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The act of composting ensures that food scraps and green waste are never wasted, but returned to enrich the soil. It sequesters carbon, and helps t...
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 58:00
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing on it. Thi...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency, our government agency that reviews and licenses pesticides relies almost exclusively on manu...
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- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first public librar...
- Added: Jun 29, 2022
- Length: 59:00
I pursued the Mexican stoneroller ( Campostoma ornatum) for a few minutes trying to get a photo or two before deciding to quit harassing the fish i...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:19
What is the role of community in the life of a farm? How do farmers strike a work/life balance? Explore these questions and more on this special ep...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 54:00
It is really and truly summer now Happy Summer Solstice Season in the Northern Hemisphere. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound and movemen...
- Added: Jun 22, 2022
- Length: 59:00
For Juneteenth, we’ve updated one of our most listened-to episodes (2021), featuring Leah Penniman, founder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 29:03
Teresa J Speight is a Washington DC-based gardener, garden historian, and podcaster under the name of Cottage in the Court. Teri’s new book out fr...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde and then O...
- Added: Jun 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that one third of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten and in 2018, about 81 percent, ...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
I think it’s nearly impossible to try and stay abreast of current events, and not simultaneously need to remind ourselves to care for our individua...
- Added: Jun 01, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Did you know that the American food supply is increasingly contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered d...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
As summer arrives, more than 1 million US households are now engaged in gardening – a number that is double what it was before the pandemic. This w...
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- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
I forgot to say that false solomon’s seal was formerly in the family Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are 2 subspecies of Maianthemum r...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:09
Dave visits with award winning journalist and author Simon Barnes. For decades Barnes was one of the main sports writers for the Times of London an...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
There are 30 species of Dalea found in Arizona, many of which are in the nursery trade because they are so doggone pretty. How cool is that? Very.
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- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 04:20
The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 05:05
In the spirit of May, this week we’re headed out in the garden, or down the block, or up the trail for some planty wonder and magic in the company ...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Any gardener and their muscles, bones, joints and ligaments know that gardening is a full contact sport (or religion), this week we’re joined by Ma...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
David Rawle is the founder and force (with contribution and support from his wife, Carol Perkins, and a wide variety of community members in Charle...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 59:00
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:36
