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Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

  1. vor 5 Tagen

    An Ecological Perspective on Tick-Borne Diseases

    Dr. Rick Ostfeld of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies shares thirty years of research on the ecology of tick-borne diseases in North America, detailing why landscape treatments such as pesticide sprays are unproductive as well as environmentally destructive, and outlines a very different approach to this public health threat.

    29 Min.

  2. 17. Juni

    Citizen Scientists of iNaturalist Playing Crucial Role in Preservation of Biodiversity

    Arya Natarajan of iNaturalist describes how that online platform's user community is playing a central role in monitoring changes in global biodiversity and the creation of climate resilient ecosystems

    29 Min.

  3. 10. Juni

    Charlie Nardozzi's New Book – an Ecological Update for the Kitchen Garden

    In "The Continuous Vegetable Garden" Charlie Nardozzi applies lessons learned from ecologically-informed gardening to bring vegetable and fruit gardening into a new, more sustainable, and less laborious era.

    29 Min.

  4. 3. Juni

    The Nurturing Nature Initiative – Botanical Gardens Unite To Address Climate Change

    Emma Grover and Dr. Mauricio Diazgranados discuss a new program from the New York Botanical Garden to unite the thousands of botanical gardens worldwide in devoting their shared knowledge and resources for a coordinated, plant-based effort to combat the consequences of global climate change.

    29 Min.

  5. 27. Mai

    What is Naturalism?

    "Naturalism" is the dominant design style in ecological gardening, but what exactly is it?  Is Naturalism just mimicry of nature, or does it allow for the designer to include aesthetic principles to please the human eye?  Can it allow the gardener to enjoy favorite plants not indigenous to the area?  Duncan Brine, co-proprietor with his wife Julia of design/build firm Garden Large explains how he has defined Naturalism to create some of the most celebrated new gardens of New York's Hudson River Valley.

    29 Min.

  6. 20. Mai

    "Veganic" Gardening

    Are you troubled about supporting industrial agriculture and its mistreatment of animals by purchasing by-products such as manures and blood meal to maintain your garden's fertility?  British gardener John Walker, an award-winning environmental writer, shares the techniques he has used to make his garden cruelty free, self-sustaining, and sustainable in a conversation first shared in May of 2023.

    29 Min.

  7. 13. Mai

    A New Chapter in the Roundup Debacle

    Award-winning investigative journalist Carey Gillam exposed the corruption and suppression of evidence involved in the Environmental Protection Agency's original approval of the use of the herbicide Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate on American gardens and farms.  In today's conversation she details the on-going suppression of evidence of its harmful impact on human and environmental health and discusses how the case about Roundup currently before the Supreme Court is designed to deprive its victims of recourse, and why Donald Trump has made increasing its production a matter of national security.

    29 Min.

  8. 6. Mai

    Landraces – Customizing Vegetable and Fruit Cultivars to Flourish in Your Garden

    In a conversation first shared in February of 2024, farmer and author Joseph Lofthouse describes how to foster  "landraces," strains of vegetables and fruits adapted to the unique conditions in your garden.

    29 Min.
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Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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    Tom Christopher
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    2019 - 2026
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