hive and Swarm.Community Compost Collection that’s 100% bicycle powered!Got her degree from the Evergreen State College, in the capital of Washington, in Olympia. Grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Studying physics and animation. Started studying biodynamics beekeeping and biodynamics farming which sort of takes organic a little further. Always wanted to be a beekeeper.Was able to get my apprenticeship through the Washington State Beekeepers Association. I also got to sit in on a workshop with Corwin Bell of ColoradoMore then Honey and Queen of the Sun documentaries that talk about the harm that the bees are in. Wanted to get involved and believed that she could be involved.Decided to build beehives. Sun hives – wild swarming … a step away from conventional bee keeping … talking about stepping away from conventional bee keeping which is wild swarming. Conventional bee keeping means we prevent our bees from swarming.Natural swarming means ½ of the colony will leave with the old queen so we can have genetic diversity. If we catch wild swarms and trade them we are encouraging biodiversity and local native populations that will withstand winter better and will be stronger.Bees start to swarm in the spring… Earlier that you can get a swarm to keep in the box the better, because they will have time to build up storage for the winter.A swarm is a cluster (in the shape of a V or a football) on a branch – about 7-10 feet off the ground. This is about ½ of the colony, right before the new queen is about to hatch, the bees start pestering the old queen to leave and she takes about ½ the colony with her to find a new home. They...

18 Apr 202038min

https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/https://www.earthweeksummit.com/Tell us a little about yourself.In Denver CO, one of a big familyI’m 59 years oldwe were nature kidsIDK if they understand that they are nature kidsbeing one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a dayclimbing treesdigging holes in the backyardAt age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollarHe was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I’m such a nerd! and I’m on my 5th grade. I ask himwhat are you doing?why are you focused so much on this?I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I’m talking to people at the oil company.I thought the adults have it under controlfirst earth day was in 197010% of the populationit was really started as a teach inseries of teach inpeople just get together and talk to each otherwhat do you feel like is importantwhat do I feel is important and what do we need to make the environment personal to themworking on projects togetherdemanded the government change them?That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixonstarted the EPAclean air actclean water actI thought great we got this thing together!1978 President Carter came to coloradoopened the solar energy instituteI went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don’t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don’t have it under controlgot into engineeringmy way to make a big impactresults weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expectedno culture around it we just did projects and leftwe didn’t ever deal with the peopleI wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my ownspending up a lot of effort and not having much impact. I ended up in Longmontbecame a non-profitin less then 2 yearsI don’t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That's sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results!We’re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be:start a TEAMclimate actiongrow more fooddo recycling in your kids school or start a community gardenbike sharemake a huge impactthat's why I started the Green TEAM Academy2nd year of doing this Earth Week Summitthe Green Organic Garden Podcast is one of our sponsors! That's so...

12 Apr 20201h 30min

Won't You Be My Neighbor?I’m gonna just gonna hit record okOK ~ I’ll deliver!Here’s a listener and awesome teacher! Matt Zoeller to share his garden journey and talking about edible weeds who was on my show back in February 2018 in episode 250.Listen here to my interview with Matt about Edible WeedsIt’s a privilege to be back here, it’s now the second time I have done a podcast like this the first one was with you jackie like 2 years ago.so many people have listened to your episode before, I think you are even in my organic oasis guidebook where It all about growing chickens in the suburbs, I spent so much time reading it last year and then I haven’t seen it for a year and then I was on someones podcast the other dayhow nutritious they are usually people switch off the station not download it so, this is a cool place to be on the fringe organic gardener podcast which you’ve had some pretty bad-a**ed published guests lately.I think you are just being humble. I know you dropped lots of great golden seeds. But since I did have Melissa Norris and Jeff Ditchfield my numbers have practically double and so there are a lot of new listeners who haven’t heardI came up with an acronym…. My name is Matt Zoeller, I teach high school, I have a masters in education but all things health and plants, maybe wearing the color green I do wear a lot of green is something I love but it is not academic, I just have an organic interested, I am always reading and listening!I live right in Denver, in a suburb, in a neighborhood, IDK how big my house is but it’s not big eitherwe have a good solid amount of garden spacechickenssalvaging woodraccoon issuewe got 3 more hensactually 7 chicksthat are 4 weeks old that’s really excitingthe thing I am kind of becoming famous forlove of eating weedsmy analogyif you were to move into a housespring rolls around and suddenlythere’s kale everywhere would you walk out and say we didn’t plant this kale we have to dig them all uhire some ruminantyou would probably eat it because its kale an its healthmost of the main ones we hate the most and probably Canadiansa lot are edible and nutritionwe went therenutrients panickingwhat advice would I have for people if the supply runs outcan’t count on my neighboryou’re like the perfect guy for thisI came up with an acronymtake it or leave itCompostOeuf (french for egg a plug for chickens)VegetableImmune SystemDehydrateIn the spirit of survivalif I had a blog or we making a booksqueezed it into COVIDChickens or compost -I think that is annoyingmake a big piletalking kitchen stuffdo something with ithere’s some ideasburry itdig a trench slowlyso practicalyour mom does itwhenever this comes upoh my grandma used to do thatIDK what happened to make altho stopreally good for the soilI have alwaysmost people have a wrong sense ofdon’t throw away biodegradablethe way we compost herewith our food scraps is feed to the chickensI’l saythat’s it letterlet’s move onto theOeufso a littleyou're listenersno curses here (12:18make a little plug for chickensthey’re so low maintenancegot chickens for 2 yearmore stuffmore...

12 Apr 202050min