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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. 3 t sitten

    New Cultural Perspectives on Ecological Gardening and How Your Lawn Can Transform Itself into a Native Meadow

    Sara Weaner Cooper describes how New Directions in the American Landscape is incorporating indigenous American approaches into Ecological Gardening and how by adjusting the growing conditions in her lawn she caused it to transform itself into a meadow of native grasses and wildflowers without the use of herbicides or other unsustainable practices. A replay of a July, 2024 conversation.

    29 min

  2. 1.7.

    Tim Clymer Uses Climate Battery Greenhouses to Farm Sub-Tropical Fruits in Pennsylvania

    By storing excess heat from sunny days in the soil below his greenhouses, Tim Clymer keeps them warm on winter nights for a fraction the cost of conventional propane heat.

    29 min

  3. 24.6.

    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

  4. 17.6.

    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

  5. 10.6.

    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

  6. 3.6.

    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

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    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

  8. 20.5.

    "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
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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
  • Julkaisuvuodet
    2019 - 2026
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    362
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    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
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    Growing Greener

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