{"id":122144,"date":"2024-08-07T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=122144"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:31:50","slug":"growing-good-podcast-83-melissa-stewart-director-of-the-west-virginia-national-guards-patriot-guardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/growing-good-podcast-83-melissa-stewart-director-of-the-west-virginia-national-guards-patriot-guardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Good Podcast #83: Melissa Stewart, director of the West Virginia National Guard\u2019s Patriot Guardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/32476987\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Listen to Melissa Stewart\u2019s story about the West Virginia National Guard\u2019s Patriot Guardens program \u2014 the only agricultural unit embedded in a National Guard unit \u2014 and how it grew from an educational program to what it has become in 7 years: an urban farm in Charleston, a flock of laying hens, farmers markets, an orchard on reclaimed coal-mine land in Central West Virginia, a robust beekeeping program, business and marketing support, a composting project, family programming, and mental-health services. All grant-funded, Patriot Guardens is ever-evolving.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122152\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122152 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/8uLNzo4q-IMG_103134-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-1980x1980.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/8uLNzo4q-IMG_103134-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/8uLNzo4q-IMG_103134-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/8uLNzo4q-IMG_103134-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/IMG_103134-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Stewart is the director of the West Virginia National Guard\u2019s Patriot Guardens program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Melissa talks about the ways this program is benefiting their military service people and veterans, with some seeing agriculture as a possible retirement plan, giving them an opportunity to continue to give back to their community after their military service. Hear about a success story of one participant who\u2019s turned what he\u2019s learned in the program into a thriving plant business. And Melissa gets emotional talking about why Patriot Guardens is important to her and the impact it has on their service members.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a greenhouse production grower before becoming an Extension agent (and now working with Patriot Guardens), Melissa has a ton of experience using a range of gardening techniques. Listen to the end for Melissa\u2019s advice on getting starting with aeroponics at home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Links<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/patriotguardens\">Patriot Guardens on Facebook\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriotguardens.com\/\">Patriot Guardens website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Service Members And Veterans Farming Program And Aeroponic Gardening <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81409,"featured_media":122145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Growing Good Podcast #83: Melissa Stewart, director of the West Virginia National Guard\u2019s Patriot Guardens - 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