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Where the food is the by-product and the product is the relationship and learning that students get from working on the farm and growing lettuce and you get to eat the lettuce that is grown. So cultivating connections is basically the farm classroom and people can be on the farm and interact with animals through a seasonal way. 

Salads for Seniors

High schoolers who are hired as interns to learn how to be engaged in the kitchen by growing the lettuce, harvesting it, bringing it into the kitchen to clean it, make the salads that are delivered to meals on wheels.

Funding? 

Tricky for non-profits. If Laura had her way there would be non-profits, for profits and community profits. Now they raise money through grants, weekly CSA shares, and other fundraising projects. 

CSA shares support upcoming farmers. $500 goes to help create a future for everyone.

Where do high schoolers come from? Local or are there places to stay?

Youth farm internships are focused on local high schoolers. Also have adult interns who come from all over and stay on farm but wanted to focus more on local students.

First garden experience. Grew up outside of Butte?

Remembers a 2nd grade classmate brought a queen bee and was fascinated with rural life. Mom had a small garden full of tomatoes and raspberries. First thing remembered planting was pine trees around her house in town. Went to UMT and was in first year of PEAS program.

Next summer started managing one of the community gardens and that was her first foray into growing 10 zucchinis instead of 1 and first experience into working with youth. Took 10 plots to grow for Food Bank. How to engage young people in a way that is meaningful for everyone.

Do you want to tell us about social presencing theater and what's social presencing soil?

Ways to engage people. The presencing institute was created by Arawana Hayashi.

What grew well this year?

Community - food and farming are the universal connector. At the farmer's market two people who would usually never talk to each other standing talking about spinach and how they prepared it last week. 

What literally grew well last year was the kale. Grows well in all kinds of weather. So good for you. Hope people can grow kale. Also a good community builder and people have their assumptions about kale and so they get people talking to each other.

JackieMarie - 2 things, I got to go to the Missoula market, 2xs last year and it was so peaceful talking to the vendors, standing in line getting coffee, exactly talking talking to compost guy and the pepper guy and the vendors so smiling.

2nd - my kale was awful last year. I actually put row cover and forgot 2xs and it was worse than ever. 

Kale is a really good indicator species for us. We had tons of aphids last year and the year before. Kale is a really good indicator of stress in the environment. Row cover is a great way to protect it. A great way to stay ahead of kale is to have multiple crops. Maybe every 3 weeks planting kale in different places. For a family of 4 you could get buy with just 4 plants. If you can transplant a few plants in April and then late May, and June. Pull the bugs off the ones that are infested. Also if you can enjoy on off season. Plant in late summer. 5 leaf stage

Tuesday • March 15, 2022

Here from Missouri is an amazing beekeeper, gardener, and author, CHARLOTTE EKKER WIGGINS!

Has lots of checklists to help you get started.

Master Beekeeper class is using her next book Bees Need Flowers, Planting for Pollinators coming out soon.

Tips include:

• reading a lot. 
• Join a bee club because it's like learning a new language.
• Beekeeping is very local
• Need to know bee biology to work with bees not tell them what to do
• Spend a year learning about beekeeping by taking 1 or more classes, reading, meeting other beekeepers.

Bees are colony based, not self centered like humans. Bees sometimes leave because they don't want to spread disease to the hive.

Jackie asks what if you can't find a club? 

Thanks to the pandemic lots of clubs are meeting on Zoom like Bees Beyond Borders in Florida have guest speakers from leading bee experts in the country.

The critical part of providing bees is your SOIL HAS TO BE HEALTHY!

Need to keep soil healthy which will keep plants healthy and then bees will be healthy and food we eat will be healthy.

• Composting is the easiest thing to do.
• Mulch with compost.
• Lots of bird houses for natural pest control

I'm the same way. There's so many garden chores I don't want to do but compost is so easy! I don't understand people who say it's too hard, messy or complicated.

Charlotte adds we need to move away from perfection. In the old days, magazines used to really focus on green lawns. Common sense says it's expensive to put in, you need to put in high expensive fertilizers, the minute it grows you cut it down and it doesn't really add anything to the environment.

A bug bite on a rose leaf is exciting it means there's a relationship between ladybugs and praying mantis etc who are eating the pests in the garden because they need food so a whole in a leaf is important for the rose to grow.

What grew well? 

Catnip

What's something new or different your excited to try?

Some Baker Creek Co Seeds.https://www.rareseeds.com/

Some flowers and peppers that were ordered.

I like the tried and true. 

Do you save your own seeds?

I just tried spaghetti squash and loved it so I saved those. I also do companion planting. I plant onions around my roses to deter bugs and if I need an onion. I mix my vegetables and flowers, I don't have them in rows, I plant them in with my flowers because I can move them around each year so they're not planted in the same soil and using up all the nutrients and the pollinators are attracted by the flowers. 

How about something that didn't go the way you thought is was going to?

My least favorite thing is to dig holes, I didn't get as much mulch as I would have liked in some new flower beds, and I planted...

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Here's the link to Susan's gutter peas video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCf51pinA0Q

Salsa recipe

https://www.susansinthegarden.com/2020/09/homemade-salsa/

https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/episode-809-in-susans-garden/

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Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

Champlain Orchards started out 20 years ago with Bill delivering apples out of the trunk of his car. You will be truly inspired by his amazing journey to full time farmer and entrepreneur who provides green jobs and hope for his family. Are you ready for drones picking your apples?

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So, I just finished watching Jane Fonda Firedrill Friday and then Sunrise Movement sent me a host a "Good Jobs for All" Campaign Kickoff Party! And so I said, OK, I'll do it.

Besides everyone says how fun it is to have a zoom meet so I thought how fun would it be just to get to visit with a few listeners. Even if there's just two of us.

I'll bring a door prize or two. We can make a fun mocktail/cocktail? Got any favorites? My step-kids make some delicious mint mojitos.

It's Thursday next week, March 4th at 6pm MST. I'd love to have you join me and let's get this Green New Deal off the ground together.

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Just me rambling a bit about what's growing, what's new and a possible 2021 challenge.

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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden: Planting and Tending Small Fruit Trees and Berries in Gardens and Containers

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Gardening for Geeks: All the Science You Need for Successful Organic Gardening (CompanionHouse Books) Step-by-Step Processes with Diagrams, Expert Tips, & Nerdy Details on Soil Biology, Botany, & More

Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden: Planting and Tending Small Fruit Trees and Berries in Gardens and Containers

Christy's Recommended book

Welcome to the Green Organic Garden Podcast. It is Friday, December 4th, 2020. Although it's probably 2021 when you're hearing this. Cause we are in season three. I have an amazing guest on the line. I've been trying to book her on the show since I very first started. She's the gardenerd from California. Here's Christy Wilhelmi. So welcome to the show Christy.

8m 45s

Christy Wilhelmi

Thank you. I'm happy to be here.

8m 47s

JackieMarie Beyer

Well, go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself.

8m 51s

Christy Wilhelmi

Well, I am a Southern California native and I, I garden here year round in my backyard in Los Angeles. And I have a community garden plot as well. That's a small space. So naturally that's where I started. And I, I, I have this small space that made me learn how to grow biointensive intensively. So that's what I specialize in small space. Bio-intensive organic vegetable gardening and I have three books. Well, I have four, but one's not coming out for another year, but I'll tell you about the three that I have. So gardening for geeks is my primary gardening book. It's the, you know, soup to nuts, learn how to garden from scratch in a test way.

9m 38s

Christy Wilhelmi

And then I have a ebook that is a compilation of the first 10 years of my garden nerd tip of the week podcast. And now the newest book I have that's coming out in March, which you can pre-order now is called grow your own mini fruit garden. And it is the fruit companion to small space growing to the, to the vegetable gardening book that I have. So that's kind of sums it up for me. And then I just got a book deal with William Morrow slash Harper Collins for a...