051 – Nothing But Billions in Benefits part 2 of 6

051-Nothing But Billions Part 2 of 6

                         with host Linda Borghi and guest Wayne Roberts

 

Make sure you listen to part 1 of this series of podcasts with Wayne Roberts, who is a Canadian food policy analyst and writer, widely respected for his role as the manager of the [Toronto Food Policy Council], a citizen body of 30 food activists and experts that is widely recognized for its innovative approach to food security, from 2000-2010.  As a leading member of the City of Toronto’s Environmental Task Force, he helped develop a number of official plans for the city that were adopted in 2000-2001. So these plans are working!

In this episode, Wayne shares with us how can we save a city billions of gallons in water!  Wayne shows us four ways! Water is the most precious resource on the planet and gardeners growing food in their yards can save a city the size of Philadelphia 40 million gallons of water and he will show you how! Wayne’s analysis will cause you to realize just how powerful gardens can be to solve our water crisis!  This knowledge has impacted the city of Toronto, Canada, and can also bring amazing benefits to your city too! We want every city planner across this country to realize how millions of dollars can be saved by the huge benefits that gardeners can provide their city. This is no joke!

This podcast is fascinating and empowering!

 

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040 – Garden Planning on a Bridge

040 – Garden Planning on a Bridge

with host Linda Borghi and Farm-A-Yard Co-Founder Marsha Howe

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Welcome to Week 1 of our Grow It Don’t Mow It – 30 Days to Starting a Successful Yard Farm!  This week is all about Garden Planning & Sun.

You’ll find a new post every day in April on our Patreon feed with different information on how to plan and start your food garden this year.  If you’re joining us after April 2018, please make sure to check out our Patreon feed for all our delightful garden-starting content.

Find out how gypsy gardener, Marsha Howe grows!  Marsha is a “treehouse” apartment dweller who grows in many different and unusual places around her town.  Her project on a public walking bridge over a freeway, with no water source except the rain, gives her permaculture skills an opportunity to expand by applying principles that make this project simple and super easy to maintain with minimal cost and time.

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036 – A Stellar Neighborly Application

036 – A Stellar Neighborly Application

with host Linda Borghi and Dushan Batrovic

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We are so glad that someone has simplified a way to get local food from neighborhood gardeners who have extra to sell.  This interview, with the creator of the Seed Voyage App, dives into how he is connecting local veggie growers and eaters through a simple online marketplace that gives everyone convenient access to the best homegrown produce in the community.  This tech, finance guy had begun to grow his own and realized how amazing it tasted and wanted access to varieties not available at the market. Seed Voyage was born! Spread the word! This app makes it really simple!

 

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031 – A Clean Slate

031 – A Clean Slate

with host Linda Borghi

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Why do we need to “clean the slate”, be daring and grow some of what we want to eat?

Linda gives us some very compelling reasons. Besides, you can grow just 100 square feet of garden and save yourself $700.00 a year at the grocery store!

Learn the simple steps to plan your garden now, even learn an easy way to figure out how much produce your family eats now and how much you would need to grow.

New motto: “Grow it, why mow it!”  Start small and you will get hooked! Grow your own personal food security. Learn how to sow, eat, repeat!  We are only one seed away!!

Listen to this podcast and start your garden plan today!

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Seed Catalogs

 

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030 – The Wellness Garden

030 – The Wellness Garden

with host Linda Borghi and guest  Shawna Coronado

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The Wellness Garden way to better health. Shawna’s journey to wellness went from a dozen medications to an anti-inflammatory diet that, after just 4 days, reduced her osteoarthritis pain by 40% and her blood pressure went to normal!  This author’s front yard veggie garden message is that you can make your life better too!

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026 – Putting Your Yard to Bed

026 – Putting Your Yard to Bed

with host Linda Borghi

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How do you put a yard farm to bed for the winter?  Linda shares about her passion to take care of the soil. The earth likes to be covered all the time. Learn some ways to keep the soil covered.  Why? Because we are growing more than plants, we are actually growing soil the year round. What we do in this season will make a big difference when it’s time to plant again in the spring!

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