Greenhorns Radio

Matthew Jose got his first taste of the farming life while tending livestock and running various educational programs at Overlook Farm in central Massachusetts. After his stint there, he moved way out west to Portland, OR to work in a fancy French bakery, making croissants and other delectables. While there, Matthew began to get involved with small-scale community garden projects. Tired of waking up at 2 a.m., Matthew made his way back east to assist community garden groups in New York City. He returned to Overlook Farm in 2005 to focus on growing vegetables, working as an assistant grower on the farm’s 3 acre veggie operation.
After all of the travelling, Matthew returned to his hometown of Indianapolis. He eventually began working for the Purdue University- Marion County Extension Service and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, helping to organize community gardens, garden education programs, and school beautification projects. During that time, he developed the short-lived Urban Farm Project – a program that used vacant lots for vegetable production in addition to training local high school students in small-scale farming practices. At the beginning of 2009, Matthew created Big City Farms in an effort to try and meet the growing demand for fantastic-tasting, locally-grown produce. He’ll talk a good talk about wanting to change the fabric of cities and alter our society’s concepts of where food ‘should’ come from – in reality, he just likes being able to bike down the street for coffee or a drink after tending his ‘fields’ too much to quit the city life.

Eric Herm grew up on a cotton farm near Ackerly, Texas. He left the farm to pursue other interests, traveling to various places across the world before returning to his roots. Upon arriving back on his family farm, he noticed many changes in not only the landscape but the methods of commercial agriculture that were causing more long-term problems. He began searching for answers to these problems, slowly discovering healthier organic methods which provided the inspiration for his book, Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth.

BR Shute of Hearty Roots Farm

Neysa King of Green Gate Farm in Austin TX.

Greenhorn Radio is back! Tune in this week Severine is joined by Josh Morgenthau of FishKill Farm. Fishkill Farms is an apple orchard and diversified fruit and vegetable farm in the town of East Fishkill, New York. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch – the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef.

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This week’s guest on Greenhorn radio is farmer Amber Reed. Severine met Amber at the Young Farmers Conferene @ Stone Barns, and the two get a chance to catch up on the radio! Amber explains why Colorado is such a tough state for raw dairy, how byproducts can be best utilized, and how beer is sometimes used to wash cheese. This episode was sponsored by our good friends at Hearst Ranch: the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef.

Join Severine for another episode of Greenhorn Radio; chronicling the life and times of the young farmers in our country. This week she sits down with Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm. Kristin is also an author, her latest book being “This Dirty Life” – which is, as she puts it “the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer.” This episode was brought to you by Hearst Ranch.

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This week Severine checks in with Erin Bullock of Mud Creek Farm in Victor, NY. Tune in and hear the awesome story of how Erin became a young farmer, how she realized that you CAN make a living as a farmer, and what her day to day life is like right now. This episode was kindly sponsored by our friends at Hearst Ranch.