All Episodes
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A Passion for Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
Heirloom Vegetable SeedsJere Gettle from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds joins us to talk seeds, seed saving, and seed collecting.He loves meeting gardeners, chefs, and far...
How to Raise Baby Chicks
What do you Need to Raise Chicks?We’ve talked about backyard poultry here on the show before, but we’ve never explored raising chicks. Our guest today is Dr. Scott Gil...
Press Seed and Nut Oils at Home
Make Seed and Nut Oils at HomeOur guest today makes oils from a wide range of nuts and seeds. Bevin Cohen runs Small House Farm in Michigan, where he specializes in oi...
Toronto Microfarm, Compost Tea, Honey, and Bees
Crooked FarmzIn the first part of the show, we chat with Sean Smith from Crooked Farmz (https://crookedfarmz.net) in Toronto. Smith talks about his journey into growin...
Cricket Frass as Fertilizer and Crickets as Food
105 Million Head of LivestockJarrod Goldin, one of the founders of Entomo Farms, talks about how he and his brothers got into the business of raising food-grade cricke...
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...