Hello and welcome back to the Community Ag Project Podcast. In season 2 episode 7, we sit down with Yolanda Gonzalez, “an Urban Agricultural Specialist with the Harvest NY program. In this role, she provides technical assistance and educational programming for urban farmers and gardeners across the five boroughs of New York City.”

Yolanda has been in this role for 7 years, so I ask her some questions about her journey! In our conversation, we talk about what the agriculture extension does, who is serves, and what, more specifically, the agriculture community is like in NYC.

We also discuss her current initiatives, including CRAFT, the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training. We also talk about available online urban agriculture programming, and Yolanda’s ongoing Community Mushroom Educator project.

We later touch on NYC soil classification, city soil lead contamination, and experiments with growing ginger.

To learn more about Yolanda and her work, check out her instagram @the_agrotourista and the @urbanag.nyc page.

Here is an expanded profile on Yolanda and some other links that she mentions throughout the episode:

https://cals.cornell.edu/yolanda-gonzalez

Community mushroom educator:

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/mushrooms/

CRAFT program:

https://craftfarmapprentice.com

Cornell cooperative extension page:

https://harvestny.cce.cornell.edu

Map of NYC ag:

https://mapnyc.herokuapp.com

Thanks for tuning in and be sure to check out the remainder of season 2.

Welcome back to the Community Agriculture project. In episode 6, we sit down with RJ Noble of the New Hampshire Hemp Company.

In our discussion, we cover the difference between CBD, CBG and THC, navigating the hemp laws in New Hampshire, industrial applications of hemp, soil practices on his farms, quorum sensing and more!

To get in touch with RJ about his work, you can visit his instagram @nhhempco

Hello and welcome back to the Community Agriculture Project Podcast.

In episode 5, we welcome Javier Flores, a farmer based out of San Diego. Javier got his start working in his local food system at the Wild Willow Farm and Education Center, and now works with the Seeds@City Sustainable Agriculture.

We discuss Javier’s transition into working in the food system and finding mentors in the agriculture space. We talk about the developing community at Seeds@City and around Javier’s work in general. We also get into farming seed vs growing food, Javier’s vision for his local seed bank, and gardening at the Tijuana River Valley Community Garden space.

Javier shares the key values that he holds while in farming/education spaces, and the rituals that keep him grounded in his work.

Below are some of the resources Javier shared throughout our talk:

Organic Seed Alliance

https://seedalliance.org

The Milpa Initiative

https://www.plantspeoplecommunity.org/the-milpa-initiative

San Diego Seed Farmer Training

https://www.plantspeoplecommunity.org/san-diego-seed-farmer-training

Native Seed Search and the ADAPTS Collection Database

https://www.nativeseeds.org

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Food Shed - Food Distribution Hub in San Diego

https://www.foodshedcooperative.com

Wild Willow Farm

https://www.wildwillowfarm.org

Seeds@City Farm

https://www.sdcity.edu/community/seeds/index.aspx

Thanks for tuning in!