The Farm-A-Yard Podcast

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The Farm-A-Yard podcast brings inspiration and new thought about growing Healthy People

Episodes

Monday Jul 17, 2017

011 - Farming Intentionally

Monday Jul 17, 2017

011 - Farming Intentionally

with host Linda Borghi

This is Linda’s most surprising and empowering podcast yet! She shares the easiest way to be a yard farmer and the most critical practice to guarantee your success. You’re never going to guess!! Learn how to germinate the most important “seeds” first and what those are.

She tells her personal story of learning about the power of intention and the principle of energy following thought. Linda shares from the heart about her intention for this movement. You don’t want to miss this one!

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010 - The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

Monday Jul 10, 2017

010 - The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

If you are curious about homeopathic practices in Biodynamic farming, you will be fascinated by this interview. These two seasoned biodynamic farmers share their experiences of gardening and farming in harmony with the rhythm of the seasons, and how they practice a culture of sharing and spreading nature’s abundance. Learn about the earth breathing, planting by the biodynamic Stella Natura calendar, and “planting intention” in the stirring and applying of the biodynamic preparations. Also learn how your intention affects living systems and water when Stewart shares his own shocking experiment! To apply biodynamics practices and benefits to your yard doesn’t require understanding the science behind it all, only your desire and will to take action!

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009 - Time For Food Ownership: Germinating the Neighborhood With Food!

Monday Jul 03, 2017

009 - Time For Food Ownership: Germinating the Neighborhood With Food!

with host Linda Borghi and guest Diana Pieri

Diana Pieri has been farming her yard for just 1 year and she is already infecting her neighborhood with food! Diana’s enthusiasm for growing food is infectious; she has had amazing results, changing her life after cancer, and now changing her neighborhood, and absolutely loving it. She was introduced to Farm-A-Yard as a fan of Evan Folds and his “Compost Tea in a Box”. Now she’s spreading food and compost tea everywhere! This is the one “bug” we hope EVERYONE catches.

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008 - Rant on Grass: "No more excuses: You’re Just One Seed Away!”

Monday Jun 26, 2017

008 - Rant on Grass: "No more excuses: You’re Just One Seed Away!”

with host Linda Borghi

Linda was asking herself, “Why aren’t more people digging up some of their grass and growing food? What’s stopping them? What are the barriers?” Learn the flipside of the most common barriers and how to do this without being overwhelmed. What is a small action step that you can take right now? Listen to Linda’s practical advice, and make sure you join the community movement on Facebook where we share lots of information on farming yards, with videos, tips, and more.

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters.

For extra free content or to become a patron please see us at https://www.patreon.com/FarmAYard

007 - Miraculous Mycelia

Wednesday Jun 21, 2017

007 - Miraculous Mycelia

with host Linda Borghi and guest Matthew Legatski - The Gourmet Mushroom Guy

Backdrop to this podcast is Linda’s surprise meeting with mushroom legend, Paul Stamets, Linda and Matthew share a passion for the of mushroom, so good as medicine and food.. Matthew got hooked on mushroom production and learning everything possible about it at 22 years old. He designed and created his own sterile mushroom lab operation. His knowledge is way beyond his years and he loves sharing about the cultivation and production of mushrooms with everyone! The income potential is explored. Cool diagrams and slide show links too!

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters.

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006 - Biodynamics…It's What's for Dinner

Monday Jun 12, 2017

006 - Biodynamics…It's What's for Dinner

with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

Stewart Lundy, of Perennial Roots Farm in eastern Virginia farms, is serious about applied biodynamic agriculture and has created a rich fertile farm with his partner Natalie. They heard about Biodynamics on a trip to Italy and returned to the U.S and began to practice on their farm in 2010. Bringing Biodynamics “down to earth”, Stewart shows how it works for him. Unique tips on saving seeds.

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters. For extra free content or to become a patron please see us at https://www.patreon.com/FarmAYard

005 - Biodigesting Close to Home

Monday Jun 05, 2017

005 - Biodigesting Close to Home

with host Linda Borghi and guest Maria Blon

Maria Blon is a speaker, author and teacher who launched the “HEART in Haiti School” after the hurricane in 2010. Gardens and Moringa trees are grown at the school to teach the children how to grow and feed themselves. This oasis includes a biodigester. There is no garbage pick up in Haiti. Now with the biodigester to process all their garbage, they also generate energy for the school.

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters. For extra free content or to become a patron please see us at https://www.patreon.com/FarmAYard

004 - Evolution of Organic Standards & America’s Urban Farming Movement

Monday May 29, 2017

004 - Evolution of Organic Standards & America’s Urban Farming Movement

with host Linda Borghi and guest Liana Hoodes

Liana is an expert in America’s food history and the importance of being an advocate for organic standards. We all need to take personal responsibility for the sustainability and safety of our food supply. Learn from the Cuban crisis and their shift to urban farming for their survival. America’s urban farming movement is vital for food security.

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Liana Hoodes’ Bio

Liana Hoodes has worked since 1994 on a wide range of organic and sustainable agriculture policy issues, and is currently Policy Advisor to the Northeast Organic Farming Association – New York, and the National Organic Coalition where she was the Executive Director from 2003 until 2015. She has worked extensively on Farm Bills, annual appropriations, as well as on the implementation of the Organic Foods Production Act at the USDA National Organic Program and on organic standards at the National Organic Standards Board. She currently works on a variety of federal, state and local policy issues to support and advance organic and sustainable food and agriculture.

Liana was the organic policy coordinator for the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture from 1994 through 2006, where she was the facilitator of the successful effort (led by many organizations) to garner hundreds of thousands of comments to repeal and re-write the first organic regulation.

Prior to that she was the founding Director of Orange Environment, a local environmental advocacy organization in Orange County, NY, and also worked for a law firm specializing in civil rights and environmental law. In 2001 Liana co-founded the Pine Bush Farmers Market to support agriculture in the Pine Bush region, as well as to promote downtown economic development in the hamlet.

Liana grows organic food and lives with her family in Ulster County, New York.

Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan. Used with permission.

Monday May 22, 2017

003 - Save Our Soil

Monday May 22, 2017

003 - Save Our Soil

with host Linda Borghi and Farm-A-Yard founder Evan Folds

Transform the way you think about the soil under your feet to seriously revolutionize your growing results.

Evan Folds, the “Soil Doctor” as we call him, does not give standard soil advice but shares proven methods that unleash soil regeneration. Evan is a Farm-A-Yard co-founder, owner of Progressive Farms & manufacturer of the Microbe Maker compost tea system, and his passion about nurturing microbes, healing the Earth through carbon sequestering, producing nutrient dense food, advocating for personal agriculture, and healing people through vibrant local food economies will change your focus from the stem to the soil.

Through his consulting work, Evan has developed BioEnergetic Agriculture, which seeks to increase the life force of living systems through physical, mineral, biological, and energetic influence.

Favorite Quote

“…our food is not nourishing us to allow the expression of our humanity.” -- Evan Folds

1:00 - Linda introduces Evan Folds, owner of Progressive Farms and shares how they met.

5:50 - Evan Folds talks about regenerative agriculture and what biodynamic/BioEnergetic methods are all about.

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters.

For extra free content or to become a patron please see us at https://www.patreon.com/FarmAYard

002 - Biodynamics, Demystified Part 2

Monday May 15, 2017

002 - Biodynamics, Demystified Part 2

with host Linda Borghi and guest Abby Porter

Abby Porter from the Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics shares the history of Biodynamics, organics and the relationship between Rudolph Steiner & Dr. Pfeiffer, a scientist, who proved the the science behind biodynamics. The establishing of Demeter, the international biodynamic certification organization. Abby also talks about her mother Josephine Porter’s history in the making of the biodynamic preparations.

Get Part 1: http://farm-a-yard.com/p002-1

This podcast is made possible by funding by our Patreon supporters.

For extra free content or to become a patron please see us at https://www.patreon.com/FarmAYard

The Farm-A-Yard Podcast

Episodes

011 - Farming Intentionally

011 - Farming Intentionally

Links:

010 - The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

010 - The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

Links:

009 - Time For Food Ownership: Germinating the Neighborhood With Food!

009 - Time For Food Ownership: Germinating the Neighborhood With Food!

Links:

008 - Rant on Grass: "No more excuses: You’re Just One Seed Away!”

008 - Rant on Grass: "No more excuses: You’re Just One Seed Away!”

Links:

007 - Miraculous Mycelia

007 - Miraculous Mycelia

Links:

006 - Biodynamics…It's What's for Dinner

006 - Biodynamics…It's What's for Dinner

Links:

005 - Biodigesting Close to Home

005 - Biodigesting Close to Home

Links:

004 - Evolution of Organic Standards & America’s Urban Farming Movement

004 - Evolution of Organic Standards & America’s Urban Farming Movement

Links:

Liana Hoodes’ Bio

003 - Save Our Soil

003 - Save Our Soil

Favorite Quote

Links:

002 - Biodynamics, Demystified Part 2

002 - Biodynamics, Demystified Part 2

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