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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...
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...