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.

  1. 07/01/2021

    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 lots of herbs, how to cook with vegetable tops from your turnips, beets, and carrots, how to preserve tomatoes, and what to do with an abundance of cucumbers. Here are recipes for ideas I mention: Herb salt: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/spicy-herb-salt Herb vinegar: https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/how-to-make-herbal-vinegar Herb syrups: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-make-herbal-simple-syrups/ Canning summer tomatoes https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/canning-tomatoes-summer-tradition-homemade-passata Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/slow-roasted-tomatoes/ Cucumber agua fresca https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/246118/agua-fresca-de-pepino-cucumber-limeade/ Cucumber lassi https://www.madhuseverydayindian.com/savory-cucumber-lassi/ Food in Jars https://www.foodinjars.com/ Slow Drinks https://www.instagram.com/slowdrinks Noma https://bookshop.org/a/25027/9781579657185

    14 min

  2. 06/24/2021

    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 membership called Healthy Habits for Eczema. I wanted to talk to Jolena because I too struggle with eczema and have learned a lot about managing it on my own and I was curious to learn about how she helped others. In this episode, we talk about her favorite plant-based ingredients for sensitive skin, how to manage eczema beyond skincare, helping kids manage eczema, and how natural doesn’t always mean healthy when it comes to skincare or anything else.   Love, Energy, Nature https://www.loveenergynature.com/ Follow Love, Energy, Nature on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loveenergynature/ Sponsor Stewart & Claire’s cocktail-inspired lip balms. Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15%

    45 min

  3. 06/17/2021

    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 valuable as native plants, how to communicate with plants, and more. The links! Gathering Ground http://www.gatheringground.nyc/ Liz's teaching program, Infuse http://www.gatheringground.nyc/new-events-1 More about plantain http://www.gatheringground.nyc/new-blog-1/2018/3/27/plantain-natures-first-aid-kit More about dandelion http://www.gatheringground.nyc/new-blog-1/2018/3/21/dandelion More about linden https://www.eclecticschoolofherbalmedicine.com/linden/ More about knotweed https://www.gaiaherbs.com/blogs/herbs/japanese-knotweed More about making a flower essence https://theherbalacademy.com/homemade-flower-essence/ Liz’s book: https://bookshop.org/books/northeast-medicinal-plants-identify-harvest-and-use-111-wild-herbs-for-health-and-wellness/9781604699135?aid=25027&listref=books-from-the-plant-out-loud-podcast Sponsored by: Stewart & Claire Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15% off at checkout

    32 min

  4. 06/10/2021

    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 are metaphors for the human experience, the strawberries New Yorkers clamor for every August, how to cook with stone fruit pits, why scraggly rosemary is better than the lush stuff in the supermarket, and how you can learn more about a country’s culture by the types of peppers they grow. Episode website What’s Good: A Memoir in 14 Ingredients by Peter Hoffman Lab Girl Sponsored by: Stewart & Claire Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15% off at checkout

    44 min

  5. 06/03/2021

    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 wonderful piece by Kat Kinsman that I mentioned. https://www.foodandwine.com/how/dont-be-weird-about-gardening #3 Embrace the process People like to say progress, not perfection. How about process, not perfection. I’m so grateful that my garden is not my main source of food, and because of that, the stakes are lower. I get so much joy in the process of gardening that the harvest is just a bonus! Episode post: plantoutloud.com/episodes/lessons-from-the-garden Sponsored by: Stewart & Claire Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15% off at checkout

    12 min

  6. 05/27/2021

    There's a Tea For That (Plus What It Means to Decolonize Wellness)

    A Conversation with Sunyatta Amen Plants 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, safe spaces in gentrified communities and decolonize wellness for all. She is the founder of CALABASH Tea, a multi-award-winning wellness brand designed to reconnect modern people with food and drink as medicine. She creates healing tea blends that are quite delicious if I do say so myself. She offers spice blends and herbal tonics--all available through her online shop, calabashtea.com. In this episode, we discuss what it means to decolonize wellness, Sunyatta’s favorite coffee replacement, why sea moss is a hot ingredient and how to use it, and how she uses tea as a healing agent for herself and her community. Calabash Tea: https://www.calabashtea.com/ Blue Velvet tea from Calabash: https://www.calabashtea.com/store/bluevelvet?rq=blue%20velvet Sea moss from Calabash: https://www.calabashtea.com/store/seamoss?rq=sea%20moss Read more at https://www.plantoutloud.com/sunyatta-amen This episode is sponsored by Stewart & Claire. Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15% off at checkout.

    42 min

  7. 05/20/2021

    All About Growing Tomatoes

    Resh Gala is the owner and founder of Hundred Tomatoes. Her intensive planting methods have garnered her a loyal social media following and she was named a 2020 Gardener of the Year by Burpee Home Gardens. She also creates YouTube videos for Kellogg Garden Organics. Resh only started gardening in 2016, when she killed two tomato plants on her patio. That failure led her to learn everything she could about gardening. In 2017, she built raised beds and filled them with top soil...that turned out to be terrible and once again, nothing grew. By 2018, she replaced a lot of her soil with compost and then finally had a successful harvest. She now builds and installs kitchen gardens for people in central New Jersey and coaches people all over the US in growing vegetable gardens. With tomato planting season upon us, I sat down with Resh to learn more about what we need to know to grow a great crop of tomatoes. In this episode, we talk about when to plant tomatoes, how to prune tomatoes, how and when to fertilize them, and many other things you need to know about growing this popular garden vegetable! Follow Resh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reshgala Check out her website https://www.reshgala.com/ Follow Plant Out Loud on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plant.outloud    Resh’s Amazon Shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/reshgala?listId=FECGKFC7PP2J Stewart & Claire: https://www.stewartandclaire.com  Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD to receive 15% off at checkout.

    38 min

  8. 05/13/2021

    Growing Asian Vegetables

    A conversation with Wendy Kiang-Spray Wendy Kiang-Spray is a writer and speaker whose articles about gardening and food have appeared in national and local print publications. Her first book, The Chinese Kitchen Garden, is about growing and cooking Chinese vegetables. She gardens in Rockville, Maryland where she also works for the public school system there. I cite The Chinese Kitchen Garden frequently in the book I wrote with The Chef’s Garden and as a newer gardener, I really enjoyed reading this book. It weaves together stories about Wendy’s parents’ garden, which sounds incredible, as well as practical information about vegetables and delicious-sounding recipes. I also just joined The Chinese Kitchen Garden Facebook Group, where there’s a lively group of gardeners and cooks. In this episode, we talk about timing when it comes to vegetable gardens, what to know as we transition into summer gardening, and some Asian vegetables to try for new vegetable gardeners. Vegetables Mentioned on the Podcast Luffa gourd Malabar spinach Edamame Thai eggplant Bitter melon Long Beans Chrysanthemum Beans Tatsoi Cilantro The Chinese Kitchen Garden Wendy Kiang-Spray Plant Out Loud Instagram More About This Episode Stewart & Claire lip balms (Use the code PLANTOUTLOUD for 15% off at checkout)

    39 min
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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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    Kristin Donnelly
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