685: Bevin Cohen on Seed & Nut Oils
Extracting great resources from our seeds. – You plant seeds, save seeds, share seeds, and even eat seeds, but still there is more you can do with those seeds! In this podcast, Bevin Cohen explains how to press seeds and nuts to make your own oils. Are you considering the next step on your journey towards…
684: Foliar Feeding in the Garden
A Garden Chat with Anthony Dominguez. – A Garden Chat with Anthony Dominguez. – We are talking with gardener and chemist Anthony from HyKreations about foliar feeding our gardens. Besides providing the respiration for our plants, the foliage can be a direct method for getting nutrients into the plant. A virtually immediate foliar feeding…
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…
682: Christine Lance on Planning, Building, and Maintaining a Resilient Community Garden
Doing the hard work of setting up a strong community. – Turn your vision for a successful community garden into a reality using the ten-step plan laid out by Christine Lance in this episode. It is no surprise that gardening skills are a plus, but what about planning, land, and funding? How do you…
679: Soil Review – What does a Garden Need
A Garden Chat with Michael Moore. – Instead of starting a new crop in your gardens with tired old soil, consider boosting the potential yield and health of the crops by rejuvenating the soil each season. In this Garden Chat we talk with permaculture gardener and practitioner Michael about how to boost…
677: Lisa Steele on Cooking with Eggs
Knowing a thing or two dozen about raising hens and collecting eggs. – Eggs are an important and readily available food source, and they are so very versatile. Rediscover the humble egg with returning guest, Lisa Steele as she talks about her newest book, The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook. She also tells us a bit…
676: Journaling and Learning, Growing from the Past
A Garden Chat with Kari Spencer. – Did you know that keeping a garden journal can help you to grow bigger and better vegetables? Kari Spencer, author of City Farming and Vegetable Gardening Journal & Logbook, will discuss the kinds of records that are important to keep, how to plan and what to…
675: Seed Dehybridizing
A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – This is the March 2022 class discussing seed dehybridizing. We love hybrid vigor and what hybridized seed can offer. The only downside to using hybridized seed is you can’t save it. Wait a minute. What if you found out that isn’t true? That you could capture the best…
674: Liz and Lem Tingley on Geodesic Greenhouses of Growing Spaces
Bringing a 365-days-a-year Local Food Solution to Everyone. – In the last of five episodes, we hear from Liz and Lem Tingley, whose passion for health and sustainability led them to Growing Spaces. They fill us in on how they came to be the new owners of the business, the amazing impact their geodesic growing domes are having on…
673: Wallace Kirby and Boe Luther on Hustlaz 2 Harvesters
A Couple of Friends Who Are Transforming Their Disadvantaged Community. – In the fourth of five episodes, we hear from Wallace Kirby and Boe Luther who have made it their mission to transform life and land. Their non-profit community garden in Washington D.C. was awarded a Growing Spaces growing dome which they plan to…
