13 episodes
Plant Out Loud Kristin Donnelly
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How can I eat more plants? How do I learn more about herbalism? How do I incorporate native plants into my yard? What are the best houseplants? How do I get started gardening? Welcome to Plant Out Loud, a podcast for those who are plant-curious or already in a relationship with plants. Each week, host Kristin Donnelly shares gardening tips, plant-based eating insights, lessons in herbalism, and more during interviews with experts. So whether you’re a novice gardener, curious about herbs, or just want to add a few plants to your home, check out the list of episodes and hit subscribe! Join us in learning how conscious living with plants can lead to a happier, healthier life.
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Season Finale: Cooking with Abundance From the Garden
It's the season of abundance in the garden, when the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and more are all starting to come in. I'm taking a pause on the podcast for this season so I can relish it, but I hope you'll join me over @plant.outloud on Instagram. In this episode, I share why I've started using organic fertilizer regularly, how my tomato plants planted out at separate times are all the same size, and why I'm not going to plant carrots in the spring next year. I also share ideas for using l...
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Healing Skin with Plant-Based Ingredients
Jolena Stewart started Love Energy Nature with one goal in mind: to provide high-quality, bath and body products made without synthetic ingredients. Jolena has struggled with eczema most of her life. When her daughter also suffered with eczema, she started learning more about how to make skincare with ingredients that don’t irritate their skin. Soon, she decided to sell these products to others. She now also offers coaching for families with eczema, with educational workshops and a new member...
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Urban Foraging: "Weeds" for Wellness
Liz Neves is an herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dream guide, meditation instructor, and mama living and teaching in Brooklyn. She’s the founder of Gathering Ground and author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). We have a wide-ranging conversation and talk about how to teach children about plants, three easy-to-identify wild plants, how to celebrate summer solstice, why non-native plants can be just as...
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How to Shop at the Farmers’ Market and More
Peter Hoffman is the former chef and owner of Savoy and Back Forty Restaurants in New York City and author of the new book, What’s Good: A Memoir in 14 Ingredients. He is a longtime supporter of the farm-to-table movement and served on the boards of the New York City Greenmarket, the Chefs Collaborative, and is a Slow Food NYC Snailblazer award recipient. On most market days, he can be found on his bicycle at the Union Square Greenmarket.In this episode, Peter and I discuss how plant lives ar...
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Lessons From The Garden
In this episode, I go solo and share some of the life lessons I’ve learned from the garden. #1 It’s not too late!I’ve always felt late to everything, including gardening. It’s not too late this year or in your life to start gardening! Listen to learn more. #2. Perfect is as impossible in the garden as in life. By nature, plants are not perfect and neither are we. But plants want to grow and so do we. We need to embrace the imperfection of the garden and help nature do its thing. Here is a won...
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There's a Tea For That (Plus What It Means to Decolonize Wellness)
A Conversation with Sunyatta AmenPlants aren’t always just pretty things to look at on Instagram. Behind them are real human stories, including stories of oppression. To help me tackle some of the tough topics, I spoke to Sunyatta Amen, a fifth-generation master herbalist & natural lifestyle expert. She grew up steeped in ethnobotany behind the counter of the ‘Black Pyramid’ herb shops & vegan juice bars founded by her father in Harlem. She has had a lifelong drive to create beautiful...