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Edible Flowers: Flowers You Can Eat (and how to use them)
Wondering which flowers you can eat? There’s a wide variety of edible flowers that are easy to grow.You might already have some and just aren’t using them.Edible flowe...
Vegetables to Grow: Choose What’s Best for Your Vegetable Garden
Wondering which vegetables to grow? Or how to pick suitable varieties for your vegetable garden? If you put some thought into your choices, you can avoid harvest-time ...
How to Grow Tomatoes from Seed: When and How (+ Top Varieties!)
Growing tomatoes from seed? Get the right combination of timing, soil, light, and containers, and you can grow great tomato seedlings at home.There’s more than one way...
Winter harvest: Which vegetables to grow in winter and how to do it
Do you shut down your garden for the winter? Wondering what vegetables to plant in the winter? If you’re in a northern climate, to grow vegetables in winter you need t...
Not Sure When to Start Seeds Indoors? Here’s how to Pick Seed-Starting Dates
Wondering when to plant your seeds indoors? Started too early and grown in pots too long before moving to the garden, your seedlings might run out of gas. They stall. ...
Prevent Leggy Seedlings and Grow Transplants Like an Expert
Got seedlings that look like stilt-walkers? Are your seedlings leggy? Leggy seedlings don’t have as much chance of success once you transplant them into the garden…if ...
Seed Smarts: Lingo and Tips for Seed Shopping (Is that untreated seed organic?)
Seed catalogues are arriving already! Find out what you need to know to make good seed-shopping choices. In this episode, Steven and Donna share seed-shopping tips an...
Damson Plums: This Forgotten Fruit Combines Dry, Sweet, Spicy, and Bitter (and makes great gin!)
Damson plums: Sometimes they're simply called damsons. Their rich flavour makes them a culinary gem. Even though they're not difficult to grow, the fruit is rarely ava...
SPRING Finale: How to Grow a Climate-Change Veggie Garden
We head to the UK to chat with homesteader Kim Stoddart about how to grow a resilient vegetable garden. We talk about:Top tips for growing vegetables when conditions a...
Harvest Rainwater for Your Garden and Landscape
Brad Lancaster is a permaculture and regenerative design consultant and educator. His specialty is sustainable landscapes. We chat with Brad about using the landscape ...
Need Space? Harvest More from the Same Plot with Vertical Gardening
Vertical vegetable gardening squeezes more plants into a limited space by making use of space above the ground.In today’s episode, Steve digs into vertical gardening.W...
Small-Plot Intensive Vegetable Production (SPIN Farming)
Wally Satzewich joins us from Saskatchewan to tell us about Small-Plot Intensive Farming (SPIN Farming.) Having studied psychology and ran a taxi franchise, Wally beca...
How to Feed Soil and Plants with Worm Compost (Vermicompost)
Andrew Huxsel joins us from St Placide, Quebec to tell us about worm composting. Also known as vermicomposting. Andrew runs Vermicbec, a company that sells worms and w...
Edible Garden Question and Answer (and what to do about Bolting Lettuce)
It’s planting season here..and the gardening questions are pouring in. Here’s the Q + A from our latest live show. We talk about:Favourite tomato varietiesSupport for ...
7-Year-Old Certified Farmer Talks About Crops, Kids, and Insects
We head to Georgia to chat with 7-year-old Kendall Rae Johnson and her mom, Ursula. Kendall is the youngest certified farmer in the state of Georgia. At her aGROWKultu...
Equipment for Healthy Soil, Less Toil, Minimal Till (and no more Rototiller!)
We chat with Zach Loeks, an educator and grower who specializes in edible ecosystem design. He talks about the two-wheel tractor, a versatile piece of equipment that h...
This Orchard Doesn't Look Like an Orchard (and it's full of Trios!)
Permaculture OrchardWe chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms. We talk about:Why he p...
Kitchen Scrap Gardening: From Avacado to Ginger to Citrus
Grow What's in Your Kitchen!In this episode, we head to Vermont and get great ideas for what we can grow right now, in early spring, using what’s in the kitchen. We ta...
Figuring Out How to Bring Back a Lost Giant...the American Chestnut
In this episode, we dig into some history, a sad story – and hope.All this from a tree that was known as the redwood of the east. A towering tree prized for its wood. ...
Afraid of Late Spring Frost? Low-Tech Mini-Tunnels Are a Simple Solution
Niki Jabbour on how to Make and Use Mini TunnelsLess frost damage. Fewer bugs. Better growing conditions. Mini tunnels have lots of advantages, and they're easy to mak...