Living With The Land

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Lito O'Neill & Casey O'Neill

14 episodes

1 month ago

For generations, Emandal has been a cherished farm, camp, and gathering place on the banks of the Eel River. Currently under the stewardship of Tam Adams and her daughter Kashaya Adams, it is a working dairy farm with extensive flower gardens that produces a bounty of delicious jams and jellies. a hub for community, family, and connection with the land. They have created and nurtured memories for many many people through group camps, celebrations, kids’ camp, and school programs. Their ...

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Living With The Land

Tam Adams

2 months ago

52 minutes

Living With The Land

Meadow Shere

For over 20 years, Meadow Shere has been the proprietor of Long Valley Feed and Supply and a highly respected member of the farming community in Mendocino County. Along with the essential goods that the store carries, it has long served as a gathering place where folks come to discuss all aspects of caring for livestock and crops. Recently the store has added a farmstand that has been a boon to the Laytonville community by providing a market for producers and providing customers a...

4 months ago

58 minutes

Living With The Land

Mean Gene

Mean Gene is a Mendocino county local who has been living closely with the cannabis plant his whole life. He has a deep and distinctive understanding of all aspects of cannabis that the O'Neill brothers, along with many other folks, hold in high esteem. This episode is from a fun, fascinating conversation between Gene, Lito, and Casey as the three of them sat at Lito's kitchen table and talked about cannabis, soil, farming, local history, and memes.

4 months ago

35 minutes

Living With The Land

Marguerite Maquire

Marguerite Maguire is a beloved elder of the mountain community of Bell Springs California. Lito and Casey O'Neill have known Marguerite their whole lives, grew up around her children, and have a deep respect for the many ways she's shaped and strengthened the community. This episode is based on a wonderful conversation when Lito, Casey, and Marguerite sat down at Lito's kitchen table to talk about the early days of Bell Springs and life on the hill.

5 months ago

50 minutes

Living With The Land

Living With The Land Season 1 Epilogue

The O'Neill brothers reflect back on season one and look forward on season 2.

3 years ago

7 minutes

Living With The Land

Mark O'Neill - Father of Happy Day Farms

In May 1982, Mark O'Neill and his wife Anne moved from Southern California to the hills of Northern California to build a life that was self-sustaining and more closely connected to the natural world. The moved into a tiny cabin without heat on raw land. Now, 40 years later, that land is a thriving family farm that provides livelihood and sustenance for multiple generations of O'Neills and provides healthy food for their community. Just before the 40th anniversary of Mark an...

3 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Living With The Land

Green Uprising, Multi-generational Family Farm

Green Uprising is a multi-generational, extended family farm in Willits California that has been working more than a decade to rebuild and develop a beautiful old farm, with apple, pear, plum, and walnut orchards, a couple of small vineyards, lots of wild blackberries, a small goat herd, several vegetable gardens, hoophouses, the beginnings of a food forest and a medicinal herb garden. In this episode, the O'Neill brothers sit down with three members of the Green Uprising family: Thea G...

3 years ago

50 minutes

Living With The Land

Erin Kelly, Professor of Forest Policy and Economics at Cal Poly Humboldt

Erin Kelly is a professor in the department of Forestry & Wildland Resources at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research interests center around the ways that humans interact with forest and she is actively engaged with restoration work in Northern California. The O'Neill brothers have a fun and lively discussion with Erin about the timber wars, the cannabis green rush, restoration economies and the role of nonprofit organizations in them - plus Erin gives a clear explanation of how ...

3 years ago

45 minutes

Living With The Land

Joey Burger, Permaculture Educator and Regenerative Cannabis Consultant

Joey Burger is a Permaculture Educator and a Regenerative Cannabis Consultant. He was born and raised in a Healing Arts Intentional Community deep in the hills of Northern California that grew its own food and medicine. Joey was gardening from a very young age, and as an adult became a community organizer and an educator who brought the cannabis community together for events to share information and genetics. The O'Neill brothers and Joey grew up close to each other i...

3 years ago

56 minutes

Living With The Land

Adina Merenlender, author of Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California

Adina Merenlender is the author of author of Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California. She is a well respected conservation biologist with decades of research experience and a deep understanding of Californian ecosystems. In this episode, Lito and Casey talk with Adina about the book and go into some specifics about water deficit, community clean energy, and the advantages of using homemade natural inputs rather than store bought nutrients. The bro...

3 years ago

40 minutes

Living With The Land

Taylor & Daniel Stein, Homesteaders at Briceland Forest Farm

Taylor and Daniel Stein are homesteaders whose family farm in Northern California produces organic vegetables and cannabis. The Stein family and the O'Neill family are guided by similar principles and philosophies when it comes to farming and living in connection to the natural world. These overlapping values formed the basis of their close friendship, the warmth of which comes through when listening to their conversation in this episode. While sitting around the kitchen table at ...

3 years ago

47 minutes

Living With The Land

Tony Alvarez, Forager and Plant Medicine Guide

Tony Alvarez is a professional forager and plant medicine guide in Northern California. Through his forays, Shroomy Walkabouts, he has introduced hundreds of people to the joy of foraging for wild food and medicine. He also works with individuals, families, and other groups to access the healing and growth potential of sacred plant medicines. In this episode Tony, Lito, and Casey share some of their personal foraging experiences, explore the concept of human communitie...

3 years ago

50 minutes

Living With The Land

Marbry, Elemental of Bell Springs

Folks who know and love Marbry Sipila often refer to her as an Elemental - that's a biodynamic term that means a spiritual being who has a deep communion with the flow of the seasons and the natural world in general. Marbry has been an active and engaged member of the homesteading communities of Northern California since moving to Mendocino county from Santa Cruz in the 1970s. In the over 4 decades she and her husband John have been homesteading in the mountain community of Bell ...

3 years ago

47 minutes

Living With The Land

Living With The Land Trailer

In this trailer episode, Lito and Casey talk about growing up on the family homestead, how cannabis was the gateway plant that lead to becoming vegetable farmers and having a stronger relationship to the land, plus their hopes for this show and what listeners can expect to hear in upcoming episodes.

3 years ago

14 minutes