Get In My Garden

Episode #83, Mental Health and Gardening, with Jordan Mara of Mind & Soil

Today we meet Jordan Mara of Mind and Soil. He will discuss his company mission, how gardening can be one of the best activities for our mental health, some of the resear

Episode #82, How Microbes Negotiate within Soil, with Judy Fitzpatrick

This is the second part of the interview with Judy Fitzpatrick of Microbiometer. Today we deep dive into microbiology and the workings of the microbial marketplace. We

Episode #81, Soil Testing For Microbes with Judy Fitzpatrick

Today we meet Judy Fitzpatrick, cofounder of Microbiometer.  The first few minutes of this episode, Judy shares her back story, her history in medical diagnostics and th

Episode #80, Repairing our Food System and Soil, with Leo Horrigan

Today we meet Leo Horrigan, a documentary filmmaker with the Center for a Livable Future at John’s Hopkins University. He is helping us understand the food system from fa

Episode #79, Hemp as Animal Feed, with Hunter Buffington

Today we meet Hunter Buffington, Executive Director of the Hemp Feed Coalition. We talk hemp as an animal feed, why it isn’t legal for animal feed yet, some of the roadbl

Episode #78, Looking into Soil, Microscope Lifestyle with Nina Folch

This is the second half of the interview with Nina Folch of Compost Santo. She shares about why she likes composting in the winter, how she looks at microbes in the micro

Episode #77, Business of Biologically Active Compost with Nina Folch of Compost Santo

Today we meet Nina Folch of Compost Santo located in Northern New Mexico. She is a student of the work of Dr. Elaine Ingham and others, and I’m so grateful to her for sha

Episode #76, Nature Will Save Our Kids, with Jenny Bailey

I’ve been wanting to have an show for a while about the benefits of getting children back into nature. I recently read, Last Child In the Woods, now a classic book from 1

Episode #75, Vermicomposting and Getting Started in Composting, with John Craig

This is Episode 75 with John Craig the master composter who runs grassroots nonprofit, We Compost, located inside the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park at Irvine, Calif

Episode #74, BioChar with Tom Marrero

Today we learn from Tom Marrero of Wakefield BioChar. He shares the background and history of biochar, plus the research and background that led him to start his family b

Episode #73, Holistic Landscapes and Edible Design with Jennifer Lauruol

Today Jennifer Lauruol will tell us about the ecologically-minded area of Lancaster England where she lives and some of the community and research programs they have ther

Episode #72, Woniya Thibeault Teaches Ancestral Skills, Discusses Buckskin Revolution and Tuning Into Our Environments

You are listening to Episode 72 of the Get In My Garden Podcast. Woniya was runner up on the survivalist show Alone, Season 6, where she survived two and a half months i

Episode #71, Beer-Kashi Business and Fungal Dominant Soil Creation with Kyle Perry

Today we meet my new friend Kyle Perry, second generation horticulturist and regenerative farmer based in Tennessee. We discuss his two new businesses, Beer Kashi and Nat

Episode #70, Cannabis Micro-Business and Mind-Expansion Lifestyle with Mushroom Activist, Elton Ray James

Today we meet Elton Ray James, cannabis grower and lifelong mushroom activist, co-creator with his wife of the largest mushroom growing group on Facebook. He shares how

Episode #69, Locally Adapted Microbes, KNF Methods and Community Outreach with Marco Thomas

This is Part 2 of my chat with natural farmer and community activist Marco Thomas in Petersburg, Virginia. We talk more about the IMO solutions, Korean Natural Farming pr

Episode #68, Harvesting Local Microbes For Garden with Marco Thomas

Today we learn more about Korean Natural Farming and making indigineous microorganism solution from Marco Thomas an urban gardener and natural farmer based in Virginia. H

Episode #67, Mushroom DNA Sequencing and Breeding with William Padilla Brown

We are back with William Padilla-Brown discussing how to grow mushrooms in a hugelkultur mound, how a myco-focused permaculture lifestyle has benefitted his young son, an

Episode #66, Making Business Out of Soil, Soil Food Web and Microbes

This is the third segment with Casey Ernst and Keisha Wheeler of Catalyst BioAmendments, a composting and soil company they run with business partners, Zach Ellis and Gre

Episode #65, Bootstrap Market Gardening and Strategy with Steve Abbott

This is Episode #65 of the Get In My Garden Podcast, and today we are back with Steve Abbott of Abbott’s Family Farm discussing considerations when getting started as a m

Episode #64, Hugelkultur Gardening and Spirulina Cultivation with William Padilla-Brown

This is Episode #64, and today we’re back with William Padilla-Brown who was on the podcast last year sharing about edible algae, and today he shares about how he has set