Guest: Anna MuddI met Anna Mudd via Instagram and forged a friendship before I realized she was grafting the very queens that end up in my hive. Eventually, I got to meet her in real life at the apiary where she works, from where I bought my hive. Anna...

Guest: Jeffrey HickeyJeffrey Hickey is a medical cannabis grower and cannabis educator whose blog My 2020 Isolation Grow is featured on Oaksterdam University’s website. Jeffrey is also a terrific gardener. In this episode, we talk about medical...

Guest: Kristyn LeachKristyn Leach is a small commercial farmer located in Winters, California. At Namu Farm, she specializes in Korean and Asian produce and produces seeds for Kitazawa seeds. We talk about her journey through farming and seed keeping...

Dustin Schell and Alexander Chee were longtime residents of New York City who recently found an opportunity to fulfill their dreams of full-scale gardening. Dustin previously had a community garden plot the size of a grave in New York City. It was...

Guest: Doug JonesDoug Jones is one of my mentors–he’s my grandmaster at his dojo, DJ’s Martial Arts, located on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland’s Laurel District. He is also a horseman and rancher.With the onset of the pandemic, he has transformed his...

Kanchan Dawn Hunter is co-director of the Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project, which operates as a nursery, a community garden, a foodshed, and an education resource that welcomes anyone and all in the community to participate. As a single...

Guest Yolanda Burrell is/was the owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden in Oakland. It has been one of my happy places, not the least of which is due to Yolanda’s positive and warm energy. She built Pollinate to create a community and to recreate the memory...

Introduction to Backyard Politics