Check out a new episode of our podcast, "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good."⁠ .⁠ Indigenous urban farmer and herbalist Angela Kingsawan talks about gardening in Milwaukee, translating ancient knowledge into modern reality, connecting health care with healthy foods, and more.⁠ .⁠ Learn about Angela’s early introduction to land stewardship and multicultural approach to herbalism and food production. She tells us about her long-term plan for Yenepa Herbals as a local tea company using vacant lots

Check out a new episode of our podcast, "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good."⁠ On this episode of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good, Nathan Harkleroad, Program Director at Agriculture and Land Based Training Association, talks with us about his path to farming, the value of agricultural work, helping people get their own farms going and more. ⁠ A San Diego kid and product of Southern California’s surfing scene, Harkleroad had no plans for a career in farming growing up. (He didn’t even have 4-H

Check out a new episode of our podcast, "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good."⁠ .⁠ Helga Garcia-Garza talks about the farmer opportunities offered by Agri-Cultura Network and La Cosecha CSA, dealing with crippling drought in the Southwest US, and cooperative organic farming.⁠ .⁠ Hear about how the community-led Agri-Cultura Network began in 2009 with just three small-scale farmers who wanted to build capacity, aggregate products for larger markets and work cooperatively. Helga talks about how the

Check out a new episode of our podcast, "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good."⁠ .⁠ St. Louis flower farmer Mimo Davis talks about growing flowers year-round, Black flower farmers, her work as vice president of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and more!⁠ .⁠ Listen to this episode of the Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good podcast to hear about Mimo Davis’ journey from being a social worker for homeless adolescent males in New York City to becoming a flower farmer in rural Missouri in

Check out a new episode of our podcast, "Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good."⁠ ⁠ Texas farmer Keisha Johnson talks career transitions, skill sharing, poultry keeping and more. Hear about Keisha’s career transition from administration and logistics to farming, and her advice for how anyone can take pre-farming-career skills into farm life—”turning your lifestyle into your livelihood.” Keisha talks about growing vegetables in Texas’s hot, arid climate through summer and more mild winter weather, p