Organic Gardener Podcast
427. Cultivating Connections | Homestead Organics | Laura Garber | Hamilton, MT
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:56:00
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True Leaf Market is offering a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: GOG15. (See disclosures below)https://www.cultivatingconnectionsmt.org/about-us-1Where the food is the by-product and the product is the relationship and learning that students get from working on the farm and growing lettuce and you get to eat the lettuce that is grown. So cultivating connections is basically the farm classroom and people can be on the farm and interact with animals through a seasonal way. Salads for SeniorsHigh schoolers who are hired as interns to learn how to be engaged in the kitchen by growing the lettuce, harvesting it, bringing it into the kitchen to clean it, make the salads that are delivered to meals on wheels.Funding? Tricky for non-profits. If Laura had her way there would be non-profits, for profits and community profits. Now they raise money through grants, weekly CSA shares, and other fundraising projects. CSA shares support upcoming farmers. $500 goes to help create a fu