Travis from Backyard Berry on Substack shares about his series "Building a Sustainable Nursery".

His favorite trees: Pawpaws, Persimmons, and Pin Cherries (for the birds).

We also talk about his series on "Homegrown National Park". Everyone was talking about national parks being affected by Federal land sales a few weeks ago. Travis posted that "What if the largest national park in America wasn’t a remote wilderness, but your own backyard?"

The idea: "transforming America’s private land into vibrant habitat corridors that restore biodiversity and ecological health."

Travis also shares about what it is like to work on an organic vegetable farm.

Episode show notes: Ep. 164 - Building a Sustainable Nursery with Backyard Berry

Times are tough. You want to be more self sufficient and grow more food, with enough to share with family and friends or even sell some of that surplus.

You've heard of this "food forest" thing, but it's so overwhelming to get started. I can help.

My Thriving Food Forest Design can help you realize your dreams of an food forest that will come back every year so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. Schedule your FREE Discovery call with me at Thriving Food Forest.

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The seed displays are gone from the store. You can outdo the normies by planting a great Fall garden - even in the heat of July.

It's July in Kansas, and next week we are going to break 100 for the first time this Summer. We have had a lot of rain.

None of the stores have any plants left. Around here, all the seed displays disappear around 4th of July and everything goes on clearance. This year I got a ton of stuff. I followed Grant Payne’s model and I went around and just cleaned out the clearance items. I got fig trees at Lowe’s, blackberries from Ace Hardware, and lots and lots of echinacea. I've got all kinds of different colors of echinacea that I planted pretty much everywhere.

Plant a great Fall garden - even in the heat of July! Hear how to start sensitive greens and carrots, and how to plant squash and beat the wave of squash bugs.

Episode show notes: Ep. 163 – Plant a Fall Garden in July!

Times are tough. You want to be more self sufficient and grow more food, with enough to share with family and friends or even sell some of that surplus.

You've heard of this "food forest" thing, but it's so overwhelming to get started. I can help.

My Thriving Food Forest Design can help you realize your dreams of an food forest that will come back every year so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. Schedule your FREE Discovery call with me at Thriving Food Forest.

Grow Nut Trees still has chestnuts, hazelnuts, comfrey. Get them planted before Summer!

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Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew and I talk about soil health, and what does nitrogen poisoning look like?

• My leaves turned brown, despite enough watering. Maybe I gave them too much nitrogen?
• Overuse of phosphorus causes plants to not be able to uptake zinc, magnesium, calcium. That's another reason why our food is mineral deficient.
• Wrigglebrew is even used by soy farmers to reduce their nitrogen load and move a little more toward regenerative farming methods.
• Compost tea only has a shelf life of 24-48 hours. How does Wrigglebrew maintain the flora and be shelf stable?
• Sam also shares about Wrigglebrew's research - a scientific gov't grant to use worms to digest plastic.

Wrigglebrew is a fertilizer made from worm castings, but it goes farther by adding helpful soil bacteria, mycorrhizae, and mycelium. The mycelium is a species that will not grow into mushrooms, if that is a concern. You can use it as soil fertilizer or foliar feed spray. Wrigglebrew started as a project at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to offer a solution to combat the nitrogen runoff that causes red tide - algae bloom in the Gulf (of America).

Episode show notes: Ep. 162 - Talking Soil Health with Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew

Times are tough. You want to be more self sufficient and grow more food, with enough to share with family and friends or even sell some of that surplus.

You've heard of this "food forest" thing, but it's so overwhelming to get started. I can help.

My Thriving Food Forest Design can help you realize your dreams of an edible foodscape or perennial paradise that will come back every year so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. Schedule your FREE Discovery call with me at Thriving Food Forest.

Grow Nut Trees still has chestnuts, hazelnuts, comfrey. Get them planted before Summer!

GrowNutTrees.com