The Seed Farmer Podcast
Episodes
Ep. 58 My favorite seed books
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Let's head over to my library and take a look at the books that have most influenced my journey as a seed grower. Whether you are just starting out or...
Ep. 57 Looking for Seed Opportunities on Market Farms – Jesse Frost, Rough Draft Farm
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Frost operates Rough Draft Farm in Kentucky with his wife, Hannah Crabtree. Jesse is also the author of The Living Soil Handbook and hosts the N...
Ep. 56 Unexpected Seed Opportunities In Your Cold Room
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This minisode is about unexpected seed opportunities in your cold room. And those opportunities are the roots you're storing in that cold room and ...
Ep. 55 Seed Workers Unite - Edmund Frost, Commonwealth Seed Growers
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Edmund Frost is a seed grower and plant breeder based at Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. He is the manager of Commonwealth Seed Growers, a cooperativ...
Ep. 54 When Biotech Comes to Your Garden - Lucy Sharratt, CBAN
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This minisode is a conversation with Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). I invited Lucy to talk about the new geneti...
Ep. 53 Collard Greens: The Jazz of American Cuisine - Bonnetta Adeeb, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bonnetta Adeeb is a founding member of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, a program of the non-profit STEAM Onward based in Maryland. Bonnetta i...
Ep. 52 Anyone Can Start A Seed Library - Rebecca Newburn, the Seed Library Network
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This minisode is a conversation with Rebecca Newburn of the Seed Library Network. We talk about seed libraries: what they are, how they work, and how ...
Ep. 51 Looking For Hakurei Turnip Alternatives - Shannon Jones, Broadfork Farm
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon Jones runs Broadfork Farm with Bryan Dyck in River Hebert, Nova Scotia. They grow vegetables and cut flowers for market. I've been trying to g...
Ep. 50 Making the Seed Farmer Podcast with Molly Brisebois
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 50 of the Seed Farmer Podcast!!!! Wow! Let's do something a bit different to pause and mark the occasion. In this episode, I'm joined by...
Ep. 49 From Making Seed Packs to Riding Dragons – Chris Belnap, Cambridge Pacific
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Belnap is the owner of Cambridge Pacific, based in Cambridge, NY. Their tagline is The Folks Who Make The Packets, and that's exactly what they ...
Ep. 48 Crop Planning with the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's crop planning time! I'm sharing the spreadsheet system I've been evolving on farms for over 20 years. These sheets start with your financial g...
Ep. 47 Learning to Be in Place Through Seeds - Janisse Ray, author of Journey in Place
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I invited Janisse Ray for this New Year's Eve episode because I wanted to start the year grounded in the idea of place, rooted in connection, and insp...
Ep. 46 Words Of Advice For Seed People
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we wrap up this year, I want to do something a little bit different. At the end of every Seed Farmer conversations I ask my guests two questions ...
Ep. 45 I Wrote a Book with Julia Shanks!
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So I've been quietly working on something since April. It hasn't exactly been a secret, but it has mostly stayed under wraps. In this episode, it's fi...
Ep. 44 Building Inclusive Seed Systems – Alexis Yamashita, Community Organizer
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Yamashita is a community organizer, seed grower, and PhD student in Food Systems at the University of Vermont. Alexis has also been deeply invo...
Ep. 43 Breeding Tomatoes and Talking Co-ops – Fred Thériault, Tourne-Sol Co-operative Farm
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Thériault is a farmer and founding member of Tourne-Sol co-operative farm in Les Cèdres, Quebec, where they grow vegetables for 500 weekly CSA ...
Ep. 42 Inside the Seed Farmer Mentorship
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a peek inside the Seed Farmer Mentorship—a guided learning experience I've created to help growers build the skills, systems, and confidence ...
Ep. 41 Strengthening Local Seed Security - David Catzel of Farm Folk City Folk
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Catzel is the BC Seed Security Program Manager at FarmFolk City Folk, the Regional Program Coordinator for the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadi...
EP. 40 Let's Wrap Up Your Seed Season Review
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You've reviewed your field records, gathered feedback from your team, looked at your sales channels, and even listened to your customers. Now it's tim...
Ep. 39 Overwintering Brassicas - Matt Bell of Johnny's Selected Seeds
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Bell has worked at Johnny's Selected Seeds in Albion, Maine, since 2018. He is currently a trial technician focusing on cucurbits, but today's co...
Ep.38 Listen to Your Seed Customers - Season Review week 4
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're turning our attention to your customers. The people who actually buy your seeds. Whether you sell seed packs through your online store...
Ep. 37 Look Back at This Year's Seed Sales, Season Review week 3
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to review your seed sales channels to see what's working and what isn't. Whether you're selling seed packs through your own company or ...
Ep. 36 Team Reflections: The Seeds of Next Season
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gather the crew - it's time for a season review! This week on the Season Review Challenge, we're talking about doing a team season review. That mea...
Ep. 35 Complete Your Field Records, Start Your Seed Review
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You might be busy harvesting carrots, planting garlic, and wrapping up the season - but this is also the perfect time to pause and look back at your g...
Ep. 34 Roots Today, Seeds Tomorrow – Harvesting Your First-Year Biennials
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All those roots you're harvesting for fall storage aren't just good for eating or selling at market. They are also the first stage of a biennial seed ...
Ep. 33 Last Call for Bean Seeds
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your bean plants might be winding down but that doesn't mean there isn't one last harvest in them. If you've been picking bush beans or pole beans ...
Ep. 32 Mystery Squash Is Fun… Until It's Not
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Head to your squash patch and grab a fruit or two — because inside, you've got a pile of seed waiting for you! Another Seedy September Minisode a...
Ep. 31 Don't deadhead - your flowers are full of seed
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Head out to your flower beds and look for those blooms that have dried up and turned brown! This is another Seedy September minisode to realise that h...
Ep. 30 Go And Pick Some Peppers For Seed Right Now!
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Head out to your fields and pick some peppers then cut them open and take out the seeds! That's what I"m hoping you do as soon as this episode en...
Ep. 29 Seeds for a Delicious Food Future – Adam Alexander, Author of The Accidental Seed Heroes
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Alexander is a film maker, writer, and gardener based in Wales. Adam is also the author of the upcoming book Accidental Seed Heroes: Growing A De...
Ep. 28 From Growing for Seed Companies to Becoming One – Sebastian Aguilar of Summertime Seed Co.
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Aguilar runs Summertime Seed with his wife Kelly Gelino in Dayton, Oregon. This year they're growing 190 varieties on 16 acres. In this e...
Ep. 27 Seeds That Know The South - Chris Smith of The Utopian Seed Project
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Smith is the founder of the Utopian Seed Project, a hands in the earth non-profit based in Asheville, North Carolina. Chris is also the author o...
Ep. 26 From City Boy To Seed Farmer - Patrice Fortier of La Société des Plantes
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patrice is the owner of La Société des Plantes, a farm based seed company in Kamouraska, Quebec. On his website, Patrice describes La Société d...
Ep. 25 The Organic Seed Alliance w/ Researcher & Educator Jared Zystro
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Zystro is a research and education director at the Organic Seed Alliance. Jared is based in Arcada, California. I invited Jared onto this episod...
Ep. 24 Peasant Seeds with Léa Martinet Jannin & Ferdinand Beau of Buzuruna Juzuruna
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Léa and Ferdinand are two of the twenty-two members of Buzuruna Juzuruna, a 2 ha seed farm and school farm in Lebanon. In this episode, Léa and Ferd...
Ep. 23 Mohawk Seedkeeper, Stephen Silverbear McComber
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Silverbear McComber is a seedkeeper and a recently elected chief on the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke whose portfolio is sustainable developme...
Ep. 22 Seed Work Across Time and Space & Allium Seed Breakdown w/ Heron Breen of Fruits of Our Labors
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heron Breen is this episode's guest. Heron grows seed on six acres at Fruits of Our Labors in St. Albans, Maine. In this episode, Heron and I discusse...
Ep. 21 Farm-Raised Kids w/ Author & Farmer Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics & Growing for Market
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Kulla is the author of Farm-Raised Kids. A brand new book from Storey Publishing. Katie is also an illustrator, one of the hosts of the Growing ...
Ep. 20 All the Things You Need to Know--Other Than Seed--to Launch a Seed Business w/ Ellen Rignell of Winnow Farm Seeds
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Rignell has many years experience growing seed from her time at Trill Farms and as a program coordinator for the Gaia Foundation seed sovereignt...
Ep. 19 Starting a Seed Company, Seed as Spiritual Partner, & Refining Isolation Distances w/ Manish Kushwaha of Gaia Organic Seeds
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Manish Kushwaha is a fourth generation seed farmer who had no intention of following the family tradition, but after a period working as a software en...
Ep. 18 Growing Seed in a Humid Tropical Climate with Gabriel Bravo of Semillas Plantae
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Bravo is one of the founders of the company Semillas Plantae and farms with Mima Picado at El Tablazo Farm in Costa Rica. In this episode, Gab...
Ep. 17 A Seed Farmer's Favorite Tool, The Winnow Wizard with Mark Luterra
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In almost every interview on The Seed Farmer, my guests and I wind up talking about tools. And one tool that podcast guests have mentioned more than a...
Ep. 16 Wild Seed Collection, Working with Market Gardeners, & DIY Seed Equipment w/ Kim Delaney of Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Delaney farms with Aaron Lyons and Stephen Surgenessie at Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds in Mount Forest, Ontario. They grow certified organic seeds ...
The Seed FARMER Podcast, Season 2 Preview + New Book
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Brisebois here, seed grower at Tourne-Sol Co-operative Farm, spreadsheet crop-planning enthusiast, and also host of The Seed Farmer Podcast. Wait....
Crop Planning for Seed Growers
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can plan for growing seed in as little or as much detail as you can plan for growing any other crop. Up until now, I've been encouraging you to sl...
Selecting Your First Seed Crops
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What seed will you harvest this summer from your market garden? In episodes 1-3 of this miniseries, we've talked about some key considerations for gro...
The Plant Life Cycles of Seed Crops
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever had that perfect bed of lettuce in the field and a few days before you're going to cut it for market, you discover that the stems have a...
Managing Cross-Pollination on Your Farm
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you afraid to keep your own seed on your farm? Does the terror of cross-pollination keep you up at night? Are you worried that any seed you kept w...
You Can Grow Seed on Your Farm
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You can grow seed on your farm. And it's easier than you think. This is the first of 5 mini-episodes to get ready for the season 2 of The Seed Growe...
Ep.10 Chris & Owen of Truelove Seeds
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris & Owen are the founders of Truelove Seeds,a Philadelphia, PA farm-based seed company offering seeds grown by 70+ small scale urban and rural gro...
Ep.09 Robin Tunnicliffe of Sea Bluff Farm
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Tunnicliffe grows seeds and veg at Sea Bluff Farm in BC, Canada. She is also one of the co-owners of Saanich Organics Marketing Cooperative. Ro...
Ep.08 Liz & Matthew of Muddy Fingers Farm
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Muddy Fingers Farm is in the finger lakes region of NY state. Liz and Matthew grow veg for CSA and market on about 3 acres for about twenty years! an...
Ep.07.5 BONUS Frank Morton on Saving Lettuce Seed
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed explains several methods for saving lettuce from seed to seed. Follow Dan Briseboi...
Ep.07 Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frank is a renown seed grower and sells seed both on contract and retail through their seed catalogue and website, Wild Garden Seed. You can also fol...
Ep.06 Helen Skiba of Artemis Flower Farm
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Skiba of Artemis Flower Farm in Boulder CO sells cut flowers through farmers markets, wholesale, and a flower CSA. She also sells dahlia tubers...
Ep.05 Rowen White of Sierra Seeds
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rowen White is a seed-keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous food and seed sovereignty. Sh...
Ep.04 Annie & Nathaniel of Deep Harvest Farm
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Annie Jesperson and Nathaniel Talbot of Deep Harvest Farm tell us about running both a veg CSA and seed company on Whidbey Island, outside of S...
Ep.03 Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm grows veg and seed crops in Winter, Ca. She is also a part of Second Generation Seeds, a collective of Asian-American growe...
Ep.02 Marie-Claude Comeau of Ferme La Radicule
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marie-Claude Comeau of Ferme La Radicule is situated in Manseau, Quebec (zone 4B). She grows certified organic seed with draft horses, which she sells...
Ep.01 Joelene & Adrianna of Empowered Flowers
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
... grow certified organic veg in Oregon City, OR where they sell through farmers markets and a Winter CSA. They ALSO grow a variety of seeds on seed ...
NEW The Seed Growers Podcast with Dan Brisebois, coming April 27th
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every episode I'm going to bring you a conversation with a grower who has integrated Saving Seeds into their own farm systems. Some grow seed crops to...