by Sara Schuster
Follow along on our journey of living off-grid on our 42 acre homestead in western Colorado as well as running a regenerative herb farm and creating seasonal herbal products to meet the needs of our community. Other topics discussed will include planning and goal setting for your best life, the importance of community building, and tons of DIY projects for the farmstead. Help keep the show going by checking out our online farm store at NordicFoxFarm.com. We appreciate your support so, so much!
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April 15, 2025
<p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-size: large;">Hey friends! Hope you’re doing well! Spring is poking its head up here but we’re still getting snow off and on as well, so we’re not able to start planting outdoors yet. We have lots of great stuff happening inside though! We’ve got loads of grow lights and heat mats set up and we have tons of seedlings already taking off! We’re really trying to narrow our focus this year to growing larger quantities of a fewer number of crops. Specifically we’re focused on the things that we need big amounts of in order to produce the things we make for our farm store – mainly our seasonings and our herbal teas. We’re also still growing vegetables for our personal use, and continuing to expand our perennial food forest of course. But we’re getting a lot more dialed in on prioritizing what we really HAVE to have versus all of the fun random things that I WANT to have when I flip through seed catalogs. Which sometimes is easier said than done, because there are just so many cool varieties out there and I want to try them all!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">Speaking of seeds, that’s our focus today! My guest today is Dan Brisebois, a farmer who focuses on growing seeds. His newest book is The Seed Farmer and I was sooooo ridiculously excited to get to talk to him about it! I’ve been a bit of a fan girl about Dan’s work for quite a while now, ever since I learned about his worker co-operative farm and then got to go through his Farmer Spreadsheet Academy a few years back. Yall know how much I love a spreadsheet!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">Dan’s book is absolutely fantastic and I think you’ll get a ton from it whether you’re wanting to learn to save seed and come up with your own plant crosses for your own personal garden use, or if you’re interested in selling seed someday yourself. I hope you enjoy our conversation!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">Connect with Dan:</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;"><a href="https://danbrisebois.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Dan's website</a> -- get a copy of Dan's book, check out his great blog, learn about the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy, and listen to the Seed Farmer Podcast!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/danbrisebois.farm/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-size: large;">Dan's Instagram</span></a></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-size: large;">As always, if you enjoy the podcast please share it with a friend or two and leave us a positive rating and review! You can also support our work by checking out our farm store at <a href= "https://www.nordicfoxfarm.com">NordicFoxFarm.com</a>. We have some great new tea blends up in the shop plus all of our delicious seasonings and smoked salts. Make sure to use the code PODCAST25 for 10% off your first order, and hop on our mailing list while you’re at it.</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope you’re doing well and getting to have some planty fun this spring. Our next episode will be all about mushroom foraging!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: large;">Until then, keep your hands dirty and your heart open.</span></p>
March 13, 2025
<p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">Today I have a really great guest for you! His name is James Miller and I actually met him as a tattoo client. We did a large piece that took several sessions and so as I was tattooing him we had some really amazing conversations that then led to me wanting to bring him on the podcast. James was here in Colorado to work on a local farm as a WWOOFer. Now what is WWOOFing? WWOOFing stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. This is an organization that networks small farms with individuals who are interested in working on farms. This usually isn’t paid work, but instead a pre-set arrangement of working a certain number of hours per day or week in exchange for meals and housing, plus the knowledge that you will get to pick up along the way. So WWOOFing can be an amazing opportunity for someone who is interested in traveling all over the country, or even the world, and learning some cool skills as they do so. It’s something I was looking into doing when I was younger so when James told me he was a WWOOFer I knew I had to have him on the show!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">Today James will share his experiences with us traveling through two different organizations – WWOOFing, as well as another similar site called WorkAway. We recorded this episode in December right before he left Colorado for his next farm destination. His travels have taken him to several different states as well as Spain and Morocco and who knows where he will go next. If you’re interested in learning agricultural skills, WWOOFing can be a really cool option and James will outline some of the things he looks for when considering a new potential work arrangement. I hope this episode will inspire you and give you the travel bug! Enjoy!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Connect with James on <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/angeliclightt/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Instagram</a>.</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our <a href= "https://nordicfoxfarm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farm shop</a> is full of goodies for you! We have two new offerings in the shop -- our Hot Italian Seasoning, and our Tummy Mender Tea. Our seasonal Lymph Love vinegar is also back in stock to guide us smoothly out of winter and into early spring over the next few months. Your support helps us to keep growing, literally and figuratively <3</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coming through Hotchkiss, Colorado? Swing by our new in-person farm store at 148 E Bridge St! We'd love to see you and have a chat over a cup of tea!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use code PODCAST25 at checkout to save 10% on everything in the farm shop!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nordicfoxfarm" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> and <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/NordicFoxFarm/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Facebook</a>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please share the podcast with a friend so we can reach more fantastic like-minded people!! <3</span></p>
February 28, 2025
<p class="western" align="left"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">Hi, friends! We’ve been working hard this month getting back into the swing of things. We spent four days vending at various markets this month and March and April are slated to be busy as well. We also had the official grand opening of our farm store in Hotchkiss and it’s been so amazing to connect with people in person when they come in to browse our teas and other herbal products! </span></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">We’re getting ready to jump on our next project, which is getting the greenhouse built next month! We’re also getting some seeds going indoors in the meantime, and then they’ll move out to the greenhouse which we hope to have done by mid-April at the latest. This will let us get a HUGE jump on the growing season, as we can’t really put many plants outside until the end of May. </span></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">And as we wait for spring to arrive, I’m having fun editing some of the great interviews I’ve had time to record these last couple months, including today’s wonderful convo with Lisa Fazio.</span></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">Lisa</span></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">is an Irish/Italian American folklore witch, herbalist, and astrologer, as well as the mother of 4 children and Nonna to 2 grandchildren. Her principal training is in Traditional Western Herbalism, Western Astrology, and the folk ways of her Italian immigrant family. The primary focus of her work is ancestral revival and remembrance within the Italian diaspora as well as with anyone who longs for ancestral connection.</span></span> <span style= "color: #000000;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">She has an academic background in Psychology and Ethnobotany as well as years of study and practice in the traditions of Trika Shaivism and Plant Spirit Medicine. She is also a tracker, a wilderness first responder and has spent 20 years working as a clinical and community herbalist.</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style= "font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">I’m so honored to have gotten to chat with Lisa about her book, Della Medicina: The Tradition of Italian-American Folk Healing. We had such a wonderful conversation and one thing I really want to emphasize is that you don’t need to be of Italian heritage to get a ton of value out of Lisa’s work! So much of what she shares crosses different cultures and backgrounds and I hope this will inspire you to dive into your own ancestry as well.</span></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Grab your own copy of <a href= "https://therootcircle.com/della-medicina-book" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Della Medicina</a>!</span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">Connect with Lisa: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/therootcircle/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Instagram</a> * <a href= "https://lisafazio.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Substack</a> * <a href="https://therootcircle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Website</a></span></p> <p class="western" align="left"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our <a href= "https://nordicfoxfarm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farm shop</a> is full of goodies for you! We have two new offerings in the shop -- our Hot Italian Seasoning, and our Tummy Mender Tea. Our seasonal Lymph Love vinegar is also back in stock to guide us smoothly out of winter and into early spring over the next few months. Your support helps us to keep growing, literally and figuratively <3</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coming through Hotchkiss, Colorado? Swing by our new in-person farm store at 148 E Bridge St! We'd love to see you and have a chat over a cup of tea!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use code PODCAST25 at checkout to save 10% on everything in the farm shop!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nordicfoxfarm" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> and <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/NordicFoxFarm/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Facebook</a>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please share the podcast with a friend so we can reach more fantastic like-minded people!! <3</span></p>
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