The Ag Engineering Podcast
Sharing Lessons Learned in Sustainable Agriculture
A topic centered podcast that rolls right into the
details on tools, tips and techniques
that improve you, your farm, and our world.
Background
The Ag Engineering Podcast was launched in 2019 with the support of a funded Northeast SARE Grant and was designed to produce “short format” easy to digest topic centered episodes.
Episodes feature just enough back story to set the stage, then goes into the details about specific practices that can really improve the sustainability on your farm.
Each interview include specific tools, tips, techniques, practices, and reasonings about what works for them.
This podcast “series” concluded in the summer of 2022 with a total of 76 episodes.
Episodes
The Ag Engineering Podcast Concludes. EP77
In this episode, we wrap up the series of The Ag Engineering Podcast, reflect on its growth and introduce what the future of the podcast is going to look like.
High Tunnels, Cat Tunnels & Wash Pack Tour of Blue Star Farm: EP76
In this episode, we visit with Sue Decker of Blue Star Farm (http://www.bluestarfarmny.com) to get a tour of her high tunnels, caterpillar tunnels and wash/pack area on her farm. The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to…
Heated Greenhouse Benches at Blue Star Farm: Ep75
In this episode, we visit with Sue Decker of Blue Star Farm (http://www.bluestarfarmny.com) to check out the heated benches in her greenhouse.
Buying A Farm When FSA Loans or Family isn’t an Option: EP74
The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Eli Hersh of Honey Field Farm who shares his experience purchasing this farm, and the challenges faced…
12 Greenhouse Tour – And Each One is Different! EP73
The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Eli Hersh of Honey Field Farm (https://honeyfieldfarmvt.com) takes us on a tour of his 12 different greenhouses…
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Quotes that inspired this podcast
We don’t need to recreate the wheel, we just need to share that the wheel exists
Kyle Doda, 1000 Stone Farm
Bed prep, weed control, irrigation practices, fertilizing schemes – All practices I’d like to know more about
Silas Doyle-Burr, Last Resort Farm
Choosing a topic and just covering that. I think that’s a cool angle to come at it from
Jake Mendell, Footprint Farm
Visit the Agricultural Engineering Website for content rich resources for vegetables farms
go.uvm.edu/ageng
Acknowledgments
This podcast is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program under sub-award number ONE-19331 (Northeast SARE). NESARE provides grants and education to advance innovation in sustainable agriculture. This work is also supported by The University of Vermont Extension whose programs Cultivate Healthy Communities by providing and facilitating research, education and outreach with our partners for the people of Vermont.
