Kate Frey in her natural habitat.
Bee-Friendly Gardens with Kate Frey
Explore Bee-Friendly Gardens with our podcast guest, Kate Frey
John Jeavons is creator of GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming system.
Podcast: Grow BioIntensive with John Jeavons
While planning my trip to the Heirloom Expo I contacted some of the world's top garden experts for interviews, and when John Jeavons of GROW BIOINTENSIVE responded to my email inquiry with a date and time to meet, I jumped out of my chair. What luck! John Jeavons has more than 50 years of data and research in his head, and he shared it all with me in our latest podcast. You can imagine it's hard to distill years of…
John Jeavons is creator of GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming system.
Grow BioIntensive with John Jeavons
Enjoy this in-depth conversation with the ever-fascinating John Jeavons.
Read all three of Jeff's books.
Podcast: Soil Fungi with Jeff Lowenfels
We just returned from the Heirloom Expo where we interviewed eight great guests for upcoming Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcasts. Our first guest from that whirlwind experience is Jeff Lowenfels, author of 3 books including Teaming with Microbes: the Organic Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web. We chat about gardening in Alaska, his newest book on soil fungi, and his project Plant a Row for the Hungry. More Than Just Fungi Read all three of Jeff's books to…
Read all three of Jeff's books.
Soil Fungi with Jeff Lowenfels
Today's guest is Jeff Lowenfels, author of 3 books including the popular Teaming with Microbes: the Organic Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web. He lives and gardens in Alaska and is the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry.
Diana Rodgers
Podcast: Farmers Markets and Flower Farms with Diana Rodgers
On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week our guest is Diana Rodgers. Diana is the manager of the very popular Mar Vista Farmers Market, and lives on a flower farm in Petaluma, CA. She and her partner, Tom, run Crane Creek Growers and Diana commutes to the Farmers Market in Los Angeles every Sunday (about 415 miles each way). So she is familiar with both the farmer and consumer sides of the market. We asked Diana about…
Diana Rodgers
Farmers Markets and Flower Farms with Diana Rodgers
Thinking about starting a flower farm? Listen to our podcast with Diana Rodgers about her own.
Learn what happens to those 6-packs and 4" pots when you put them in the recycle bin.
Podcast: Recycling and Composting with Jessica Aldridge
Jessica Aldridge is a hotshot in the recycling world. Her passion for environmental education led to creating Zero Waste programs and other sustainability projects for corporations, cities, and municipalities in Southern California. In this week's podcast she shares what gardening supplies can and can't be recycled, and what happens to them when you put them in the blue bin. I met Jessica after watching her presentation at an Earth Day event, where she held up common items we often think…
This week's guest Nan Sterman shares her best low-water garden design tips.
Podcast: Hot Color, Dry Garden with Nan Sterman
This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Nan Sterman, the host of A Growing Passion and author of the new garden design book, Hot Color, Dry Garden: Inspiring Designs and Vibrant Plants for the Waterwise Gardener. Nan shares her best design tips and ideas for a colorful low-water garden. Nan is also a passionate vegetable gardener, so we talk about her hoop house that protects her garden beds from critters. You'll hear ideas for your…
Ceebs Bailey knows her hens. Here she holds our hen Sylvia.
Podcast: Chicken Keeping with Ceebs Bailey
This week's Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast features a chat with Ceebs Bailey, who keeps 17 chickens in the middle of the city. Ceebs helps run Honeylove.org and is our beekeeping mentor, but today, we're talking about chicken keeping. She shares her favorite tricks for integrating new chickens, introducing chickens to dogs, and feeding tips for healthy hens. Chicken Keeping with Ceebs Bailey Listen here for our interview with Ceebs. You'll laugh, you'll learn, you'll want chickens: Chicken Keeping…