Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping
Farm the City, Garden with Grains
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In this broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with farmer, author, and food system activist Micheal Abelman. Michael is a visionary of the urban farming movement. In addition to his family farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, he’s the co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms in Vancouver, an urban agriculture business that provides employment to people managing poverty and addiction. The farm covers 4 acres of land, producing 25 tons of food annually.
The author of many books, his most recent book is Farm The City: A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm.In the second half of the show, we chat with horticulturist and foodscaping expert Brie Arthur about her new book, Gardening with Grains. Brie is an advocate of including food plants in the landscape, and a proponent of planting edibles within traditional ornamental landscapes.Brie gives advice for growing grains from planting to harvest. Ever thought of growing barley? It gives a whole new meaning to the term “beer garden!”Brie previously joined us on the show to talk about her book The Foodscape Revolution. The Tomato-Talk segment and Biggs-On-Figs segments are included in the chat with Michael Abelman.
Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Where You Think You Can't, I tell you everything you need to know to successfully grow an olive tree in a pot!
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In this broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with farmer, author, and food system activist Micheal Abelman. Michael is a visionary of the urban farming movement. In addition to his family farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, he’s the co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms in Vancouver, an urban agriculture business that provides employment to people managing poverty and addiction. The farm covers 4 acres of land, producing 25 tons of food annually.
The author of many books, his most recent book is Farm The City: A Toolkit for Setting up a Successful Urban Farm.
In the second half of the show, we chat with horticulturist and foodscaping expert Brie Arthur about her new book, Gardening with Grains. Brie is an advocate of including food plants in the landscape, and a proponent of planting edibles within traditional ornamental landscapes. Brie gives advice for growing grains from planting to harvest. Ever thought of growing barley? It gives a whole new meaning to the term “beer garden!” Brie previously joined us on the show to talk about her book The Foodscape Revolution.
The Tomato-Talk segment and Biggs-On-Figs segments are included in the chat with Michael Abelman.
