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Get 5 Harvests by Growing Your Own Garlic
Ever thought you could get five garlic harvests from your garden?Today on the podcast, garden expert Doug Oster joins us from Pittsburgh, PA to talk about growing and ...
Create a Lifestyle: Starting a Regenerative Farm and Homestead
We chat with Ryan Cullen, co-owner of City of Greens (https://cityofgreens.square.site/) in Bowmanville, Ontario, about starting a regenerative farm and homestead. Cul...
Grow a Food Forest
We chat with Ryan Cullen, the field supervisor at Durham College, about the newly planted food-forest garden at the college’s Whitby campus. Cullen explains that the i...
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
We chat with Steven Peck, president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the Toronto-based industry association that supports the North American green roof and green wal...
Growing and Sharing Figs in a Community Fig Orchard
We chat with Jack Spruill in North Carolina about the community fig orchard on his family farm and about his work developing a conservation project to protect the farm...
Grow Heirloom Melons, Grow Heirloom Tomatoes
In a broadcast that originally aired on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with author Amy Goldman about growing melons, growing tomatoes, her passion for seed-s...
Garden-Based Experiential Learning...with Compost
We chat with Paige Lockett, the director of operations for The PACT Urban Peace Program in Toronto about garden-based experiential learning for at-risk you and about a...
REWIND: Growing Giant Pumpkins and Giant Tomatoes
In this interview that first broadcast live on the radio show in 2018, we chat with Phil Hunt from the Giant Vegetable Growers of Ontario (GVGO) about growing giant pu...
A Community Pulls Together to Save a Garden
We chat with Nathan Larson, Director of the Cultivate Health Initiative in Madison, Wisconsin.When we visited Madison in summer 2019 to attend the National Children an...
A Garden Space Built for Sharing
We check in with Sarah Dobec, the co-ordinator of the Carrot Green Roof, an inspiring rooftop garden that we visited for the first time earlier this year. Dobec explai...
Tantalizing Tomato Harvest Recipes
We get an update from gardener, chef, and author Signe Langford on her hay-bale garden, and then talk about tips for using fresh tomatoes in the kitchen.Langford sugge...
A Passion for Growing Food in Philadelphia
We chat with Millennial gardener Ross Raddi in Philadelphia. He balances a very intensive approach to food gardening with the need to share the yard with his family—wh...
Luay's Urban Farm and Kitchen
We talk with Luay, from Urban Farm and Kitchen in Toronto, about how he started growing food, his gardens, some favourite recipes, failure, and tips for new gardeners....
Growing Food and Urban Gardening with Kevin Espiritu
In this episode that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we talk with urban gardener, author, podcaster, and YouTuber Kevin Espiritu from Califor...
REWIND: Grow Fruit in Cold Climates, PART 2
In part 2 of a program first broadcast live on the radio show in 2018, we continue our chat about growing fruit in cold climates with Dr. Ieuan Evans, a forensic plant...
Urban Farming to Grow Social Change
Toronto urban farmers Jessy Njau and Misha Shodjaee join us to talk about their journey into growing food and using food and farming as a tool for social change. Their...
Summer Vegetable-Garden Check-in with Niki Jabbour
We chat with garden expert and author Niki Jabbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia to find out what’s new in her garden this summer, how things are growing, and for tips for n...
REWIND: Practical Ways to Grow Fruit in Cold Climates, PART 1
In this portion of a program first broadcast live on the radio show in 2018, we chat about growing fruit in cold climates with Dr. Ieuan Evans, a forensic plant pathol...
A Passion for Slow Food Grows into a Rooftop Garden
We chat with Laura Luciano, a graphic designer from Long Island. She loves to find the stories behind locally produced food and the people who grow it. Her passion for...
What's New in the Garden, Q+A, Figs
In our mid-July garden check-in, we talk about what’s new in our garden.
Teaching Life Skills in a Garden Classroom
School garden educator Shannon Stewart thinks of herself as an emerging seedling amongst old growth forests. Stewart, who teaches in San Diego, California, says that t...
REWIND: An Engineer Grows Figs in NJ
In a program first broadcast live on the radio show in 2018, we chat with Bill Muzychko of Bill’s Figs in Flemington, New Jersey. Muzychko grows over 180 varieties of...
Building Community with a Brewery Rooftop Garden and CSA
We chat with Max Meighen, owner of Avling Kitchen & Brewery, and Danette Steele, the Farm Manager for the rooftop garden.Steele grows a wide variety of crops on the ro...
Ornamental Fruit Trees and Bushes
In an episode that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, Lee Reich, author of Landscaping with Fruit, joins us to talk about landscaping with fruit...
Creating Change with Fruit Trees
Virginie Gysel joins us to talk about transforming the grounds of a neighbourhood church into an orchard and food garden.It started when she approached the church abou...
Blending Art and Garden Activism...and Jersey Tomatoes
We chat with Jeff Quattone about his work bringing seed libraries to New Jersey, plant propaganda (not propagation!), and the Jersey tomato. Quattrone is an artist, li...
Tomato and Food-Garden Q+A with Ontario Backyard Plant Growers
We dig into tomato and food gardening questions from members of the Ontario Backyard Plant Growers group on Facebook.The Ontario Backyard Plant Growers Facebook Group ...
Suburban Farm and Sunken Greenhouse Build Community
Annalisa Pedraza joins us from Bozeman, Montana, where she manages the Spring Creek Community Garden. “Right now we have 30 members and that feeds about 25 households....
Ways Gardeners Share
We’ve been talking a lot about our neighbor Joe over the past couple of days. Joe and his wife, Maria, are amazing neighbours. They always stop to chat. They share the...
Start a Summer Vegetable Garden
It's not too late to grow vegetables this year. We chat with Carol Michel and Dee Nash about starting a summer vegetable garden. Michel and Nash are vegetable gardener...