Hi everybody this is Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner show

We've been on a role lately with great feedback from many of you on what we've been focusing on in these past few episodes

And today we have one more related to this theme of

ecological gardening, but today's topic is a bit more focused on the impact that

climate change is having on gardening, particularly when it comes to growing our own food.

My guest today is Tony Farmer, who has a background in this topic, academically and professionally,

and who has been leading by example for over 30 years, growing fruits and vegetables, raising

chickens and cooking right from her own backyard. And Tony has a great background for this with

a master's degree in regenerative agriculture from the University of Pennsylvania, and she's a professor

at Rowan University, where she teaches a class called The Future of Food, and that focus is on how we can

continue to grow food in the face of climate change.

Very interesting topic.

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