728: The Impact of Seeds and Planning

A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – This is the February 2023 live Seed Saving Class discussing the impact of seeds and planning. Bill and Greg Peterson give an overview of how to save some basic seeds and how to plan your garden for seed saving. No, you don’t need acres of land, pollination…
706: Indoor Gardening Of Salads


A Garden Chat with Peter Burke. – It makes sense to keep our herb gardens close to our kitchens for easy access, and for some people that means gardening indoors. There are a variety of culinary options to our inside gardens and this month Janis stepped in to chat with Peter Burke to get some useful and inspiration tips for practical…
701: Seed Starting Challenges (with Kari Spencer)






A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – There is nothing more satisfying than getting a jump on the gardening season by starting seeds in flats or in the ground. What do we need to know to be successful? Soil composition, temperature, moisture and light all determine whether we are jumping…
696: Warm and Cool Season Crops






A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – Do we plant cool season crops in the fall and warm season in the spring? How is it that cool season varieties get sweeter as the weather gets colder? Can warm season crops last through blistering heat? Can we strengthen the genetics of any crop through selection and…
683: Pollinators & Wildflowers






A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – A diverse and integrated garden requires many different elements. Top on that list are pollinators and wildflowers. If you have a robust flower component to your cultivated gardens, so much of the extra workload is handled by these workhorses as they…
662: Starting Your Seed Indoors






A Seed Chat with Kari Spencer. – Kari shares insights on how to get a head start on your spring gardens by starting your seeds indoors in trays. We will talk about germination temps, timing, and nutrition as well as how to avoid common problems. Then we discuss how to transplant your.…
549: Seed Saving Class June 2020




A chat with an expert on Seeds. This is the June 2020 episode of a live Seed Saving Class discussing difficult seeds to save, avoiding cross pollination, and so much more on creating a self-reinforcing breeding system for seed families.
544: Seed Saving Class May 2020




A chat with an expert on Seeds. This is the May 2020 episode of a live Seed Saving Class discussing seed hoarding, providing seeds to a community in times of need, and so much more about growing and creating seed resilience…
529: Seed Saving Class February 2020




A chat with an expert on Seeds. – In This Podcast: You don’t want to miss the February 2020 episode of a live Seed Saving Class discussing how to start plants from seed with special guest Kari Spencer. Listen in for methods of starting seeds, things to…
Bonus Episode 28: Seed Saving Class May 2019


A chat with a seed expert. — In This BONUS Podcast: Once again we join a conversation with Bill McDorman and Greg Peterson to learn about growing from seed, growing for seed, and why our seeds are so important in these changing times. This is the replay of the May 2019 Seed Saving Class…