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My Garden JournalWelcome to the GREEN Organic Garden podcast. It is Saturday, July 18, 2020, and I have an amazing guest on the line. You have to check out their website is so beautiful and just full of lots of great stuff. And here to share with us today from B L H Farm is Matt Arthur. You can find BLH Farm on Facebook here.So welcome to the show, Matt.Hi, Jackie.And we'll talk, I mean, I want to ask you about yourself, but I really want to know what B L H stands for.1 (1m 41s):Yeah, so it stands for Boone's Lake Heritage Farm. I grew up in central, Missouri on a family farm. It still had the wagon ruts from Daniel Boone's trail West from Missouri through to the Southwest. So I grew up playing on a Creek and in the field with those wagon trails so visable.So we started our flower farm now on some of our land that wasn't being used for row crops. I wanted to let everybody know that this is just a real part of our, our history here is seeing these, this trail and thinking about people who came before us.So how, so this is your family farm. So, you know, I guess if you said you listened to my podcast, that my first question is always about, like, what was your first gardening experience? Like, what'd you grow? Who were you with? I guess you were probably with your mom and dad?1 (2m 32s):Yeah, yeah. With my mom, mainly we always had an orchard and a garden and always had tomatoes and beans and apples and other stuff going. So I just have always grown flowers and vegetables at the house. And my mom grew a lot of things that her mom grew. And so I just always looked back and think about growing, you know, the flowers that she got from her mom or apples that she was trying out and I've always done it.And is that how you learned how to grow organically? Were they organic too?Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. My parents for our vegetable garden and an orchard, I've always been a hundred percent chemical free, a hundred percent organic, always heavy mulchers never, never spray for anything and, and always grew up just knowing that that was how, how one should farm and garden. Well, awesome. So do you have any tips? Like I was just going through all the questions I've been asked in the Facebook group and somebody was asking about what do I do about apple scab, and just like any tips for growing an orchard? Our orchard. The other problem we're having is the grass is full of this weird bind weed, which is totally irrelevant.Bind weeds tough. Yeah. Bind weeds tough. I mean, I've two quick pieces of advice.The first is that the, in the rows between your apple trees, you need to have a mix of species that you choose. A, you should have a grass, you should have a legume and then a forb to take the place of, of those weeds. Weeds...

9 Aug 202051min

Benjamin Page from the Pastos Verdes Farm in ArgentinaPlaying in the Dirt: The key to sustainable health!My Garden Journal Jackie Marie Beyer (8m 17s):Welcome to the Green Organic Gardener Podcast. Today is Friday, July 10, 2020. And I have an awesome guest on the mic who's written a fantastic book called Playing in the dirt. He's a chiropractor. He's got an awesome Instagram channel and just, I know we're going to learn a ton today. So here to share all sorts of golden seeds with us is Benjamin Page. So welcome to the show. Ben Ben, right?Ben Page (8m 46s):Yeah. It's been yep. Most people call me Ben, Benjamin is my real name, but Ben is what most people call me. I think there's three people in the world that call me Benny and two of passed away. So it's down just one, but yeah, most people call me then. Yeah. So it's great to be on the show. It's great to be with you.Jackie Marie Beyer (9m 1s):Well, thanks. Well, I'm so excited. Oh yeah. And you also have a podcast, the wellness farmer podcast. So listeners like I've been like jonesing for some good podcasts. Listen to this winner like at that kind of has changed lately. Cause I think I've been to over a thousand podcasts websites in the last month working for this new podcast or I'm just doing research, trying to find podcasts where she would be a good fit as a guest. And it's just been fascinating, but even still out of like the thousand websites, I've only found, I think four that I've actually added to my phone and less than a dozen that I've checked out and been like, Oh, this might be good. Jackie Marie Beyer (9m 39s):So I am excited. I am been thinking, I wish more people would share more podcasts. Like people that I listen to would share more. So the Wellness Farmer, I know listeners are going to love that.Ben Page (9m 53s):Yeah, that's what I tried. I mean, it's more of a wellness farmer at the moment. But at the, when I started the podcast, I was a farmer. I actually raised a meat on pasture. So chicken, sorry, chicken on pasture. And that's why that's where the podcast kind of got its name.Jackie Marie Beyer (10m 10s):Well, do you want to tell us about that or I want to kind of hear a little bit about that was that down. So you're in Argentina. Was that down in Argentina or like where was that?Ben Page (10m 21s):And that was before we came to Argentina, we opened, so I was working with a chiropractor for about five years and then I've left and opened my own clinic. And at the same time I started a farming enterprise. And what I did is I raised chickens on pasture in a place in Southern Utah. And that's where I was raising the chicken on pasture and at the very end imagining.<img...

2 Aug 202054min

DeerBusters Jennifer Smith is here to tell us how code "fences" can save us 10% when we solve one of the biggest garden challenges there is especially in 2020! Intro (2s):Welcome to the Green Organic Garden Podcast. It is Friday, July 10, 2020. It's my mom and dad's anniversary. If my dad was still alive, I think he'd be married for probably 55 years, something like that. And I am excited because I have a guest who's back in the line to talk to us about something that when I went to Free the Seeds of this year, do you number one out of 40 people? I talked to you. I think 36 of them said the biggest challenge they have for growing their garden is deer and keeping the critters out. My Garden JournalJoin us on the Listen App using invite code: GREENJackie Marie Beyer (39s):And that's certainly like something that people talk about a lot. So we have somebody here with a solution. I think she even has a 10% discount for GREEN organic garden podcast listeners. So I'm here from deer busters is Jennifer Smith. So welcome back, Jennifer.Jennifer Smith (57s):Thank you. It's glad to be back.Jackie Marie Beyer (60s):Hey, did you know that I found this podcast? So I'm working for this podcaster and one of my jobs is to like find shows that he be really good guest on, and there's actually a show that's called. I think it's Patient Zero. That's all about Lyme disease.Jennifer Smith (1m 16s): I have not heard of that.Jackie Marie Beyer (1m 18s):It was listed as Apple, one of Apple's top podcasts in 2019. So I'm really curious to check it out because it has to be more than just basic science and stuff. Like I don't know what it's about, but anyway, we're here to talk about what we can do to protect our gardens, that we work so hard to grow from the deer that are beautiful and lovely.And I love to see deer in my yard. I just don't want to see them eating my flowers and vegetables.[caption id="attachment_137102" align="alignnone" width="768"] Mike built these little tents that worked for years back in the beginning. Look at that lawn, boy we've come a long way. But really in the beginning these two bed provided a lot of food.[/caption]Jennifer Smith (1m 42s):There are graceful animals. We love them. It's a love, hate relationship rally, and there are beautiful from afar, but the minute they start eating our plants, AKA our hard work. Then we don't like them so much and we need to humanely get rid of Bambi and his friends and I have the solution to make it happen. So what I recommend is growers need to look into installing an deer offense.Jennifer Smith (2m 16s):It is the most reliable means for deer management[gallery ids="137099,137100,137101" type="rectangular"]But then they got serious. We have over 260' of fence around the house and another 260' around the minifarm. It's essential!But there are a number of factors to consider such as other animals that are destroying the...

2 Aug 202017min

Books Tori Recommends:When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira KatznelsonDying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartlandby Jonathan MetzlLinks we mention:https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNkI'm Tori Williams, Douglas and I am a writer and anti racism educator. I actually grew up in, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. That's where I live now. I've lived in the Pacific Northwest, my entire life, mainly in Portland and Seattle. And yeah, I didn't really, I kind of came to this work. I sort of fell into it.A lot of, a lot of different things sort of brought me to this place. But I mean initially like, gosh, there's so many, there's so many places I could go. Did you go to Portland State University to their conflict resolution program. Like, do you know that they have a program there? I applied to go there and then I could never come up with the funding. And it's really hard to find a job in Portland. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It is so hard to find a job here. I hear that for sure. You can't even be a substitute teacher without a master's degree or at least that's what they told me. I don't know That, that, that sounds right. No, I did not. I have not attended that program. I've heard about it. And I think that like, conceptually, it seems really good. I have a lot of friends, obviously you've gotten to Portland State, so yeah. How did you get into this work?I might end up there. I've been talking to the Dean of the School of Public Health about like going into that program.So yeah, it was, it was journey. So I think that the thing that really kind of kicked it off for me was when I got pregnant with my oldest child, I started doing all this research around birth outcomes for black mothers and they were abysmal. So essentially finding out black mothers are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications than white moms.And black infants are like twice as likely as white infants today. And like the first 30 days of life. And that really kind caught my attention, made me really nervous for obvious reasons. And then when I was pregnant with my second, that is when the Ferguson uprising happened as a response to Michael Brown being murdered.And that was kind of when I was like, okay, this seems important. Like I need to start speaking out about this issue and then fast forward another two years or so two, three years. I'm trying to remember, I guess it was probably two years. I ended up getting a job at a, in a neuroscience lab at OHSU here in Portland and it's a super diverse lab and the PI is black and a lot of the post-docs were, were people of color.And a lot of the work that was being done there was around racism and implicit bias. And it was just a really incredible learning experience even though I was working and not like in the, in the actual med school program. But that gave me a lot of, a lot more information and sort of, kind of, it started to like back up what I had been learning...

31 Juli 202052min

My BiRtHdAy wish this year is that anyone who has listened to my podcast and thinks I’m not the worst host in the world will leave me a review because apparently even though I have 90 five star ratings-I guess 4 out of the last 6 reviews I got said I love the content but I wish I cld mute the host I knw I’m not the best host but ouch that was a bit of a shock the other day when I went to find what my listeners say for a pdf so if u think I do an ok job and I know my guests always rock the mic I hope u can take two minutes to give me a review on iTunes!https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/organic-gardener-podcast/id962887645?mt=2This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

31 Juli 20207min

My BiRtHdAy wish this year is that anyone who has listened to my podcast and thinks I’m not the worst host in the world will leave me a review because apparently even though I have 90 five star ratings-I guess 4 out of the last 6 reviews I got said I love the content but I wish I cld mute the host I knw I’m not the best host but ouch that was a bit of a shock the other day when I went to find what my listeners say for a pdf so if u think I do an ok job and I know my guests always rock the mic I hope u can take two minutes to give me a review on iTunes!https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/organic-gardener-podcast/id962887645?mt=2This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

31 Juli 20207min

Nicole Masters from Integrity Soils is here today!Intro (0s):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!Get your copy of our blank garden journal from amazon today!Jackie Marie Beyer (19s):Welcome to the Green Organic Garden Podcast! It is Friday, July 3rd, 2020. And I have one of the most awesome guests ever to come on the show. She was recommended by Robin Kelson and Patti Armbrister. Robin actually went all the way to New Zealand to work with her!For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production SystemsJackie Marie Beyer (1m 11s):She is a soil expert and she is here to talk to us. She wrote a book for the love of Soil Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems. You might've even read it already. And now you're going to hear from the master herself, Nicole Masters. So welcome to the show Nicole!Nicole Masters (1m 28s):Thanks for having me, Jackie, that's like the best introduction lead in of all time. Yeah. I really appreciate being here. Thank you.Jackie Marie Beyer:We are so excited to have you, and I know you are going to drop golden seeds.That's what I call like golden nuggets of value bombs. You're where people say on other podcasters. I just know, like I told you in the email Soil health is without a doubt, the key to my show and show. And then Patti Armbrister has her own little fan club, like one of my, like I'm the president. And like, they just love her.And she was like, how come you haven't had Nicole Masters on your show yet? I'm like, what did happen with that? And I guess I never sent you the email show. I meant you last year when I first heard about you and I dropped the ball.Jackie Marie Beyer (2m 13s):So thank you so much. And go ahead and tell listeners about yourself. Like what time is it where you are? You're in New Zealand, right?Nicole Masters (2m 20s):No way when COVID hit, I got on a plane and I got to Montana. So right now I'm in Idaho.Jackie Marie Beyer (-): You did?Nicole Masters (2m 27s):Yeah. I have a trailer in a horse here in Montana. And so yeah, I just, yeah, just kind of really looked at what I was doing and you know, is it the site of a book tour? And you know, my schedule was pretty much the most I was staying anywhere was like three days traveling through...

26 Juli 20201h 7min

Friday June 19, 2020Get a FREE Sample by simply paying shipping from Cultured Biologix HereWe, you know, we were part of a conglomerate with about four other organic companies and, you know, each one kind of has the organic piece of the puzzle, you could say. So they do a lot of like, they take like the organic amendments you would put in your soil and they digest them ahead of time.So when they put them in a bottle also, when you use them, you're using liquid digested, organic goodness. So every time you feed your plants, you're feeding them what would naturally be released in the soil? So it's like a really more innovative, what's a new, innovative way to do organic gardening, I guess, in a more context of who they are to us, their, our, our partner company, where they provide the, the liquid organic nutrients.And we provide the, the easy to use complex to use to keep the soil broken down and healthy. And then in cycling all the nutrients and making them available for the plants...This is perfect. Did you get the email? Yes. Okay. So I'll just introduce you and we'll go from there before you drop any more golden seeds that listeners are going to want to hear. Okay, cool. Welcome to the green organic gardener podcast. Today. It is Friday, June 19th, 2020. And I have someone on the line who I think we're going to really enjoy learning about. They have a, kind of a new green business that they're going to tell us a little about, and also like how you can have better results in your gardens. So it's Cultured Biologix, Is that right, Tim? Yes. Yes, it is. Okay. And I'm not even sure. I know your last name, so welcome to the green organic gardener podcast. Well, I'm glad you're here. So go ahead and tell us there's a little bit about yourself. Yeah, sure. So I'm the president of a company called Cultured Biologix. We make really good organic microbial, fertilizers, natural pesticides, you know, taking essential oils that are harmless to you, me, your dogs, you know, everything good in nature, but you know, detrimental to a lot of the pests that we experienced in our garden. So we started about three years ago. We've been growing pretty steadily here in Colorado. So, you know, originally we kind of started off in the cannabis hemp seed, and now we're kind of moving into home, home and garden kind of teaching people about, you know, the new ways to, to garden organically. Okay. Well, I kind of always start out my show asking you about your very first garden experience, like where you were a kid, were you an adult? Was it recently, or like, what'd you grow? Who were you with? But I've been very fortunate to have a mother that's been a horticulturalist for 35 years. So take your child to work day was to take, take Tim to the, to the greenhouse and have them water plants and pick off bugs. And that leaves up off the plants. So I've been, I've been doing it for most of my life. 29 year olds, 29 years old now. So I've been gardening good 20 years of my life. First gardening experience was probably my backyard with my, with my mom, helping her do annual prenup flowers.That's been her real big thing. So just kind of grew up with it and just kind of involved with, with just probably every, every day of my life. So probably is that how you learned how to grow organically from your mom? Yeah. Yeah. One of our organically, she definitely taught me the conventional ways, you know, in a lot of conventional greenhouses and whatnot, they, they use their super triple phosphate. They do

20 Juli 20201h 1min