Jun 30, 2021
Double-header with Valley Spirit Farm and The Berry Center in Henry County, Kentucky #represent. Valley Spirit Farm is a two-family partnership farming together "over the fencerow" sharing resources and marketing across seperatly owned, but complimentary enterprises. The Berry Center, alongside a farming program and...
Jun 23, 2021
Narendra Varma is the co-founder and executive director of Our Table Cooperative, a multi-stakeholder cooperative farm in Portland, Oregon. If you don't know what a multi-stakeholder coop is, neither did we. But, you're about to find out, as well as why it's an important model which addresses some of the...
Jun 16, 2021
Hilary Martin is a member of Digger's Mirth, a five member collective farm at the Intervale Center in Burlington VT, and talks about how the collective has evolved over its thirty year history from an informal to a somewhat more formal structure, how the Intervale has fostered collaboration between farms and markets,...
Jun 9, 2021
Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network joins the podcast to talk about bringing the celebration of Sagra to the States, Wild Garden & Smarties Seeds, the power of open-pollinated peppers, her raddicio expedition (check out this rad zine), NOVIC!, and the Gusto Italiano Project from Uprising Seeds. If this woman...
Jun 2, 2021
In our first episode of The Collaborative Farming Podcast, we talk with Chris Bodnar of Close to Home Organics, a part of the Glen Valley Organic Farm, in Abbotsford, BC in Canada. We get into their simple and adaptapable cooperative model, the history of modern cooperatives, and the long-term implications for family...