This is the second of a series we will be doing on Korean Natural Farming this year with Eric Weinert, and more episodes will be up over the next couple months intermittently with other content. Eric is currently heading back to Korea, and we will learn more from him when he returns soon. He is Korean Natural Farming expert, author and natural farming activist based out of Hawaii. On this episode we discuss the history and future of Korean Natural Farming and the current state within the evoluti...
Oct 19, 2019•24 min
Today we catch up with Eric Weinert who was on the podcast about a year ago. He is a Korean Natural Farming expert, author, and natural farming activist based out of Hawaii. He reviews the KNF philosophy, how to stimulate and grow indigenous microorganism in your own soil, and we go over the vital solutions that are cheaply and easily made in any environment for farming and landscaping using the KNF methods. Eric also shares more of his backstory and explains some of the reasons Korean Natural F...
Oct 10, 2019•37 min
A couple months ago during my greenhouse visit at Growing Opportunities Hydroponics Farm, I learned about a new technology company, UbiQD (pronounced like ubiquity) with an amazing new product that greatly increases greenhouse yields. Since they are located about 30 minutes from Santa Fe where I live, I reached out to them to set up a little tour and to learn more about their research and what special material they are producing. I really enjoyed seeing their materials up close, taking a peek in...
Sep 15, 2019•19 min
Today we meet a local backyard homesteader who shares his wisdom with us from over 10 years of natural farming in downtown Albuquerque. Sam Lopez has created an amazing and flourishing oasis in this desert city. In our chat, we cover a lot of ground such as keeping laying hens and rabbits in your back yard, raised bed gardens, composting systems, a special kind of beehive called the Warre Hive, his no-till farming practices that support the soil food web, methods he uses to make compost that kee...
Aug 31, 2019•27 min
Today we meet Ed Williams, creator of the LEHR garden. LEHR is an acronym for the system he has created that includes elements of aquaponics, hugelkultur, composting, mushrooms, the soil food web and basically as many natural components as possible; he is an engineer after all! Ed is very interesting to listen to as he describes his backyard systems, shares his engineering wisdom and talks about the backyard farm system he has created from start to finish. Ed’s vision is for a more involved and ...
Aug 21, 2019•52 min
Today we meet mushroom educator and entrepreneur Wyatt Bryon. He talks about the development of his fungi-focused businesses, the opportunities that currently exist in the mushroom-related market, how he is preserving knowledge and research for future generations, and how he is incrementally moving towards zero waste within his business. Wyatt talks about how much easier it is to add mushroom cultivation to your farm business nowadays and all the resources that exist within the mushroom growing ...
Aug 09, 2019•56 min
This week I had the great pleasure of visiting with Kim Martin of Growing Opportunities Inc, a hydroponic farm focussed on tomatoes, located in Alcalde, New Mexico, about 30 minutes north of Santa Fe. Their business have been in operation for 20 years as hydroponic greenhouses, and they are now one of the largest in Northern New Mexic selling vine-ripened tomatoes. Kim gives us an overview of how their facilities are set up and monitored with specialized equipment, how pollination happens within...
Jul 29, 2019•27 min
Today we learn from landscape designer and consultant Pete Widin some of his principles of plant selection for an edible landscape beyond just the aesthetic, and his system of working with clients and implementing his version of edible meets native landscape design. We discuss ground cover options that are edible or herbal, research that’s going on to find plant combinations and plants from similar bioregions around the world to safely fit into a new environment. He talks about his larger farm-s...
Jul 16, 2019•28 min
Today we chat with Larry Hountz from City Hydro in Baltimore. He has a great story of starting out and created a business growing micro greens. He has looking at the economics of it while learning about what works and what doesn’t work for small indoor farmers. If you want to go to market with your produce or are curious about creating a local indoor growing operation to supply restaurants and kitchens with live microgreens, you may find this episode very interesting. Larry and his wife started ...
Jul 07, 2019•18 min
Today we visit with Sara Schuster who is an herbalist, homesteader and fellow podcaster based in Tennessee. Her podcast is called, Tending Seeds, Adventures in Homesteading and Herbalism. We discuss southern homesteading, how to get more involved with herbalism, foraging for herbs in your area even if you’re in a large city, planting in the woods to forage later, some widespread plants to you can forage for in most bioregions, and much much more.
Jun 29, 2019•38 min
Today we have a very special guest, speaker, writer, entrepreneur, citizen scientist, mycologist and so much more, William Padilla-Brown. He is a Contributing Editor for Fungi Magazine, and today we discuss his work with algae, and the five algae species that are most promising for cultivation and economic feasibility. William talks about algae and fungi as the premier organisms for ecosystem restoration and their relationship to each other, current algae research for algoremediation potential i...
Jun 19, 2019•25 min
Kim Sorvig, author of Sustainable Landscape Construction, A Guide to Green Building Outdoors catches us up with what’s going on with the sustainable landscape construction an design industry and where things might be moving in the future as we face ecological challenges. This episode was recorded at the Honeymoon Brewery in Santa Fe, New Mexico where we sampled their awesome alcoholic kombuchas.
Jun 12, 2019•37 min
Today we have the much anticipated episode with Melanie Kirby who you may have seen on instagram TV or in any of the short videos I shared on social media recently. We met at her land up in the mountain village called Truchas, New Mexico where she and her partner have their mother breeder colonies and sells queens bees from their business Zia Queenbees. She is a bee researcher testing out bees in different bioregions, while working on her graduate degree at the famed Washington State University ...
May 29, 2019•45 min
Dylan Martin is back to discuss some very interesting women involved in mycology today and what they are up to. He mentions his involvement with the Controlled Environment Agriculture Program at the trades and technology program at the Santa Fe Community College, raising money from a mushroom program and all the awesome research and activism projects he is spearheading. Dylan is taking his radical mycology to the next level by starting a Mycoflora Project in the unique bioregion in and around Ne...
May 21, 2019•25 min
Today we learn about observational beehives with Dan Long, Georgia Master Beekeeper, bee hobbyist since 1995, and serious beekeeper since 2011. He is a father of six and lives in Athens, Georgia where he is owner of a nursery specializing in clematis. Dan talks about the different types of observational hives and the people who build these small movable hives to bring along to the farmers market or to educational venues. We learn about his favorite type of observational hive that fits right onto...
May 13, 2019•16 min
This is the second part of the interview with Matt Ladegaard where we talk about the basics of plant breeding and adaptations, seed saving and plant genetics. We also talk about the local food scene here in Santa Fe, New Mexico and how the distribution happens from farm to table. Matt also tells us a bit more about the experience of being a market gardener and running the business side of things. You can meet Matt at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on Saturdays and Tuesdays.
Apr 25, 2019•15 min
Today we have a very special guest, Steve Raisner, of the Growing with Fishes Podcast and the Potent Ponics Youtube station. He is an extremely knowledgable guy and the type of person who is always gaining more knowledge and evolving his practices based on what he learns. he is a legitimate scientist and researcher. We discuss dual root zone planting for cannabis for greater terpene production and terpene variety and also much faster and stronger plant growth. The benefits are huge and he talks ...
Apr 11, 2019•39 min
Today we meet Matt Ladegaard, a market gardener, entrepreneur and marketeer, founder of Groundstone Farm in Pojoaque NM, just north of Santa Fe where he sells retail at the Santa Fe Farmers Market and wholesale via Squash Blossom Local Food and La Montanita Coop. He went to school for sustainable agriculture and has worked at several farms around the country over the last decade. We cover what it’s like to be a market farmer, an overview of the the thriving Santa Fe farmers market community, how...
Apr 01, 2019•23 min
Today we have a very interesting and information-packed episode with Ayla Bystrom-Williams founder of the Honeymoon Brewery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and her partner James Hill, head brewer of Honeymoon Brewery. They tell the origin story of their new brewery that is focussed on alcoholic kombucha brewed in one of the most pristine environments in the country at the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains. First off, they share their entrepreneurial experiences, the barriers they had to overc...
Mar 09, 2019•33 min
Today we meet Adrienne Rosenberg, documentarian and Memphis native turned Northern New Mexican. We learn about pollinator insects, creating a pollinator refuge on your land, no matter how small, some of the very interesting history of acequias, the agricultural waterways and the water rights system that the Spaniards brought to New Mexico several hundred years ago, and the socio-cultural environment and history around managing these community water resources. Adrienne understands the profound co...
Feb 22, 2019•25 min
This is episode #33 of the Get in My Garden Podcast. Permaculture expert and New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program consultant Bradley Babb discusses his recent trip back home to the island of Barbados, the current state of permaculture and recycling on the island, what he noticed after nearly 20 years away, and some great ideas on how to educate the citizens and start solving some of the ecological and social issues the island is facing.
Feb 11, 2019•18 min
This is episode 32 of the Get in My Garden Podcast. Today we visit again with Jon Romens, owner of Future Roots Regenerative Landscapes based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He answers our questions about trees, weeds and what to do in winter, and how to build soil and continue to think about our gardens and landscaping during the winter months. John introduces the idea of a different tree-focussed perennial agriculture model to feed ourselves and our farm animals, how to use trees to stop erosion and ...
Jan 28, 2019•31 min
This is episode 31, and we have Korean Natural Farming and Soil Food Web expert Eric Weinert calling in from Hawaii where he is a farming activist and former candidate for State House of Representatives. He has over a decade of hands on experience in the methods of Korean Natural Farming. We talk about what Korean Natural Farming is and how to foster indigenous microbial life, how to feed your natural habit and foster a state of balance. We discuss what Eric has discovered over several years of ...
Jan 21, 2019•19 min
We are back with Dylan Martin, Vice President of the New Mexico Mycological Society to discuss recent results of research into how bees are naturally using fungi to increase their immunity, ways we may soon be able to help our local bee populations with fungi, and what this means for us humans.
Jan 06, 2019•24 min
Here on earth, the soil food web is of great interest for farmers and gardeners, and so much research has happened over the last several decades to better understand microbes and their subterainean ecosystems. In fact, the underground biosphere is basically twice as big as Earth’s oceans and contains some 23 billion tons of organisms. The Deep Carbon Observatory calls it the subterranean Galapagos. The DCO is a collaboration of around 1,000 scientists studying “deep Earth” ecosystems. According ...
Dec 18, 2018•7 min
In this episode, Dylan Martin tells us about the benefits of being involved with your local Mycological Society, some great events that have been hosted by the New Mexico branch, details about the mycoremediation hearing in Los Alamos, New Mexico and about other interesting mycology activism and research we need to follow. And lastly, if mushrooms are so good at sucking up toxins from the environment, I ask Dylan if we should we be worried the the mushrooms we consume my have high levels of heav...
Dec 10, 2018•9 min
Today we learn about the rewilding philosophy. There are very few people with the level of sincerity of next guest. He has a great back story and he calls himself Maximilian LionMan. Maximillian discusses the rewilding philosophy, the movement he is a part of to honor our ancient human ancestors, their wisdom and their connection to the earth. We talk about the trajectory of modern man and ways we can lead more connected lives, no matter where we live. Maximilian shares how to use the rewilding ...
Dec 07, 2018•23 min
Dylan Martin is back to talk growing mushrooms at home as a beginner, and the progression from simple to more advanced methods. Growing mushrooms is so easy, and once you get started, it can become addictive. Dylan and I met on a busy weekend morning at a downtown coffee shop to chat about backyard and inside growing of fungi.
Dec 01, 2018•18 min
Hi Everyone, This is Episode 25 of the Get in My Garden Podcast, a chat with Radical Mycologist, Dylan Martin about Mycology, Mushroom Tech and the Frontier of Mycology. It has been a while since the last episode, as I have been consumed my my work at the farmers markets, planning my new soil health business and researching desperately needed new sound equipment for this podcast. The focus has always been to feature local experts, hobbyists and successful small business creators who work with th...
Sep 21, 2018•36 min
Today we revisit with Kelly McCracken of High Desert Orchids who was on the podcast several months ago when she was launching her online plant business. We talk about the evolution of her business, her very unique strategy she is using on facebook, and how she is successfully engaging and educating her customer via facebook groups and weekly live streams of her unique orchid plants. If you are interested in online marketing of your hobby and turning it into a successful business, you will be ins...
Aug 02, 2018•34 min
