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Judith Schwartz

Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

Could it be that the answers to some of our most challenging global problems involve neither advanced technologies nor the lion’s share of our national treasuries, but the humble layer of soil beneath our feet?

In Cows Save the Planet, Schwartz responds with an informed and enthusiastic “yes.” The problem, however, is that we’re losing topsoil somewhere between ten—in the United States—and forty—in China and India—times faster than we’re regenerating it. Schwartz illustrates how focusing on soil restoration will allow us to chip away at the seemingly insurmountable problems we currently face.

As for the title, Judy maintains that cows get a bad rap: “[T]he common assumption today is that cattle are ecological bad news due to overgrazing and the methane they emit as a result of their digestive process. Cattle (and other grass-eating animals) do have an effect on the environment–but how they’re managed determines whether the impact is destructive or beneficial.” She explains in this interview

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Daphne Miller, MD

Author of Farmacology: What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health and Healing

Daphne Miller, practicing physician and author of The Jungle Effect , draws from the lessons of organic farming to offer a fascinating and completely novel approach to staying well and preventing disease.

What can farming teach a family doctor about the art and science of medicine? Nothing less than a revolutionary new way of thinking about health and well-being—an approach to wellness, holistic healing, and sustainable good health.

Spending time with a diverse group of farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, Dr. Miller acquired a new understanding of good health, practices she applies to her patients suffering common modern maladies, from allergies, diabetes, and cancer, to ADHD, infertility, and heart disease.Daphne Miller, MD is a family physician, writer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. In 2000 she founded WholefamilyMD, San Francisco’s first integrative primary care practice, where she still cares for patients across the lifespan.

Part clinician, part ecologist, and part anthropologist, Miller approaches medicine with the idea that opportunities for health and healing are found not only in the medical system but in such unexpected places as home kitchens, school gardens, community organizations, spiritual centers, farms, and nature trails. Throughout her career, her teaching, writing, and advocacy work has reflected this perspective.

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dr daphone miller, farmacology and our health, april 23, 2013
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Evan Folds

Founder and President of Progress Earth, Progressive Gardens and A Natural Approach

“When a human decides how a natural system should grow, it usually gets screwed up” – Evan Folds

Folds believes that farming and producing nutrient dense living food are the foundation on which we can build a reasonable and responsible society for the future.

“We must produce more and consume less”, says Folds. “We’re experimenting on ourselves with deliberate public policies such as water fluoridation, USDA subsidies, genetically modified crops and animals (GMO), and so much more. We know better than this, so let’s change it.”

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Organic Gardening, Hydroponics, Indoor Growing, Composting, Water and More!

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evan folds and bio dynamic gardening, march 7, 2013

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Eric Toensmeier

Paradise Lot

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.

In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Eric Toensmeier has spent twenty years exploring edible and useful plants of the world and their use in perennial agroecosystems. He is the author of Perennial Vegetables and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke. Both books have received multiple awards, including the American Horticultural Society Garden Book of the Year and ForeWord Magazine Home and Garden Gold Medal Book of the Year Award, Garden Writer’s Association Silver Medal and American Library Association Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Learn more about Eric’s permaculture books and articles.

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eric toensmeier, growing lots of food at home, march 5, 2013
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JB Slear

Hydoponic Gardening with MyGroPonics

“MyGroPonics” started as just a simple hydroponic gardening system for people who didn’t have enough space or land to grow the fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs that they were craving. It also had the added benefits of using less water, less time, and being easier on your back than conventional gardening.

MyGroPonics is the brain-child of J.B. Slear who began experimenting in advanced hydroponics as a hobby while living in Southern California. “Gardening is something I’ve always enjoyed,” explained J.B. recently. “The problem was that until I came up with the MyGroPonics System, I couldn’t get my landlord to let me put in a garden. With MyGroPonics, I own the whole garden!”

Show Highlights:

-JB shares the joys of roasting his own coffee beans and how you can too very easily

-JB, the investor. JB, the prepper

-What is hydroponics

-Harvesting 300lbs of tomatoes from 3 plants. Yes, you read that right!

-Setting up your hydroponic garden on your balcony, terrace or even in a window

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jb slear, mygrowponics ebook available now, february 18, 2013

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Kathy Bero

Founder of NuGenesis Farm and Stage 4 Inflammatory Breast Cancer  Survivor

“While battling stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer, infiltrating ductal carcinoma and a high-grade tumor in my head and neck, a dear friend introduced me to the term “anti-angiogenesis,” says Kathy Bero.

After reading scores of research pages and talking at length with scientists and doctors, she began to understand the true role food could play in directly impacting her ability to prevent cancer from re-entering her life. As she began discussing what she had learned with her healthcare providers, she realized this research was not widely understood. This became the impetus for the creation of NuGenesis Farm.

Bero, founder of NuGenesis Farm, Inc., in Pewaukee, says she needs no science-based evidence to know that angiogenesis-based medicine and angiogenic-inhibiting foods were major factors in the remission of the three aggressive forms of cancer – stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer, infiltrating ductal carcinoma, and a high-grade tumor in her head and neck—that threatened her life six years ago.

What Is Angiogenesis?

Angiogenesis is the body’s natural process of growing new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels. It’s a system that is vital for growth, development and healing, and the body controls it by producing a precise balance of growth and inhibitory factors in healthy tissues. An imbalance of angiogenesis—insufficient or excessive growth of blood vessels—is recognized by the medical community as a common denominator underlying health challenges including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, some skin diseases, age-related blindness, diabetic ulcers and stroke, among others. The list of diseases that may have angiogenesis as an underlying mechanism grows longer every year.(Read Entire Article)

NuGenesis Farm creates a model of education, sustainable organic agriculture and research that can be replicated worldwide, teaching you how to choose and prepare foods and why those choices help you live your best life. NuGenesis also offers information on foods that impact disease prevention and promote healing.

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Ellen LaConte

Author of Life Rules

Acting Director of the EarthWalk Alliance and Contributing Editor to Green Horizon Magazine

Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Life Rules offers a comprehensive analysis of our present circumstances combined with a treatment protocol for restoring health to human and natural communities.

Predicting that Life will last but, if we don’t make some fundamental changes, life as we know it—and a lot of us—won’t, Life Rules identifies natural laws that have allowed non-human communities to thrive and prosper for several billion years, including:

•Local self-reliance

•Mutual interdependence

•Reliance on non-fossil sources of energy

•Resource conservation, sharing and recycling

•Co-operation and co-intelligence

•Radically democratic self-organization and governance.

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 ellen laconte, living with our natural systems, january 22, 2013

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George Altgelt

Biologist, Soil & Gardening Expert

George studied Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas, Austin and started Austin’s first organic nursery in 1971 before organic was cool. He has considerable knowledge in all areas of food production, including the proper care and feeding of animals for food. He has a deep understanding of the principals of agriculture and nutrition. We think you’ll find George a delight to spend time with.

Show Highlights:

-Gardening with mineral rich soil, high in humus

-Start your garden now in pots

-Keeping pill bugs at bay by starting your seedlings in pots

-The importance of using a plant guide for your planting dates

-What is an ANDI score?

-The importance of buying open pollunated seeds

-Taste has everything to do with trace minerals

-Why should you become a member of Seed Savers?

-Soaking your seeds in seaweed extract before planting

and so much more!

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george altgelt, starting your garden now, january 21, 2013
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Deb Tolman, Ph.D

Keyhole Gardening

Small space for a garden?   This is for you

Debbie Tolman holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences/Resources and Geography from Portland State University. With over thirty years experience in academic research and landscape design, she also has extensive training in plant nutrition, economics, and environmental education. She is currently owner of Avant Gardens, a multi-purpose business with the mission of developing sustainable approaches to landscaping, education, and building practices. Based in Clifton, Texas, Debbie balances her time between research, education, writing, and sustainable community outreach. In her spare time, you can find her in her own garden!

In this interview, Deb Tolman explains how to build your super duper food producing keyhole garden.

Show Highlights:

-The role of worms and why they are so important. How to invite more worms into your garden space

-Making soil from cardboard, newspapers, phone books, saw dust and other throw away, yet compostable materials

-How to layer your brown and green materials

-Watering a keyhole garden and why these gardens are especially nice for areas with less rainfall

-Food yields

and so much more. Fascinating information!

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deb tolman, keyhole gardening, january 15, 2013

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Paul Wheaton

The Duke of Permaculture

Paul Wheaton is is the tyrannical ruler of two on-line communities. One is about permaculture and one is about software engineering. There is even one for Missoula. Paul has written several permacutlure articles starting with one on lawn care that he presented at the MUD Project 17 years ago, including articles on raising chickens, cast iron and diatomaceous earth. Paul also regularly uploads permaculture videos and permaculture podcasts. In his spare time, Paul has plans for world domination and is currently shopping for a hollowed out volcano in the Missoula area, with good submarine access.

We were introduced to this delightfully funny and passionate man who is “bonkers for permaculture” as he says, through our recent guest, Anthony Anderson. And WOW! are we glad to know him. Fasten your seat belts folks for a wild ride with this guy. We never knew sustainability could be so fun. There’s a boatload of information here. And remember to bookmark his websites after you hear the podcasts as you may want to visit as often as we do!!

http://www.permies.com/

http://www.richsoil.com/

http://www.makeitmissoula.com/blogs/paul-wheaton/

http://www.youtube.com/user/paulwheaton12

paul wheaton, permaculutre, january 8, 2012

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