Dec 31, 2025
I invited Janisse Ray for this New Year’s Eve episode because I wanted to start the year grounded in the idea of place, rooted in connection, and inspired in your seed work.
Janisse is a writer, naturalist, and farmer based in south Georgia.She is the author of The Seed Underground and Journey in Place, and writes...
Dec 24, 2025
As we wrap up this year, I want to do something a little bit different. At the end of every Seed Farmer conversations I ask my guests two questions
1- What would you tell your younger seed-growing self?
2- What would you say to market growers & gardeners to inspire them to start growing seed?
The answers I get are...
Dec 16, 2025
So I’ve been quietly working on something since April. It hasn’t exactly been a secret, but it has mostly stayed under wraps. In this episode, it’s finally time to share that project.
The big news: I’ve co-written a book with Julia Shanks of The Farmer’s Office, and we’ve just submitted the manuscript...
Dec 10, 2025
Alexis Yamashita is a community organizer, seed grower, and PhD student in Food Systems at the University of Vermont. Alexis has also been deeply involved with seed-based cooperatives. She helped found and served as co-director of Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, she co-managed the seed racks division of Southern...
Dec 3, 2025
Fred Thériault is a farmer and founding member of Tourne-Sol co-operative farm in Les Cèdres, Quebec, where they grow vegetables for 500 weekly CSA baskets and an acre of seed crops. I say “they” but I should guess I mean “we” because I farm with Fred at Tourne-Sol and we’ve been great friends for the last...