015 – Native Wisdom

015 – Episode- Native Wisdom

with host Linda Borghi and guest Courtni Hale

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Courtni is a graduate of  American University, travelled in South America, studied under a Native American shaman and is apart of the seed sovereignty movement.  Linda and Courtni bring vast knowledge together into bite size pieces for the everyday practice and application in the typical yard farm.  We can all advance the solutions to the important food related issues facing our world today by learning from the dedicated folks interviewed in these podcasts  Learn more about incorporating native american tradition, keyhole gardening and Linda’s  famous cucumber roller coaster trellis into your yard farm!

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Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.

012 – Building The Healing Farm Community

012 – Building The Healing Farm Community

with host Linda Borghi and guest Kai Cole, Tribe Architect

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Meet an incredible woman who loved building with blocks from the age of 5, and now designs and creates spatial healing  environments for people to thrive in.  Her journey through Calculus and Fluid Dynamics brought her to major in Architecture. Her career title: Tribe Architect.  Little did she know that her journey and calling would bring her to  design and develop the vision of the 100 acre Healing Farm in Hudson Valley, NY.

Kai is also a Radio Host in NY City and now the Healing Farm is launching Healing Farm Radio!

Find out what this superhero gal realized was most important in order to make your best crafted designs happen.

Kai loves creating spaces for people to grow and heal, Healing Farm is home to diverse energizing and restorative opportunities including Biodynamic farming education. At the Cosmic Communityfest running August 4-6, 2017, participants can learn how to draw a labyrinth with Linda and so much more!  Don’t miss Stewart Lundy, from Perennial Roots Farm, show you how to  make an Orgone Box to germinate your seeds!

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011 – Farming Intentionally

011 – Farming Intentionally

with host Linda Borghi

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This is Linda’s most surprising and empowering podcast yet!  She shares the easiest way to be a yard farmer and the most critical practice to guarantee your success.  You’re never going to guess!!  Learn how to germinate the most important “seeds” first  and what those are.

She tells her personal story of learning about the power of intention and the principle of energy following thought. Linda shares from the heart about her intention for this movement. You don’t want to miss this one!

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010 – The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

010 – The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

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If you are curious about homeopathic practices in Biodynamic farming, you will be fascinated by this interview.  These two seasoned biodynamic farmers share their experiences of  gardening and farming in harmony with the rhythm of the seasons, and how they practice a culture of sharing and spreading nature’s abundance. Learn about the earth breathing, planting by the biodynamic Stella Natura calendar, and “planting intention” in the stirring and applying of the biodynamic preparations. Also learn how your intention affects living systems and water when Stewart shares his own shocking experiment! To apply biodynamics practices and benefits to your yard doesn’t require understanding the science behind it all, only your desire and will to take action!

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005 – Biodigesting Close to Home

005 – Biodigesting Close to Home

with host Linda Borghi and guest Maria Blon

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Maria Blon is a speaker, author and teacher who launched the “HEART in Haiti School” after the hurricane in 2010. Gardens and Moringa trees are grown at the school to teach the children how to grow and feed themselves. This oasis includes a biodigester. There is no garbage pick up in Haiti. Now with the biodigester to process all their garbage, they also generate energy for the school.

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003 – Save Our Soil

003 – Save Our Soil

with host Linda Borghi and Farm-A-Yard founder Evan Folds

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Transform the way you think about the soil under your feet to seriously revolutionize your growing results.

Evan Folds, the “Soil Doctor” as we call him, does not give standard soil advice but shares proven methods that unleash soil regeneration.  Evan is a Farm-A-Yard co-founder, owner of Progressive Farms & manufacturer of the Microbe Maker compost tea system, and his passion about nurturing microbes, healing the Earth through carbon sequestering, producing nutrient dense food, advocating for personal agriculture, and healing people through vibrant local food economies will change your focus from the stem to the soil.

Through his consulting work, Evan has developed BioEnergetic Agriculture, which seeks to increase the life force of living systems through physical, mineral, biological, and energetic influence.

Favorite Quote

“…our food is not nourishing us to allow the expression of our humanity.”

1:00 – Linda introduces Evan Folds, owner of Progressive Farms and shares how they met.

5:50 – Evan Folds talks about regenerative agriculture and what biodynamic/BioEnergetic methods are all about.

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Music credit: “Insomnia” by John Sheehan.  Used with permission.