Growing Greener

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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. 6小時前

    O Canada ¬– A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora

    Travel with Growing Greener to Winnipeg, Manitoba to learn how Ash Burkowski is collecting seed from local prairie remnants to raise indigenous grasses and wildflowers that can be integrated into lawns, restoring populations of native flora while relieving homeowners of the need for fertilization and irrigation and reducing the need for mowing.

    29 分鐘

  2. 2月4日

    Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden

    A replay of a February 2024 conversation in which Joseph Lofthouse, author of "Landrace Gardening" details how anyone can create genetically diverse vegetable and fruit crops that flourish in the local climate and soil with minimal inputs in just three years.

    29 分鐘

  3. 1月28日

    Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center combines energy generation with agriculture for a double harvest

    Byron Kominek knew the family farm needed a more profitable crop than hay to survive.  By installing  photovoltaic panels and growing crops underneath, he now supplies electricity to 300 neighboring houses while also producing food and hosting educational programs at what is now a popular learning center.

    29 分鐘

  4. 1月21日

    The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden

    Liz Koziol of the University of Kansas shares hew work with mycorrhizal fungi and native plants, and how a properly designed fungal inoculant can make your ecological garden more biodiverse, quicker to establish itself and more resistant to weeds.

    29 分鐘

  5. 1月14日

    An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants

    Herbariums, annotated collections of dried plant specimens first appeared in Italy almost 500 years ago.  In today's Growing Greener, Lea Johnson, Director of Conservation at the Native Plant Trust discusses why they remain an essential tool for those who track and study native plant populations, and the new technologies herbariums facilitate.

    29 分鐘

  6. 1月7日

    How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom

    Dr. Elic Weitzel of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History describes the thousands of years of association between deer and people, how they long ago came to prefer human-created landscapes, and why their population has exploded

    29 分鐘

  7. 31/12/2025

    Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses

    In a conversation recorded in December of 2019 Shannon Currey, a leading educator in the native plants industry, describes how the unique adaptations of warm season grasses make them winners in an era of climate change as well as invaluable in the late summer garden.

    29 分鐘

  8. 24/12/2025

    How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the traditional New England wall into a powerful, locally rooted art form

    In a conversation from January of 2021, Dan Snow tells how, using locally sourced stone, he expresses the intrinsic beauty of a site in bold constructions held together only by gravity, friction, and history.

    29 分鐘
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關於

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.

資料

  • 創作者
    Tom Christopher
  • 活躍年份
    2019年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    341
  • 分級
    兒童適宜
  • 版權
    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
  • 節目網站
    Growing Greener

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