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Weave Habitat Restoration into Food Gardens
Ever wondered if growing food and and growing native plants are mutually exclusive? Our guest Ryan Godfrey talks about his sixth-floor balcony garden where he weaves t...
Nourish Community and People with Gardens—and Soup!
In this episode that originally broadcast live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with Susan Antler, the Executive Director of the Compost Council of Canada. ...
Francesco’s Fig Tree
The Story of a Fig Tree that Brought Together a Community Excerpt from The Food Garden Life Radio Show, June 2020 In the Biggs-on-Figs segment, Steven is joined by au...
Growing People, Networks, and Food
Atlanta urban farmer, food system thinker, educator, changemaker, and worm whisperer Maurice Small joins us to talk about growing people, growing community, and growin...
Neighbourhood Foraging for the Wild Food Gourmet
Robin Henderson joins us to talk about foraging. As he was growing up, he heard family stories about the foraging of previous generations. Then, as urban growth engulf...
Fruit in the Urban Foodscape
Helena Moncrieff, author of The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest, talks about the fruit that grows in cities.Fruit plants often reflect the h...
Grow Meyer Lemon in Containers
Emma made Meyer lemon sorbet yesterday. She made it with home-grown Meyer lemons, picked in Toronto in the month of May.Steven has grown lemons since the 1990s—but it ...
Grow a Food Garden You Love
Emily Murphy finds daily inspiration in her garden in Northern California. She describes her passion for gardening as, “A love affair.”Emily got an early start in gard...
Connecting Food with Eaters
Backyard food gardener Dushan Batrovic tells us about his journey into food gardening.After growing up in a family that gardened, Dushan took a break from gardening. B...
An Urban Hot Pepper Container Garden
We chat with pepper expert Claus Nader, owner of East York Chile Peppers in Toronto, Ontario.Claus tells us about his urban hot-pepper container garden.He grows specia...
Off the Beaten Path with…Figs
Growing Unusual Fruit in PA Excerpt from The Food Garden Life Radio Show, May 2020 In The Biggs-on-Figs segment, Steven talks with Bill Lauris, a chemistry teacher and...
Gardening Your Front Yard
In this broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, author and gardening expert Tara Nolan joins us to talk about front yard gardens and s...
Urban Farming, Liberating Lawns, Building Community
Cheyenne Sundance talks about how she started her urban farm, Sundance Harvest, when she didn’t see urban farms representing the diversity she felt they should.A belie...
Create a “Food Street” with Food Up Front
Mark Stewart and Kassie Miedema join us to tell us about a grassroots program encouraging people to grow food in front yards. The idea is to produce more food locally—...
Growing a Chinese-Style Kitchen Garden
Wendy Kiang-Spray, author of The Chinese Kitchen Garden, joins us to talk about about vegetable crops used in Chinese cuisine, Chinese intensive gardening, and her fam...
New and Favourite Food-Garden Crops with Niki Jabbour
We check in with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour in Nova Scotia to find out what’s new in her garden for 2020, and to see what favourites she is growing.Niki i...
Gardens and Healing
Stephanie Rose has a passion for inspiring other people to grow and use plants. It’s a passion that began with her own journey of healing herself by taking up gardenin...
Raising 70% on a Half Acre
Rob and Chris Croley at Sentimental Farm in Niagara, Ontario, Canada grow about 70 per cent of the food they need on their 1/2 acre urban homestead.An interest in self...
Saving Seeds and the Stories Behind Them
Ben Cohen, the author of Saving Our Seeds, joins us to talk about seed-saving, seed libraries, and the importance of community seed-sharing programs.An author, herbali...
A Mission to Turn Lawns into Food Gardens
Linda Borghi from Farm-A-Yard joins us to talk about how she got into growing food, her first farm, her move into SPIN-Farming (small-plot-intensive), and her current ...
No-Dig, No-Weed, No-Bend Gardening
Horticulturist Joel Karsten, a pioneer of the straw-bale gardening technique, talks about the concept of straw-bale gardening. He explains how it works, where it can b...
Farm the City, Garden with Grains
In this broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with farmer, author, and food system activist Micheal Abelman. Michael is a ...
Hens, Hay, and How to Cook Cardoon
Food writer Signe Langford from Port Hope, Ontario talks about her passion for growing food, her food garden, cooking, and how her garden connects her with her community.
Choose The Right Tomato Varieties
With more than 10, 000 known varieties, how do you choose which tomato to grow? Host Emma Biggs talks about things to consider when choosing tomato varieties for your ...
Sandy Soil and a Greenhouse on Vancouver Island
Donna tells us about gardening on her very sandy soil, talks about how she uses a greenhouse to harvest year-round, and shares some of her favourite crops.As well as b...
Artistic Front-Yard Garden, Anti-Inflammatory Food, Grow Luffa
On this rebroadcast of an episode that aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with garden and wellness expert Shawna Coronado, who talks about getting ...
Heat Column to Protect Figs in Cold Climates
Excerpt from the live radio show, March 2020 In The Biggs-on-Figs segment, Steven talks with Will Pananes, a fig grower in Pennsylvania who uses heat column to protect...
Garden Financial Literacy, Rooftop Edible Gardens, Tomatoes with Stories
Our first guest is Ciara Byrne, who tells us about the the organization Green Our Planet, which is training a generation of student “farmpreneurs.” Students operate fa...
Urban Farming to Build Community
Hear about urban market gardening from Jessey Njau, who left a corporate job to make an urban farm his Toronto backyard. His operation, Zawadi Farm, has grown to inclu...
Growing Figs in the Mountains
Excerpt from the radio show, November 2019 In The Biggs-on-Figs segment, Steven talks with Tony Christini, a fig grower in West Virginia whose focus is hardy and early...