The Story Walking Radio Hour Archives with Wendy Fachon
How to Design and Build Yourself a Food Forest
04-03-23 How to Design and Build Yourself a Food Forest Guest Graham Towerton, Design Team Leader, Food Forest Abundance A well-designed permaculture food forest incorporates multiple layers of edible plants, including fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines,...
Lawns into Meadows: Rebuilding Biodiversity
03-06-23 Lawns into Meadows: Rebuilding Biodiversity Guest Owen Wormser, Landscape Designer, Abound Design Imagine planting native wildflowers in pots on a terrace or transforming a section of your high-maintenance lifeless lawn into a low maintenance meadow habitat,...
Agrohomeopathy for Healthier Farms and Gardens
02-06-23 Agrohomeopathy for Healthier Farms and Gardens Guest Kristina White, Co-founder and Homeopathic Educator, Our Life and Land Agrohomeopathy applies the natural remedies and protocols of homeopathy to improve the health and vitality of pets, livestock, wildlife...
Backyard Farming for Self-Sufficiency
01-02-23 Backyard Farming for Self-Sufficiency Guest Michael Mandeville, Farmer, KNMFARMS Backyard farming practices can help solve today's challenges of food insecurity, food price inflation and pollution caused by factory farming and industrial food production. More...
Celebrating Our Oneness with All of Creation
12-05-22 Celebrating Our Oneness with All of Creation Guests Barbara M. Fuyat, RScP, Spiritual Director of CSL South Coastal, MA Teaching Chapter, and Kristina White, CCH, Co-founder of Your Life and Land, Homeopathic Educator Across the globe, Centers for Spiritual...
Soil Science and Bionutrition
11-07-22 Soil Science and Bionutrition Guest Dan Kittredge, Founder and Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association Did you know that some carrots can have up to 200 times more nutritional value compared to other carrots? The health of food correlates directly to...
Growing a Community Food System
10-03-22 Growing a Community Food System Guest Bevan Linsley, Executive Director, Aquidneck Community Table Environmental health, food security and community resilience are interconnected issues. One of the most sensible solutions for addressing these concerns is to...
Guest Matthew Largess, President & Founder, Largess Forestry
08-01-22 Voice of the Forest: Guest Matthew Largess, President & Founder, Largess Forestry Nationally renowned Matthew “Twig” Largess founded his business, Largess Forestry, Inc., in 1986. His company is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and education of...
The Enchanted Edible Forest with Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden
07-04-22 The Enchanted Edible Forest with Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden In the June 2022 episode we introduced the concept of a food forest, which is a diverse, perennial garden of edible plants that mimics a forest ecosystem. A food forest, or...
Food Forest Abundance
06-07-22 Food Forest Abundance Guest Jim Gale, Chief Storyteller, Food Forest Abundance Imagine your home surrounded by an edible forest landscape! A “food forest“ is a diverse, perennial garden that mimics a forest ecosystem. Through layers of horticultural design,...
Why Eating Organic is Crucial to the Future of the Planet
05-02-22 Why Eating Organic is Crucial to the Future of the Planet Guest Zen Honeycutt, Founder and Executive Director, Moms Across America Genetically-modified foods were created to withstand the heavy spraying of toxic herbicides and pesticides. Many crops, both GMO...
Farm to School
04-04-22 Farm to School Guests Karin Wetherill, Co-Director of RI Healthy Schools Coalition, and Stephanie Bush, Community Education and Farm to School Director at Farm Fresh Rhode Island Farm to School initiatives enrich the connection communities have with fresh,...
Empowering Children to Care for the Planet
03-07-22 Empowering Children to Care for the Planet Guest Deborah Beauvais, Co-author, The Paper Doll Kids, and Founder/Owner, Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network and The Kids 4 Love Project How can we cultivate compassion in children? Studies conducted at The New School in...
Environmental Law: Protecting Our Natural Resources
02-08-22 Environmental Law: Protecting Our Natural Resources Guests: Marisa Desautel, Esq., Principal, Desautel Law, and Clarice Parsons, Mediator, MWI Environmental lawyers and mediators assist clients in navigating complex regulations and meeting compliance...
Exploring Green Career Pathways Guest Audra Lavoie, Career Education Specialist, University of Rhode Island
01-03-22 Exploring Green Career Pathways Guest Audra Lavoie, Career Education Specialist, University of Rhode Island Life is a journey, and all along our career pathways, we are constantly asking ourselves a lot of questions: “Do I enjoy my work?” “Am I using my...
Wild Mushrooms: Mycology, Foraging, Cooking and Remediation
12-06-21 Wild Mushrooms: Mycology, Foraging, Cooking and Remediation Guests: Ryan Bouchard and Emily Schmidt, Co-Founders, Mushroom Hunting Foundation As children, we were cautioned about mushrooms, because some of them are poisonous to eat. Most of us avoided them...
Blue Mind: Loving Our Blue Planet
11-01-21 Blue Mind: Loving Our Blue Planet Guests: John Marsland, founder and President of the Blackstone River Watershed Council, and Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, marine biologist and author of Blue Mind The term “blue mind” describes the mildly meditative state we fall...
Food Waste Recycling Guests James Corwin and Chris Ratcliffe, Co-Directors of the RI Schools Recycling Club
10-04-21 Food Waste Recycling Guests James Corwin and Chris Ratcliffe, Co-Directors of the RI Schools Recycling Club In July, Rhode Island approved a legislative bill titled School Waste Recycling and Refuse Disposal. The legislation requires all K-12 and vocational...
Pesticide Free Parks, Lawns & Gardens in Providence
09-06-21 Pesticide Free Parks, Lawns & Gardens in Providence Guests: Emily Koo, Sustainability Strategy Manager in the City of Providence's Office of Sustainability and Lee Ann Freitas, Director of the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center When we apply pesticides,...
Environmentally-Safe Technology Part 2
08-23-21 Environmentally-Safe Technology Part 2 Guest: Cecelia (Cece) Doucette, MTPW, BA, Director, Massachusetts Safe Technology Planet Earth is a great big electromagnetic field, and it has what is known as a “natural frequency," called the Schumann Resonance, which...