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.

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    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 min

  2. 28/01

    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 min

  3. 21/01

    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 min

  4. 14/01

    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 min

  5. 7/01

    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 min

  6. 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 min

  7. 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 min

  8. 17/12/2025

    Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in Ecological Hotspot

    Goats love invasive plants, says Elijah Goodwin, Director of Ecosystem Monitoring at New York's Stone Barns Center; and with careful timing and regulation the Center's herd is restoring ecological balance to its 80-acre campus and hundreds of acres of a famous nature preserve.

    29 min
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Sobre

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.

Informação

  • Autoria
    Tom Christopher
  • Anos em atividade
    2019 - 2026
  • Episódios
    340
  • Classificação
    Para todos
  • Copyright
    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
  • Site do programa
    Growing Greener

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