Digging in the Dirt - Archives

Rewildlongisland.org w/ Gloria Frazee #4

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:52:48 -0500

Gloria Frazee joins me as a regular monthly guest on Digging in the Dirt. Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton.

Gloria Frazee Rewild Long Island #3

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:50:29 -0500

The latest from Gloria and Rewildlongisland.org

Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:48:24 -0500

I want you to welcome back Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island. At ReWild, Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.

Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:45:14 -0500

My guest this episode of Digging in the Dirt is Gloria Frazee. Gloria is Secretary of the East Hampton Energy & Sustainability Committee. At ReWild, she is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton. You can find her talking with folks about turning food scraps into soil food at the ReWild table at Springs Farmers Market in East Hampton most Saturdays. ReWild Long Island is dedicated to collaborating with local communities across Long Island to protect and improve the biodiversity, resilience and health of regional ecosystems.

Diego Osses - Transition Director Green Village Initiative

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:42:37 -0500

Diego Osses is an Agricultural engineer with an MBA and a Masters degree in Finance who has extensive experience in farm management, international business development, and diplomacy. He brings over 25 years of experience developed in both his home country of Chile and abroad in countries such as China and Thailand. During his first year working with GVI, Diego was responsible for coordinating the 3 main GVI programs: Reservoir Community Farm, Community Gardens, and Youth Leadership; contributing to the GVI mission of creating a more just food system in Bridgeport. Currently, Diego is actively planning the extension of GVI programs throughout 2024 and exploring innovative methods of community engagement through urban gardening and farming.

Westport Community Garden - Chairman Lou Weinberg

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:40:56 -0500

My guest on this show of “Digging in the Dirt” has been Chairman of the Westport Community Gardens for 20 years. He also has been Director of Long Lots Preserve for the last 2 years and a Sixth grade science teacher for 20 years. In the past he has run programs in New York City for recycling and alternative fuels for transit buses The first time Lou was here we discussed the existential threat to the Westport Community Garden and apparently the situation has gone from bad to worse. The garden has been targeted by the towns politicians for destruction.

Joe Gloria Garden Guru at Gilbertie's Nursery Westport

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:35:44 -0500

Up next on Digging in the Dirt is a local, guy Joe Gloria. Joe works for one of the gardening establishments just about everybody in the area has been to one time or another and that's Gilbertie's. They've always been at the forefront of organic from the beginning. Joe Gloria is a garden guru of plants, shrubs, and perennials alike. Joe Gloria has a passion for caring for plants and the people who love them! We going to learn about vermicompost teas.

Alice Ely Master Gardener and Composter

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:33:37 -0500

My next guest is Alice Ely. Alice is a UConn Advanced Master Gardener & Master Composter, and the creator of multiple public and private butterfly gardens in Fairfield County. She speaks frequently on the importance of gardening for habitat, food and not least of all, joy. In addition to promoting native plants through the Pollinator Pathway, and educating on sustainable gardening at Westport’s Wakeman Town Farm, and Weston’s Town Farm, when she's not out digging in the dirt of her own garden, she coaches homeowners on how to garden sustainably, through her business, Gardenwithalice.com

Raju Rajan of ReWild Long Island

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:19:15 -0500

My guest now is Raju Rajan. Raju describes himself as a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. Raju is one of the founders of ReWild Long Island and currently serves as Board President. Raju is an avid gardener and amateur tree-enthusiast, he also owns and manages a small agroforest in India dedicated to rewilding and permaculture.
ReWild Long Island is accepting applications from community groups to join their ReWild LI Gardens program.

Ralph Baskin Photographer/WPKN staffer The experience of going solar on your house

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:14:21 -0500

My guest on DITD today is Ralph Baskin. Ralph is a Retired IT cost consultant turned photographer who moved to CT from NY over 40 years ago where he lives in, and has improved, a small 1890's Victorian farmhouse.
Ralph and I have found common ground with our views on the environment and have had many conversations about solar which I have dabbled with and Ralph has had a lot of experience, having adding a solar system to his own home. Besides my intention to always feature local guests and listeners of WPKN, I thought we all could learn more about going solar by hearing about Ralph's experiences.

Monique Bosch Soil Health Technician CT. NOFA

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:05:05 -0500

My guest today on Digging in the Dirt is Monique Bosch. Monique has designed and built over 40 edible school and community gardens and farms throughout New England, including a 2-acre urban farm in Bridgeport CT. She works with CT. NOFA as a Soil Health Technician as well. She has founded and run… for profit and non-profit entities, including Green Village Initiative (GVI) and Wiggle Room LLC. Monique teaches ‘How to Grow Your Own Food’ classes and speaks on healthy soil and community gardening, sharing her knowledge of regenerative agriculture practices, and community building. I invited her here today to talk about what we can do now… here in the fall, to better our soil so we can have successful results next spring and summer.

Lou Weinberg Westport Community Garden

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:17:56 -0500

My guest on this segment of “Digging in the Dirt” is Chairman of the Westport Community Gardens for 20 years. He has been Director of Long Lots Preserve for the last 18 months. A Sixth grade science teacher for 20 years, has run programs in New York City for recycling and alternative fuels for transit buses. He is here to discuss the apparent existential threat to the Westport Community Garden.

Bill Lucey Sound Keeper for Save the Sound

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:13:18 -0500

My guest this afternoon is Save the sounds Soundkeeper Bill Lucey. Bill is a fish and wildlife biologist with more than two decades of experience studying and conserving marine life. He is also an experienced commercial fisherman and environmental educator.
As your on-the-water watchdog, Bill upholds Save the Sound’s mission to protect and restore Long Island Sound. Bill is backed by Save the Sound’s expert legal team and water monitoring program to help identify polluters and hold them accountable.
The Soundkeeper is your eyes and ears on Long Island Sound.

Long Island sound

Sam Goldenberg - Growing Carmella Tomatoes

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:10:31 -0500

My guest this afternoon is Samuel Goldenberg. Samuel is a Grandfather, Gardener and most importantly for me a tomato grower.
For 20 years, he has saved the seeds and grown them every year. They are very big Roma tomatoes and are tremendous. He even supplies some Italian restaurants in New Haven (Skappo, L'Orcio) with plants to grow ever season.

Dan Martens V.P. Novamont NA Bio-plastics

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:00:00 -0500

My guest this episode of DITD is Vice-President of Novamont N.A. Dan Martens. Not only are Dan and Novamont great friends of WPKN
Novamont is a leader in the world of bioplastics and a long time supporter of WPKN radio. Novamont promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.

Joe Magazzi - Owner Green Earth Ag & Turf 2024

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:46:03 -0500

My next guest Joe Magazzi small business man here in CT would be helpful to everyone looking to do the right thing by our gardens organically. Joe is a good friend of mine and WPKN. Joe owns and operates Green earth Ag and turf up in Branford Ct. and he’s on line at Grow it naturally. Com. Where his company sells Proven & Easy Organic Products for Plants, Turf & Trees. I personally rely on Green earth to get quality products for my own garden.

Robert Peck - Mgr. Green Village Initiatives Youth Leadership Program & Students 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:28:07 -0500

My guests on DITD today are Robert Peck and students Kimberly and DJ. Robert manages Green Village Initiatives Youth Leadership Program, which has a summer employment program in which they employ Bridgeport High School students to work and learn about how to operate an urban farm. Participants spend 8 weeks through the summer at Reservoir Community Farm learning in workshops and thru hands-on experience on the farm. , Kimberly, and Dejhanae are 2 students who are in the program under Robert.
Green Village Initiative’s mission is to grow food, knowledge, leadership and community, through urban gardening and farming, and to create a more just food system.

Mark Ridsdill Smith - author "The Vertical Veg" - Guide to container gardening 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:24:35 -0500

My guest this afternoon is Mark Ridsdill Smith who wrote The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening on Chelsea Green Press. Mark has a website and Facebook page that inspires and supports people to grow food in small urban spaces. He has appear on many television shows and written for the Guardian’s Live better campaign. I'm pleased to have him here today to help us grow more food ourselves even in the tiny cramped spaces of the city.

Linley Dixon Co-Executive Director The Real Organic Project 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:19:19 -0500

My guest on this show is Linley Dixon back to DITD. Linley serves as a Farmer representative and Co-Director of the Real Organic Project. Linley owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colorado, with her husband and daughter. She holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Florida.

Mark Haubner President of the North Fork Environmental Council.

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:14:01 -0500

MY Guest this afternoon on DITD is Mark Haubner. Mark is currently president of the North Fork Environmental Council.
With a few other thoughtful people he has started a Food Waste to Compost and a Zero Waste Initiative for the eastern communities of Long Island and that's why I asked him to be here today. The Food waste to compost pilot program has been deemed a success in 2022 and now there is a community effort to expand the project with the goal of turning 100% of the table scraps on the East end of Long Island into compost.
Mark also serves as co-chairperson of the Riverhead Town Environmental Advisory Committee And he is on the Steering Committee of Drawdown East End. Mark has been environmentally conscious his whole life and over the last 15 years has been immersed in implementing sets of solutions to our problem of Planetary Overheating.

Tianna Kennedy Executive Director - Catskills Agrarian Alliance 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:12:34 -0500

My guest today is Tianna Kennedy. She has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. She is the executive director of Catskills Agrarian Alliance, a multi-stakeholder food sovereignty project working on many food related issues in the NY Catskills foodshed. Tianna, Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen also own and operate Star Route Farm, LLC, a diversified vegetable and small grain farm growing exclusively for mutual aid. The CAA evolved from The 607 CSA, an 800+ person multi-farm Community Supported Agriculture Project supporting 45 farms and food businesses in Otsego, Schoharie, and Delaware counties. Tianna is a member of the Watershed Ag Economic Viability Committee and is Treasurer for Draft Animal Power Network. In 2022, she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition by Rep. Antonio Delgado. She started the Catskills Chapter of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition. She is also a founding member of Delhi’s Bushel Collective and the Schooner Apollonia, a Hudson Valley Sail Freight venture.

The Church - April Gornik and Carl Safina 2024

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:09:09 -0500

My guests on “Digging in the Dirt" Monday afternoon are two committed environmentalists, renowned American landscape Artist April Gornik and McArthur fellow Carl Safina. Their respective organizations, The Church and the Safina Center are doing wonderful work in their own creative ways. They are coming aboard to talk about the April 1st 2024 Creativity Conference to be held at the Church. which is located in Sag Harbor long Island.

Maureen Gallagher Insurance Expert - Extreme weather events, rising losses 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:05:09 -0500

My guest today is a highly successful insurance agent Maureen Gallagher. I wanted to get Maureen's perspective on the the rise in Extreme weather events and the effects they have on the Insurance industry covering the losses incurred.
Maureen Gallagher is the Risk Management Group Agency President. Gallagher specializes in insurance placement, risk management consulting and expert opinions. She began her career almost 50 years ago and has held the titles of insurance underwriter, broker, claims consultant, expert witness, keynote speaker, historian, and teacher. She has been featured and profiled in numerous publications and was named by Crain’s Detroit Business as one of the “Best and Brightest” and as one of “Detroit’s Most Influential Women.” Risk and Insurance recognized Gallagher as a Workers Compensation and 2020 At Large “Power Broker” which identifies the best brokers in the country.

Extreme weather

Hurricane insurance coverage

Flood coverage

Insurance costs

Teal Lehto - Westernwatergirl on TikTok

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:59:14 -0500

My guest today is a young woman who is very concerned about climate change and the water crisis in the west, in particular and elsewhere generally and it appears so are many others, because she has over 45,000 Followers. Teal Lehto who posts TikToks about serious stuff, in a surprisingly hip and engaging manner in rapid fire delivery to get all the facts in … in just minutes . Using humor and a bit of salty language to reach her young viewers.

Joe Magazzi - Owner Green Earth Ag & Turf 2024

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:22:52 -0500

Vincent Kay Farmer - Garlic Grower/Beekeeper - Swords into Plowshares Farm 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:19:14 -0500

My guest here today on DITD is Vincent Kay a lifelong resident of Connecticut. Vincent happens to be one of Connecticut's top garlic growers. So I contacted him to buy seed and come to find out he worked for Pacifica Network News as well as NPR and as News Director at WPKN radio in Bridgeport From 1996-98.
Now after 38 years he operates the State's largest commercial beekeeping business and is the sole proprietor of Swords into Plowshares Honey, producing Connecticut's finest wildflower honey, and providing crop and orchard pollination services and in addition to all this grows a whole lot of garlic.

Park City Compost Principals Thomas Iezin & Andrew Tyrrell

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:15:43 -0500

My guests on this segment are Thomas Iezin Marketing Communications, and Assistant Operations Manager of the Park City Compost Initiative And Andrew Tyrrell, the Operations Manager for Park City Compost Initiative where they want to create a non-profit commercial composting site for Bridgeport and the surrounding cities and towns. Andrew Is a Master's Composter.
Park City Compost started composting their neighbor's food scraps in 2019 and it now has over 100 participants from which they collect weekly food scraps, create compost with it and give it back to the community. They have diverted more than 30,000 pounds of food waste and spread 15 cubic yards of compost throughout Bridgeport.

Woody Tasch - Founder Beetcoin & Slow money

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:13:52 -0500

Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Chelsea Green Press
SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, and
AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage, sustainability-promoting companies. He is the founder of Slow Money and most recently Beetcoin.

Daphne Dixon Co-Founder Live Green Ct. Network - Cross Country EV Trip 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:58:50 -0500

Daphne Dixon is Co-founder and Executive Director at Live Green Network in Ct. Daphne along with Alyssa Murphy went on a coast to coast EV road trip, going from one United States coast to another
in a Ford Mustang Mach-E all-wheel drive EV. In the middle of this trip Daphne came on Digging in the Dirt to fill us in on what was going on and now she is back to give her final report and assessment of what happened on this unique trip and talk about the future of electric vehicles.

Craig LeHoullier Author "Epic Tomatoes 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:54:26 -0500

I’m pleased to welcome back to “Digging in the Dirt… Gardener, author, educator, podcaster blogger and frequent collaborator with Joe Lamp’l of the Joe Gardener TV show… Craig LeHoullier.
In addition Craig wrote one of the great books on tomatoes, It's called Epic Tomatoes. Beautiful to look at and a very good resource for all of us tomato geeks.

Nick Skeadis - Curbside Compost - 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:50:43 -0500

My guest today is Nick Skeadas a Connecticut man who has a business that makes him a living and helps the planet at the same time. Nick manages Curbside Compost, a resource recovery company in Southern Ct. Nick and his wife Erica are raising their two children in Ridgefield, where the family practices thoughtful living. Nick is here because I personally believe that we are not going to get out of many of the environmental problems we face without the help of business.

Dan Martens of Novamont March 2022 "Digging in the Dirt"

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:16:46 -0500

A continuing conversation with the Vice-President of Novamont N.A.
NOVAMONT is a leader in the world of bioplastics. It promotes a new model of bioeconomy in the logic of the circular economy, not only based on efficiency and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration.

Paula J. Ehrlich - C.E.O, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation & Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:10:31 -0500

My guest on this episode of Digging in the Dirt is President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Paula J. Ehrlich. The Half-Earth Project's purpose is to inspire informed collective action to save the biosphere.

Pine Cone Kitchen Owners Kayla Burton and Greg Lusson "Black Garlic"

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:08:33 -0500

I have been interested in Black Garlic ever since two fans of DITD Anne and Jim suggested I check out Black Garlic and do a show about it .Then my friend and colleague, the sorely missed Guy Beardsley, gave me two heads of Black garlic when I bought seed garlic from him for my garden a while back and I've been hooked ever since. Now I have finally found someone to talk to about Black Garlic with me. That's why these self described food lovers and Black Garlic makers Kayla Burton and Greg Lesson are here today.

Freedom Gerado & Liz Guerra Seamarron Farmstead Farmers 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:04:15 -0500

My guests today are Hector Gerado and Liz Guerra owners of SeaMARRON Farmstead near Danbury CT. They have been community and union organizers and They are BIPOC NYers from the Bronx turned #homesteaders #hempfarmers #beekeepers 🐝|| Hosts of the @bluedreamradio_ podcast Liz is also a Full spectrum doula/birth worker

Dan Kittredge Executive Director The Bionutrient Food Association 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:54:06 -0500

My guest today on Digging in the DIrt is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association Dan Kittridge. Dan has been here many times before . He is a good friend of WPKN and Digging in the Dirt. We talk Bio-nutrious food and the Bionutrient Meter.

Zach Loeks - The Edible Ecosystem solution 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:51:15 -0500

My guest today is Zach Loeks author, educator, designer and grower who specializes in edible ecosystems around the world. He is also the director of the ecosystem solution institute and author of the book “The Permaculture Market Garden” and he's here to talk to me about his new book “THE EDIBLE ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION".. Growing Biodiversity in your backyard and beyond.

Vicki Hird - Rebugging the planet 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:46:54 -0500

My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arena. She is here today to talk about her latest book - Rebugging the Planet - The Remarkable Things that Insects(and Other Invertebrates) Do – and Why we need to love them more. Chelsea Green Publishing

Sefra Alexandra Former Coordinator CTNOFA Ecotype Project 2022

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:44:20 -0500

My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success. She was taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative, The Ecotype Project. She is here today to talk about that project as well as the eco59 project.

Pollinator Pathways - Dave Carr West Haven CT.

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:37:59 -0500

My guest on this program is Dave Carr Lead organizer for Pollinator Pathways West Haven. The goal of this group is to install native perennial plants while building community and educating people about the importance of pollinators to support insects that also feed migrating birds. The project started in 2019. Dave founded Earth lobbyist.com in 2018. Earth lobbyists is a nonpartisan educational resource containing original writing, original photographs and a virtual Art Gallery which was recently part of the New Haven Open Studios. The goal of Earth lobbyist.com is to engage climate change deniers where they live.

John Conroy - Docent for California Elephant Seals Rookery

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:36:09 -0500

My guest on this program is my friend John Conroy, whom I went to H.S. with. He was telling me about his new interest as a Docent for Elepahant seals in the San Louis Obispo California area. Some of the males can be as large as 5000 lbs. I thought it would be interesting to hear all about his experiences on "Digging in the Dirt".
John has had a life long interest in nature, the wild and wildlife. He got involved with the Elephant Seal rookery when he saw an article in the paper about it and the people that volunteer there.

Jesse Frost - Author, The Living Soil Handbook

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:33:48 -0500

My gueston this "Digging inthe Dirt" is regenerative Farmer, author and host of the popular "No till Market Garden podcast'" Jesse Frost. Jesse farms at a farm in Kentucky with his wife Hannah Crabtree called Rough Draft Farmstead. He is here on "Digging in the Dirt" to talk with me about his new book. The Living Soil Handbook - The no till growers guide to ecological market growing.

Jessica Damiano - Garden Columnist - Talking Tomatoes 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:30:03 -0500

My guest here on DITD is Jessica Damiano AP gardening columnist, Journalist, Garden Coach, Community Educator and Author. Her news letter is called The Weekly Dirt. Jessica's Gardening Calendar was named a winner in the 2021 Garden Communicators International Media Awards. The calendar can be Considered she says 365 visits from a gardening friend who stops by every day of the year with tips, advice, inspiration and timely reminders about what needs to be done in the garden and when.

Biodiversity For A Livable Climate -Adam Sacks Exec. Dir. 2018

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:27:41 -0500

Join Kevin this time, as he speaks with Adam Sacks, Executive Director of BIODIVERSITY FOR A LIVABLE CLIMATE, who's mission is Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming. The concept is fascinatingly simple. Cure what ails the climate of the planet working with the natural systems of our planet.

Arthur Davis - Director The Rich Earth Institute 2023

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:05:29 -0500

My guest today on DITD is Arthur Davis a Director, researcher and Portable Toilet coordinator at the Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro Vermont. The Rich Earth Institute engages in research, education and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource. Arthur directs Rich Earth Institute's Urine Nutrient Reclamation Program, which is a community-scale urine recycling program. In this role, Arthur helps get urine from the point of collection, through the treatment process, and finally to farms to use as fertilizer.

Jon Stokes of ThePrepared.com Prepping for the worse 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:08:24 -0500

My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is Jon Stokes, was an editor and writer for a web site called ThePrepared.com. He is here with me today because I have a confession to make, I'm kind of a prepper. After Sandy and other storms, I have started gathering supplies in preparation for events that may be out of my control. So I looked around the internet for some good advice. I found Theprepard.com and found out I'm basically a half assed prepper. Here is what I learned.

Pollinator Pathway Louise Washer 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:55:27 -0500

My next guest here on "Digging in the Dirt" Is Louise Washer she is president of the Norwalk River Watershed Association, serves on the Norwalk Mayor’s Water Quality Committee and the steering committee for the Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership (H2H). She also serves on the steering committee of the Pollinator Pathway Northeast project, which she helped found in 2017 and has helped expand to over 100 towns in CT, NY, and PA. The situation with our pollinators is one of the most import environmental issues of our time. It's something each and everyone of us could have a great impact on.

Linley Dixon Assc. Dir. - The Real Organic Project 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:51:04 -0500

My guest today on Digging in the Dirt is Linley Dixon.
Linley is the Associate Director of the Real Organic Project, a non-profit farmer-led organization to protect the integrity of USDA Organic. She is here to talk about the January 2021 Real Organic Project Virtual Symposium coming up next year. Linley co-owns a 5-acre certified organic vegetable farm in Durango, CO with her husband and brother called Adobe House Farm.

John Liu Ecosystems Restoration Camps

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:48:07 -0500

John D. Liu, Ecosystem restoration researcher, educator and filmmaker, has dedicated his life to sharing real-world examples of once-degraded landscapes newly restored to their original fertile and biodiverse beauty. He represents Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a grassroots movement where everyday people like you can have a real impact, directly.
Their big goal is to have one million people come together by 2030 and restore degraded lands in 100 camps around the world.

Frank Mortimer Bee Keeper/Author "Bee People and the bugs they love" Digging in the Dirt

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:24:42 -0500

My guest this week on "Digging in the Dirt" is Frank Mortimer “The Beeman”. Frank has written a new book entitled “BEE PEOPLE and the bugs they love” on Citadel Press. A very personal book about his life long passion and the people who keep bees. If you ever thought about keeping bees you may want to listen to this Digging in the Dirt
frankthebeeman.com/

Nigel Palmer Author - The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments - Digging in the Dirt

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:23:23 -0500

The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments
Using locally Sourced Materials to make mineral and Biological Extracts and ferments.
Nigel Palmer has been a lifelong gardener in New England relying on the amazing complexity of nature to inspire his gardening philosophy, as well as working as an aerospace engineer until recently... sorting, organizing, and resolving complex technical issues. He is the instructor and curriculum developer of the Sustainable, Regenerative Gardening program at The Institute Of Sustainable Nutrition

Craig Floyd Farmer/educator Giving Garden Mystic 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:02:13 -0500

On today's "Digging in te Dirt" my guest is Craig Floyd Farm Manager of the Giving Garden at Coogans Farm of the Denison Peqoutsepos Nature Center in Mystic CT. Craig is passionate about using his extensive farming experience creating a sustainable, healthy no-till, no-spray garden in order to give quality food to the needy.
Today I asked Craig here to talk to us about the current dilemma we find ourselves in and specifically talk with me about your backyard garden. How we can spend this extra time we have to make our gardens better, or how to start one if you don;t have one.
Craig knows how to grow food and he does it with love for his plants, the earth and the people he grows it for.

Craig Floyd Coogan Organic Farm in Stonington Ct. 2019

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:58:38 -0500

My guest on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt is Farmer Craig Floyd, Craig is Coogan Organic Farm’s Giving Garden full time farmer, “A no-spray, no-till farm "which supplies fruit and vegetables to 90 different community food banks. Coogan Farm, is a 400 year old Connecticut farm in Stonington Ct. on a peaceful, rural property on the banks of the Mystic River as part of the Denison Pequotsepos nature center. Catch Craig's wisdom for building healthy soil and growing healthy food.

Lynn Zinser - Climate Liability News- Former Founder & Editor

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:54:27 -0500

Lynn Zinser the founding editor of Climate Liability News, (Now Defunct) she was responsible for all editorial content, social media and media partnerships for CLN. Climate Liability News is a not-for-profit news site dedicated to reporting on the issues at the intersection of climate change impacts and law. Those issues include government and corporate responsibility and accountability for global warming and its consequences across society and around the world.

Crop Intensification System - Mark Fulford

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:48:52 -0500

On this segment of Digging in the Dirt, Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Mark Fulford a well known, independent farm consultant and educator whose range of topics and expertise encompasses: transitioning from conventional to organic and biological agriculture; soil, crop, and forage nutrition; and preparing agriculture for peak oil, climate change and economic drift. He also teaches non-electric water technologies, hands-on skills in organic orcharding, organic no-till crop production, commercial and small scale composting, as well as fundamental rural skills and small farm food preservation.

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Joe Magazzi Green Earth Ag & Turf - Effective Organic Products

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:44:04 -0500

On this segment of DITD Small Business owner Joe Magazzi walks us through many of the organic products for the lawn and garden that his company brings to consumers. We all have issues around the home with pests and disease pressure and Joe has a lot of quality organic solutions.

Green Earth Ag & Turf

Marcus ONeil - My Gardening loving Cousin From Clady Ireland

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:37:26 -0500

Through the world wide internet I have gotten to know that my cousin in Ireland is quite the gardener and lover of nature, just like me. I was curious to talk with him about our mutual interests in nature. My Grandmothers brother married his Grandmother and thats the connection. Marcus is a great guy who kissed the Blarney Stone so we had a great talk. I just wish radio had sub-titles! Enjoy a family chat.

Sefra Alexandra -Seed Huntress Ct. NOFA Ecotype Project- 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:34:13 -0500

My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally on island nations, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success and is now taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative The Ecotype Project.

Tobacco Road Farm Farmer Bryan O'Hara - "The Farmers Farmer"

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:31:31 -0500

Bryan O’Hara has been growing vegetables for a livelihood for more that 25 years at Tobacco Road Farm in Lebanon, CT. He speaks throughout the Northeast on vegetable production techniques and is known for providing “mountains of details in a concise, practical, and cohesive manner.” While interviewing people for DITD, numerous times I've been told to get Bryan on the show. More than just a farmer, here he is with a mountain of wisdom.

Growing Garlic - Farmer Doug Johnson of Sunrise Sunset Farm

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:27:04 -0500

On this episode of "Digging in the Dirt" my guest will be garlic farmer Doug Johnson of Sunrise, Sunset Farm in Woodbury CT. We'll talk about everything garlic and the Bethlehem Garlic festival coming up next weekend Oct. 6th & 7th. Listen in and I guarantee you'll be growing garlic in the backyard next season.

Sherri Brooks Vinton Author Put Em Up! Canning, Preserving

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:21:37 -0500

My guest today is here to talk about ways to save your garden excess for later enjoyment. Sherri Brooks Vinton has written a few very useful books called PUT EM UP! , The Put em Up! Perserving answer book. And Put Em Up, Fruit.

Khadijah Muhammad Urban Farmer of Blissful Awakening in Bridgeport CT 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:14:28 -0500

Khadijah Muhammad is a Urban farmer in Bridgeport Connecticut. She talks with me about the struggles to foster her passion of growing healthy food and educating her community to the advantages of gorwing and eating your own food.

Dr. Zach Bush - The Microbiome and the Gut/Brain connection

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:05:18 -0500

I sat down with well known author and speaker, Triple board certified, Dr. Zach Bush, to talk to him about the state of American health today. Among other thing, specifically the relationship between gut health and the microbiome and how that can translate to a healthy immune system. We also get into the major threat posed to all of us by glyphosates, better known as the weed killer Roundup.

The ideal soil - Michael Astera Author 2017

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:01:44 -0500

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Michael Astera the author of the book the ideal soil is kevins guest, as he talks about the secrets of soil mineral balance that create ideal soil, plant, and animal health are revealed here for the first time. The amazing results that can be achieved by balancing the major cation minerals Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium in the soil according to the teachings of Dr William Albrecht and Dr Carey Reams have changed the world of agriculture.

Michael E Mann - The Madhouse Effect - Climate Change denialism

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:59:14 -0500

On "Digging in the Dirt" Host Kevin Gallagher spends one hour talking with Michael E. Mann about Climate Change. The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have written a new book together entitled "The Madhouse Effect". Mann and Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars. You can hear about "The Madhouse Effect" on "Digging in the Dirt" here on WPKN.org,

Wakeman Town Farm in Westport Ct. - Kelsey Brennan & Christy Colasurdo 2020

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:49:23 -0500

My guests on this episode are Kelsey Brennan currently the farmer at Wakeman Town Farm in Westport Ct. She studied sustainable agriculture and development economics at the U of Conneticut and Christy Colasurdo – Events Director for the Wakeman Town Farm and author of The CT Farm Table Cookbook, a cookbook she co-wrote about 4 years ago paying homage to hardworking CT farmers and the talented local chefs who support them. She is the former co-chair of Wakeman Town Farm .

Plastic Pollution Coalition - Dianna Cohen Executive Director

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:45:41 -0500

My guest on DITD this segment, is Dianna Cohen the co-founder and Executive Director of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. A group of over 700 organizations and individuals dedicated to,.. at the very least, stopping the use of single use plastic. Dianna and I delve into the major crisis that is Plastic Pollution. It's everywhere and causing major problems. What's going on and what can we as consumers do about it. Listen in. www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/

Organic Consumers Association - Ronnie Cummins International Director 2018 RIP

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:42:07 -0500

There is a fight to protect the definitions of Organic and fraudulent mislabeling of organic products and your right to know what you are eating. My guest is Ronnie Cummins a co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) www.organicconsumers.org,
and its Mexico affiliate Via Organica, and they are at the forefront of that fight.
The Organic Consumers Association is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and sustainable system of agriculture and commerce. The OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national and global campaigns promoting health, justice, and sustainability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media work, litigation, and grassroots lobbying.

"The Potlikker Papers" John T. Edge - “A food History of the Modern South”

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:40:02 -0500

Join me for a fascinating conversation about the food and the people behind the stove of our southern states. John T. Edge calls himself a Cultural Spelunker going after tales of the south. He is the Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and has written an extremely interesting, complex book about the South. Using Southern food as a jumping off point, John T. digs deeply into the history of it's people and their struggles with the legacy of Slavery, race relations and the food their region is known for.

One Tree Planted with Matt Hill Chief Environmental Evangelist & founder 2019

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:32:05 -0500

On this "Digging in the Dirt" we talk to Matt Hill of One Tree Planted, A non Profit organization focusing on Global reforestation. They work with reforestation organizations around the world that need financial support to help them get more trees in the ground.
One dollar. One tree.

Bob Halstead Bridgeport Ct. - Community Garden Activist 2025

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:27:44 -0500

My guest on segment of DITD is Bob Halstead a well known person in Bridgeport Ct. Bob has worked this 28 years in housing & community development and real estate in Bridgeport, and is president of the Bridgeport Community Land Trust which has been around for 40 years. Bob is an architectural Preservation advocate and a community Garden and land use activist, Sometimes known as the Garden Guy, early on Bob had great success advocating turning the empty the lots of Bridgeport into community gardens. Currently he is working with the Harding Community Garden at Harding High School.

Vermicomposting - Worms - Rhonda Sherman of NC State 2018

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:21:47 -0500

Recently I started Vermicomposting in my basement. That's right, I have 1000 worms (soon to be 6000), reducing our kitchen waste and the New York times into "Black Gold", WORM CRAP! Join me on "Digging in the Dirt" to hear my conversation with my guest Rhonda Sherman. Rhonda is a solid waste specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. She is considered one of the leading authorities on vermicomposting. She was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Composting Council and a contributing editor to BioCycle Journal of Composting and Organics Recycling.
Rhonda has a two‐acre Compost Learning Lab at The Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory. The Compost Learning Lab has, among other things, a 40‐ft by 30‐ft building called the Worm Barn. To say Rhonda knows a lot about worm poop, would be an understatement.

Growing Organic Mushrooms - Tradd Cotter

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:19:10 -0500

My guest on this episode of DITD is Tradd Cotter author of the book 'Organic Mushroom Farming and Myco remediation'
His book is an exploration of the best organic mushroom cultivation practices, Whether the goal is to help a community clean up industrial pollution or simply to grow your own mushrooms to enjoy in your meals...Tradd's book is geared toward readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pesticides. Cotter takes "organic" one step further by introducing an entirely new way of thinking..one that looks at the potential to grow mushrooms on just about anything, just about anywhere, and by anyone

Worms with "Wiggle Room"- Monique Bosch & Justin Hawrysh

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:14:13 -0500

On this episode of " Digging in the Dirt" on listener supported community radio WPKN.org , I have invited on 2 guests who are CT. locals right here in WPKN 's backyard running a cool little business called Wiggle Room for their lively hood, while trying to make a difference at the same time. Monique Bosch and Justin Hawrysh are the Mother and son team behind Wiggle Room a Vermicomposting company based in Bridgeport, CT. In simpler terms they sell worm castings, worm poop, BLACK GOLD, .

Sarah Mabruch - Director The Food Cure (Film)- Hope or Hype-

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:11:42 -0500

On this episode of Digging in the Dirt, join me in a conversation with Director Sarah Mabruck. Sarah followed the lives of six aggressively ill cancer patients for nearly eight years with her camera, as they tried an alternative cure based on a radical diet change. The Food Cure - Hope or Hype is an extraordinary film that runs the gamut of emotions and will change the way you think about what you eat.

Organic Lawns - Chip Osborne Founder Organic Landscapers Association

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:08:43 -0500

The most chemically toxic environment you and your children and pets are exposed to is your landscaping. Find out what you can do about it, when Kevin Gallagher talks to “Chip” Osborne, Jr. , President of Osborne Organics. Chip has over 10 years experience in creating safe, sustainable and healthy athletic fields and landscapes through natural turf management and 35 years experience as a professional horticulturist. Chip is also a board member of Beyond pesticides. Chip has recently founded the Organic Landscape Association as this segment of the landscape industry begins to grow ever so rapidly.

Dan Kittredge Exec. Dir. of the Bionutrient Food Assoc. - The Bionutrient Meter 2018

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:56:17 -0500

Dan Kittredge is Executive Director of The Bio-Nutrient Food Association. Dan is making his 4th appearance on Digging in the dirt as we follow the BFA's effort s to develop a Bionutrient meter.
Listen in to hear about the Bionutrient Meter and the upcoming 8th annual Soil and Nutrition Conference in Southbridge Mass.
The conference will be.... “Exploring principles, techniques and practices at the intersection of farm and human ecosystems that can be applied to improve environmental sustainability, food quality and overall well-being.”

Dan Kittredge

Bionutrient Food Association

The Hidden Connection - Kathleen DiChiara - Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:52:57 -0500

Kathleen Di Chiara is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, among other things and Author of the bestselling book, The Hidden Connection. Her personal journey through a major health crisis and "cure" has brought her to her current calling as a nutrition educator and researcher, Kathleen has dedicated her work to increasing the public’s knowledge about the connection between nutrition and patterns of disease. She advocates a wide range of nutritional wisdom, food savy and self-care techniques.

Suzanne Duesing - Northeast Organic Farming Assoc. Bill Duesing Award

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:42:46 -0500

My guest this afternoon is Suzanne Duesing. Suzanne lived and worked with her partner Bill Duesing on the Old Solar Farm for three decades. Together they raised animals, fruits and vegetables for their family and community ...Her husband Bill is the founder of the CT chapter of NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, part of the larger network of chapters throughout New England, New York and New Jersey. He dedicated his entire adult life to the perpetuation of a sustainable, local and
organic food system.

Open Sesame - The story of Seeds - Film Director Sean Kaminsky

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:38:19 -0500

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with Director Sean Kaminsky to discuss his film about one of the world’s most precious resources that is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving documentary illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink…but given far less attention.

Hidden Half Of Nature - David Montgomery - Author

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:19:41 -0500

Host Kevin Gallagher speaks with David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt The duo wrote the book The Hidden Half of Nature which tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.

Beyond Pesticides - Director Jay Feldman - Our chemical World

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:17:13 -0500

Kevin Gallagher brings his guest Jay Feldman on Digging in the Dirt to talk about the effects the proliferation of chemicals in our food has on our health. Jay is a co-founder and Executive Director of the organization Beyond Pesticides and has served as its director since 1981. In Addition, Jay served a 5 year term on National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
Beyond Pesticides works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. They believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them.

Michigan Urban Farming Initiative - MUFI Tyson Gersh President

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:13:49 -0500

My guest on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt" is Tyson Gersh Co-founder & President of MUFI The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, which is billed as the 1st sustainable U.S. "Agrihood". The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to engage members of the Michigan community in sustainable agriculture. They believe that challenges unique to the Michigan community (e.g., vacant land, poor diet, nutritional illiteracy, and food insecurity) present a unique opportunity for community-supported agriculture. Using agriculture as a platform to promote education, sustainability, and community—while simultaneously reducing socioeconomic disparity—by doing this they hope to empower urban communities. Listen to "Digging in the Dirt" as Kevin checks out a Detroit Agrihood!

"The Perfect Earth Project" - Edwina von Gal

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:50:33 -0500

On this segment of "Digging in the Dirt" I'll be Talking to Edwina von Gal about her Perfect Earth Project. Founded in 2013 by Edwina, Perfect Earth Project is a rapidly expanding non-profit organization operating from offices in East Hampton, NY.
They raise consciousness about the dangers of synthetic lawn and garden chemicals to humans, animals, and the environment, and educate homeowners and professionals about natural, PRFCT (toxin-free) techniques that provide beautiful, safe results at no extra cost.
Perfect Earth Project promotes toxin-free lawns and landscapes for the health of people, their pets, and the planet.
If you have kids or pets who play on your lawn this is something you want to hear. perfectearthproject.org/

Lawn Facts:
• Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used annually in USA.
• 2-3 times the amount of pesticide are used on an acre of lawn vs. an acre of agriculture.
• Common landscape pesticides have been linked to autism, Parkinson’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, brain cancer, and endocrine disruption such as erectile dysfunction.
• Of the 30 most common lawn pesticides, 17 are probable or possible human carcinogens, 11 are linked with birth defects, 19 linked with reproductive effects, 14 associated with neurotoxicity, 24 linked to liver or kidney damage, 25 are sensitizers or irritants, and 18 are endocrine disrupters.
• In 2015, the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup (the most used pesticide in the USA), a "probable" human carcinogen.
• 185 million pounds of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) are used in the USA.

prefect Earth Project

chemicals on your lawns

Michael Mann - Countering Climate Change Denialism under Trump

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:47:39 -0500

On the eve of testifying in front of the US House of Representatives Science Committee eight years ago, Kevin welcomes back to another edition of Digging in the Dirt, Michael Mann. Michael is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, His latest book is entitled "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (2016)." The discussion revolves around the fight to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures on our planet under an environmentally hostile Trump regime.

Michael Mann

Global warming denialism'

The Ground Beneath Us - Paul Bogard - Author

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:45:19 -0500

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt is author Paul Bogard - Author. I Paul Bogard's mission in THE GROUND BENEATH US is to find out Is there any untrodden foot of ground left? Paul takes a closer look at what is going on with the layers of soil beneath our civilizations.
Increasingly we live separated from the natural ground itself, concealing from us our profound relationship to the source not only of our food, water, and energy, but to the many majestic, poetic, and yes, very basic, ways the ground sustains our lives. In short, the ground holds the facts that define us, but most of us know almost nothing of the world beneath our feet. Paul Bogard, beautifully, tells these stories of subsurface technologies like sewers to idyllic subterranean Eden's, from what and how we grow in the ground, to how we bury our dead and how our modern ways of reshaping our tiny planet may be the end of it all.

Paul Bogard

The Ground Beneath us

Digging in the Dirt

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Colorblends Tulip Bulb Company - Owner Tim Schipper It's all about Tulips

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:42:56 -0500

My guest this time around on "Digging in the Dirt" is Tim Schipper founder and owner of a Bridgeport business, Tulip Colorblends …....a wholesale bulb distributor and a WPKN radio supporter. Tim's family has been in the tulip Bulb business since Tim's Grandfather started the business back n the Netherlands in the early 1900's and brought it here to the US after WW ll. Listen up all you flower lovers!

Compact Farms - Josh Volk author

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:38:52 -0500

My guest on "Digging in the Dirt" this time around was Josh Volk talking about his new book "Compact Farms" 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency.
Josh in addition to his new book Compact Farms. He is the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm in Portland, Oregon, and has been working on and managing small farms around the country for the last 20 years, studying the systems that make them efficient.

"The Healthy soil movement" - Steven Rosenzweig - Ensia Magazine

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:36:32 -0500

I was reading an article in Ensia Magazine about a subject near and dear to me, soil. In fact it's called the healthy soil movement. The author Steven Rosenzweig joined me to discuss the fascinating things happening with farmers and the soil they grow our food in. The ideas and practices apply to all of us who grow food...small, large and corporate farmers and you the backyard gardener.
Ensia is an independent, nonprofit magazine presenting new perspectives on environmental challenges and solutions to a global audience.

Ira Haspel Bio Dynamic Farmer KK's Farm, Southhold NY

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:34:34 -0500

My guest today is Ira Haspel Bio-Dynamic Farmer and owner of KK's Farm in Southhold, NY on The North Shore of Long Island. This is Ira's second visit to "Digging in the Dirt" because he's here to talk about his up coming annual Dandelion Festival at the farm, to be held all day Sunday May 5th. Plus we'll get into chemical free growing through Bio-Dynamic principles.

Dave Chapman - Exec. Dir. Real Organic Project - Symposium 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:00:00 -0400

My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is The executive Director of the Real Organic Project. We will be talking about The 2021 Virtual Symposium happening every Sunday this coming January from 3-5pm EST! Five sessions of Speakers including Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Dan Barber, Alice Waters, Jean-Martin Fortier, Karen Washington, and many more!

Jennifer Jewell - The Earth in Her Hands 2021

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:01:00 -0400

My guest on this segment of "DIGGING IN THE DIRT" is Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998. Jennifer joins me here on DITD to talk about her book The Earth in Her

Permaculture w/ Peter Bane - Digging in the Dirt

Kevin Gallagher, WPKN — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Join me and my latest guest Peter Bane author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country. For 25 years, he published Permaculture Activist, and serves on the Editorial Board of its successor, Permaculture Design magazine. Past President and now Executive Director of PINA (Permaculture Institute of North America), he has taught and designed throughout the temperate and tropical Americas from Canada to Patagonia, training thousands in his workshops, and educating thousands more over the years.