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a visit with Stuart Reynolds, aka Brittlestar, scourge of covidiots everywhere, plus Karen Bertelsen
18 May, 2022 | 0:30:05 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode, we meet up with Canada’s favourite Internet dad, Stuart Reynolds, or as you might know him, Brittlestar - the comedic nemesis of Covidiots everywhere. Next up, that jovial jill-of-all-trades Karen Bertelsen explains why making, fixing, and cooking stuff yourself is good for the planet. So, funny people with a purpose in this episode. By the...
I speak with the director of In My Backyard, a doc about urban gardening in Toronto. Plus, a waiting
18 May, 2022 | 0:30:33 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

Show Notes In this episode we discover the incredible variety of folks, produce, places, and methods involved in urban gardening in Toronto in a new documentary by Jamie Day Fleck called In My Backyard. Next up, a decades-long waiting game played with hazelnuts, farmers, and science. In My Backyard Jamie Day Fleck is a documentary filmmaker and an avid backyard...
Emm Gryner’s been a rock star, and indie legend and now has found a new joy as a vocal coach. We tal
18 May, 2022 | 0:00:30 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown You’re listening to Harrowsmith Radio. I’m your host, Wayne MacPhail. In this episode Emm Gryner who rocketed from a chicken farm to singing backup for David Bowie talks about how singers, and the rest of us, can uncover the voices we’ve got inside us. Next up, Ilona Daniel, Harrowsmith’s relatively new food editor explains how Anne of Green...
chat that rock ’n’ roll surreal gourmet, Bob Blumer. Bob introduces us to bombs, flavour bombs, that
17 May, 2022 | 0:00:30 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode a visit with that self-proclaimed culinary charlatan, Bob Blumer, whose new book teaches us all how to make bombs, flavour bombs that is. Speaking of making, our go-to DIY guy Steve Maxell is back, this time to explain why MIG welding is the glue gun of the future. So, bombs and welds all in this...
Mark Sirois and Predicting Weather & Leona Staples and Jungle Farm
15 Mar, 2022 | 0:00:00 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode, we spend a little time under a virtual umbrella with Harrowsmith’s go-to weatherman, Mark Sirois. Mark’s been doing long-range forecasting for the Harrowsmith Almanac and extreme weather prediction for Southern Quebec for years. Now a modern home weather station has empowered him to think big and broad. Next up Alberta farmer Leona Staples on how...
Amanda Brodhagen and Cattle Tales plus Judy Silva and Hay for Horses
15 Mar, 2022 | 0:30:34 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode we go deep into Canada’s beef industry with a young woman who grew up on an Ontario beef farm, consults to the government about Canadian agriculture, is a politician herself, and can covert vegans to meat-eating on social media. Next up, an elegiac and informative meditation on that most prosaic of feeds, hay. Both interviews...
We talk with Suzanne Crocker, First We Eat from the Yukon & Ken Dam, From Nose to Tail
15 Mar, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

In this episode we meet the woman behind a remarkable Canadian documentary, “First We Eat”. Suzanne Crocker takes us behind the scenes of a film she made about the transformative year when she inspired her family to eat totally local for twelve months. In Dawson City, hard by the Artic Circle, through the winter. Next up, Ontario farmer Ken Dam...
we explore the enduring power of that 70s radical ecological upstart, Earth Day. We discover of Eart
15 Mar, 2022 | 0:29:54 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode a visit with an environmental non-profit that has weathered political, social, and ecological storms and shifts. Earth Day has been around since the Guess Who’s American Woman topped the Billboard charts and the hole in the ozone layer wasn’t even on our radar screen. In the distant 70s. Earth Day Canada was born in the...
Elizabeth Peirce and Grow Hope & Pollinator Partnership Canada
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:28:59 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode we go all-in on planting, planting gardens that are gyms, therapy, and workplaces that don't take a lot of work. And planting that attracts pollinators, our little at-risk insect pals that do all the heavy lifting when plants want to have sex, with a middle man. Elizabeth Peirce and Grow Hope Elizabeth Peirce is an...
The Farmerettes & Early Planting with the Cullens
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:05 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown In this episode, you’ll hear the remarkable story of the Farmerettes, a brigade of young Ontario women who saved the crops of Southern Ontario during World War II. You may not have heard of the Farmerettes, I know I hadn’t until prepared for this interview, but it’s a story you won’t forget. Next up our intergenerational gardening gurus...
Lisa Machado and healthing.com & Stephanie Nagelschmitz and the 4H Club Canada
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown This episode is about the 5 Hs. First, there’s the H in healthing.ca, a website that amplifies the voices of those living with diseases and disorders and who are looking for options for healthy lifestyles. The next of the five are four H’s are in the 4-H club of Canada …. So, five Hs, six, if you count...
Michael Kusugak and the Power of Stories & Kirstin Beardsley on Food Banks Canada and Farmers
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown This episode takes us on an arctic journey where we explore the life and words of a remarkable Canadian, children’s author and storyteller Michael Kusugak. Next, the story of how thousands of farmers across the country have assisted the Canada Food Bank to ensure food security for all Canadians and help defeat hunger even in the darkest times....
Mark Cullen on Native Plants & James Raffan on Canada and Canoes
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown This episode is about native plants and a mode of transportation that couldn’t be more homegrown in this country if it tried - the canoe. First up, Mark Cullen, our perennial, and annuals, gardening experts fills us in on how native plants benefit gardens, birds, bees and well, the environment in general. Next up James Raffan of the...
Of Hens and Hops
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

This episode is about hens and hops. First up, we head out to Port Hope and learn raising urban chickens, not just for the eggs, but for the companionship. Next, Ben Cullen, the youngest generation of the Cullen garden dynasty, tells us about hops as an ornamental. They’re not just for IPAs any more. Signe Langford on Raising Chickens Signe...
Features Lydon Penner on the NikkaYuko garden and native species and Ezra Cipes on his vegan organic
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:01 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown This episode is about what plants, especially native plants, can teach us about thriving in adversity. We also discover an unlikely Japanese garden in Lethbridge and a B.C. winery where sacred geometry, a pyramid and a reverence for the earth has nurtured award winning vintages. By the way, if you want to read Harrowsmith Magazine instead of listen...
A Fish Tale and Buffalo Cheese
15 Feb, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

This episode is about how a Moroccan stamp entrepreneur became a fish magnate whose offspring are shipping fresh tuna right to your door. And, we learn about why buffalo milk makes 3 per cent from cows look like skim. Seafood Crate When Phil Behaim’s father, Marc first came to Canada from Morocco, he sold collectable stamps, stamp tweezers and anything...
The King Cole Ducks story and a trip around Prince Edward County
04 Jan, 2022 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

This episode is a third generation duck farm and a remarkable multicultural handshake that rocketed the unusual poultry farm to success. Next up, an intimate tour of Price Edward Country, bottomless lake and all. King Cole Ducks Patti Thompson is one of four sisters who run King Cole Ducks near Stouffville, Ontario. That farm has been running for almost 70...
Fungus farming in Newfoundland and the microbreweries of Ottawa
04 Jan, 2022 | 0:30:01 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

This episode is about mushrooms from the edge of Canada and beer from the heart of the nation. First up, Stephanie Lipp co-founder of Gillis Naturals tells us about how she and her partner Leo have launched a mushroom farm in Bonavista Newfoundland. Yes, devoted listeners,  that’s the same place the Newfoundland Salt Company calls home. Next, we learn about...
Down on the farms and back to our roots
04 Jan, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

This episode takes us down on the farms - first to a sheep farm near Perth where we learn about the capricious rhythms of Mother Nature from a farmer and cello instructor. Next, to Dr. Dolittle of a farm – Caberneigh Farms – jubilant with animals and abuzz with newly hived bees lost in their own dances and rhythms. All...
And interview with Dan Needles, and planting trees from TO to Trenton
04 Jan, 2022 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Teresa Martin | Harrowsmith Radio

The Rundown This episode is about plays, a fictional farm, heroes and highways. I start off by chatting with Dan Needles, a mainstay for Harrowsmith readers and the author of the WIngfield Farm mediaverse. We touch on turnip-mashing drudges, the parallels between Walt and Dan and how Needles is taking to the boards himself these days. Next up, Mike Hurley...
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