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Breeding Tomatoes for the "Holy Grail"
With a reputation for unusual and wildly popular tomato varieties, tomato breeder Brad Gates focuses above all else on flavour. He didn’t start out working in tomato ...
Home and Community Cold Cellars
What’s old is new: Cold cellars are back. Transition Guelph launches an initiative to build local food-storage capacity through cold cellar education and installatio...
Harvest More With Garden Bed Covers
We chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour about using garden bed covers. She is the author of the new book, Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Pro...
Raspberry-Leaf Tea and other uses of the Genus Rubus
It’s an astringent. And it might already be growing in your yard or nearby. Today we take you beyond eating raspberry fruit to explore the herbal and medicinal prope...
Cultivate a Taste for Bitter Foods...and Cardoon Plants
Chef and author Jennifer McLagan (https://www.jennifermclagan.com/) joins us to talk about bitter foods, explaining what bitterness is, and how to effectively use bitt...
Tasty Tomatoes for Small Spaces
We’re joined by tomato expert Craig LeHoullier to talk about the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, preserving seed varieties, and to find out what’s new in his garden. Le...
Farming Cold-Hardy Citrus in South Carolina
The Johnny Appleseed of cold-hardy citrus, Stan McKenzie, joins us to talk about how to grow citrus in cold climates. McKenzie talks about how he became a "citraholic"...
Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting
We’re joined by Pittsburgh-based horticulturist and author Jessica Walliser (https://www.jessicawalliser.com/) to talk about her new book Plant Partners: Science-Based...
From Market Farming to Italian Seeds
We head to Kansas to speak with Lynn Byczynski and Will Nagengast about market farming, cut flowers, farm journalism, Italian culinary traditions, and seeds. Their fam...
Grow Herbs in Containers
In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with herb expert Sue Goetz about growing herbs in containers. Goetz is an award-w...
Using Small Edible Landscapes to Make Big Change
We speak with author, educator, and edible-ecosystem designer Zach Loeks from Eastern Ontario. A former market gardener, Loeks has converted his farm into the p...
Beautifully Promiscuous and Tasty Tomato Project
We speak with farmer and plant breeder Joseph Lofthouse in northern Utah about breeding tomatoes, and his work with The Beautifully Promiscuous and Tasty Tomato Projec...
Canadian Garden Zones vs. US Garden Zones
We are joined by Helen Battersby, a Toronto garden blogger, garden coach, and publisher of the Toronto & Golden Horseshoe Gardener’s Journal. Battersby talks about the...
Growing Perennial Vegetables
We chat with Ben Caesar about perennial vegetables and salad greens. Caesar, who runs Fiddlehead Nursery (http://fiddleheadnursery.ca/), specializes in perennial edibl...
Creating New Tomato Varieties
Tomato expert Linda Crago joins us to talk about how to create a new tomato variety. At her Tree and Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm (http://treeandtwig.squarespace.com/)...
Bring on the Red-Podded Peas
We speak with Colorado gardener and backyard plant breeder Andrew Barney about his work developing a red-podded pea, cold-adapted watermelons, and new tomatoes. Barney...
Rooftop Garden atop a Toronto Cultural Hub
We’re joined by Saskia Vegter, the Urban Agricultural Co-ordinator at 401 Richmond, a former industrial building that has been transformed into a cultural hub in a...
Profitable Small-Scale Farming
Small-scale farming expert joins us to talk about his road to profitable small-scale farming. He’s an innovator who is out to remake agriculture.He talks about his o...
Getting Ready to Shop for Seeds
Heirloom vegetable grower and tomato expert Linda Crago joins us to talk about seed lingo, saving seeds—and sharing seeds. An avid seed-saver, she concedes that she ha...
Elderberry: Forgotten Fruit Makes a Comeback
In our second chat with Kentucky farmer and author John Moody, we talk about elderberry. Moody is the author of The Elderberry Book, in which he explores not only the...
From Urban Junk-Food Junkie to Farmer
We chat with Kentucky farm educator and homesteader John Moody to learn how a junk-food-eating city kid ended up as a farmer and farm educator. Moody, who had been hea...
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 ...