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003: Allen Philo on the Foundations of Fertility

2/23/2015

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Midwestern Bio Ag soils consultant Allen Philo talks with Chris about his journey into organic soil fertility, from managing a monastery farm in West Virginia to pursuing a soil science degree at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Allen provides insights about soil nutrient balancing, simplifying your fertilizer needs on a diversified vegetable farm, and how vegetable plant physiology can tell you about how best to fertilize your crop.

Books Mentioned by Allen

  • How to Grow More Vegetables - John Jeavons
  • Grass Productivity - Andre Voisin
  • The Biological Farmer - Gary Zimmer
  • Advancing Biological Farming - Gary Zimmer  
  • Farmers of Forty Centuries - F.H. King

Show Links

  • Midwestern Bio-Ag
  • MOSES Organic Farming Conference 2015
  • Acres USA Book Catalog

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  • Second Cup Media helps tiny businesses build old-fashioned relationships with new-fashioned technologies.
  • Purple Pitchfork provides tools and resources to farmers and food businesses to help them succeed in business, farming, and life.
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002: Lisa Kivirist on Running a Live-ness

2/16/2015

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What does it take to make a living farming? Ecopreneur Lisa Kivirist shares her experience creating a lively-ness  from a diversified income stream on her rural homestead, Inn Serendipity Bed and Breakfast, in southwest Wisconsin. Lisa and her husband, John Ivanko, made a change from their mainstream, white-bread, suburban, commute-to-a-job world in Chicago twenty years ago, and now make an intentionally modest living from their homestead, with income streams from their small market garden, a bed and breakfast, writing, and contract work.

Show Links

  • MOSES Rural Women’s Project
  • Homemade for Sale: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen – Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko
  • Farmstead Chef – John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
  • Rural Renaissance – John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
  • ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet before Profits – Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko
  • Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers - Lisa Kivirist (added after the show aired)
  • Getting Things Done – David Allen

Sponsors

  • Second Cup Media helps tiny businesses build old-fashioned relationships with new-fashioned technologies.
  • Purple Pitchfork provides tools and resources to farmers and food businesses to help them succeed in business, farming, and life.
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001: Liz Graznak on the First Five Years

2/9/2015

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Liz Graznak of Happy Hollow Farm shares the story of her first five years raising organic vegetables in the heart of central Missouri’s conventional corn and soybean country. Liz and Chris talk about the rewards of getting to know your neighbors, geek out on organization and record-keeping, and discuss the ways a two-year-old changes a farmer’s life.

Show Links

  • Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers' Movement
  • Rite in the Rain Tactical Notebook
  • High Tunnel Program with the NRCS

Sponsors

  • Second Cup Media helps tiny businesses build old-fashioned relationships with new-fashioned technologies.
  • Purple Pitchfork provides tools and resources to farmers and food businesses to help them succeed in business, farming, and life.
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