All Episodes

FBC Christmas Special!

GAP Certification: A Barrier & an Opportunity

Family Feud: which forecast is best for farmers?

A Critique of Canada's Pesticide Oversight

I Threw Out The Turkey You Sold Me.

Big Chicken, Indebted Farmers

The Case for Slower

Crop Wild Relatives in Plant Breeding

The Very First One. It's about potting blocks!

The Biggest Little Disappointment

I Hope You Die: Livestock Farmers on the Threats They Receive

Did Certified Organic Pay a Price for its Success?

Let's Whet Together

Drivecast No. 3

Drivecast No. 2

Drivecast No. 1

Rotational Grazing Tips with Sarah Flack (e.111)

Participatory Plant Breeding (e110)

Farming is Gay

e108: Aliwawa?

e107: A Cynical Farmer Rebuffed

e106: How to Gross 250K on 1/2 Acre

e105: Ramial Wood as Soil Amendment and More with Karl Hammer

e104: Silvopasture with Steve Gabriel

e102: Weed Management in the Pasture

e101: Beneficial Insects on the Farm

Foliar Feeding w/ Steve Solomon

e.99: Incubating your own eggs

e.11: Adding seed production to your veggie operation (re-run)

e.98: Breeding for Better Flavour and Row 7 Seeds

e97: Jean Martin Fortier! Cocaine! Compost Tea!

e.96: A Critique of Compost Tea

e.95: The Farmers Aren't All Right pt II

e.94: Better GH Practices

2018 Season Launches Friday! But first: a teaser.

e93: Stop Washing Your Children So Much!

e.92: The Farmers Aren't All Right

e.91: The Origins of Artisanal Food in America

e.90: Our Agricultural Heritage is At Risk

e.89: America Does Too Have a Food Culture! | Successful CSA Pickup

Just when you really need it: The Zone

e88: Cut Flower Maintenance, Farm Internship Workshop

e87 Insights on Leasing Farmland

e86: Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production & Antibiotic Resistance

e85 Assembling a Herd| Mobile Hoophouse Design

e84 Standing Orders with Restaurant Customers

e83 Pasturing your Pork and Selling Flowers to Florists

e82: Media Training for Farmers

e81: Connected Apprentices=Happy Apprentices

e80: Parasite Control for Small Ruminants

What our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today

e78: Affordable Farm Sensors | Layers v Broilers

e77: Smart High Tunnel Management

e76: Winter bale-grazing, biodegradable mulch research, amending poor soil

e75: Organic Agriculture in the 21st Century

e74: Green Garlic, Easy Cut-Flowers, Keeping Birds Dry When It's Wet

e.73: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

e72: The Salatin Semester/DIY Vacuum Seeder/Soil Blocks

e.71: Farming with Kids

Growing Epic Tomates part two

e.68: Epic Tomatoes

No episode this week.

e.67: Things you may not know about organic certification

e66: The trouble with low paid farm apprenticeships

e.65: Your weeds are trying to tell you something.

e.64 We divorced flavour from nutrition, and it's making us fatter

e.63: Winter Work Ideas for The Idle Farmer

e.62: The Rooftop Farm at Ryerson University

e.61 Extra: Jim Riddle on the crops he grows at Blue Fruit Farm

e.61: Growing Perennial Fruits: Jim Riddle and Blue Fruit Farm

e.11: Seed Production with Dan Brisebois

e.09: Grafting Tomatoes with Carol Miles

e.60: We've Missed the Point on GMO Food

No Episode this week. New Content Next Week.

e.59 Spreading Straw Mulch Efficiently & Mentoring Your Way to Economies of Scale

e.58 Community Financed Agriculture

e.05: Irrigation Tips from Troy Peters

e.57 All About Rotary Plows

e.56 Mostly About Cooking

e.55: Why Everyone Who is Sure About a Food Philosophy is Wrong

e.13: Jess Dennis on BioChar

e.07 Pest Management with Entomologist Tamara Richardson

e.06: Better Nutrient Managment for your Soil

0054 Stale Seed Bedding, Finding Buyers for your Produce

e.53: A Non-Browning GMO Apple Hits the Market

Shifting the workload to your livestock

e.51: Building a Farm Cooperative to Thrive

Rerun: e.16 Steve Solomon on Intelligent Gardening Part 2

e.50: DiY Vacuum Seeder and Farmers for Liberty

e.49: Truly Regenerative Agriculture via Pasture-Cropping

e.48: Less Stressful Fencing

e.47: Listener Submissions

e.46: Growing Great Potatoes

e.45 Whole Grain Mindset: Give those old wheat varieties a chance!

e.44: Peter McCoy on Radical Mycology

Ruminant Short: Why you should plant more trees in the nursery

e.43: Molly Haviland on the Soil Food Web, pt. 2 of 2

e.42: Molly Haviland on the Soil Food Web, part 1 of 2

e.41: Chris Marquardt on Commercial Beekeeping

e.40: Three Québécois Farmers Share Three Great Ideas for Your Farm

e.39: Farm Interns, Labour Laws, and Fair Compensation for Your Farm Help

e.38: Carol Miles on Commercial Dry Bean Production on Small-Scale Farms

3.37 Lisa G.K. on Starting a Raw Millk Dairy on the 53rd Parallel

e.36: Rhys Pender on why wine matters

e.35: Culinary Herb Production Done Well part 2 of 2

e.34: Culinary Herb Production Done Well part 1 of 2

e.33: Nathanael Johnson on the GMO Debate

e.32: Best practices for farmers selling to restaurants and chefs part 2 of 2

Two chefs on exclusivity and accessibility in the gourmet food context

e.30: Krista Rome on Growing Grains and Legumes on a Small Scale

e.29: Matt Gomez on Online Marketing for your Farm Business