Best Kevin Gallagher Wpkn Podcasts (2025)

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Professor Naomi Oreskes - Remembering Pope Francis & Barry Kresch President of the EV Club of CT. 55:52

2d ago55:52

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We pay our respects to the passing of Pope Francis, who followed in the footsteps of his name sake St. Francis of Assisi, honoring the planet earth and all its creatures. In 2015 he wrote it in encyclical about this and the introduction was by none other than my guest Professor Naomi Oreskes. Professor Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of…

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Chuck Collins - Climate Accountability Research Project plus Julie Tighe - New York League of Conservation voters 55:12

8d ago55:12

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Chuck Collins , co-founder of the Climate Accountability Research Project. He’s a researcher and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he coedits Inequality.org. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and the Planet. He is also a major force beh…

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Professor Michael E. Mann & Bruce Redman Becker 53:18

22d ago53:18

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Professor Mann is a scientist and author. He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. And Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media. He is Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action. He has contributed our understanding of the science behind o…

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Bruce Redman Becker - The Marcel Hotel 31:05

23d ago31:05

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Bruce Becker is President of Becker + Becker, an integrated sustainable architecture and development firm in Westport, Connecticut. Bruce designs buildings that have a transformative social and environmental value. Bruce has transformed the Armstrong Rubber Company Building in New Haven into the Marcel hotel, the country’s first fossil-fuel free ho…

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Priya Parrotta Safina Center Fellow, Bill Freese Science Policy Analyst Center for food safety, Gloria Frazee RewildLongIsland.org 55:03

1M ago55:03

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-Priya Parrotta is a Senior fellow at the Safina center in Long Island NY. Priya is a historian, author, songwriter, composer, singer, and multimedia artist dedicated to furthering environmental consciousness across borders. -Bill Freese is the Science Policy Analyst For the Center for food safety on the efforts by the pesticide industry to protect…

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Ann Molloy-Neptune's Harvest Organic Co., Jeff Masters of the Yale climate Connections, Victor DeMasi on Neonicotinoids, Freedom Gerrado - Small farmers & DOGE, 55:25

2M ago55:25

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Digging in the Dirt guests this show are Ann Molloy Sales Director at Neptune's Harvest Organic Fertilizer Company which fully utilizes 100% of the fish they catch, by turning the gurry (everything that’s left after you fillet a fish) into an organic fertilizer. Up next Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connections talks with me about the effects th…

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Ann Malloy of The Neptune's Harvest fertilizer company. 16:19

2M ago16:19

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After several years of traveling around the country and world, ( more on that later ) she settled back there and has been helping run her family business. For over 30 years. Ann has overseen the marketing and sales for the Neptune’s Harvest division of Ocean Crest Seafoods, which came about to fully utilize 100% of the fish they catch, by turning t…

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Rewildlongisland.org w/ Gloria Frazee #4 13:04

2M ago13:04

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Gloria Frazee joins me as a regular monthly guest on Digging in the Dirt. Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton.…

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Gloria Frazee Rewild Long Island #3 17:28

2M ago17:28

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The latest from Gloria and Rewildlongisland.orgBy Kevin Gallagher, WPKN

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Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2 15:33

2M ago15:33

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I want you to welcome back Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island. At ReWild, Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.…

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Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island 14:07

2M ago14:07

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My guest this episode of Digging in the Dirt is Gloria Frazee. Gloria is Secretary of the East Hampton Energy & Sustainability Committee. At ReWild, she is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compos…

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Diego Osses - Transition Director Green Village Initiative 15:28

2M ago15:28

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Diego Osses is an Agricultural engineer with an MBA and a Masters degree in Finance who has extensive experience in farm management, international business development, and diplomacy. He brings over 25 years of experience developed in both his home country of Chile and abroad in countries such as China and Thailand. During his first year working wi…

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Westport Community Garden - Chairman Lou Weinberg 28:24

2M ago28:24

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My guest on this show of “Digging in the Dirt” has been Chairman of the Westport Community Gardens for 20 years. He also has been Director of Long Lots Preserve for the last 2 years and a Sixth grade science teacher for 20 years. In the past he has run programs in New York City for recycling and alternative fuels for transit buses The first time Lo…

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Joe Gloria Garden Guru at Gilbertie's Nursery Westport 25:30

2M ago25:30

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Up next on Digging in the Dirt is a local, guy Joe Gloria. Joe works for one of the gardening establishments just about everybody in the area has been to one time or another and that's Gilbertie's. They've always been at the forefront of organic from the beginning. Joe Gloria is a garden guru of plants, shrubs, and perennials alike. Joe Gloria has …

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Alice Ely Master Gardener and Composter 27:02

2M ago27:02

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My next guest is Alice Ely. Alice is a UConn Advanced Master Gardener & Master Composter, and the creator of multiple public and private butterfly gardens in Fairfield County. She speaks frequently on the importance of gardening for habitat, food and not least of all, joy. In addition to promoting native plants through the Pollinator Pathway, and e…

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Raju Rajan of ReWild Long Island 19:52

2M ago19:52

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My guest now is Raju Rajan. Raju describes himself as a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. Raju is one of the founders of ReWild Long Island and currently serves as Board President. Raju is an avid gardener and amateur tree-enthusiast, he also owns and manages a small agroforest in India dedicated to rewilding and permaculture. ReWild …

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Ralph Baskin Photographer/WPKN staffer The experience of going solar on your house 26:22

2M ago26:22

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My guest on DITD today is Ralph Baskin. Ralph is a Retired IT cost consultant turned photographer who moved to CT from NY over 40 years ago where he lives in, and has improved, a small 1890's Victorian farmhouse. Ralph and I have found common ground with our views on the environment and have had many conversations about solar which I have dabbled w…

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Monique Bosch Soil Health Technician CT. NOFA 29:13

2M ago29:13

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My guest today on Digging in the Dirt is Monique Bosch. Monique has designed and built over 40 edible school and community gardens and farms throughout New England, including a 2-acre urban farm in Bridgeport CT. She works with CT. NOFA as a Soil Health Technician as well. She has founded and run… for profit and non-profit entities, including Green…

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Lou Weinberg Westport Community Garden 14:56

2M ago14:56

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My guest on this segment of “Digging in the Dirt” is Chairman of the Westport Community Gardens for 20 years. He has been Director of Long Lots Preserve for the last 18 months. A Sixth grade science teacher for 20 years, has run programs in New York City for recycling and alternative fuels for transit buses. He is here to discuss the apparent exist…

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Bill Lucey Sound Keeper for Save the Sound 34:03

2M ago34:03

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My guest this afternoon is Save the sounds Soundkeeper Bill Lucey. Bill is a fish and wildlife biologist with more than two decades of experience studying and conserving marine life. He is also an experienced commercial fisherman and environmental educator. As your on-the-water watchdog, Bill upholds Save the Sound’s mission to protect and restore …

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Sam Goldenberg - Growing Carmella Tomatoes 19:43

2M ago19:43

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My guest this afternoon is Samuel Goldenberg. Samuel is a Grandfather, Gardener and most importantly for me a tomato grower. For 20 years, he has saved the seeds and grown them every year. They are very big Roma tomatoes and are tremendous. He even supplies some Italian restaurants in New Haven (Skappo, L'Orcio) with plants to grow ever season.…

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Dan Martens V.P. Novamont NA Bio-plastics 28:49

2M ago28:49

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My guest this episode of DITD is Vice-President of Novamont N.A. Dan Martens. Not only are Dan and Novamont great friends of WPKN Novamont is a leader in the world of bioplastics and a long time supporter of WPKN radio. Novamont promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use…

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Joe Magazzi - Owner Green Earth Ag & Turf 2024 20:27

2M ago20:27

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My next guest Joe Magazzi small business man here in CT would be helpful to everyone looking to do the right thing by our gardens organically. Joe is a good friend of mine and WPKN. Joe owns and operates Green earth Ag and turf up in Branford Ct. and he’s on line at Grow it naturally. Com. Where his company sells Proven & Easy Organic Products for …

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Robert Peck - Mgr. Green Village Initiatives Youth Leadership Program & Students 2023 22:13

2M ago22:13

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My guests on DITD today are Robert Peck and students Kimberly and DJ. Robert manages Green Village Initiatives Youth Leadership Program, which has a summer employment program in which they employ Bridgeport High School students to work and learn about how to operate an urban farm. Participants spend 8 weeks through the summer at Reservoir Community…

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Mark Ridsdill Smith - author "The Vertical Veg" - Guide to container gardening 2023 33:25

2M ago33:25

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My guest this afternoon is Mark Ridsdill Smith who wrote The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening on Chelsea Green Press. Mark has a website and Facebook page that inspires and supports people to grow food in small urban spaces. He has appear on many television shows and written for the Guardian’s Live better campaign. I'm pleased to have him …

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Linley Dixon Co-Executive Director The Real Organic Project 2023 20:45

2M ago20:45

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My guest on this show is Linley Dixon back to DITD. Linley serves as a Farmer representative and Co-Director of the Real Organic Project. Linley owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado, with her husband and daughter. She holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Flor…

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Mark Haubner President of the North Fork Environmental Council. 26:55

2M ago26:55

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MY Guest this afternoon on DITD is Mark Haubner. Mark is currently president of the North Fork Environmental Council. With a few other thoughtful people he has started a Food Waste to Compost and a Zero Waste Initiative for the eastern communities of Long Island and that's why I asked him to be here today. The Food waste to compost pilot program ha…

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Tianna Kennedy Executive Director - Catskills Agrarian Alliance 2023 29:22

2M ago29:22

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My guest today is Tianna Kennedy. She has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. She is the executive director of Catskills Agrarian Alliance, a multi-stakeholder food sovereignty project working on many food related issues in the NY Catskills foodshed. Tianna, Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen also own and operate Star Route Farm, L…

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The Church - April Gornik and Carl Safina 2024 28:45

2M ago28:45

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My guests on “Digging in the Dirt" Monday afternoon are two committed environmentalists, renowned American landscape Artist April Gornik and McArthur fellow Carl Safina. Their respective organizations, The Church and the Safina Center are doing wonderful work in their own creative ways. They are coming aboard to talk about the April 1st 2024 Creati…

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Maureen Gallagher Insurance Expert - Extreme weather events, rising losses 2023 32:04

2M ago32:04

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My guest today is a highly successful insurance agent Maureen Gallagher. I wanted to get Maureen's perspective on the the rise in Extreme weather events and the effects they have on the Insurance industry covering the losses incurred. Maureen Gallagher is the Risk Management Group Agency President. Gallagher specializes in insurance placement, risk…

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Teal Lehto - Westernwatergirl on TikTok 26:50

2M ago26:50

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My guest today is a young woman who is very concerned about climate change and the water crisis in the west, in particular and elsewhere generally and it appears so are many others, because she has over 45,000 Followers. Teal Lehto who posts TikToks about serious stuff, in a surprisingly hip and engaging manner in rapid fire delivery to get all the…

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Vincent Kay Farmer - Garlic Grower/Beekeeper - Swords into Plowshares Farm 2023 31:08

2M ago31:08

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My guest here today on DITD is Vincent Kay a lifelong resident of Connecticut. Vincent happens to be one of Connecticut's top garlic growers. So I contacted him to buy seed and come to find out he worked for Pacifica Network News as well as NPR and as News Director at WPKN radio in Bridgeport From 1996-98. Now after 38 years he operates the State's…

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Park City Compost Principals Thomas Iezin & Andrew Tyrrell 12:01

2M ago12:01

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My guests on this segment are Thomas Iezin Marketing Communications, and Assistant Operations Manager of the Park City Compost Initiative And Andrew Tyrrell, the Operations Manager for Park City Compost Initiative where they want to create a non-profit commercial composting site for Bridgeport and the surrounding cities and towns. Andrew Is a Maste…

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Woody Tasch - Founder Beetcoin & Slow money 46:28

2M ago46:28

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Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Chelsea Green Press SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, and AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ …

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Daphne Dixon Co-Founder Live Green Ct. Network - Cross Country EV Trip 2023 35:53

2M ago35:53

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Daphne Dixon is Co-founder and Executive Director at Live Green Network in Ct. Daphne along with Alyssa Murphy went on a coast to coast EV road trip, going from one United States coast to another in a Ford Mustang Mach-E all-wheel drive EV. In the middle of this trip Daphne came on Digging in the Dirt to fill us in on what was going on and now she …

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Craig LeHoullier Author "Epic Tomatoes 2023 38:33

2M ago38:33

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I’m pleased to welcome back to “Digging in the Dirt… Gardener, author, educator, podcaster blogger and frequent collaborator with Joe Lamp’l of the Joe Gardener TV show… Craig LeHoullier. In addition Craig wrote one of the great books on tomatoes, It's called Epic Tomatoes. Beautiful to look at and a very good resource for all of us tomato geeks.…

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Nick Skeadis - Curbside Compost - 2023 29:33

2M ago29:33

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My guest today is Nick Skeadas a Connecticut man who has a business that makes him a living and helps the planet at the same time. Nick manages Curbside Compost, a resource recovery company in Southern Ct. Nick and his wife Erica are raising their two children in Ridgefield, where the family practices thoughtful living. Nick is here because I perso…

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Dan Martens of Novamont March 2022 "Digging in the Dirt" 28:26

2M ago28:26

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A continuing conversation with the Vice-President of Novamont N.A. NOVAMONT is a leader in the world of bioplastics. It promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.…

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Paula J. Ehrlich - C.E.O, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation & Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project 2022 38:25

2M ago38:25

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My guest on this episode of Digging in the Dirt is President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Paula J. Ehrlich. The Half-Earth Project's purpose is to inspire informed collective action to save the biosphere.By Kevin Gallagher, WPKN

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Pine Cone Kitchen Owners Kayla Burton and Greg Lusson "Black Garlic" 26:18

2M ago26:18

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I have been interested in Black Garlic ever since two fans of DITD Anne and Jim suggested I check out Black Garlic and do a show about it .Then my friend and colleague, the sorely missed Guy Beardsley, gave me two heads of Black garlic when I bought seed garlic from him for my garden a while back and I've been hooked ever since. Now I have finally …

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Freedom Gerado & Liz Guerra Seamarron Farmstead Farmers 2022 35:48

2M ago35:48

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My guests today are Hector Gerado and Liz Guerra owners of SeaMARRON Farmstead near Danbury CT. They have been community and union organizers and They are BIPOC NYers from the Bronx turned #homesteaders #hempfarmers #beekeepers 🐝|| Hosts of the @bluedreamradio_ podcast Liz is also a Full spectrum doula/birth worker…

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Dan Kittredge Executive Director The Bionutrient Food Association 2022 38:14

2M ago38:14

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My guest today on Digging in the DIrt is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association Dan Kittridge. Dan has been here many times before . He is a good friend of WPKN and Digging in the Dirt. We talk Bio-nutrious food and the Bionutrient Meter.By Kevin Gallagher, WPKN

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Zach Loeks - The Edible Ecosystem solution 2022 41:39

2M ago41:39

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My guest today is Zach Loeks author, educator, designer and grower who specializes in edible ecosystems around the world. He is also the director of the ecosystem solution institute and author of the book “The Permaculture Market Garden” and he's here to talk to me about his new book “THE EDIBLE ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION".. Growing Biodiversity in your ba…

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Vicki Hird - Rebugging the planet 2022 30:19

2M ago30:19

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My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the…

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Sefra Alexandra Former Coordinator CTNOFA Ecotype Project 2022 18:45

2M ago18:45

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My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success. She was taking the l…

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Pollinator Pathways - Dave Carr West Haven CT. 21:44

2M ago21:44

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My guest on this program is Dave Carr Lead organizer for Pollinator Pathways West Haven. The goal of this group is to install native perennial plants while building community and educating people about the importance of pollinators to support insects that also feed migrating birds. The project started in 2019. Dave founded Earth lobbyist.com in 201…

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John Conroy - Docent for California Elephant Seals Rookery 25:39

2M ago25:39

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My guest on this program is my friend John Conroy, whom I went to H.S. with. He was telling me about his new interest as a Docent for Elepahant seals in the San Louis Obispo California area. Some of the males can be as large as 5000 lbs. I thought it would be interesting to hear all about his experiences on "Digging in the Dirt". John has had a lif…

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Jesse Frost - Author, The Living Soil Handbook 46:53

2M ago46:53

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My gueston this "Digging inthe Dirt" is regenerative Farmer, author and host of the popular "No till Market Garden podcast'" Jesse Frost. Jesse farms at a farm in Kentucky with his wife Hannah Crabtree called Rough Draft Farmstead. He is here on "Digging in the Dirt" to talk with me about his new book. The Living Soil Handbook - The no till growers…

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Jessica Damiano - Garden Columnist - Talking Tomatoes 2023 26:49

2M ago26:49

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My guest here on DITD is Jessica Damiano AP gardening columnist, Journalist, Garden Coach, Community Educator and Author. Her news letter is called The Weekly Dirt. Jessica's Gardening Calendar was named a winner in the 2021 Garden Communicators International Media Awards. The calendar can be Considered she says 365 visits from a gardening friend w…

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