Category Archives: Radio show interviews

Information on timely interviews on gardening, farming, microbiology, nutritious food, permaculture, regenerative farming, with international, national, and local pioneers.

Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse: Creating locally adapted crop varieties

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Joseph Lofthouse makes seed saving low-stress and relevant to local conditions.  Instead of keeping seeds “pure” which causes inbreeding depression (loss of genetic diversity), he encourages crossing to create the best qualities for ones particular climate.  We discuss his book Landrace Gardening and some tips for breeding several different crops that will thrive in your area, rather than buying seeds from long ago and far away that may do poorly in your garden of farm.  Recorded in February, it will play at berkshireradio.org Mondays 10-11 AM Feb 26-March 18, streamed via spinatron from 11  AM Feb 26-March 31or you can listen right here now!

Dr. David C Johnson, Johnson-Su Composting Bioreactor interview

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Jaye and I conducted the original interview in April, 2018.  I added updated information to the interview in January, 2024.  Dr. Johnson discusses an inexpensive static composter that is filled in one go, left a year (with ample moisture added daily or as needed), that creates a fungally-rich end product that can be used as a seed treatment, a transplant treatment, or a soil drench to ensure plants will have all the microbiology needed to grow to their maximum potential (as long as growing conditions allow this biology to come to life and thrive)

A Farm and Garden Radio Show updated monthly!

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My wife Jaye Alison Moscariello and I host “A Farm and Garden Show”, a radio show on WBCR-LP, Berkshire Community Radio, streaming at berkshireradio.org every Monday from 10-11 AM Eastern Time.  You can also hear it anytime from the website by looking under Programs and clicking on Recent Episodes.  Only the last 2 weeks will be available, and sometimes these will be different shows but usually the same show.  We post a new show once a month; during 2024 it will be later in the month shifting earlier and earlier as we will repost every 4 weeks until we get back to putting up a new show on the first Monday (this should happen around Oct or Nov 2024).  I also plan to post past shows in future blog posts here at this website.  We interview pioneers in regenerative farming, permaculture, microbiology, and topics relevant to growing and eating the most health-giving crops.  Some months we interview national or international figures; others we interview local heroes doing this work on their own farm or homestead.