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PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ CAITLYN GALLOWAY
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...
Jul 7, 2022


THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY
Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...
Jun 30, 2022


SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
Apr 7, 2022


THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 31, 2022


A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
Mar 24, 2022


GROW NOW - OUR GARDENS AS CLIMATE ACTIVISM, EMILY MURPHY
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...
Mar 17, 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 10, 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 20, 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 13, 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...
Jan 6, 2022


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 30, 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 23, 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 25, 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 21, 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 14, 2021


INNOVATE & INTEGRATE: BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, with REBECCA MCMACKIN
In our final episode focusing on gardens that are dedicated to being ecologically rich and contributing back to the places in which they...
Aug 26, 2021


THE ORDER OF ENERGY, THE URBAN FOOD FOREST OF MATTHEW TRUMM,
Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...
Aug 12, 2021


REIMAGINING THE FOODSHED: AMYROSE FOLL, VIRGINIA FREE FARM
Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, a business woman, of Native American Abenaki and Penobscot descent, an Army veteran - and a big...
Apr 8, 2021


SEASON EXTENDING: IN THE GARDEN with NIKI JABBOUR
Come March, winter is starting to feel long in many portions of the northern hemisphere, enter gardeners, the spring and summer vegetable...
Mar 4, 2021


GARDENING OUT LOUD: DURON CHAVIS
In honor of the losses, loves, griefs, gains, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we...
Dec 31, 2020
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