013 – Creating Pollinator-Friendly Lawns

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013 – Creating Pollinator-Friendly Lawns

with host Linda Borghi and guest Leslie Inman

Farm-A-Yard Podcast — It’s a movement… have ya heard?

Bees aren’t the only critters who need our help! Join Linda & Leslie in a discussion of how native pollinating insects need native plants to thrive, how insects feed birds and bats, etc. and help form a foundational layer of our food web and ecosystem. How do you start building a native pollinator refuge? Let us help!

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012 – Building The Healing Farm Community

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012 – Building The Healing Farm Community

with host Linda Borghi and guest Kai Cole, Tribe Architect

Farm-A-Yard Podcast — It’s a movement… have ya heard?

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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010 – The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

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010 – The Biodynamic Summer: The Rhythm of the Garden

with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

Farm-A-Yard Podcast — It’s a movement… have ya heard?

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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006 – Biodynamics…It’s What’s for Dinner

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006 – Biodynamics…It’s What’s for Dinner

with host Linda Borghi and guest Stewart Lundy

Farm-A-Yard Podcast — It’s a movement… have ya heard?

Stewart Lundy, of Perennial Roots Farm in eastern Virginia farms, is serious about applied biodynamic agriculture and has created a rich fertile farm with his partner Natalie. They heard about Biodynamics on a trip to Italy and returned to the U.S and began to practice on their farm in 2010. Bringing Biodynamics “down to earth”, Stewart shows how it works for him. Unique tips on saving seeds.

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005 – Biodigesting Close to Home

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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

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003 – Save Our Soil

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

Farm-A-Yard Podcast — It’s a movement… have ya heard?

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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