Fresh Take

About Fresh Take

Fresh Take is your source for practical advice on organic gardening, homesteading, sustainable living, and local food. Each episode features farmers, gardening experts, food entrepreneurs, market leaders, and changemakers sharing real-world insights, actionable tips, and fresh perspectives on growing food, supporting local agriculture, and building healthier communities in Florida and beyond. Whether you're growing food at home, supporting local farmers, managing a market, building a food business, or simply looking to make healthier choices, Fresh Take delivers conversations that help you live more sustainably and stay connected to the people shaping our food system.

Publisher

Florida Certified Organic Growers & Consumers, INC.

Category

education · leisure · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2019

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 149 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Turning Agricultural Waste into Opportunity: Biochar, Soil Health, and Florida's Agricultural Future

   Host Juan Carlos Rodriguez interviews Zack Farr, a third-generation citrus grower, about transforming agricultural waste into biochar to improve soil health and Florida's agricultural future.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Designing a Beautiful Florida Yard That Feeds Pollinators

   Horticulture professional Tenille Dixon Pawlus shares how homeowners design beautiful Florida yards that feed pollinators, creating vital wildlife habitats.

3. 

   13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Questions to Connections: Building Markets, Knowledge and Community

   Host JC Rodriguez interviews Kyndra Love, SE TOPP Project Manager, about how the Southeast Transition to Organic Partnership Program empowers farmers to build markets and knowledge.

Inside a recent episode

Designing a Beautiful Florida Yard That Feeds Pollinators

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Mm-hmm. Okay. Right now, we've been talking a lot about, you know, see the plants themselves. And we mentioned butterflies. My background in horticulture, I've been so used to always thinking when thinking about pollinators, you know, in terms of bees, whether it be bumblebees or honeybees. But that's not necessarily all we're talking about when we're talking about pollinators, correct? Correct. There are... whole eye-opening experience when it came to that i mean you're talking about pollinators you're talking about bees you're talking about moths butterflies beetles um any kind of ground dwelling pollinators i mean there's a whole host of pollinating insects that you and i might not even see to our you know naked eye um bats um wind uh you know we live in florida wind is a is a big you know We have a lot of wind and that could carry pollination from, you know, one plant to the next. […]

Who has been a guest on Fresh Take

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Zack Farr
• Tenille Dixon Pawlus
• Kyndra Love
• Billy Hackett

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

40

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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