Propaganda By The Seed

Mar 03 2025 52 ep. 87 mins 471
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A podcast about perennial plants and trees associated with food forests, permaculture, and restorative agriculture.

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Trees with Edible Leaves with Eric Toensmeier

Mar 03 2025 72 mins  
In this episode I talk with perennial crops researcher and author Eric Toensmeier about trees with edible leaves. You might not think of tree leaves being suitable as human food, but many of them are quite tasty and their seasonality and nutritional content complement both annual and perennial vegetables. We cover several species, the maintenance techniques that support high produc

Grafting

Feb 17 2025 41 mins  
In this first episode of Propaganda By the Seed shorts I'll be telling you about grafting, a method of plant propagation that joins 2 individual plants (the scion and the rootstock) and lets them grow as one. These shorter episodes without a guest are an experiment, so please let me know if you like them or have topics you would like to hear covered. “Short” episodes also hav

Growing Calorie Crops at Home with Peter Kellman and Rebekah Yonan

Feb 06 2025 73 mins  
In this episode I talk with Peter Kellman and Rebekah Yonan about growing your own calorie crops and the systems they use to grow and process their food using a minimum of external inputs. We cover the ins and outs of planting, harvesting, threshing and winnowing serval types of grains and beans as well as managing soil fertility using mostly leaves and urine. Peter talks about th

Announcement + Midcoast Vegan with Tim Holland

Jan 19 2025 29 mins  
This week on Propaganda By the Seed we have a big announcement and Tim share's a bit about how he came to love cooking and cuisine, his food business Midcoast Vegan and how fermented vegan cheeses are made. You can learn more about Midcoast Vegan by going to their site or following on Instagram or Facebook If you want to support this podcast, you can tell a friend to check it out

Edible Perennials for Preparedness Cross Pollination with Live Like the World is Dying

Jan 03 2025 82 mins  
This week on Propaganda by the Seed we have a cross pollination with our friends at Live Like the World is Dying, Casandra talks with Aaron, about edible perennial plants that you can grow. This episode got compiled into a Live Like the World is Dying Skill Series zine that is also the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness January monthly feature. You can get a free PDF of it at www.T

Maine's Untold Vegetarian History w/ Avery Yale Kamilla

Dec 16 2024 64 mins  
In this episode we sit down with Avery Yale Kamilla, Tilly Laskey and John Babbit to discuss Maine's Untold Vegetarian History. This is an exhibit at the Maine Historical Society / Longfellow House that was spearheaded by Avery's deep research into historical documents pertaining to veganism spanning hundreds of years back. In this episode we talk about Christianity's influence on

Psilocybe Mushrooms with Inti Garcia Flores and Alan Rockefeller

Jul 31 2024 68 mins  
In this episode of Propaganda By The Spore, we’re talking Psilocybe Mushrooms! This episode has been in the works since early 2021, we hit lots hiccups and logistical snags along the way, but we’re happy to finally get this episode out into the world. We start off with a short interview with Mazatec historian and archivist Inti Garcia Flores about the role of Psilocybe mushroom

Polyploid Breeding with The Savanna Institute

May 28 2024 99 mins  
In this episode we chat with 3 time PBTS guest Eliza Greenman and her co-worker Kathleen Rhodes at The Savannah Institute about polyploid plant breeding. Polyploidy is a genetic condition where an organism has extra copies of it's genome in it's cells. Inducing polyploidy or breeding with existing polyploids can be a useful tool to gain traits such as larger fruit, larger leaves,

Experimental Farm Network with Dusty and Nate

Feb 29 2024 116 mins  
In this episode we talk with Dusty and Nate about their project, The Experimental Farm Network. The project is both a platform to support open-source, collective plant breeding and other on farm experiments as well as a seed store, which focuses on unusual varieties and genepools suitable for further selection. We cover how they started the project, how it's going and some the many

Seaside Foraging w Rachel Alexandrou

Jan 31 2024 78 mins  
In this episode of propaganda by the seed we sit down with Rachel Alexandrou. Rachel is a forager, educator and artist based out of the Midcoast Maine region. The focus oof this conversation is seaside foraging, plants such as saltwort, sea brassicas, sea plantain, common seaweeds and more. Rachel also talks about some of her favorite wild plants to work with, how she uses them and