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New Seeds from Baker Creek – Epi-3445

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Hi, my name is Jack and I am a seed addict.  I have tried to get this monkey off my back for decades now.  Every year about Christmas time when the mood shifts to getting ready for spring I say something like this to myself, “This year I am just going to grow the 10 or so things that do really well with very little work for us that we use a lot of.  Just like my grand paw used to do”. About that time the dealers “pull me back in” and one of the worst offenders of the bunch … Continue reading →

Baker Creek Seeds is My Crack Dealer – Epi-3008

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Hi, my name is Jack and I am a seed addict.  I have tried to get this monkey off my back for decades now.  Every year about Christmas time when the mid shifts to getting ready for spring I say something like this to myself, “This year I am just going to grow the 10 or so things that do really well with very little work for us that we use a lot of.  Just like my grand paw used to do”. About that time the dealers “pull me back in” and one of the worst offenders of the bunch … Continue reading →

Episode-2563- Thirty New Plants from Baker Creek to Grow in 2020

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Well the dang Baker Creek catalog showed up and I got sucked in.  As I paged though it thinking about all the new grow space I will have in the coming season I started dog-earing pages.  As I did so I thought hell, why not a show on some cool stuff to grow from the Rare Seeds catalog this year? Some of this stuff is hard to find anywhere but Baker Creek, some you can find at many other places.  Remember we need lots of small seed companies in business to keep the diversity so even though I am focusing … Continue reading →

Episode-2460- Understanding Disease Resistant Vegetable Varieties

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The typical story about disease and vegetables is something like this from the all natural crowd…. Just use compost and good organic fertility, build good soil and it won’t be a problem. Yea, um, about that, look good soil, good fertility and abundant soil life and minerals go a long way to healthy plants, but they don’t eliminate all diseases.  Some of my beans are developing a fungus referred to as rust this year.  Why?  It is so much wetter then normal.  The same beds are growing jalapenos the size of cigars, there is nothign wrong with the soil. In … Continue reading →

Episode-1152- Jere Gettle of Baker Creek on Heirloom Seeds

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Jere Gettle always had a passion for growing things.  With the help of his parents, he planted his first garden at age 3 and became enchanted by the possibilities of what could be created with seeds, sunshine, and soil.  He began saving, collecting, and trading  seeds.  By age 13, preserving historical varieties had become his mission in life. At the age of 17, he printed the first small Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog in 1998 His little homestead near Mansfield, Missouri, now includes an impressive seed store, 2 huge warehouses for storing and packing seeds, multiple trial gardens, and an … Continue reading →

Episode-1054- The How, What and Why of Saving Seeds

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I was talking with Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design yesterday about how more and more small seed companies are now buying at least some seed from companies associated with the ilk of Monsanto. Ben was pretty shocked to hear the Johnny’s Selected Seeds is buying some of their seeds from Semanis, which is owned by Monsanto. There is a lot of fear about GMO contamination both legitimate and ridiculous specifically when the word Monsanto comes up. The best solution is to save your own seeds but we are going to also discuss how to know who you can trust … Continue reading →

Episode-974- Stephen Scott from Terroir Seeds

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Stephen Scott is co-owner of Terroir Seeds along with his wife Cindy.  Terroir is a family owned and operated heirloom seed company that focuses on the “Cycle of Terroir” defined as “from the soil, to the seed, to the food you eat”.  Terroir seeds provides unique varieties of heirloom seeds, education and information for all phases of the “Terroir Cycle”. Stephen has a business background, from management of a nationally known rental car agency to warranty administrator for a local car dealership. He is an acknowledged chili-head who loves the hotter side of things and loves to cook. He feels … Continue reading →

Episode-943- Tim Ammons of Oleo Acres Farm

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Tim Ammons runs Oleo Acres farm a self sustaining farm that teaches individuals the old fashioned way of being “Green”.  He joins us today to discuss self sustainable living and farming as a way to support family and community. On his 20 acre farm in Tennessee Tim still practices many techniques and skills that have largely been lost.  Such as the growing of 7 very old heirloom varieties of sorghum which are then converted into sorghum syrup using old methods.  At one time sorghum syrup was the most common sweetener in the US, Tim is still growing it and making … Continue reading →

Episode-614- Seed Saving, Seed Banks & Seed Storage

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So yesterday I did a show one could only call alarming about GMOs and the problems they are creating for society in the name of science and supposedly feeding the world.  Though one wonders how putting round up resistant bent grass on golf courses will fee anything? Today true to the TSP mission I turn to one of the personal solutions to this problem, preserving the genetic diversity of our existing seed stocks. There is also a ton of confusion in the seed marketplace today about exactly what a GMO is, what a hybrid is and what an “heirloom” seed … Continue reading →

Emergency Seed Banks and Open Pollinated vs Hybrid vs GMO

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In this video I don’t just review the emergency seed bank from Directive21.com I dispel many myths about GMOs vs. Hybrid Variety seeds.  Emergency seed vaults are in my view an outstanding addition to your long term preps but the hype in the emergency seed industry is really misleading.  Tune into this video for hard and somewhat harsh facts about emergency seed products and the real reasons to invest in them vs. the fear based marketing of many other manufactures. Having seeds is a vital part of preparation and survival. One really great seed bank is the seed bank that … Continue reading →