230: Katie Hess on Blooming into Full Potential
230: Katie Hess on Blooming into Full Potential. Connecting with nature to empower the natural self. – – – – Katie is a flower alchemist and the founder of LOTUSWEI,…
229: Barbara Pleasant on Gardening to fill your Pantry
229: Barbara Pleasant on Gardening to fill your Pantry. Taking home-grown foods into food storage. – – – – Barbara is an Award-winning writer having been covering organic gardening and…
225: Edward Griffin on Indoor Smart Gardens
225: Edward Griffin on Indoor Smart Gardens. Solving some space and time issues around growing fresh food. – – – – Edward graduated from Arizona State University in 2013 double…
224: Lisa Steele on Gardening with Chickens
224: Lisa Steele on Gardening with Chickens. Incorporating chickens into the gardening process as willing workers. – – – – Lisa is a 5th-generation chicken keeper, nationally recognized author and…
222: Heather Szymura on Hydroponic Container Farming
We meet Heather who decided to change directions away from a professional one towards one more in tune with nature and healing and to her surprise ended up becoming a farmer! She is selling lettuce and kale she is growing year-round in the suburbs near Phoenix and tells Greg how she is doing that in a shipping container in her backyard.
207: Megan Cain on Garden Planning
Acquiring a love of gardening transformed Megan into a fully focused farmer and she tells Greg how she went from being an naïve urbanite with no plant growing experience to a gardening educator and resource to kids and adults alike.
206: Allison Duffy on Food Preservation
Canning food is a favorite topic of Greg’s so of course he was excited to talk to Master Food Preserver Allison about her experiences and get some tips from her as well. As a bonus, they also chatted about her ‘too big’ garden and how this homestead is so rewarding for her family.
188: Megan Whatton on The Urban Habitat Network.
Megan introduces Greg and his listeners to the Nature Conservancy and the Habitat Network Project. This project creates citizen scientists around the globe and is working to map the globe with their data to paint a picture of the wildlife in every part of the world. Megan explains how this project got started and how easy, fun and rewarding being a member of the network can be.
176: Cory Williams on Tropical Fruit Trees
Greg meets Cory, a man who could not take ‘You can’t do that’ for an answer. Cory has transformed his home just outside of Phoenix to his own tropical fruit forest paradise using micro-climates, observation, experimentation, and frankly ignoring naysayers. His interest started with a few wine grapes and he got bit by the growing bug as he now has over 150 trees on his urban property and is not done trying new things.
166: Susan Poizner on Orchard People
Greg meets another lover of fruit trees with Susan who founded a community orchard in her home town and found her calling as well. Susan tells how she got the idea to start an orchard in her neighborhood park, and how learning everything she could about fruit trees has morphed into her popular education program.
