The Going to Seed Podcast

Jen Williams of Wild Dreams Farm and Seed joins Spencer Suffling to discuss operating a small seed company, the importance of diversity, and how our values are reflected in our crops and their characteristics.

Going To Seed: Inspiring a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community and diversity.This is my first solo podcast after Shane Simonson started his own podcast -- Zero Input Agriculture. We wish Shane joy and success in his new endeavor.In this episode, I'm posting the presentation that I did at the Utah Farm and Food Conference, January 11th 2024, in Cedar City Utah.Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture hosts the conference. Red Acre Center advocated for the passage of Utah's Food Freedom law, which allows individuals to sell food to each other without licenses or regulations.The center attends the legislative sessions each year advocating for increased food freedom, and continuing preservation of the gains already made.I highly value the work of Red Acre Center, and pause for a moment of reverence for Sarah, Symbria, Mark, Shawn, and all others involved in supporting this work.Going To Seed sponsors this podcast. Join us there for seeds, farmer support, and complimentary content like video courses, and online forums.

In his final episode, Shane interviews himself to help launch his new solo podcast: Zero Input Agriculture. Shane outlines his breeding work, successes with shifting to a zero input agricultural mindset, and efforts and experiences in building networks of local growers to start the long process of reviving agriculture that can stand the test of time.To keep listening to the new podcast, and read about Shane's never ending stream of results on his experimental farm, sign up for free at www.zeroinputagriculture.substack.com for weekly updates in your inbox.You can also read Shane's exploration of the past and possible future of agriculture in "Taming the Apocalypse" and his biological science fiction in "Our Vitreous Womb".Drop Shane an email at [email protected] if you have a suggested podcast guest, or just to say hi.

Shane talks with Paul Ward as he reflects on a lifetime of experience breeding maize, tepary beans, landrace wheat in temperate Australia and a whole bunch of other side topics.

Shane Simonsen talks to Reville Saw about his work rehabilitating degraded land in West Papua using syntropic principles, the indigenous agriculture surviving in Papua, and his own extensive efforts breeding bananas from original species, lima beans, restoring fertility to ginger, breeding better biomass plants, and a bunch of other topics.

Richard Paul Watson talks to Shane about his efforts growing and breeding a wide range of vegetable crops in windy New Zealand, and his successes in building a network of seed growers to create a collective seed sales organisation, the Sentinels Group.Check out more of Richard's work at https://www.sentinelsgroup.co.nz

Farmer and educator William DeMille talks to Joseph and Holly about permaculture, biodynamics, silvopasture, holistic management and georgics and how they apply to his farm in northern Nevada.Check out more of Williams work belowhttps://www.thegeorgicrevolution.com/https://www.amazon.com/Worry-Free-Eating-William-John-DeMille/dp/B0BW2Y4GLZhttps://www.amazon.com/Ditch-Rider-William-DeMille/dp/154509053X/https://www.instagram.com/gardening_with_william_demille/https://www.facebook.com/william.demille.50

Shane chats to Austin Vaughn about his experiments developing landrace carrots and a range of other crops in his difficult Texas clay. Check out more of Austin's work at the Going to Seed discourse forum https://goingtoseed.discourse.group

Taylor Chance talks to Shane about his many crop breeding projects, including Chinese yams (Dioscorea polystachya), ancestral cucurbits and interspecies goji berry hybrids.

Shane Simonsen talks to Padraic Flood about his work to domesticate the lost tuberous pea crop of Europe, Aardaker, also known as Lathyrus tuberosus.