{"podcast":{"title":"The Urban Farm Podcast with Greg Peterson","slug":"the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746","podcast_index_feed_id":1101746,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson/","website_url":"http://www.urbanfarm.org/category/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ec07f06b-d238-4cbf-98f7-6cf848491d7c/ufpodcastlogo.jpg","author":"Urban Farm Team","episode_count":986,"summary":"Welcome to The Urban Farm Podcast, your partner in the Grow Your Own Food revolution! This audio only podcast features special guests like Rosemary Morrow, Zach Loeks, and Andrew Millison as we discuss the art and value of growing food in urban areas. We'll explore topics such as gardening basics, urban beekeeping and chicken farming, permaculture, successful composting, monetizing your farm, and much more! Each episode will bring you tips and tricks on how to overcome common challenges, opportunities to learn from the experience of people just like you, and plenty of resources to ensure you're informed, equipped, and empowered to participate more mindfully in your local food system... and to have a great time doing it! Support our Podcast and listen Ad-Free! Visit www.urbanfarm.org/patron for more information and see what else we include.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T16:22:50.065243+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746"},"episode":{"title":"968: Homesteading from the Heart with Noel Ruiz","slug":"968-homesteading-from-the-heart-with-noel-ruiz","published_at":"2026-02-20T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746/968-homesteading-from-the-heart-with-noel-ruiz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746","url":"https://www.urbanfarm.org/974","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ede79fc9-8141-47bf-8789-e399dd88781a.mp3","summary":"A Garden Chat with Don Titmus In This Episode: Noel Ruiz shares his journey from urban Southern California to rural Southern Oregon, where he and his family run Homestead Culture. What began as a struggling backyard garden evolved into a life centered on permaculture, seed saving, perennial crops, and heart-centered homesteading. Noel explains grexes, seed diversity, and multi-generational thinking—while reflecting on failure, renewal, and cultivating culture from the inside out. This episode explores how growing seeds can also grow resilience, connection, and joy. Our Guest: Noel is a gardener, homesteader, seed saver, lover of plants and a proud father. Together, he and his sweetheart offer homestead grown seeds of perennial vegetables, flowers, herbs in diverse mixes and grexes, through their family business Homestead Culture. Noel shares free resources and online education around seed saving through HomesteadCulture.com. He enjoys writing articles that explore changing culture, personal transformation, gardening and seeds all while blurring the lines between work and life, as he practices homesteading from the heart. Key Topics Homestead Culture (family-run seed and education business) Permaculture design & soil regeneration WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) Seed saving on a homestead scale Grex breeding & genetic diversity Landrace adaptation Perennial vegetables, herbs, and flowers Multi-generational thinking in homesteading Homesteading from the heart Cultural transformation through gardening Protecting fruit and nut trees from deer and rodents Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Key Questions What happens when your garden fails—and what can it teach you? Noel’s first larger garden struggled due…","meta_description":"A Garden Chat with Don Titmus In This Episode: Noel Ruiz shares his journey from urban Southern California to rural Southern Oregon, where he and his fami…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2222,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746/episodes/968-homesteading-from-the-heart-with-noel-ruiz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-urban-farm-podcast-with-greg-peterson-1101746/968-homesteading-from-the-heart-with-noel-ruiz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}