2022 Podcasts

All podcasts from January 2019 to the present, show descriptions, and supporting materials, are available at KSFR.org on the Garden Journal podcast page.

JANUARY

8. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Anna Mulé, Executive Director, and Mara Welton, Director of Programs of Slow Food USA, talk about 2021 achievements, and themes and activities planned for 2022. 

15. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition.  This program is a the fourth in our series on the water crisis in New Mexico, is a rebroadcast of an interview with Paula Garcia, executive director of the New Mexico Acequia Association. The interview was first aired on KUNM on Nov. 29, 2021, and was conducted by Louis Head of the Raices Collective of KUNM. The rebroadcast of this content, and availability on KSFR’s website, is with the generous permission of KUNM and the Raices Collective.

22. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest: Dan Kitteridge.

29. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

FEBRUARY

5. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Guest: Pam Roy.

12. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Guest: Carolyn Donnelly, is water operations supervisor at the Bureau of Reclamation responsible for water operations on three Reclamation Projects: San Juan – Chama, Middle Rio Grande, and Carlsbad. Ms. Donnelly joins host Christine Salem to discuss the federal water management system in New Mexico.  

19. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Excerpts from a presentation with Eugene Pickett, owner/operator of Black Farmers and Ranchers New Mexico, Regional Coordinator for the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, member of the National Rural Coalition/ Coalición Rural, New Mexico Food & Agriculture Policy Council, New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association, Albuquerque NAACP, and the New Mexico African American Chamber of Commerce.

26. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

MARCH

5. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Guest: Kendal Chavez, Farm to School Program.

12. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Guest Dagmar Llewellyn, Bureau of Reclamation.

Host Christine Salem in conversation with Dagmar Llewellyn, a hydrologist and civill engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation in Albuquerque’s Water Management Division. Ms. Llewellyn leads projects relating to projecting the impacts of climate change with emphasis on Rio Grande and Pecos River watersheds. This program is the 6th in a series on the water crisis in NM.

 19. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guests Isabelle Jenniches and Judith Schwartz.

Isabelle Jenniches, co-founder of the  New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group, discusses the option of donating tax refunds to benefit farmers, ranchers, and organizations promoting soil health. She is a community organizer and soil educator. An accomplished artist, she also shares growing up in a small village in Germany and her grandmother’s impact on her current work.

In the second half of the show, author and journalist Judith Schwartz  shares how she came to see soil as a crucible for many aspects of life, from sustaining a livable climate to holding water in the landscape to serving as the basis for thriving communities. She takes a clear-eyed look at global environmental, economic, and social challenges, and finds insights and solutions in natural systems.

26. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

APRIL

2. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Guest: Denisa Livingston (Diné), Community Health Advocate + Food & Health Justice Organizer.

9. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Co-hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford are joined by Master Gardener Pat Oliver-Wright and extension agent Tom Dominguez who share details on upcoming Master Gardener events.  

16. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest: Aaron Lowden, the Ancestral Lands Acoma Program Manager and keynote speaker from this year’s Regenerative Agriculture Day. Aaron is a traditional farmer, land-based skills instructor, and seed caretaker. Since 2011, he has been leading efforts in Acoma Pueblo to restore the traditional food system. 

23. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Juliana Ciano, co-founder of Reunity Resources, a non-profit organic soil yard and farmstand, about their upcoming season. 

30. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

MAY

7. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Guest: Farmer Ron Boyd.

14. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Kevin Hobbs, field geologist and mapper for the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, joins co-hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford to discuss how aquifers work and how the current water situation affects them. This is the 7th program in the series on the water crisis in NM. 

21. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Food, Farms & Friends host Carrie Core returns with a new episode in her series on regenerative agriculture with a focus on the experiences of farmers, ranchers and gardeners and their efforts to insure a healthy food future for New Mexico.

28. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month. Jannine blogs at https://giantveggiegardener.com. Click here for program notes.

JUNE

4. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico. Guest: talk Steve Sando, Rancho Gordo, on growing heirloom and heritage varieties of beans, and working with farmers to source heritage beans from Mexico and Central America. 

11. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Host Alexa Bradford talks with permaculturist Amanda Bramble. 

18. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest Shahid Mustafa, a Black farmer in New Mexico who reconnects with Black settlers who preceded him in the rich history of African-Americans in agriculture in the U.S.

25. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

JULY

2. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Guest: Erin Wade, owner of Vinaigrette restaurant in Santa Fe and Albluquerque, talks about her forthcoming book.

9. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Host Christine Salem in conversation with Charlie Shultz, lead faculty in the SFCC Controlled Environment Agriculture program.  

16. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest Phoebe Suina is the founder and owner of High Water Mark, LLC (HWM), which works with NM communities, Tribes, and Pueblos on a variety of issues and initiatives from environmental policy, land acquisition, planning, infrastructure, and how governmental policies, laws and priorities affect Tribal communities.

23. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. SF County Extension Agent Tom Dominguez and his guests discuss the latest news from the Extension Division.

30. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

AUGUST

6. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Slow Food Santa Fe’s Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with James Beard Best Chef Southwest Award recipient Chef Fernando Olea of Sazón Restaurant in Santa Fe.

13. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Co-hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem in conversation with Alessandra Haines and Ron Boyd, co-founders of Rio Grande Grain. Rio Grande Grain is helping to restore the local grain economy to northern NM through education, outreach, and events.
https://riograndegrain.org 

20. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest Jim Armendariz is the State Rangeland Management Specialist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)in New Mexico.

27. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month. This program is a rebroadcast of the August 28, 2021 program. This program was broadcast LIVE on August 28, 2021, from the Santa Fe Farmers Market in the historic Santa Fe Railyard. Click here to listen

SEPTEMBER

3. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview the three farmers on the Slow Food Santa Fe September 14th farm tour: Astrid Yankosky and Osiris Nasnan, The Vagabond Farmers, Don Bustos, Santa Cruz Farm and Greenhouses, and Sirivishnu Khalsa, Khalsa Family Farm. 

10. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Rolf Schmidt-Petersen, Director, and Ali Effati, Colorado River Basin Bureau Chief, with the  NM Interstate Stream Commission join co-hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford to discuss how the severely depleted Colorado River reservoirs will affect New Mexico. Learn more about the work of the ISC here

17. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guests Ann Bilke and David Montgomery.

24. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

OCTOBER

  1. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  

8. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Alexa Bradford hosts with Santa Fe Extension Agent for Agriculture Tom Dominguez who talks with Dr. Marisa Thompson, NMSU Extension Urban Horticulture Specialist and the editor of the NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences website “Desert Blooms.” 

15. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest Bill DeBuys is the author of ten books including A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American West. His River of Traps with photographer Alex Harris was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1991. His latest book is The Trail to Kanjiroba;  Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss.

22. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. This week hosts Christine and Alexa are in conversation with the preeminent leader in the global seed saving movement, Bill McDorman, about the Heritage Grain Alliance, the perils of seed patenting, and his recent participation in the 9th Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. McDorman is co-founder of the Heritage Grain Alliance, and former executive director of both the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance and Native Seed/Search. 

29. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

NOVEMBER

5. Slow Food Santa Fe Outloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  Chef Micaela Deaton, Internships Coordinator with the Culinary Arts Program of the Santa Fe Community College. 

12. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. This week host Alexa Bradford is in conversation with volunteer Catherine Williamson of The Cactus Rescue Project of Santa Fe, covering the history and evolution of the organization, its demonstration gardens, and current projects.  

19. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Toby and Kimberly Bostwick share how they successfully used bale grazing, adaptive high stocking rates with temporary fencing and mobile water systems, and other methods to regenerate their farm and rangeland.

26. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month.

DECEMBER

3. Slow Food Santa FeOutloud edition.  Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg follow food, dining, and food policy in New Mexico.  

10. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Guests Deborah Madison ad Marika Pineda join hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem to share their favorite gardening and environmental books for holiday gift giving. All the books mentioned on the program, and some we didn’t get to, are listed here.

17. Food, Farms, and Friends edition. Host Carrie Core presents more Soil Stories. Guest Ralph Vigil is an 8th-generation acequia farmer from East Pecos and Chair of the New Mexico Acequia Commission. His passion lies in the defense of acequia traditions and culture through organic agriculture —utilizing centuries-old acequia systems.

24. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition. Kevin Hobbs, field geologist and mapper for the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, joins co-hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford to discuss how aquifers work and how the current water situation affects them. Rebroadcast from May 14, 2022.

31. Home Grown New Mexico edition. Jannine Cabossel, The Tomato Lady, shares her hard-earned vegetable gardening wisdom and a to-do list for the coming month. Rebroadcast from Dec. 26, 2020.