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Practical food-growing wisdom from the ground up.
The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson is a warm, interview-led guide to growing food closer to home. Recent conversations move from graywater and worm composting to fungi, seed libraries, resilient food systems, and garden fiction.
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The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson is a long-running interview show about the everyday work of growing food, caring for soil, and building stronger local food systems. It sounds rooted in real places. Recent episodes move through Phoenix radio segments, Arizona backyard experiments, Cherokee homeland mushroom education, Southern California farms, restaurant-linked climate action, seed libraries, and small-space gardens. Farmer Greg’s role is usually to open the gate, ask the next useful question, and let guests explain the process in their own terms. The conversations are not polished into short lessons. They breathe. A graywater episode with Brad Lancaster turns an outdoor shower into a practical example of cooling soil, feeding plants, and creating shade for chickens and goats. A soil episode with Shota Austin slows down enough to explain nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, micronutrients, trace minerals, and why organic inputs matter to soil microbiology. Zach Brooks talks through worm farming as both waste transformation and environmental proof-of-concept. Christopher Parker brings mushrooms into a wider frame of indigenous regenerative agriculture, food sovereignty, education, and land regeneration. Scott Murray uses resiliency as both a personal and food-system question. Anthony Mient connects restaurant culture, regenerative agriculture projects, and climate impact. Seed Chat with Bill McDormand gives the show a recurring civic thread, where local seed economies and seed libraries become tools for community preparedness. Even a conversation with Christy Wilhelmi about garden fiction stays close to growing guides, book clubs, and the way gardening knowledge can travel through story. The show is best when it lets technical knowledge stay technical, then brings it back to what happens in a yard, bed, farm plot, or neighborhood. Its energy is curious, practical, and a little delighted by natural systems doing their work.
Made for: For backyard gardeners, small farmers, compost tinkerers, seed savers, and local-food people who like useful detail with a friendly pace. It also fits listeners drawn to resilient living, organic soil care, and community-scale agriculture.
What sets it apart: The show connects garden-level practice with bigger systems without losing the everyday examples. Soil biology, graywater, fungi, seeds, and climate resilience stay tied to lived projects rather than abstract advice.
Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We'll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you're informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system... and t…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Farmer Greg makes urban food growing legible through specific questions, practical detail, and conversations that connect home projects with local systems.
The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson turns food growing into a chain of workable decisions. Farmer Greg leads guest conversations and radio-show replays through container soil, small-space planting, gray-water use, heritage grains, mushroom cultivation, and seed saving,…
A five-gallon pot gets a second season, and you get permission to stop treating soil like disposable packaging.
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Graywater, outdoor showers, and a practical look at turning one yard into a small water system.
Brad Lancaster brings the Urban Farm Podcast into a clear, grounded yard conversation about graywater, rainwater harvesting, and the small design choices that keep water useful after it leaves the house.
A soil-first radio conversation links NPK, organic fertilizer, and the living biology beneath a garden.
Healthy plants, the episode argues, start with soil that is alive, not just a bag of isolated nutrients. Farmer Greg's conversation with Shota Austin of Tank's Green Stuff frames Austin's background across livestock, crops, orchards, vegetable production, and compost as a way…
A plainspoken case for seed saving, local seed libraries, and resilience-minded growing.
This monthly Seed Chat brings Bill McDormand and Greg Peterson into a clear discussion of seed libraries, local seed economies, and the practical value of keeping seed moving through the communities that grow food.
A patient, soil-first guide to helping small urban containers improve over time.
Small-space gardening turns into a patient look at what container soil needs before it can really perform. Enoch Graham draws on 15 years of growing in Southern Oregon's Rogue Valley, from peppers on a cemented back patio to a carport rooftop, and treats the urban garden as…
A warm case for giving local food stories enough time to grow.
Food-community storytelling gets a patient, persuasive airing in this Urban Farm Podcast conversation with Shannon Percivali of Edible Phoenix Magazine.
Christopher Parker makes mushroom cultivation feel practical, place-based, and closely tied to soil, forests, and food sovereignty.
Fungal cultivation comes through as a grounded path into food sovereignty and land repair in this PlayNext review of Christopher Parker's work.
A warm, bread-hungry look at heritage grains, regional farms, and the communities behind local flour.
Heritage grains become a story about place in this warm, bread-centered episode from Tucson and Southern Arizona. A guest from Barrio Bread explains how grain work can link bakers with farms, community food projects, and the economics facing growers, while the Rosie on the House…
Farm business talk with coffee-shop honesty.
Greg Peterson interviews Christopher Parker, a Cherokee farmer and mycologist with 30 years of experience, on the Urban Farm Podcast.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features Don Guerra, founder of Barrio Bread and a James Beard award-winning baker.
Episode 980 is a replay from Phoenix, Arizona.
This episode features an interview with Christopher Parker, an indigenous farmer and educator, discussing mushroom cultivation for health and land regeneration through traditional and modern methods.
This episode features an interview with Zach Brooks about building Arizona Worm Farm into the largest worm compost facility in the U.S., focusing on sustainability and waste transformation.
This episode features Scott Murray discussing six ways to build resilient food systems and personal lives, drawing from his 50 years of organic agriculture experience.
This episode features an interview with Anthony Mient, executive director of Xero Foodprint, discussing how his nonprofit implements regenerative agriculture projects to turn meals into climate impact.
The Urban Farm Podcast replay from Rosie on the House pairs Farmer Greg Peterson with Shota Austin of Tank's Green Stuff to explain why healthy plants start in Arizona soil.
Greg Peterson hosts a replay of the monthly Seed Chat with Bill McDormand.
["The Urban Farm Podcast episode 972 pairs Greg Peterson with returning guest Enoch Graham for a concrete discussion of small space urban gardening across patios, rooftops, alleyways, and fence lines.", "Graham orders his nine keys around water, sunlight, containers, vertical growing, layering, soil management, creativity, community, and treasuring the garden.", "The most specific advice covers rain barrels, gray water, drip tape, five-gallon containers, shade-tolerant crops, OMRI-certified soil, and the warning that first-year container mixes usually underperform.", "The episode also touches Graham's 15 years in Southern Oregon's Rogue Valley, his live YouTube show Let's Get Growing, and his book pick, The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hansen."]
Shannon Percivali says Edible Phoenix Magazine has been published since spring 2006, and she bought it in 2023 after Pamela Hamilton retired.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with Linley Dixon, an organic farmer and co-director of the Real Organic Project, discussing her journey in small-scale vegetable farming and efforts to improve integrity in USDA organic certification.
This episode features an interview with Linley Dixon, co-director of the Real Organic Project, discussing the certification program's mission to uphold higher standards in organic farming beyond USDA regulations.
This episode features an interview with Ryan Blosser about his work in permaculture education, including his role in integrating it into K-12 curriculum and his book on growing permaculture plants.