What inspired you from season 1 of the Seed Growers Podcast? Here are all the seed growers featured in season 1 of the Seed Growers podcast: • Adrianna Moreno and Joelene Jebbia of Empowered Flowers • Marie-Claude Comeau of Ferme La Radicule • Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm • Annie Jesperson and Nathaniel Talbot of … More The complete Seed Growers Podcast season 1 lineup
Chris and Owen are the founders of Truelove Seeds in Philadelphia. A farm-based seed company offering culturally important seeds grown by more than 70 small-scale urban and rural farmers. Chris is also.a market grower, seed keeper and educator at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden. In this episode Chris and Owen discuss their seed stories … More The seed growers podcast episode 10 – Chris Bolden-Newsome and Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds?
Robin grows vegetables and seeds in Metchosin, British Columbia. Robin is also one of the co-owners of Saanich Organics – a collective of 3 farmers that run a veggie box program and seed company. In this episode Robin talks about how she selects plants from her 10 acre vegetable farm and transplants them to a … More The seed growers podcast episode 9 – Robin Tunnicliffe of Sea Bluff Farm
Liz Martin and Matthew Glenn farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. They grow vegetables for CSA and market and every year they grow a handful of seed crops on contract to seed companies. In this episode Liz and Matthew talk about how they started saving seeds hoping to improve some crop … More The seed growers podcast episode 8 – Liz and Matthew of Muddy Fingers Farm?
Frank Morton is a seed grower outside of Philomath, Oregon. Frank runs Wild Garden Seeds with his wife Karen and the help of Victor Sauvie and Mark Luterra. They sell seed retail through a print catalog and online store, and sell seed wholesale to seed companies. We had a pretty long conversation so I’ve broken … More The seed growers podcast episode 7 – Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed?
Helen Skiba gets into saving Bupleurum seed and Dahlia tubers in episode 6 of The Seed Growers Podcast. Here are some of the highlights of the bupleurum seed conversation: • Planting schedules • Plant spacing • When seed is mature • Harvesting gradually through the season • Threshing and winnowing • Farm saved bupleurum seed … More Saving bupleurum seed and dahlia tubers
Helen Skiba is a flower farmer outside of Boulder, Colorado who sells her fresh flowers through farmers markets, weddings, wholesale and a flower CSA. Helen also sells dahlia tubers and dutch flower bulbs through her website. In this episode Helen talks about how she integrates saving seed into a cut flower farm for on farm … More The seed growers podcast episode 6 – Helen Skiba of Artemis Flower Farm
Rowen White talks about corn and squash seed keeping in episode 5 of The Seed Growers Podcast. Here are some of the highlights of the corn conversation: • Isolating corn in time and space to avoid cross pollination • Differences in growing corn for stock seed vs bulk seed • Evaluating small corn lots to … More How to grow corn and squash for seed
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. Rowen grows seeds outside of Nevada City in California. In this episode Rowen talks about stock seed improvement to offset the impact of genetic drift to select culturally and bio-regionally relevant … More The seed growers podcast episode 5 – Rowen White of Sierra Seeds
Annie Jesperson and Nathaniel Talbot of of Deep Harvest Farm grow vegetables and seeds on Whidbey Island in Washington. In this episode, Annie and Nathaniel talk about how they run a CSA basket program in addition to a seed company – and how they love having both businesses to balance out the seasonal workload and … More The seed growers podcast episode 4 – Annie and Nathaniel of Deep Harvest Farm?