The Story Walking Radio Hour with Wendy Fachon

The Story Walking Radio Hour with Wendy Fachon

Why Raise Native Bees? And How?
Guest Susannah Otocki, Native Beekeeper and Holistic Practitioner, Blue Lotus Moon Holistic
Native bees are designed to pollinate, and they pollinate every flower they visit. A honey bee only pollinates about 5% of the flowers it visits. A honey bee's goal is to get as much pollen as it can back to the hive. Honey bees produce honey and honeycomb. Native bees do not make honey, however, they are more important than honey bees in terms of pollinating our food supply – our fruit trees, berries, herbs and vegetable gardens.  This episode shares ideas on how to raise native bees and help them overcome today's environmental challenges.
While considering honey beekeeping a couple years ago, Susannah Otocki learned about native bees and decided to raise mason bees and leafcutter bees instead. She found the work was easier, less costly and more productive. Susannah is a Board Certified Polarity Therapist, Sound Practitioner, Massage Therapist and a Certified Body-Mind Method Coach. She grew up on a small farm in Massachusetts, where her family raised their own vegetables and meat. Living on the farm she developed a deep connection with the seasonal cycles of the earth, and this is where her lifelong love and respect of nature began. Susannah is eager to share her wisdom.INFORMATION RESOURCESFOR TAKING ACTIONFind free resources for educators - https://crownbees.com/free-resources-for-educators/Shop for books about native bees - https://crownbees.com/books-and-merch/Purchase native bee keeping materials - https://crownbees.com/Sign up for BeeMail - https://crownbees.com/beemail/Learn more about Susannah Otocki - https://bluelotusmoonholistic.com/about/Order the book Shining a Light on Grief -Purchase a Food Forest Design and work with a certified permaculture designer to start the design process – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHONFollow the Story Walking Radio Hour and Food Forest Abundance on the UNITE multimedia channel - https://unite.live/channels/story-walking-radio-hour/story-walking-radio-hourJoin the Story Walking Radio Hour group on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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How to Design and Build Yourself a Food ForestGuest Graham Towerton, Design Team Leader, Food Forest AbundanceA well-designed permaculture food forest incorporates multiple layers of edible plants, including fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, rhizomes, mushrooms, and perennial vegetables. This episode focuses on the food forest design, planning and installation process. Food forest designs are fully customized to each client's climate, planting zone, topography and space, as well as to the client's functionality, culinary and aesthetic desires.With 34 years experience as a chemical engineer and over 40 years of gardening and small farm experience, in Australia and the US, Graham Towerton recently retired to become a full-time permaculture designer and installer. For Towerton, a full-time permaculture consultancy was a logical second career; he is practical, knowledgeable and passionate about food forest gardening. He obtained his certification as a Permaculture Design Consultant from Geoff Lawton’s Discover Permaculture school in October, 2021, and then he joined Food Forest Abundance as a designer in January, 2022. Having completed over 30 designs individually and a dozen more as collaborations, Towerton is now one of two global design team leaders for Food Forest Abundance. He provides sage advice as he leads listeners through the steps of the entire process.INFORMATION RESOURCESPurchase a Food Forest Design and work with a certified permaculture designer to start the design process – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHONLearn more through Graham Towerton's Permaculture Adventures Linktree Page which has links to his social media pages and FFA blog articles - https://linktr.ee/permacultureadventures
Read Wendy's Food Forest Article - https://www.naturalawakeningsboston.com/2023/02/28/426799/food-forest-gardening-grows-in-rhode-island
Follow the Story Walking Radio Hour and Food Forest Abundance on the UNITE multimedia channel - https://unite.live/channels/story-walking-radio-hour/story-walking-radio-hour
Join the Story Walking Radio Hour group on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadioListen to related podcasts
Food Forest Abundance with Jim Gale - https://dreamvisions7radio.com/food-forest-abundance/
The Enchanted Edible Forest with Dani Baker - https://dreamvisions7radio.com/dani-baker-author-home-scale-forest-garden/
Backyard Farming for Self-Sufficiency - https://dreamvisions7radio.com/backyard-farming-for-self-sufficiency/
Why Eating Organic is Crucial to the Future of the Planet - https://dreamvisions7radio.com/eating-organic-crucial-future-planet/
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Lawns into Meadows: Rebuilding BiodiversityGuest Owen Wormser, Landscape Designer, Abound DesignImagine planting native wildflowers in pots on a terrace or transforming a section of your high-maintenance lifeless lawn into a low maintenance meadow habitat, rich with biodiversity.  Recent satellite photographs show that lawns now occupy 45.6 million acres, about three times the size of New Jersey, making the American lawn the largest irrigated crop in the U.S. in terms of surface area.  Perfectly manicured grass lawns were marketed as an essential feature of the American dream in the 1940's and 50's. Today, lawn maintenance demands evermore precious resources - time, money and water. Lawns require labor, expensive motorized equipment and fuel consumption.  They also involve toxic treatment applications – synthetic fertilizers, weed killers and insecticides – that poison life.In this episode landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with beautiful, low-maintenance meadows, that sequester far more carbon than a lawn.   Owen is the author of Lawn into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape, an award-winning book published by Chelsea Green.  Owen received a degree in landscape architecture in 1998 before founding his own landscape business, Abound Design.   He offers consulting, installation and sustainable landscape design services inspired by permaculture and deep ecology.  His work serves as a means for sharing his deep connection with nature, while further cultivating that connection within himself.   He actively practices the skills and perspectives necessary to effectively weave people and the natural world back together.MEADOW GARDENING RESOURCESPurchase Owen's book, Lawn into Meadows - https://stonepierpress.org/store/lawns-into-meadows-second-editionVisit Owen's Abound Design website - https://abounddesign.com/Download the Meadowscaping Activity Guide from Kids Gardening - https://kidsgardening.org/the-latest-meadowscaping/Shop for seeds and plants at American Meadows - https://www.americanmeadows.com/View this Pesticide Action Network webinar on Pesticides and Climate Change - https://www.panna.org/resources/webinar-recording-pesticides-and-climate-changePerusePollinator Pathway native plant lists - https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/native-pollinator-plant-listsTake the NO MOW MAY Challenge - https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/rethink-your-lawnFollow ReSeedingRI on instagram.Join the Story Walking Radio Hour group on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadioLearn more about Food Forest Abundance – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Agrohomeopathy for Healthier Farms and GardensGuest Kristina White, Co-founder and Homeopathic Educator, Our Life and LandAgrohomeopathy applies the natural remedies and protocols of homeopathy to improve the health and vitality of pets, livestock, wildlife and plants.  Many of the founders and teachers of homeopathic medicine were trained physicians well-versed in biblical scripture, where ancient healing wisdom was derived from time-honored experience with natural substances.   Remedies stimulate the natural healing responses of live biological organisms.  An entertaining and revelatory story walk, guided by biblical verse, sets the stage for our discussion of life, land, health and agrohomeopathy.Special guest Kristina White is a Homeopathic Educator and Co-founder at Your Life and Land in Rochester, MA.   In Kris's own words, “Agrohomeopathy is an inexpensive, chemical free, non-toxic method of healing and protecting plants and agricultural resources from pests and disease.”  She articulates the principles of homeopathy and Hering's Law.  This leads to a practical discussion on individualized treatment for people, animals and plants, which Kris explains through stories and examples drawn from her own practice.Kris is a best-selling coauthor of Wealth Codes: Sacred Strategies for Abundance. Through her work in natural health, agriculture and over 25+ years as a consultant and educator, Kris's ongoing goal is to educate people on the benefits of eating real food, the importance of natural health options in the home and the need for each of us to educate ourselves and trust our own abilities and intuition.INFORMATION RESOURCESRead Wendy's photoblog to view the Storied Windows and follow the trail of clues - https://wendyfachon.blog/2019/05/10/writing-to-angels/Support agrohomeopathy research and learn more about it; subscribe to a community membership with Your Life and Land - https://www.yourlifeandland.com/Order a Plant & Garden Agro-Kit of homepathic remedies - https://www.yourlifeandland.com/product-page/Agro-kitBook an assessment or a class at Your Life and Land - https://www.yourlifeandland.com/book-onlineExpand your learning with Homeopathy for Farm and Garden, by Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj; - https://www.narayana-verlag.com/Homeopathy-for-Farm-and-Garden-Vaikunthanath-Das-Kaviraj/b8241
Help protect your access to homeopathy; join Americans for Homepathy Choice  https://homeopathychoice.org/Join the Story Walking Radio Hour group on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadioLearn more about Food Forest Abundance – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Backyard Farming for Self-SufficiencyGuest Michael Mandeville, Farmer, KNMFARMSBackyard 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 people are considering raising their own egg-laying chickens, growing their own produce and/or learning how to preserve fruits or vegetables procured from local farmers. This episode's story walk uncovers clues that draw attention to the harms caused by industrial farming and food production, before delving into a rich conversation with a self-sufficient farmer, who has been working to create abundance on his own property.Nature-lover, friend and farmer, Michael Mandeville, and his wife have established KNMFARMS - that's Kristine and Michael Farms - in Seneca, South Carolina. In addition to holding down full-time corporate jobs, they manage chickens, turkeys and fish ponds and produce their own vegetables. They also grow bananas, peanuts, shitake mushrooms and grain for their animals. They use old-fashioned tried-and-true methods to preserve their harvest as pickles, fermented vegetables, soups, sauces and whole meals. With decades of experience in farming and preserving, Mike is eager to tell his stories and share his valuable tips.INFORMATION RESOURCESContact Mike for Advice – knmfarms@gmail.com 401 793-0142Purchase The Old Farmer's 2023 Almanac - https://store.almanac.com/buy-old-farmers-almanacCheck out the following books from Chelsea Green Publishing:The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery -https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-small-scale-poultry-flock/Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/wild-fermentation/The Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-winter-harvest-handbook/Visit the Food Forest Abundance website – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Celebrating Our Oneness with All of CreationGuests 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 EducatorAcross the globe, Centers for Spiritual Living are uplifting humanity through the teachings of Science of Mind, a philosophy developed by CSL founder Ernest Holmes. He studied the world's many religions and identified commonalities. One of the commonalities is the concept that our thoughts create our reality. Holmes correlated his findings to establish a unifying set of new thought principles that are scientifically provable in practice. The CSL community embraces people of all faiths and beliefs, which is a beautiful thing. An emphasis on unconditional love allows everyone to be free to be whoever they are, while also understanding that all are connected in Oneness.  CSL is rooted in the Transcendentalist movement led by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who both emphasized the idea of human harmony with nature. They believed that nature can improve us spiritually and help us connect to the rest of the world.Barbara Fuyat, RScP, is the Spiritual Director of the CSL South Coastal, MA Teaching Chapter. Her social and spiritual activism is strengthened by her Belief that changing the world begins by changing ourselves and living our principles and values. She has held leadership positions with Concordia CSL and CSL of Greater Boston, which have helped her grow in her commitment to Oneness, Wholeness and creating a world that works for everyone. Barbara leads ceremonies and services at local beaches, parks and farms; without walls or borders, honoring nature as our spiritual temple. She also leads online classes and a weekly “Circle of Intention,” that is open to one and all.Kristina White, CCH, is a Homeopathic Educator and co-founder of Your Life and Land, an online community formed around the belief that our connection to each other and nature (real food, trees, plants, animals) is critical to our physical, emotional and spiritual health. Kris is a best-selling coauthor of Wealth Codes: Sacred Strategies for Abundance. She offers workshops, learning circles, and individual homeopathic assessments for people, pets, and plants. She is knowledgeable in “Agrohomeopathy,” a natural method of healing and protecting plants and agricultural resources from pests and disease. Kris offers educational resources for individuals, as well as customized programs for healers, natural practitioners, farms and groups, that want to understand how to use homeopathy in their own quest for true wealth, vitality and wholeness.INFORMATION RESOURCESCSL South Coastal MAwww.cslsouthcoast.orgContact: Barbara Fuyat, RScPPhone: 401 793-1753Email: barbara@cslsouthcoast.orgYour Life and Landhttps://www.yourlifeandland.com/Contact: Kristina WhitePhone: 781 258-0618Email: kris@yourlifeandland.comOrder the Plant & Garden Care Kit - https://www.yourlifeandland.com/product-page/Agro-kitBook a session or a free conversation about homeopathy - Book Session | Your Life and LandLearn about the New Thought Principleshttps://csl.org/spiritual-community/what-we-believe/Read This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmeshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292250/this-thing-called-you-by-ernest-holmes/Grow a Food Forest - https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Soil Science and BionutritionGuest Dan Kittredge, Founder and Executive Director, Bionutrient Food AssociationDid 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 the health of the soil where the food are grown. This episode begins by exploring the biological systems that produce some of the best soil for growing food. Then it delves into innovative Growing Partner and Citizen Science programs that seek to improve the nutrition density in our food supply. The Bionutrient Institute has engineered and released a hand-held consumer spectrometer, the Bionutrient Meter, used to test nutrient density at the point of purchase and bring transparency to the marketplace. The goal of this program is to empower consumers to choose their foods based on nutrient quality and to leverage economic incentives to drive full system regeneration.Our guest, Dan Kittredge, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA). His organization focuses on understanding the nutrient density in food, how to support it, and how to incorporate it into the food supply chain. Dan has been an organic farmer for over 30 years. Through global engagement, he has become one of the leading proponents of “nutrient density,” working to demonstrate the connections between soil health, plant health, and human health through workshops, speaking engagements, social media, a YouTube channel and numerous webinars and podcasts.INFORMATION RESOURCESGet involved with the Bionutrient Food Association - https://bionutrient.org/membersCheck out the Bionutrient Institute - https://www.bionutrientinstitute.org/Learn more about the Bionutrient Meter - https://www.bionutrientinstitute.org/bionutrientmeterVisit the Food Forest Abundance website – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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Growing a Community Food SystemGuest Bevan Linsley, Executive Director, Aquidneck Community TableEnvironmental health, food security and community resilience are interconnected issues.  One of the most sensible solutions for addressing these concerns is to organize a community food system.  This involves identifying strong partnerships within the community, advocating for policies that support local growers, establishing distribution points to make food accessible to all, and creating community gardening spaces.  Aquidneck Community Table is a powerful example of organization.  Known locally as ACT, it manages three farmers markets and over 80 community garden plots across the island. Community gardens provide members an opportunity to rent a garden plot for an annual fee and grow their own organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers in a community setting.Bevan Linsley is the Executive Director of Aquidneck Community Table, which she helped establish as a nonprofit in order to bring together partners in the Aquidneck Island community to focus on food issues.  Together, these partners explore and enact solutions that strengthen the local food system, support the local economy and expand access to fresh healthy food.  Over the past ten years, Bevan has overseen the development of the Island Community Farm property, which hosts 46 garden plots, one micro farm, a pollinator garden AND a food forest.  ACT delivers education in school and community gardens, and it creates programs that inspire young people to love healthy foods.  Bevan also serves on the Rhode Island Food Policy Council and on the state's Agricultural Lands Preservation Commission.This episode begins with a story walk around a local orchard property.INFORMATION RESOURCESLearn more on the Aquidneck Community Table website - https://aquidneckcommunitytable.org/Check out the Rhode Island Food Policy Council - https://rifoodcouncil.org/Visit the Food Forest Abundance website – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Fern Propagation - https://savvygardening.com/fern-propagation
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Voice of the Forest: Guest Matthew Largess, President & Founder, Largess ForestryNationally renowned Matthew “Twig” Largess founded his business, Largess Forestry, Inc., in 1986. His company is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and education of the Earth’s forests while enhancing awareness and knowledge of the natural world. A Rhode Island native, Matt studied forestry at Paul Smith’s College, and spent his younger years as a logger, cutting down some of the biggest trees on the earth in the Pacific Northwest, before discovering his calling to become the “Voice of the Forest” and preserve and protect our magnificent trees. He is an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist and a full time environmentalist.Trees are the true guardians of our planet. They provide shade to protect understory plants, animals and people from the burning sun, and they cool the climate. They absorb carbon dioxide from the air and transform it into oxygen, food, wood, leaf compost and so much more. Trees take care of us and connect us in spirit and with Spirit. Trees are an essential resource we must care for in return. In this episode we explore the many ways we can engage with and support our magnificent trees and forests.INFORMATION RESOURCESLargess Forestry website - http://www.largessforestry.com
Central Falls Reforestation Project - http://www.largessforestry.com/centralfallsreforestationproject
Education Tree Walks - http://www.largessforestry.com/tree-walks
Norway Maple vs. Sugar Maple - https://wendyfachon.blog/2022/07/09/norway-maple-vs-sugar-maple/
Food Forest Abundance website - https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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The Enchanted Edible Forest with Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest GardenIn 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 forest garden, incorporates multiple layers of edible plants to maximize natural resources and minimize the manual work. As we encounter food supply chain disruption and price inflation, this is a timely topic. When it comes to planning, planting and maintaining an edible forest garden, how easy is it to grow a self-sustaining garden?Guest Dani Baker, owner of the Edible Enchanted Forest, joins us to answer this question. Dani is a permaculture gardener, teacher and author. In her new book, The Home-Scale Forest Garden, she describes forest gardening as a method of agriculture which “requires careful planning and a strong understanding of beneficial inter-species relationships.” Dani is a retired clinical psychologist and a self-taught gardener who learned the craft by immersing herself in reading, poring over nursery catalogs, attending workshops on permaculture and gardening, and engaging in trial-and-error experimentation.Dani's Enchanted Edible Forest garden is located at Cross Island Farms on Wellesley Island in the St. Lawrence River between New York and Canada. She and her partner, David Belding, grow certified organic produce and raise grass-fed beef and goats. Dani conducts workshops and tours in her edible forest garden as well as giving presentations at organic farming conferences and other venues.INFORMATION RESOURCESRead the Enchanted Edible Forest blog - https://www.enchantededibleforest.com/blog/Order The Home-Scale Forest Garden by Dani Baker - https://www.enchantededibleforest.com/the-book/Listen to the Food Forest Abundance episode - https://dreamvisions7radio.com/food-forest-abundance/https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON
Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.
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