Episodes 34
Avg. Duration 32m
Activity Sporadic
Since Jan 2020
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Fresh Growth: Approaches to a More Sustainable Future from Western Ag Practitioners introduces you to farmers and ranchers from around the western United States who are finding innovative sustainable practices that enrich the natural resources we all care about. These successful multi-generational operations experiment with new ideas and are making it pay. Listen in as they tell their story and provide advice for young or beginning farmers.Western SARE, funded by USDA NIFA, provides grants and education to advance innovations in sustainable agriculture. Intro music credit: Organic Energy by Kensington Studios used under license from Shutterstock. Learn more about Western SARE at western.sare.org

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S5E3 Maud Powell: Navigating Climate Stress and Grief

Jul 24, 2025 42m Transcript

Send a textIn this conversation, Maud Powell, Wolf Gulch Farm and Oregon State University shares her journey as a farmer and the challenges she faced due to a changing climate and lack of water. She…

S5E2 Watershed Ranch: Fungal Compost to Improve Soil Health in High Desert Colorado

Jun 07, 2025 36m Transcript

Send a textFormer Chicago science teacher, Rick Bieterman now farms in the Colorado High Desert, growing hay. Watershed Ranch has an annual precipitation of 11 inches and sits at 8,000 feet in…

S5E1 Kate Brewster and Mary Mills: Generational Transition in Wyoming Ranching

Apr 29, 2025 42m Transcript

Send a textIn this episode of Fresh Growth podcast, we have a special guest host – owner of Dirtworks Wyoming, Caitlin Youngquist. Caitlin is also a Western SARE Administrative Council member. She…

S4E6 Lobato Farms & Mesa Conservation District: Innovations and Inventions to Improve Farmland

Apr 24, 2024 27m Transcript

Send a textJoin us as we talk with Michael Lobato, Lobato Farms, and Holly Stanley, Mesa Conservation District on Colorado’s Western slope about their innovations with applying biochar in a no-till…

S4E5 Las Vegas Livestock: Community-based Solution to Organic Waste

Mar 21, 2024 27m

Send a textSarah Stallard is a 7th generation farmer who came to work with her uncles on a new farm near Las Vegas Nevada raising hogs. The farm is in partnership with the local waste and recycling…

S4E4 Eckhart Farms: Increasing Soil Biology and How it Pays

Feb 21, 2024 32m Transcript

Send a textJoin us in this dynamic and wide-ranging conversation with Chris Eckhart about diversifying his farming operation, increasing organic matter, monitoring soil biology, and creating a…

S4E3 Westwind Farms and UC Davis: Using Almond Hulls and Shells to Build Organic Matter

Jun 22, 2023 43m Transcript

Send a textIn this episode, we talk with Kirk Pumphrey, owner of Westwind Farms in Woodland CA, and Sat Darshan Khalsa, Assistant Professional Researcher at the University of CA Davis about their…

S4E2 Sweet Hollow Farm: Connecting People to Food and Farming

May 10, 2023 24m Transcript

Send a textIn today’s episode we speak with Jonah Sloven, from Sweet Hollow Farm, a diversified organic farm in Victor, Idaho. Sweet Hollow Farm serves the neighboring Teton Valley community through…

S4E1 Wyoming Heritage Grains: Improving the Land, Community, and Health

Apr 11, 2023 41m Transcript

Send a textIn today’s episode, we talk with Sara Wood of Wyoming Heritage Grains and Wyoming High Desert Malt, near Ralston Wyoming. Sara is a fifth-generation regenerative farmer and the operator of…

S3E6 Blue Creek Livestock: Building Soils and Herds

Apr 26, 2022 33m Transcript

Send a textToday’s guests are Tangy and Matt Bates who operate Blue Creek Livestock in Delta Junction Alaska. They aim to provide their community with fresh, natural meat – beef, lamb, and pork.…

S3E5 Emigh Livestock & Flying Mule Farm: Opportunities for the Sheep Industry

Apr 12, 2022 44m Transcript

Send a textDan Macon is a University of California Farm Adviser and also the operator of Flying Mule Farm in Auburn California. Ryan Mahoney is a fifth-generation sheep and cattle rancher who…

S3E4 Citizen Soil Health Project: Harnessing the Collective Knowledge of Local Growers

Mar 22, 2022 35m Transcript

Send a textIn Episode 4, we talk with Zach Thode and Elizabeth Black.Zach manages a large cattle ranch in Livermore Colorado. Elizabeth is an artist in Colorado and manages a Christmas tree…

S3E3 Oceanside Farms: Small Plot Intensive Farming in Alaska

Mar 01, 2022 38m Transcript

Send a textIn this episode, we talk with Don McNamara and Donna Rae Faulkner from Oceanside Farms in Homer Alaska. They raise a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, berries, and chickens, ducks and…

S3E2 Zoom Out Mycology: How Does Fungi Save the Planet?

Feb 15, 2022 24m Transcript

Send a textToday’s episode features Bashira Muhammad, founder of Zoom Out Mycology as she talks about “Driving Sustainability with Fungi!” Zoom Out Mycology is a fungi farm based in Southern Oregon.…

S3E1 Royal Dairy: Ruminants, Carbon Sequestration, and Soil Health

Feb 01, 2022 31m Transcript

Send a textAustin Allred, talking about his family's Royal Dairy in Washington,  proudly states that rather than contributing to climate change, Royal Dairy shows that farms like his can be an…

S2E10 Jeremy Bunch: Shepherd's Grain

Jan 17, 2022 13m Transcript

Send a text Western SARE completed our second season of Fresh Growth. Thank you for listening! As we are working toward Season 3, we are sharing some special podcasts created by Washington State…

S2E11 Bar Star Farm: No-Till Wheat Farming

Jan 17, 2022 13m Transcript

Send a text Western SARE completed our second season of Fresh Growth. Thank you for listening! As we are working toward Season 3, we are sharing some special podcasts by Washington State University…

S2E9 Diamond S Farms: Benefits of No-Till

Mar 06, 2021 10m

Send a textWestern SARE completed our second season of Fresh Growth. Thank you for listening! As we are working toward Season 3, we are sharing some special podcasts. These podcasts were created by…

S2E8 WSU Impact Center: How Disruption Impacted Washington Ag

Feb 20, 2021 11m

Send a textWestern SARE completed our second season of Fresh Growth. Thank you for listening! As we are working toward Season 3, we are sharing some special podcasts. These podcasts were created by…

S2E7 The Hay King: Talking Spuds and Cows

Feb 19, 2021 16m

Send a textWestern SARE completed our second season of Fresh Growth. Thank you for listening! As we are working toward Season 3, we are sharing some special podcasts. These podcasts were created by…

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