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Helping Other People Eat through Gardening
Julie Brunson didn’t garden as a child, but began to garden and grow food as an adult. When her husband was in a dark place and found solace in their garden, the garde...
Container Gardening with Hot Peppers – REWIND
What is the ideal plant for a small yard? The ideal plant for someone wanting something ornamental – yet edible too? And, just to complicate things, it has to be...
What's to Hate? A Look at the Whole Okra
Chris Smith remembers his first okra encounter well. It was at a diner in Georgia. A native of the UK, where growing conditions are not conducive to heat-loving okra,...
Edible Front Yards and Sensory Gardens
Jennifer Lauruol weaves together permaculture concepts, native plants, food plants, forest gardening, and educational elements in her regenerative-garden design work i...
Meet the Indiana Jones of Pawpaw
Meet Neal Peterson, the Indiana Jones of pawpaws. He was so moved by the taste of pawpaw that it became his life’s work. There were improved pawpaw varieties in the e...
Urban Farm Camp for City Kids
Today on the podcast we head to Reno, Nevada to hear about Urban Roots, an organization that uses garden education to help change the way people eat. It takes gardens ...
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Approach to No Till
In this rebroadcast of the radio show that aired live on July 7th, we talk about soil and no-till practices with market gardener, farm journalist, and podcaster Jesse ...
Coppices, Alcoholic Hedges, and Thoughts on Ecological Gardening
Where is the sweet spot that gardening meets the natural world…so that gardening is ecological? Our guest today explains that ecological gardening is all about balance...
Sochan, Galinsoga, Squash Tips: Root-to-Flower Cuisine
Our guest today, Chef Alan Bergo, looks at vegetables through the eyes of a forager. He’s passionate about using parts of the plant that are often overlooked. Chefs u...
Garden in Your 90s
“I can’t hold them back sometimes,” says physiotherapist Nancy Durrant as she tells us about the garden at the long-term care home where she works. The residents she’...
Black Creek Community Farm
Today on the podcast we visit the Black Creek Community Farm (https://www.blackcreekfarm.ca) in Toronto. The farm is located along the northern boundary of the City o...
Grow Fruit in a Small Garden
In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we head to California to talk with Christy Wilhelmi, a self-described garden nerd with a ...
City Farm School
Today on the podcast we head to Montreal to hear about City Farm School (http://www.cityfarmschool.com/), an urban-agriculture apprenticeship program. Jackie Martin, ...
Foodscaping
Today on the podcast we talk about “foodscaping,” gardening that combines the ornamental with the edible, also known as edible landscaping. Foodscaper Jeremy Cooper s...
Gardening and PTSD
Today on the podcast we explore the idea of healing through growing. We travel to Israel, to meet Nachum Lamour-Fridman. He uses plants and growing as part of the pro...
Backyard Honeybees
In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we head to North Carolina to chat with beekeeper Justin Maness. Backyard Hon...
It Takes One Person
Today on the podcast we meet an avid gardener who grew up in downtown Toronto, in a family that didn’t garden. And for a long time she didn’t garden either. But then ...
Teachings to Guide Gardeners
Today on the podcast we hang out here in Toronto to speak with Isaac Crosby. Isaac is the Urban Agriculture Lead at Toronto’s Evergreen Brickworks. During our chat, I...
Make a Potager Garden
Today on the podcast we head to Ohio to find out more about potager gardens. Jennifer Bartley tells us about this traditional kitchen garden style from France, and how...
Learning to be a Home Herbalist
In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with herbalist Bevin Cohen about using, growing, and foraging herbs. He talks abo...
Civil Disobedience with Vegetables
Today on the podcast we head to Quebec City to talk about civil disobedience: Civil disobedience with vegetables. Marie-Hélène Jacques from the not-for-profit organiz...
Making Home and Corporate Vegetable Gardens
Today on the podcast we head to Montreal to hang out with Shawn Manning from Urban Seedling (https://www.urbanseedling.com/). He tells us how, 10 years ago, he channel...
Foraging as an Outdoor Classroom
We chat with forager and a wild-food educator Mike Krebill in Iowa. Krebill shares foraging tips, his insights into teaching, his approach to outdoor education—and st...
Forest Gardens and Fruit
We chat with forest garden designer and edible landscaper Mark Lord in south-western Germany.“A garden should be a holistic experience, feeding all of your senses, and...
Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening
We chat with author, horticulturist, and plant breeder Joseph Tychonievich (https://www.josephgardens.com/). Tychonievich shares his top tips for new vegetable garden...
Backyard Urban Farming in Toronto
We chat with Arlene Hazzan Green and Marc Green, co-owners of The Backyard Urban Farm Company (BUFCO) in Toronto about their mission to help people grow food at home. ...
Hunger Relief through Growing
We head to San Diego, California to chat with Mim Michelove and Nan Sterman, who share a love of growing food and involvement in food activism. As unemployment in the...
Crater Garden, Regenerative Farm and Family
We head to Montana to chat with Tim Southwell of ABC Acres, the permaculture homestead he and his his wife Sarah created. Southwell, who grew up in suburban Houston, ...
Harvest More with No-Dig Gardening
We chat with Vermont garden educator and radio host Charlie Nardozzi (https://www.gardeningwithcharlie.com/), who discusses his journey into no-dig gardening—and why i...
Youth and Gardening
What inspires youth and children to garden? In today's show we speak with a 15-year-old on a mission to inspire other teens to garden, and find out about an organizati...