Yard To Table
Hosted by Emmy Award® winners Trevor Crafts and Ellen Scherer Crafts, Yard to Table introduces listeners to the couple's passion for cultivating a delicious life, one yard at a time.
In each episode, Trevor and Ellen offer a delightful blend of practical gardening tips, mouthwatering recipes, and stories from fellow gardeners and food enthusiasts. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, Yard to Table is designed to be approachable and inspiring, guiding listeners on how to turn their outdoor spaces into thriving sources of joy.
Tune in for an inspiring mix of practical knowledge and creative energy, sprinkled with expert advice, plenty of laughs, and engaging interviews that celebrate the Yard to Table lifestyle.
Yard To Table
Black Gold, Wiggles & Worm Wisdom: Justin Hawrysh’s Soil-First Philosophy
This week on Yard to Table, Trevor and Ellen dig deep—literally—with Justin Hawrysh of Wiggle Room, a vermicomposting visionary and livestock whisperer redefining what it means to grow healthy food from the ground up. Raised in Connecticut and trained as an engineer, Justin bridges science and soil with a blend of curiosity, ingenuity, and grit.
He’s a compost-tea brewer, microbial matchmaker, pasture rotation strategist, and the proud co-founder (with his mom Monique Bosch!) of Wiggle Room, a company turning restaurant scraps into USDA-certified organic worm castings that are revitalizing gardens and farms across the region.
From pigs that till soil to chickens that lay through winter and sheep that cycle nutrients, Justin shares how multi-species farming and closed-loop composting make his home base—The Hickories—a sponge for biodiversity. It’s part farm science, part kitchen magic, and 100% inspiring.
Pull up a chair and a bucket of “black gold”—this is one conversation that’s guaranteed to get your soil (and your imagination) thriving.
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