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Growing Nuts in Cooler Climates
In this interview that first broadcast live on the Food Garden Life Radio Show in 2018, we chat with nut-growing expert Ernie Grimo from Grimo Nut Nursery in Niagara-o...
Green Thumbs Growing Kids
We chat with Sunday Harrison, the founder and executive director of Green Thumbs Growing Kids, a non-profit organization that provides hands-on garden and food educati...
Growing Citrus in Vancouver
Greg Neal from North Vancouver tells us how he got the bug for growing citrus. At last count he had 19 varieties around his suburban yard, some in the ground, some in ...
Getting Scrappy over Quince
Toronto master preserver and pastry chef Camilla Wynne joins us to talk about preserves—and about her Quince Scrap Jelly.Wynne hates to waste a scrap of quince because...
In Search of the Elusive Colorado Orange
In a broadcast that originally aired on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with Jude Schuenemeyer from Colorado about the history of apple cultivation in Colorad...
Preserving the Apple Harvest
We dig into the art and science of preserving—and talk about preserving apples— with Sarah Page, a contributor to the latest version of the Bernardin Complete Book of ...
Figs: A Taste of Home in a Country of Immigrants
We chat with Montreal fig enthusiast—and fig tourist—Michal Hacio. Hacio says that his passion for growing figs and meeting other fig growers started when he spent tim...
A Zone-4 Garden in St. Paul, Minnesota
We head to Minnesota to chat with Mary Schier, the editor of Minnesota State Horticultural Society’s magazine, Northern Gardener—a magazine dedicated to gardening in U...
Grow Exotic Edibles in Cold Climates
We chat with Winnipeg-based garden educator Dave Hanson, co-host of The Grow Guide Podcast, and founder of Sage Garden Greenhouses.Hanson, who spent time in his youth ...
Get 5 Harvests by Growing Your Own Garlic
Ever thought you could get five garlic harvests from your garden?Today on the podcast, garden expert Doug Oster joins us from Pittsburgh, PA to talk about growing and ...
Create a Lifestyle: Starting a Regenerative Farm and Homestead
We chat with Ryan Cullen, co-owner of City of Greens (https://cityofgreens.square.site/) in Bowmanville, Ontario, about starting a regenerative farm and homestead. Cul...
Grow a Food Forest
We chat with Ryan Cullen, the field supervisor at Durham College, about the newly planted food-forest garden at the college’s Whitby campus. Cullen explains that the i...
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
We chat with Steven Peck, president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the Toronto-based industry association that supports the North American green roof and green wal...
Growing and Sharing Figs in a Community Fig Orchard
We chat with Jack Spruill in North Carolina about the community fig orchard on his family farm and about his work developing a conservation project to protect the farm...
Grow Heirloom Melons, Grow Heirloom Tomatoes
In a broadcast that originally aired on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with author Amy Goldman about growing melons, growing tomatoes, her passion for seed-s...
Garden-Based Experiential Learning...with Compost
We chat with Paige Lockett, the director of operations for The PACT Urban Peace Program in Toronto about garden-based experiential learning for at-risk you and about a...
REWIND: Growing Giant Pumpkins and Giant Tomatoes
In this interview that first broadcast live on the radio show in 2018, we chat with Phil Hunt from the Giant Vegetable Growers of Ontario (GVGO) about growing giant pu...
A Community Pulls Together to Save a Garden
We chat with Nathan Larson, Director of the Cultivate Health Initiative in Madison, Wisconsin.When we visited Madison in summer 2019 to attend the National Children an...
A Garden Space Built for Sharing
We check in with Sarah Dobec, the co-ordinator of the Carrot Green Roof, an inspiring rooftop garden that we visited for the first time earlier this year. Dobec explai...
Tantalizing Tomato Harvest Recipes
We get an update from gardener, chef, and author Signe Langford on her hay-bale garden, and then talk about tips for using fresh tomatoes in the kitchen.Langford sugge...