The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson

Kerry is the founder and visionary of Zendoway and hopes to share with you from all her life experiences. In addition to wellness and leadership articles, Kerry has authored “Audrey’s Journey” a children’s book series focused on living with compassion and joy, the "Pile of Smile Activity Book" to give away free to children undergoing cancer treatments, and "If It Does Not Grow Say No” to teach kids about having fun with nutrition.

Jessica is a home canning expert and has worked for Jarden Home Brands for over 11.5 years. She currently is an Analytics Specialist (or Home Canning Expert) in Consumer Affairs and a certified process engineer through the USDA.  Being a life-long resident in Muncie, Indiana, Jessica has a strong affinity toward the Ball brand & its heritage in her community.

Stacey is a recovering engineer and architect turned garden geek and farm nerd. Stacey founded BK Farmyards, a cooperative of urban farmers in Brooklyn dedicated to social justice through urban agriculture, and helped create over an acre of new farmyards in Brooklyn. Listen in and learn about: How a day at the Farmer’s Market changed her life Borrowing a neighbor’s yard to start her garden What Urban Farming means to her David Letterman and her Giant Radish and how she was disappointed

Jerome Osentowski has spent the last 30 years developing indoor and outdoor forest farming technology at his location in Basalt, Colorado. He is the founder and director of the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute dedicated to education, research, and demonstration. Listen in and learn about: Creating an Indoor Food Forest and why he started with that Permaculture – what it is to Jerome Perennial Polyculture Carbon Farming Climate Battery

Gardening has been DeBorah Prince’s passion and therapy for over 20 years. She grows a huge range of fruits and veggies from asparagus to zucchini, makes her own compost and vermicompost, and her latest project is building a chicken coop. She lives in New Jersey and has been married for 23 years with a big family of 8 children and 15 grandchildren. Come listen to the delightfully upbeat gardener tell us how she decided to just start gardening and learned how from the internet and books. 

After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic. Since then, she has reduced her plastic waste to less than 2% of the national average. That experiment turned into the popular blog MyPlasticFreeLife.com and new book Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.

Toby is the author of a book on urban and suburban permaculture, The Permaculture City, as well as Gaia’s Garden, the best-selling and award winning permaculture book in the world, which won the 2011 Nautilus award. He has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University and Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University. Toby is a well-known teacher and has taught over 70 Permaculture Design Courses. Listen to our 100th episode to hear Greg & Toby chat about one of their favorite topics: Permaculture

Paris Masek is the Managing Director for Green on Purpose and the Director of Agriculture Programs for Quincea Social Enterprises. He is also a PhD candidate at ASU in English Literature working with Indigenous American Literature and Cultures. He is an active member of the Maricopa County Food System Coalition as well as an urban gardener who uses raised beds, edible landscaping, and a flock of chickens in his downtown residence to keep fresh produce and eggs on his family’s dinner table.

Dr. Brooks, Founder & President of the NxT Horizon Group, holds a Ph.D., in Wildlife and Fisheries from the School of Renewable Natural Resources at the University of AZ. He is an established social, environmental, economic & political leader and business consultant. NxT Horizon focuses on bioenergy development in Africa, and the development & application of urban farming technologies to solve social, environmental & economic problems. Dr. Brooks helps us understand aquaponics and opportunities with it. 

Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole system designs throughout the Americas for the last 20 years focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design to increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. Come listen and learn about Michael's adventure in rural latin america and what he learned from some Mayan tribes. He tells us how he learned they managed to meet all of their needs without help from the outside.

Jodi is an award-winning vegetable gardener, craftsy gardening instructor, and the founder and editor-in-chief of WesternGardeners.com. In addition to the two books she authored, her garden writing also appears in digital and print media. Since 2010 she’s organized the annual Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign in Denver, Colorado. Jodi has a lot of great advice on how and why to start growing vegetables for competition purposes. Listen in to our "biggest" podcast ever and find out why we say that.

Molly comes from a long line of farmers in Washington state. She grew up on a farm with chickens, cows, pigs and the occasional turkey. She has two boys and her own acre in Spokane where they raise chickens, honey bees and of course, fruits and veggies. She’s just getting started and hope to transform her property into a working, thriving, educational farm where she can teach her family and others how to grow their own food.

Larry has been a teacher and practitioner of Permaculture Design for the last 28 years. After a career in law enforcement, Santoyo went onto land use planning and was mentored by Permaculture’s founding father, Bill Mollison. Santoyo went on to teach Permaculture with Mollison around the US and Australia. He has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide, including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Evergreen College, CSU Northridge, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Tristram Stuart, founder of the charity Feedback, is an international award-winning author, speaker, campaigner and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food production. The environmental campaigning organization he founded, Feedback, has spread its work into dozens of countries worldwide, working with governments, international institutions, businesses, non-governmental organizations, grassroots organizations and the public to change society’s attitude toward wasting food

Come join us as we hear Diana tells us how she and her husband created the sustainable farm and education center they now run. Her passion to help others is obvious as it weaves through her story.