426. Bluebird Gardens | CHARLOTTE EKKER WIGGINS | Missouri

It’s Tuesday, January 15, 2019. You must be doing something right? I can’t seem to get anyone to watch my videos. The one thing I have noticed lately is, we don’t really watch tv so in the evenings, what we do, we’re about done with our day around 8:30ish. We stream Youtube. Watching on TV you can’t interact but I get on the iPad and if I like their video or make a comment I get a lot more people who seem to be interested in my channel. You have like 35, 53  views, etc. I have like no views. 0 views at all. Watching others, I’ll have to try that. You have to be persistence. We’ve been doing it for a year and we’re only just getting somewhere. I see it as you’ve only been doing it for a year! Honestly it’s been the easiest gardening method I have ever learned! Savvy Organics Farm YouTube Channel Savvy Organics Farm On Facebook Savvy Organcs Farm On Local Havest Tell us a little about yourself. Sure, well basically I’ve been gardening most of my life since I was s little kid, life happens to you, and you have kids, we have 2 kids. We always have a family garden, nothing but raising a few vegetables for ourselves. The last few year with the kids out on our own. We have 5 acres, so we don’t need it for livestock and when the kids were in ag. October 2017. We kind of came up with the idea, what are we going to do with our land now? We’ve always been avid gardeners so we started . market gardens CSA programs reasons they do it health benefits 1/2 acre and pasture next to our house basically ripped what are we doing Just watch YouTube at night Who do you feel like you’ve been watching that give you the most. The subjects range from homesteading to organic  gardening Some of our favorites. MI Gardener he’s a good one Justin Rhodes with the abundant permaculture vlog everyday they do everything livestock and gardening Living Traditions <span...

1 Apr 20191h 5min

This replay is a must listen episode about building soil health that was originally published February 2017. It is Monday, January 2nd, very early in the morning and I am headed back to school today. I know you are going to love this guest from Black Swan Organics and Grow Ohio Valley in Appalachia! What a great guest to follow up after Jean-Martin Fortier because Danny is basically doing everything JM Talked about. A great educator and farmer you are going to love this episode as much as I did! Grow Ohio Valley.org is a nonprofit organization working to improve food justice in Appalachia.Grow Ohio Valley is working to fashion a new economic landscape, one offering increased prosperity, improved health and a better environment. Things they do is change: • Vacant city lots become fertile and productive. • School children who think it is “normal” to grow and eat healthy food. One thing I am curious about is their “Food Stamp Challenge” From Black Swan Organics andGrow Ohio Valley here’s Danny Swan. Tell us a little about yourself. Sure, I’m living here in Wheeling West, VA. It’s kind of  hybrid Appalachia Coal town and mid west Rust Belt town. Has a lot in common with some of it’s larger brothers, like  Cleveland and Akron. Had lots of steel mills which have largely gone away and coal mines, that are dwindling, kind of post industrial situation. I grew up about an hour away, and I came to live in the big city about 10 years ago. At that time kind of found a love for organic gardening trying to share that with other people since in a variety of ways. Sharing the Love One of which is Grow Ohio Valley, a company founded with other people here in Wheeling, West VA to bring this local food movement, which is pretty fringe here. You’d call it a rust belt climate…. What does that mean a rust-belt climate? Wheeling, it’s been a hard up town. It was pretty prosperous up until the 60s and 70s and before. As factory work moved overseas, and as coal ran out or other forms of jobs, there are: high unemployment rates everything that goes with that poverty low scores on health performance low educational performance high drug usage which is a big thing we’re seeing right now. It’s a kind of mentality where people just want a job … want things to get back to normal as they remember it … so things that relate to long term health, don’t...

17 Mars 20191h 11min

This episode was originally  posted August 2018. It’s a great resource for building soil health. If you want to join the Patti Armbrister Fan club send me an email! Connect with Patti Amazing Arbrister on Facebook at her Agrarian Food Web Page! I’ve been wanting to see some podcasts on you know the organic gardeners when we talk about soil health and composting and the principals of cover crops they just turn their lights off and don’t want ot talk because they are doing organic gardening and every single farmer including your household vegetable gardeners they’re doing production organics they’re on a fast pace to destroying their soils and don’t know it finally on fb yesterday, the day before one of my friends, she is a leader in organic gardening, she made a video on the same topic, when I started hearing about soil health she didn’t think they were talking about her, when she realized the principles are about her they have this mindset they are above and beyond soil health they are some of the ones the fastest What are they doing? To ruin their soil. These are the principles for regenerative farming or gardening 1.  Minimum disturbance to low disturbance boar bottom plow shovel chisel roto tillers use a broad fork a real shallow device That’s minimum disturbance 2. Keep the soil covered 24/7 365 other then the day you are going to pull the weed mulch soil should be covered so when you look at it you should either see dead organic matter  wood mulch/chips that you’ve added or you should  see live plants never see bare ground next rule or principal 3. Plant diversity more plant diversity Companion planting farming solar rays of sunlight that is coming to the earth as those plants do photosynthesis then they are dropping root exudates ~ they leak them out of their root system for the  soil food web Uses those sugar and carbohydrate Then they deliver to the plant something the plant needed. They do this with signals depending on the root exudates. Let’s say it’s a corn plant, it needs nitrogen. And next to it is a, tomato and a tomato needs...

17 Mars 20191h 19min

Justin Rohner is a presenter and speaker and owner of Agriscaping! I didn’t realize you have a restaurant. Tell us a little about yourself. Serve a number of restaurants in the Phoenix. About me and who I am which is sort of a serial entrepreneur. honed my skills to put all my eggs in one  Agriscaping I’m all about improving local food economies strengthening families strengthening communities what I’m doing fits into one of those categories. Tell me about your first gardening experience? born in Alexandra VA just outside Washington DC, my dad was in the FBI I remember a forest, living in a forest and went back and visited it was 4 trees thick by a busy road! It was nothing but a couple of trees but I was a kid. I moved to Arizona when I was young Being in the garden with my mom little kid probably about five years old peas seeing this caterpillar rolling across the slow motion tiny thing in the garden I could be with the caterpillar infatuated by everything about how plants grew and that we could eat this stuff My mom telling me about how the butterflies oddly enough same time of year we’re doing this recording when that  whole scene played itself out. From then on you couldn’t get me back inside.  My mom would yell and I didn’t even hear here because I was just so engrossed in how life worked.  outdoors continue to expand first passionate experience to be in the garden and what it tasted like and how something that had grown I think a lot of my listeners are going to relate to that story about being kids like that and getting lost in the garden maybe even today as an adult! How did you learn how to garden organically? back then backyard gardening there really was only we had our compost piles grandpa owned a dairy farm last in Tempe Az where AZ State U resides dairy farm in the family seeing all that stuff work too normal Distracted me a lot from making this a profession is it was so normal as a kid it was just the normal...

11 Mars 201957min

I feel like I haven’t explained exactly what is the big difference between the Free Garden Course itself and the 2019 Challenge that is worth $37.00? So the Challenge will officially start Monday, I want to give Progressive Radio Network listeners one more time to explain exactly what the challenge is enough. And really there is not that much! EXCEPT when you complete the 2019 OGP Challenge One if you live in the United States and you sign up for the challenge and you are one of the first 25 people, you will get a hard copy of the book and a hard copy of the garden journal delivered to you! When Mike reads it I know it’s good! And it keeps the checklists all together.   Remember you can get the  2018 Garden Journal and Data Keeper to record your garden goals in our You can  download the first 30 days here   while you’re waiting for it to come in the mail.  Free Garden Course Workbook <img class="alignnone wp-image-5422 size-medium"...

11 Mars 201911min

Get Hippie Certified! Welcome to the Organic Gardener Podcast today it is Thursday, February 28, 2019. I’m so excited to talk to my guest from Texas because I’ve been looking for someone to talk to us about Organic Lawn Care! So from Hippie Fertilizing here is AJ Olson! What would you like to know, actually how you found me was you shared a micro prairie article that I had had shared on my Hippie Fertilizing Facebook Page.  So you posted something and I shared it and you liked it and I sometimes look at who like’s my posts so I can figure out what people like and look for more things like that to help them. Hippie Fertilizing Natural Organic Lawn Care I’m a H town baby Im 31, I grew up here Houston in between here and Galveston I’ve been in lawn care and tree service. I thought how can I learn something and grow as I learn? Lawn-care seemed to be something that would keep me moving, because I  hate to sit still. It’s been really successful over the years. I started out doing what we know and often that’s what we see on TV on commercials or what friends tell us. I found out the hard way that doesn’t work very well! Put down some weed and feed, burn some lawns, spray some weed killer,  get very sick! No that doesn’t look like a good idea anymore! I’m gonna get older one day I don’t want to kill myself to make a living. Hippie Fertilizing Natural Organic Lawn Care That’s where I found out about organics and every since I did it’s been such a wonderful thing! Not only a great way for me to have a business where I can do something positive. Also it’s been a fun amazing way to educate others on the  importance of our environment how we effect ecology supporting soil biology is the best way to go!  It’s the most...

6 Mars 20191h

I start out with the formal Arthur but by the end of this interview with this rockstar millennial you’ll be referring to him as your good friend AJ too because he speaks for the earth and is just one of the most awesome stewards of our planet out there plus he’s just a natural action taker and educator! He said post it raw and I know you’ll love it, if you want to see my shownotes just go here otherwise you’ll just have to listen to to here him share all these golden seeds every neighborhood should know. And don’t forget to sign up for: Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and FREE Garden Course Webinar I also want to invite you to our next webinar either Sunday, March 3, 2019 or Tuesday March 5, 2019. I am giving an ONLINE Webinar about Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and how FREE Garden Course can help you develop your own organic oasis. And you can also learn is the 2019 Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge for you. Sorry I forgot to mention the other day it had a $37.00 fee.  It’s certainly not for everyone but I think there are a lot of my listeners who want some guided instruction and a cohort to learn along with. There are extra assignments to post in a Secret Private Facebook Group where we will go through the course over 6 weeks and if you get all the work completed you will graduate on Earth Day 2019 with a certificate signed by me! So I hope you’ll join us. Thanks always for listening and reading! To learn about the 2019 Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge click here! We’re giving away 25 free workbooks to the first 25 listeners who sign up for the $37.00 challenge to finish all of Free Garden Course, pass a midterm and final by Earth Day 2019, April 22nd! If you just want to purchase the books on your own you can order them direct from amazon here! Free Garden Course Workbook <img class="alignnone wp-image-5422 size-medium aligncenter" src="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MyGardenJournal-233x300.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px"...

2 Mars 20191h

Hey we made the top 2 in organic gardening and #5 in regular gardening on Feedspot for 2019! I didn’t really understand what feedspot was till yesterday when I actually entered my email and got their newsletter this morning. Very cool. It basically sends you interesting news in your feed from your favorite sources. Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and FREE Garden Course Webinar I also want to invite you to our next webinar either Sunday, March 3, 2019 or Tuesday March 5, 2019. I am giving an ONLINE Webinar about Creating Your Own Organic Oasis and how FREE Garden Course can help you develop your own organic oasis. And you can also learn is the 2019 Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge for you. Sorry I forgot to mention the other day it had a $37.00 fee.  It’s certainly not for everyone but I think there are a lot of my listeners who want some guided instruction and a cohort to learn along with. There are extra assignments to post in a Secret Private Facebook Group where we will go through the course over 6 weeks and if you get all the work completed you will graduate on Earth Day 2019 with a certificate signed by me! So I hope you’ll join us. Thanks always for listening and reading! To learn about the 2019 Organic Gardener Podcast Challenge click here! Click here to read the tentative syllabus  We’re giving away 25 free workbooks to the first 25 listeners who sign up for the $37.00 challenge to finish all of Free Garden Course, pass a midterm and final by Earth Day 2019, April 22nd! If you just want to purchase the books on your own you can order them direct from amazon here! <img class="alignnone wp-image-5421 size-medium...

1 Mars 201910min