Mark and Kristen Kimball of Essex Farm in Essex, New York, have farmed for over 20 years together. Mark and Kristen are known for their year-round, free-choice, whole-diet CSA model on 130 acres, with 22 acres and vegetables and access to 1,100 acres per grazing, haymaking, and sugaring, producing everything from veggies, fruit, grains, meat, dairy…

Farmer Sarah Patterson of Red Acre Farm in Cedar City, Utah, was just 14 years old when she started her first CSA on her parents' land after they moved to Utah from LA. Now, 15 years later, she has built Red Acre Farm into a thriving one-acre certified organic farm with a year-round, full-diet CSA, farm stand, farm kitchen, AND farm stay, along wit…

Kate Woods, farm manager of Beetlebung Farm in Chilmark, Massachusetts, along with her partner Nick, are the co-managers of a two-acre regenerative and primarily no-till farm on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Before its current iteration, the land had a rich history in agriculture, something of which that has been important to carry on for the is…

As their farm name suggests, Montana farmers Max Smith and Katie Madden of Winter Kissed Farm focus on growing vegetable crops year-round, especially during the winter seasons. On 15 acres and at 3,500 feet in elevation, they use multiple high-tunnels and caterpillar-tunnels to grow crops and sell them through a CSA, an online store, and to some ar…

Elizabeth Keen of Indian Line Farm in Western Massachusetts, has been farming for 27 years and began her farm with her husband on land that was the birthplace of the CSA model popularized by Robyn Van En in 1986. Stewarding this important property, Elizabeth started her CSA with 12 member shares in 1997, which has since grown to 250 members, plus s…

Ellie Goldstein and Dan Bryant of Small Holding Farm in Morganton, North Carolina, were recommended by a fan of the show as young, new, year-round farmers. Ellie and Dan started their farm in 2020 during the early months of the pandemic. Ellie has a background in psychology and works part-time in the mental health field and Dan is a certified arbor…

Aidan Feeney of Fog Town Farm is located on Nantucket Island, 30 miles off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Growing up on Nantucket as an outdoor enthusiast and working in landscaping and doing tree work during high school, Aidan became inspired to learn about agriculture and spent time in New York and in Vermont in college working on farms. In 2019, he…

Nate & Gabrielle of Six River Farm are located just north of Portland, ME. As early apprentices of Paul and Sandy Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm—also former guests on the show—Nate and Gabrielle are now in their 18th! year of farming. Starting Six River Farm in 2007, on 2.5 acres of leased land, AND utilizing a collective farm model with four farms…

Today, I have TWO guests, Emily Von-Trapp of Von Trapp Flowers in VT and Linda D’arco of Little Farmhouse Flowers in NY. Emily and Linda each operate their own cut flower businesses with a focus on wholesale and winter flower bulb forcing AND they collaborate to teach flower farmers how to bring beautiful flowers to bloom during the coldest and dar…

Over the last 14 years, Ray Tyler of Rose Creek Farms has been passionate about developing growing systems to successfully grow and sell certified organic produce fifty-two weeks a year in western Tennessee. Along with his wife Ashley and six homeschooled children, he is committed to creating a family-focused farm that allows for a sustainable and …

Paul and Sandy Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm in upstate NY are seasoned expert winter growers. They have been involved with winter growing since they first purchased their 60-acre property 35 years ago. With three large RIMOL high-tunnels, numerous caterpillar and field tunnels, dedicated wash/pack, and climate controlled storage facilities, they …

Joy Longfellow is a flowers trial technician on the flowers team at Johnny’s research farm. I invited Joy to speak about their overwinter flower trials and the info they have gathered over the past few years. The Johnny’s research farm is 200+ acres acres in size with 60+ acres in crop production that includes both field and greenhouse growing for …

Located in the Pacific Northwest, Brian and his partner Chrystine first started as a fresh market farm is 2004, producing their first seed catalog in 2007, and then transitioned entirely to seed production in 2011. Uprising Seeds is WA fist 100% certified organic seed company, producing over 70% of the seeds they sell with the rest being sourced fr…

Erin and Sam started Long Season Farm in Ulster County, NY, in 2014 as a winter-only operation, but have since expanded to year-round production and market the majority of their produce at two year-round farmers markets. With seven acres in production, they have four 30' x 96' unheated high-tunnels, plus a prop house, multiple cat/ tunnels, a movea…

Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms in Atlanta, GA, is a first generation daughter to Caribbean parents whose history is rooted in agriculture. After a career in environmental engineering, she founded Patchwork City Farms in 2010, an acre+ urban farm with one 30'x96' high-tunnel and four caterpillar tunnels that supplies two farmers markets, a co…

In 2015, Amy Frye and Jacob Slosberg of Boldly Grown Farm in Bow, WA, started a one-acre farm at an incubator farm shortly after meeting and working on their university farm. Now, in their ninth season, they’ve purchased their own farm property and currently cultivate 30 acres of vegetables, a couple acres of grains, dry beans, seed crops, and flow…

Jillian and Ross Mickens of Open Door Farm in Cedar Grove, NC, work collaboratively with previous podcast guests Vera and Gordon of Ten Mother Farm to fill CSA boxes with many of the land intensive crops like potatoes and winter squash. With 5 acres under cultivation, and eleven seasons under their belt, they recently made the transition to winter-…

Rebecca and her husband, Mark, started Moonshot Farm in East Windsor, NJ, in 2019 after relocating from New York City to begin their dream of growing year-round cut flowers in a northern climate. In just four short years, they have built their 3.5 acre flower farm to include four high-tunnels, two of which are heated by a geothermal heating system,…

Today my guest is John Dindia of Lakeview Hill Farm in Traverse City, MI. John and his partner Bailey designed and built their farm from the ground up beginning in 2017 on a 58-acre property with 10 acres of available farmland and a 35-acre woodlot. Now, with 2.5 acres in production, they have five 30’ x 148’ heated greenhouses, a dedicated propaga…

Welcome back to the Winter Growers Podcast! In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Niki Jabbour, who is an award-winning author, radio show host, educator, and gardening expert on year-round growing in a northern climate. Niki is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, zone 5b at the 44th parallel. She enthusiastically maintains half an acre…

My guest today is... my dad, Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm. We had such a lovely conversation during season two, so I wanted to invite him back for a listener Q&A to end season three of The Winter Growers Podcast. Mentioned in the show... The Real Organic Project Winter Growers is made possible by... Rimol Greenhouses, for high-tunnels and gree…

Wolfgang Palme is the horticultural director of Zinsenhof Research Farm west of Vienna, Austria, at the 48th parallel. He's a botanist, author, hortaculturist, and farmer. The research farm has 3.7 acres under cultivation. Wolfgang's discoveries in Winter growing began as an accident 15 years ago with a trial of Asian greens. The research farm went…

Finegan and Jason of Steelbow Farm, in Austin TX, may seem like unusual guests for the Winter Growers Podcast. But, with climate change and more frequent extreme weather patterns, I was curious to hear from a farm down at the 30th parallel where farming from November through March is more common. However, it is still full of challenges, such as ext…

Vivian Glover of Gemusegarten Hoxhohl, Germany, always knew she wanted to become a farmer. After studying organic farming and marketing in school and working on other farms for many years, she started her own market gerden in southern Germany in 2016. With. just under 1 acre in production, her no-dig market garden supplies a 180 member CSA, 90 of t…

Patty Gentry of Early Girl Farm grows in Brookhaven on Long Island, NY. She has been described as "the Picasso of vegetables" and is featured in a documentary film, The Soul of a Farmer, that follows her farming journey and takes a raw and honest look at the challenges facing small-scale farmers today. As a former chef, Patty loves and understands …

Charles Dowding is a pioneer of no-dig gardening in Somerset, England. He is a creator, developer, and teacher of no-dig methods for the last 40+ years. He currently has 1/3 acre under production at Home Acres which he primarily uses as a teaching site and runs a no-dig YouTube channel with instructional videos on his no-dig techniques. He's the au…

Tim Wilcox & Caroline Pam of Kitchen Garden Farm in Sunderland, MA, began their farm as a 1-acre market garden in 2006. Sixteen years later, they've expanded to 70 acres, employ 20 employees year-round, and sell 50% wholsale veg and 50% value-added products after building an on-site commercial kitchen. They also own/operate Sunderland Farm Collabor…

Evan Chender, The Culinary Gardener, farms in Weaverville, NC. He started his farm in 2013 and has 2 acres under cultivation, using multiple caterpillar and high tunnels. Coming from a background as a chef, Even is passionate about variety selection, soil health, crop quality, and meticulous harvest/processing techniques. 95% of his sales are to re…

Myrtha Zierock of Agricola Foradori farms in the Italian Dolomites of northeast Italy. She is the co-owner of her families bio-dynamic wine estate where, after spending many years learning and farming abroad in the US and Canada, she moved back to her family farm and joined her two brothers and mother to apply what she had learned. She manages two …

Today, Clara Coleman talks with Andrew Adams of Hope Farm Organics in Newlands BC, Canada. Hope Farm Organics is at the 54th parallel, the farthest north on the series so far, experiencing less than 7.5 hours of daylight on December 21st, the shortest day of the year. It's also located in the coldest and wettest geoclimatic zone in the Prince Georg…

Sankofa Farms is a 12-acre farm in Cedar Grove, NC that Kamal launched through a USDA direct farm ownership loan. The farm aims to improve the perception of agriculture as a profession through it's Sankofa Farm Academy that exposes African-American youth to high-level farming techniques including bee-keeping and year-round caterpillar tunnel produc…

Kelli and Mike of Roots Farm, a certified-organic, diversified vegetable farm in Tiverton, RI, grow year-round on 1.5 acres using no-till, intensive farming methods and six moveable high-tunnels, each 30' x 48' in size. The use of moveable tunnels maximizes both time and space, utilizing three moves each year to optimize production, especially in t…

An extra special edition of Winter Growers this week, Clara Coleman interviews farmer and father Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm for the season two finale of the podcast... on his 83rd birthday! They talk about his 50+ seasons of farming, the little gems of insight he received along the way, family farming, and so much more. Mentioned in the show…

Cheyenne of Sundance Harvest & Alex of Old City Acres, former podcast guests and Real Farmer Care recipients, comment on the recent social media response from JM, structural racism within small-scale agriculture, and how race has impacted their farming experience. Winter Growers is made possible by... Growing for Market Magazine, enter code "winter…

Alex Ball of Old City Acres joins host Clara Coleman to talk about creating a farm from a forest, moving farms season after season, his experience being a young black farmer, the importance of social capital, offering a flexible year-round CSA, and, of course, how he approaches winter growing in southern Michigan. Mentioned in the show... The YardM…

One of No-Till Growers favorite Kentucky farmers, Pavel Orvechkin of Pavel's Garden joins host Clara Coleman to talk about the sustainable ag roots of his Russian childhood, leaving academia to pursue farming full-time, current and potential collaborations, his progression into year-round growing in a mild winter climate, some of the pest/disease c…

Jess Niederer of Chickadee Creek Farm grows 15+ acres of veg in New Jersey and joins Clara Coleman to talk about farming family land, the importance of finding local mentors, her love of tractors and ecology, selling 100% direct-to-consumer through CSA and farmers market, the power of spreadsheets, and how having twins has changed her relationship …

Katherine Niemann of Moose Meadow Farm near Snadpoint, Idaho joins host Clara Coleman to talk about her and her partner Spencer's experiences on university/research farms, how winter growing differs in Idaho from Maine, the relationship between income and hours worked over the winter, revenue streams and how wholesale microgreens cashflow their far…

Mimo and Miranda of Urban Buds in St. Louis, MO join Clara Coleman to talk about how they came to be urban flower farmers, preparing ground with compost and tarps, flower successions from greenhouse to high-tunnel to field, their favorite cold grown varieties, their famous "porch petals" program, winter challenges, and more. Winter Growers is made …

Lydia Ryall of Cropthorne Farm on Westham Island in British Columbia, Canada joins Clara Coleman to talk about starting small and growing to 20+ acres, farming collaboratively with family members, managing fertility with cover crops, seasonal workers (like H2A), moveable high-tunnels, CSA, and reducing her own hours to make more time for family. Me…

Danya Tietelbaum of Queen's Greens in Amherst, MA joins Clara Coleman to talk about their journey from-and-back to Winter-only growing, low-tech infrastructure + mechanization, focusing solely on greens + a complete breakdown on Winter spinach, Summer cover cropping in high-tunnels, developing a sense of community even on a mid-scale farm, and farm…

Vera Fabian and Gordon Jenkins of Ten Mothers Farm in Cedar Grove, NC join host Clara Coleman to talk about bringing together their experiences from very different but amazing farms, collective land use, the challenge of shifting more production to the winter months on a small scale, and living and working in the sometimes contradictory space betwe…

David joins host Clara Coleman from North Carolina to talk: Using different tunnels for different parts of the season + farm store management + from horticulture to market gardening + more! https://www.sunsetmarketgardens.com https://www.instagram.com/sunsetmarketgardens/ Clara: http://instagram.com/farmerclara/ Sponsors: http://johnnyseeds.com/ + …

Jade Sato joins host Clara Coleman to talk: first year winter growing in Colorado + Irrigation challenges + Asians greens + compensating helpers + more https://www.instagram.com/_minoru_farm_/?hl=en Follow Clara: www.instagram.com/farmerclara Sponsors: http://johnnyseeds.com + www.growingformarketmagazine.com + http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ Support…

Beth and host Clara Coleman talk: Seven acres and 5 Tunnels in Maine + Leasing many different plots over time + and much more. https://dandelionspringfarm.com/contact/ https://www.instagram.com/dandelionspringfarm/ Follow Clara: http://instagram.com/farmerclara Sponsors: www.growingformarket.com http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ and http://johnnyseeds.…

Howard Joins host Clara Coleman to talk :Farming Church Land + Baby Greens + Interplanting cover crops + no-till + more https://www.instagram.com/faithfullfarms/ https://faithfull-farms.square.site Follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara/ Sponsors: http://johnnyseeds.com/ + http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ + http://growingformarket.com/ Su…

Erik Schlener joins Clara Coleman from Virginia to talk: managing seasonal change-over + ginger production + off farm income + more. https://www.rootandmarrowfarm.com https://www.instagram.com/rootandmarrowfarm/ Follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara/ Sponsors: http://johnnyseeds.com/ + http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ + http://growingfor…

Taylor Mendell joins the show to talk: Designing a CSA around the school year + farming with a newborn + habit farming + and much more. https://www.footprintfarmvt.com www.instagram.com/habitfarming/ www.patreon.com/habitfarming follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara/ sponsors: www.growingformarket.com http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ htt…

Bil Thorn joins Clara from Washington to chat about: their timber-frame greenhouse + leveraging wreaths and garlands for winter income + more. https://skyislandfarmcsa.com https://www.instagram.com/skyislandfarm/ Follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara Sponsors: www.growingformarket.com http://johnnyseeds.com/ http://tunnelvisionhoops.c…

Brian Bates joins Clara to talk: Employee management + micro greens + winter growing in Michigan + a whole lot more. Follow Bear Creek: https://www.bearcreekorganicfarm.com Follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara/ Sponsors: https://www.johnnyseeds.com + www.growingformarket.com + http://tunnelvisionhoops.com/ Support by www.notillgrower…