768: Integrated Pest Management – A Garden Chat

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A Garden Chat with Teresa Watkins. – Integrated pest management is a concept that looks at all the ways of managing pest pressure and uses the least impactful one first. Greg talks with Teresa Watkins about how to use the least harmful method of pest control to the environment first, which could mean picking off insects off the plants, or even spraying aphids off a plant with water. It means using the best management practices to help prevent pests or diseases before they arrive…

759: Seed Support and Where to Find It – A Seed Chat

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A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – This is the July 2023 Seed Chat discussing Seed classes, seed libraries, seed companies, books and teaching tools. We’ll talk about (and link) our favorite resources whether you are starting a community seed library, launching a seed business or looking for that fabulous book you can cuddle up with to find inspiration and context for your seed saving journey. Come Chat with Us! 

632: Growing Fruit in Small Spaces

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Don’t Let Yard Size Determine Your Harvests. – Are your fruit trees an experiment or an investment? Christy Wilhelmi talks about the steps needed to ensure that the fruit trees you plant in your yard are an investment that bears fruit. She covers every stage of the process, including planning your…

626: Kevin Espiritu on Epic Gardening Growth

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Getting Excited About Sharing Gardening Stories. — Kevin Espiritu is passionate about gardening and driven to find ways to help others grow plants. We are excited to have him return, this time to give us updates about both his personal and professional gardening endeavors. Kevin shares stories of new digs, new…

Farmer Greg under a tree

611: Caring for orchards with holistic biodynamic Tree Paste

Biodynamics, Companion Planting, Education and Learning, Fruit Trees, Garden Based Education, Gardening Basics, Healthy Soil, Holistic, Homesteading or Farmsteading, Managing Plant Issues, Permaculture and Design, Pest Management, Podcast - Previously Patron Only (now free), Regenerative or Sustainable, Small Space GardeningLeave a comment

Gardening tips, tricks, and advice in short, bite-size episodes:  Greg is excited to speak with Andrew Faust about biodynamic tree paste, a concept Greg learned about years prior, yet it is not widely discussed. Andrew is an expert on biodynamics and he educates us on this…