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  • Forest Farming with Joe "Ginseng"
    2025/04/28

    In this episode of ATTRA’s Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist, Eddy Labus, is joined by Joe Boccardy, better known as Joe Ginseng. Joe has a small farm nestled in the mountains of Northwest North Carolina where he cares for a small herd of Scottish Highland cattle, pigs, and chickens. Joe farms the forests on his farm, raising several different types of threatened or endangered species like Ginseng and Golden Seal. In this episode, Eddy and Joe talk about growing plants in Appalachian forests, preservation methods, and value-added marketing ideas.

    Related ATTRA Resources:

    Quick Tips for Agroforestry

    Other Resources:

    Appalachia’s ginseng goldmine may not last much longer

    Appalachian Harvest Herb Hub™

    United Plant Savers

    Forest Farming: An Agroforestry Practice

    Cultivating Native Woodland Botanicals

    Appalachian Forest Farmer Coalition

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    You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find access to our trusted, practical sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos, and other resources at ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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    44 分
  • Vertical Mushroom Farming in Florida
    2025/04/15

    In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez goes in-depth into the world of mushroom production and market diversification in a conversation with Russell Hollander from Care2Grow, a vertical mushroom farm located in Naples, Florida.

    They talk about how to start producing mushrooms on any scale, the uses of spent mushroom blocks, the health benefits of edible and medicinal mushrooms, and Russell's marketing journey.

    Related ATTRA Resources:

    • Container Production of Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms with Care2Grow Farm
    • Establishing a Wine Cap Mushroom Bed

    Other Resources:

    • Care2Grow

    Contact Gabriella Soto-Velez gabriellas@ncat.org.

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    48 分
  • Functional Movement in Farming with Cynthia Flores
    2025/04/03

    In today's episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Specialist Audrey Kolde interviews Cynthia Flores the founder of Labor-Movement, an organization that believes when you move well, you work well. Audrey and Cynthia discuss the inspiration for creating Labor Movement and the importance of proper movement for those whose livelihoods depend on their bodies, especially farmers, fishers, foresters, and industrial athletes.

    ATTRA RESOURCES:

    Equipment – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture

    Farm Stress and Emotional Well-Being, Part I – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture

    OTHER RESOURCES:

    Labor-Movement Website

    Farmer Well-Being – ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture

    Contact Audrey Kolde at audreyk@ncat.org.

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    40 分
  • Lessons from the 'Principal Farmer"
    2025/03/11

    In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Gulf States Regional Coordinator Felicia Bell sits down with “The Principal Farmer,” Patrick Muhammad, of Atlanta, Georgia. Patrick is the principal of the Chattahoochee Hills Charter School, where students from kindergarten through eighth grade learn about the world through the lens of agriculture, nature, and the arts. He also has a farm and enjoys helping adults learn to love the land and return to their farming roots.

    Related ATTRA Resources:
    Farmland Access

    Beginning Farmer Tutorials

    https://attra.ncat.org/publication/farmland-access/

    https://attra.ncat.org/tutorial-beginning-farmer-training/


    Other Related Resources:

    Chattahoochee Hills Charter School

    The Principal Farmer

    Contact Gabriella Soto-Velez at gabriellas@ncat.org.

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    53 分
  • The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico
    2025/01/16

    Episode 367: The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico

    This episode of Voices from the Field explores the ancient Taino Conuco farming systems of Puerto Rico in a conversation between NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez and researcher Joseph Navarro. They discuss how these sustainable practices supported self-sufficiency during pre-colonial times, their evolution through colonial and industrial transitions, and their potential to transform Puerto Rico’s future and address modern challenges like soil erosion, food insecurity, and climate resilience.

    Related Resources:

    Can Indigenous Agricultural Methods of Puerto Rico Mitigate Climate Change and Feed the Island?

    Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History – and Us

    Precision Ecology

    Contact Gabriella Soto-Velez a at gabriellas@ncat.org and lee@ncat.org.

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    52 分
  • Guy Ames: Living and Farming with Head and Heart
    2025/01/06

    In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Ag Specialists Nina Prater and Lee Rinehart are joined by recently retired Ag Specialist Guy Ames to celebrate his life and work. Guy is deeply knowledgeable about his area of expertise, fruit trees, and is also a font of wisdom about how to live the good life. This conversation includes how Guy found his way to farming in the Ozarks, the many failures that guided him toward success, and like most conversations with Guy, contains many wonderful, circuitous meanderings. He also shares about what it was like in the early days of ATTRA in the distant pre-internet past. We will all miss Guy here at NCAT and are so grateful he joined us in this episode to keep the "cultural cycle," as Wendell Berry puts it, turning.

    ATTRA Resources:

    Soils and Sites for Organic Orchards and Vineyards

    Tree Fruits: Organic Production Overview

    Battling Borers in Organic Apple Production

    Blueberries: Organic Production

    Fruit Trees, Bushes, and Vines for Natural Growing in the Ozarks

    Heirloom Apples

    Other Resources:

    It All Turns on Affection

    The Good Life

    Divine Right's Trip

    Ames Orchard and Nursery

    The Wheel

    Braiding Sweetgrass

    Contact Nina Prater and Lee Rinehart at ninap@ncat.org and lee@ncat.org
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    You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find access to our trusted, practical sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos, and other resources at ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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  • Calcium: The ‘Premier’ Soil Nutrient
    2024/11/20

    In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialists Nina Prater, Darron Gaus, and Lee Rinehart explore calcium – an essential plant nutrient and basic soil cation that has a big impact on soil pH. Whether your soil is naturally high or naturally low in calcium, this episode will guide
    you in managing this nutrient.

    Related ATTRA Resources:

    Episode 164. Soil Sessions. Understanding Soil pH

    Episode 304. Phosphorus and the Beauty of Biology


    Other Resources:

    Soil Fertility and Animal Health

    The Marl Pits Around the Upton Area

    Soil Cation Balancing

    Using Lime in Organic Systems

    Soil Acidity and Adjusting Soil pH


    Contact Nina Prater, Darron Gaus, and Lee Rinehart at ninap@ncat.org, darrong@ncat.org, and lee@ncat.org.

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  • Understanding Through Listening: Connecting with Indigenous Foodways in Montana
    2024/11/07

    In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Local Food Systems Specialists Maura Henn and Molly Kirkham talk with Indigenous Food Sovereignty Consultant Cheyenne Robinson about their project, “Understanding Through Listening: Connecting with Native Food Ways in Montana.”

    The project focused on holding listening sessions in Native American communities in Montana, primarily on Indian reservations, to learn if community members would be interested in developing an Indigenous Harvest of the Month program. Harvest of the Month is a farm-to-school educational framework designed to promote locally grown food in Montana schools and communities.

    Maura, Molly, and Cheyenne talk about what they learned conducting the sessions, the process of developing the listening-session framework, and what their next steps will be.

    Related ATTRA Resources:
    • Farm to School

    Project Partners:
    • Grow Montana
    • Montana Cooperative Development Center Distribution Study – Challenges and Opportunities for Grocers in Rural and Tribal Communities
    • No Kid Hungry
    • Montana Partnership to End Childhood Hunger

    Other Resources:
    • Understanding Through Listening
    • Harvest of the Month
    • Montana Harvest of the Month
    • Menominee Harvest of the Moon
    • Nebraska Harvest of the Month Indigenous Foods and Training
    • National Farm to School Network

    Contact Maura Henn at maurah@ncat.org

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    54 分