Sow and Grow Podcast

Nov 25 2024 27 ep. 38 mins 30

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With Agroecology and Food Sovereignty at its core the Sow and Grow podcast is produced and hosted by young farmers exploring the forces that shape Canadian agriculture. Through interviews and discussions the hosts and their guests seed the solutions needed to build a more just and ecologically sustainable food system. www.sowandgrow.ca

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Finding Hope in Unique Stories

Nov 25 2024 53 mins

Join S&G hosts for a final round of reflections on a season of land access stories and strategies. A difficult subject to capture in six episodes, we know the conversation is growing, and currently includes many folks whose voices you didn’t hear. And that’s where we plan to continue – joining the larger community of active participants and actors dreaming up how we can f

Beyond Private Ownership: Where does the conversation need to go?

Nov 18 2024 53 mins

With Episode 5 comes an in depth conversation between two (previous) co-farmers and friends on how to find security in a precarious system. This episode is part of a larger conversation of imagining a relationship to land that is beyond our colonial understanding. We intend to continue the conversation after this series is released, and we encourage you to reach out to producer Ma

Farming on 'Public' Lands - Highs and Lows

Nov 11 2024 57 mins

Within the Canadian context, ‘public’ lands refers to lands a government has first jurisdiction over – like a park, or ‘crown land’. In this understanding, the ‘people’ of that nation are the first (human) stakeholders who should be considered when making decisions on that land. S&G wanted to find those very few public land scenarios in Canada where food growing w

Land Access Stories

Nov 04 2024 73 mins

There are so many stories out there of how people come to farming – whether it’s first generation, or intergenerational. The fascinating yet frustrating thing is these stories are almost all different. There doesn’t seem to be a simple, tried and true path to farming. Frustrating too, because the tips and strategies of the ‘how’ are hard to hear and tease out. The crew tr

What's the Deal with Quebec

Oct 28 2024 81 mins

In this episode, the crew takes all the hype heard about Québec, the solutions the province is offering to successfully encourage farm renewal, and offers examples of personal stories and systemic decisions happening on the regional level. With help from farmers, policy folks and land access supporters, a dream of a national land access strategy for farmers takes shape, seeking th

Why Land Access?

Oct 21 2024 54 mins

Land is spoken of constantly in young and new farm circles – where are you farming, how did you access it, what was your strategy, … it is almost always the 3rd or 4th question after “How are you?” and “How’s the season going?” Some would wax on about vertical farming, aquaponics, and lab grown food. Fair, however these formats are not what the majority of young and n

Series Three: Land Access

Sep 22 2024 1 mins

After a busy season in the fields we're back for another new series of the podcast. We'll be exploring the absolutely huge issue being faced by all new farmers seeking to farm in Canada... Land Access. Join us for the new series starting in October 2024!

A Responsibility To Hope

Jul 19 2023 43 mins

Feat. Maddie Marmor, Stuart Oke, Aliyah Fraser Join Aliyah, Stuart and Maddie one last time to reflect on the conversations, takeaways, throughlines of the past seven episodes. The power of nuance, semantics and intersectionality are all present as the crew shares what stood out to them. Keep your ear’s piqued for a series 3 too! Continue learning at the links below. Who Will F

On Farm Solutions and Changing How we Farm

Jul 12 2023 56 mins

Feat. Maddie Marmor, Stuart Oke, Brenda Hsueh, Manish Kushwaha, Julia Smith, Anastasia (Ana) Fyk Co-host Stuart Oke sits down with four farmers from across the country to learn how when you are forced to change, age-old skills and tools can serve us well, and the solutions are scalable if we use the values behind them as our guide - open-mindedness, adaptability, creativity, cooper

Cultivating Land-Based Relationships

Jul 05 2023 47 mins

Feat. host Maddie Marmor, co-host Aliyah Fraser and guest Dave Skene In our second episode on land, co-host Aliyah Fraser sits down with David Skene of Wisahkotewinowak to bring to the forefront the perspective that a deeper relating to the land around us would positively impact our decisions on land use, an often underreported cause of climate change. Find out more about what y