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Finding a Home for Extra Harvest
Sharing with CommunitySusan Antler joins us to talk about the Plant • Grow • Share a Row program. This program helps groups and individuals to grow extra vegetables to...
Winter Vegetable Gardening with Wolfgang Palme
Winter-Hardy VegetablesWolfgang Palme joins us to talk about winter-hardy vegetables and year-round growing. He is an agronomist, and head of the Research Institute of...
From Ornamental Landscapes to Pretty Tasty Gardens
Edible LandscapesLindsay Stuijfzand talks about how she weaves her passion for growing food into her work as a landscaper.Pretty Tasty GardensStuijfzand is a horticult...
Grow Food Indoors + Regenerative Gardening
Grow Food IndoorsIn the first part of this episode we chat about growing food indoors with Kim Roman, a garden educator and square-foot-gardening instructor. Her new b...
Grow Epic Tomatoes, with Joe Lamp'l and Craig LeHoullier
The Best Way to Grow TomatoesThere’s more than one way to slice a tomato; there’s more than one way to grow a tomato.Growing tomatoes is like many things in life…there...
Co-operative Growing
One Farm, Many FarmersDaniel Brisebois joins us from La Ferme Cooperative Tourne-Sol near Montreal. The farm operates as a workers co-operative, where farm owners are ...
Attract Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden
Beneficial InsectsIf you’ve heard the terms beneficial insects, beneficial bugs, or biological control, these all relate to this ideas of letting some bugs help us dea...
Ornamental Edibles, Hort Therapy, Kids Gardening
Today we talk about wind tunnels, horticultural therapy, landscaping with edibles, and gardening with kids. Our guests today are professional garden educators who have...
Build Soil Health with Wood Chips
Wood chips: They’re abundant, inexpensive, and renewable. There are many possible applications in horticulture.Uses of Wood ChipsWood chips have many uses in gardens, ...
Gardening as Medicine for Mental Health
The garden is the bridge.For clients of The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, one way to connect with the surrounding community is through gard...
Natural Beekeeping
Beekeeping with a bees-eye viewOur guests today help us explore bee-friendly beekeeping techniques.* Lessons from the way bees live in the wild* Management strategies ...
Landmarks help Blind Gardeners + Gardening for Birds
Gardening for the BlindChristine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Ke...
12 Gifts from the Heart for Gardeners
We wrap up the 2021 season of podcasts with 12 ideas for ways that you can give something — something other than material “stuff” — to the gardeners in your life.
Passive Solar Greenhouses with Rob Avis
Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture (https://vergepermaculture.ca) shares tips on passive solar greenhouses.Avis says a key consideration when designing a passive solar g...
Incredible Edible: Pamela Warhurst on Making Grey Spaces Green
From the Ground UpPamela Warhurst from the Incredible Edible Network (https://www.incredibleedible.org.uk) talks about turning grey spaces green by helping people beli...
Making Change One Garden at a Time
Grow NowEmily Murphy believes individual gardeners doing small things can add up to big change.Murphy is a garden designer, educator, and author with a background that...
Food-Focused Homestead Life
Have you ever thought of changing your relationship with food?Gary Dickenson put food front and centre in his new life as a homesteader. He tells us about his move fr...
School Food Gardens Open Career Horizons
The Wateroo Region School Food Gardens project (https://seeds.ca/schoolfoodgardens) has built 35 school gardens, touching 20,000 students in this region of Ontario.All...
Virtual Apple Tasting
Stop and smell the roses? Community event helps people to stop and smell…apples.Susan Poizner recently helped 50 Torontonians to stop and smell…apples. Poizner, a fru...
Grow Quince and Garden Journal
Grow Quince in Cold ClimatesImagine a job that revolved around a plant you’re passionate about. What plant would it be for you? For Nan Stefanik that plant is quince.S...
Compost Heater Heats a Hot Tub
A wood-chip compost pile steams up this hot tub.Today we visit a Colorado garden at an elevation of 6,500 feet.Tom Bartels harvests 1,000 pound of fresh produce a year...
Grow Bamboo in Cold Climates
Fred Hornaday is bullish about bamboo and it’s many uses. From fuel to food to fibre, he sees it as a versatile crop with environmental benefits.He shares his passion ...
Grow and Cook Bamboo
Wendy Kiang-Spray’s children don’t recognize canned bamboo shoots. That says a lot about the difference between fresh bamboo and its canned cousin.Kiang-Spray, author ...
Urban Growers + Gardening Under Cover
Today on the podcast we hear how one person’s journey into food gardening evolved into a documentary film — and then we find out how to use garden covers to take veget...
Pawpaw in Ontario with Paul DeCampo
Pawpaw. It’s a fruit that has a long history in Ontario.Yet it’s not well-known, nor do most people realize it grows wild in some parts of the province.Paul DeCampo, T...
Doug Oster uses Newspaper Boxes to Share Seeds
Where have all the newspaper boxes gone?If you’re in western Pennsylvania, don’t be surprised if you find a dark green newspaper box with a sign in the window that say...
A Windy Newfoundland Homestead with a Sustainable Focus
Old becomes new.When David Goodyear began to think about food costs, sustainability, and how he and his family ate, he sat down with older relatives to hear how people...
How to Use Fig Leaves in the Kitchen
Coconut. Almond. Green fig.These are some of the flavours people use to describe what they taste when Chef David Salt serves something flavoured with fig leaves.Salt c...
How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying
Mushroom identification can be daunting for beginners, with Latin names and spore prints used to differentiate hard-to-identify mushrooms. In his new book, How to For...
Are You Frightened of Landrace Gardening?
Joseph Lofthouse had hundreds of jars of seed around his house when he began market gardening. He saved seeds from each variety…a time-consuming task. Today he has f...