The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained

Mary (Lady Farmer), Emma (Lady Farmer)

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Booking Overview

The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained is a mother-and-daughter show that connects sustainability to everyday healing of our relationship with the planet—especially through soil and regenerative living. It’s a strong booking fit for founders, researchers, authors, and practitioners who can translate climate/regeneration ideas into practical community action.

Metrics

Episodes: 311

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 651 subscribers

Instagram: 16.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Mary (Lady Farmer) - Co-host of The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained and part of the Lady Farmer collective. Focuses on regenerative, sustainable living and translating eco-ideas into accessible, lived practices thr...

Emma (Lady Farmer) - Co-host of The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained alongside her mother, Mary. Engages listeners with sustainability themes—often grounded in regenerative agriculture and practical lifestyle change...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Practitioners and leaders in regenerative and sustainable living—often operators of farms/food-waste businesses, authors with published work, and recognized community educators/organizers with a track record translating sustainability into tangible practices.
Required Achievements:  
Built or scaled a local sustainability program (e.g., composting, native plant production, farm-based initiatives), Published a book/substack or runs a community program (gatherings, networks, education), Demonstrated measurable impact (households served, acreage under regenerative practices, adoption of waste diversion or plastic-free methods), Developed or popularized practical methods/standards (soil-health techniques, nursery growing protocols, composting models)

Recent Guest Discussions

Ben Parry - Composting Systems, Community-scale Infrastructure, Policy And Cultural Norms For Food-waste Diversion, Partnerships With Farms, Scaling Diversion Programs

Melanie Cotillo - Native Plant Cultivation Without Plastic/peat/synthetic Inputs, Earth First Gardening Philosophy, Ecological Benefits For Pollinators, Practical Alternatives And Nursery Practices

Emily Hillman - Aligning Values With Slow Living, Burnout And Economics Of Simplicity, Secondhand/slow Fashion And Slow Food Approaches, Individual Composting Practices

Recent Topics

Regenerative, Sustainability, Soil, Composting, Gardening

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained
:

238. Food As Our Deepest Connection to Nature with Jill Demers of ReWild Ranch

June 06, 2026

Jill Demers is the founder of ReWild Ranch in Montana, a one-of-a-kind regenerative farm, wellness destination, and educational space, rooted in the one question she's been asking for over two decades: Why are Americans so disconnected from their food — and at what cost? As a regenerative farmer and certified nutrition therapy practitioner, Jill has built ReWild as an answer to that question — a place where the farm is the center point, and guests leave changed in ways that they will neve...

237. Composting as a Cultural Shift with Ben Parry of Compost Crew

May 08, 2026

This week, in honor of International Compost Awareness Week, we're joined by Ben Parry, CEO of Compost Crew — a small but mighty business in the DC metropolitan area helping thousands of households and businesses turn their food waste into something good for the soil. Ben's story is a quiet revolution in itself: a journey from renewable energy to regenerative soil, from powering the grid to feeding the ground beneath our feet.In this conversation, we dig into how composting is transfo...

236. From Mary: Earth First Gardening with Melanie Cotillo of Lazy Dirt Wildflower Farm

April 24, 2026

Spring has a way of pulling us back to the soil — and this season, Mary sat down with someone who has made the health of the soil and the well being of the pollinators and wildlife in her local ecosystem her first priority. Melanie Cutillo is the self-described Plant Wrangler in Chief at Lazy Dirt Wildflower Farm in Mexico, New York, a backyard nursery nestled just east of Lake Ontario, where she grows native and wildflower plants entirely without plastic, peat, or synthetic inputs of any kin...

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