Plant Out Loud Kristin Donnelly

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 

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/

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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:
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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

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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

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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.