Trialing Like a Pro
This week's guest expert is Brian Krug, Greenhouse Technology Leader at Corteva Agrisciences. When Brian & Peter met, Brian made the rookie mistake of taking Peter's advice without ever testing the ne...
30 Sep 202059min
COVID Silver Linings for Small Producers
Labor Day weekend is the end beginning of the end of the summer season. Peter and Michelle look back at the last 6 months and discuss how the COVID pandemic changed the food system and created new opp...
9 Sep 202035min
Why Small Producers Should Pick Specialty Production
Guest Expert Mario Ortez is a PhD Student at Purdue University in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Mario joins Michelle and Peter to talk about his family coffee farm in Nicaragua and his dec...
2 Sep 202033min
The Power of Bees
Natalie Olofsson interviews her friend Sophie Gregoretti who is president of their high school bee club, a position she never expected to have before her freshman year. Sophie does not come from a fa...
26 Aug 202027min
Where do consumers get their nutrient education from?
Where do we learn about food and nutrition? Who's responsibility is it to teach our children about food and nutrition? The fact that 7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows ac...
19 Aug 202035min
Teacher turned Grower- We're Never Done Learning
In Part 1 with Rene Rawhouser, she shared why he gardens and how he got started. When gardening there is always something new to learn. Rene shares a few of his favorite grower resources and some of t...
12 Aug 202037min
Transforming Potatoes into a Dinner Superstar
According to Brent Preston of The New Farm, a gardener grows food and a farmers grows and sells food. This week's guest expert is Rene Rawhouser blurs the line. He is an avid gardener, who feeds 15 pe...
5 Aug 202020min
Home Gardens Aid Local Farms, Not Compete
Like many people living under stay at home orders this spring, Natalie picked up gardening. From carrots to potatoes gardening has been interesting and surprising. On this episode, Michelle questions ...
29 Juli 202038min
