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Feb 17, 2022
BIODIVERSITY MATTERS II: CONSERVING PLANT DIVERSITY
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...
Feb 10, 2022
BIODIVERSITY MATTERS: PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, with CEO, IAN DUNN
Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...
Feb 3, 2022
COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN
Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...
Jan 27, 2022
SEEDS FOR THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE, LARNER SEEDS, JUDITH LARNER LOWRY
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...
Jan 20, 2022
THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 13, 2022
JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 6, 2022
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON
To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...
Dec 30, 2021
BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...
Dec 23, 2021
A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...
Dec 16, 2021
WELCOMING DORMANCY & SABBATICAL with DEVORAH BROUS
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look very still and quiet,...
Dec 9, 2021
TROPHIC CASCADES WITH POET & GARDENER CAMILLE DUNGY
As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in...
Dec 2, 2021
THE THREE TREE GEEKS OF SAN FRANCISCO & THEIR #COVIDTREETOURS
As we edge toward a whole new winter under the twists and turns of the Covid-19 Pandemic, now closing in on two years, we’re speaking...
Nov 25, 2021
THANKFUL FOR FARMERS: MATTHEW MARTIN, PYRAMID FARMS
This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...
Nov 18, 2021
KINSHIP & BELONGING IN A WORLD OF RELATIONS: BEST OF
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...
Nov 12, 2021
THE WILD SEED PROJECT, HEATHER MCCARGO
Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous...
Nov 4, 2021
GARDEN HISTORY & HINDSIGHT, LONDON'S GARDEN MUSEUM with DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD
Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...
Oct 28, 2021
GREEN & SACRED SPACE, MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, with DAVE BARNETT
Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, and Day of the Dead - this week we explore the green, sacred, and communal space of a...
Oct 21, 2021
GROWING FLAVOR - PAST & PRESENT, CHEF DAVE SMOKE MCCLUSKEY's CORN MAFIA
This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...
Oct 15, 2021
THE GREENHORNS & THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC ENVISIONING A FERTILE FUTURE
As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...
Oct 7, 2021
GARDENING IN SUMMER DRY CLIMATES with PHOTOJOURNALIST SAXON HOLT
In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...
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