Aug 13, 2026 · 53 min · 15 segments
In this episode, Michael Gooden catches up with board member Carol Fitzpatrick and her husband Brian to delve deeper into their on-farm brewing set-up which is providing nutrition to their family's…
Michael GoodenHostBrian FitzpatrickGuest
Carol FitzpatrickGuest
So, like, what were the things that inspired you, Carol, to think, oh, look, let's give this a crack?
I've had a garden here since 2007 and I've always been interested in permaculture and composting and healthy growing of our food.
And I just sent Brian podcasts that I thought were interesting and I was like, we should do more of this on the farm because I don't like the, you know, the conventional... herbicide sprays and all that sort of thing.
But we're trying to improve our soil and our crops using more natural ingredients.
And when we got a liquid inject system, we started putting compost out at some time.
So is that as simple as you guys making some compost on farm or were you buying that in or what was that sort of process? And when you say compost, let's just pull that apart literally and talk about it a bit.
And I've made lots of different sorts of compost, and I still do, just because I like it.
You know, I make Johnson's Sue for a seed dressing nowadays, and this year I planted seeds in it to get the microbiome used to the type of crops we wanted to grow in advance and then used the seeds that were growing in the compost as our liquid for our seed dressing.
So with the Johnson's Sue, if you don't mind circling back to that, because that's something that, you know, we certainly advocate for, and especially if you're using it as a seed coating, as such, there's a lot of beneficial evidence behind that, from that fungi-dominant compost.
How are you multiplying that year by year? Are you carrying it batches forward, or how are you...?
So, like, what were the things that inspired you, Carol, to think, oh, look, let's give this a crack?
I've had a garden here since 2007 and I've always been interested in permaculture and composting and healthy growing of our food.
And I just sent Brian podcasts that I thought were interesting and I was like, we should do more of this on the farm because I don't like the, you know, the conventional... herbicide sprays and all that sort of thing.
But we're trying to improve our soil and our crops using more natural ingredients.
And when we got a liquid inject system, we started putting compost out at some time.
So is that as simple as you guys making some compost on farm or were you buying that in or what was that sort of process? And when you say compost, let's just pull that apart literally and talk about it a bit.
And I've made lots of different sorts of compost, and I still do, just because I like it.
You know, I make Johnson's Sue for a seed dressing nowadays, and this year I planted seeds in it to get the microbiome used to the type of crops we wanted to grow in advance and then used the seeds that were growing in the compost as our liquid for our seed dressing.
So with the Johnson's Sue, if you don't mind circling back to that, because that's something that, you know, we certainly advocate for, and especially if you're using it as a seed coating, as such, there's a lot of beneficial evidence behind that, from that fungi-dominant compost.
How are you multiplying that year by year? Are you carrying it batches forward, or how are you...?
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