Growing Greener

Tom Christopher
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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. HÁ 6 DIAS

    Balancing your account in the soil seed bank

    A square foot of topsoil typically hosts thousands of dormant seeds deposited by previous floras.  Nathan Lambstrom of Lambstrom Garden Ecology discusses his research into how this "soil seed bank" can enhance or derail ecological restoration, and how to manage your "account" to benefit your garden.

    29min

  2. 18 DE FEV.

    A Tree's Perspective on Pruning

    Is your pruning aimed only at gratifying your aesthetics and needs?  Chris Roddick also views pruning from the plants' perspective, promoting techniques that enhance their growth patterns and ecological function as well.

    29min

  3. 11 DE FEV.

    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.

    29min

  4. 4 DE FEV.

    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.

    29min

  5. 28 DE JAN.

    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.

    29min

  6. 21 DE JAN.

    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.

    29min

  7. 14 DE JAN.

    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.

    29min

  8. 7 DE JAN.

    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

    29min
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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.

Informações

  • Criado por
    Tom Christopher
  • Anos de atividade
    2019 - 2026
  • Episódios
    343
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
  • Site do podcast
    Growing Greener

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