Podcasts about Square foot gardening

Welcome green thumbs! This week Kevin meets with Dave Faoro from Veneto Gardens at his demonstration garden to learn about his favorite gardening method for success: Square-Foot Gardening. Find out how you can maximize any space and grow a significant contribution to your weekly produce with healthy home-grown organic crops.Want to see what Square Foot Gardening looks like? Check out Dave's video on YouTube: Square Foot GardeningLearn more from the Square Foot Gardening FoundationGreen Acres Garden PodcastGreen Acres Nursery & SupplyGreen Acres Garden Podcast GroupIn the greater Sacramento area? Learn how to make your yard Summer Strong and discover water-saving rebates at BeWaterSmart.info.

#gardening  #podcast #gardentalk #vegetablegarden  #radio #influencer #gardentip #gardentalkradio #backyardgarden Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 1-800-927-SHOW Segment 3: Steve Bartholomew of https://squarefootgardening.org/Sponsors of the show for 2025 Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.comPomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Dripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 and save 10% off your order of $50 or more Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code freeship4meany size No More Bugs!Rescue of https://rescue.com/Jung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersWind River Chimes of https://windriverchimes.com/Wisconsin Greenhouse Company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/Mantis of https://mantis.com/Summit Chemical of https://summitchemical.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderSoilmoist.com of https://www.soilmoist.com/products/soil-moist.phpDavid J Frank of https://davidjfrank.com/ Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Totally tomatos of totallytomato.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersr.h.shumway https://www.rhshumway.com/category/talk-gardening  use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersVermont Bean https://www.vermontbean.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersEdmunds Roses use code https://www.edmundsroses.com/category/talk-gardening 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersRoot and Rhizomes https://www.rootsrhizomes.com/category/talk-gardeninguse code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersKarrikaid https://karrikaid.com/ Use Code Radio10 at checkout and get 10% your order  Tarps https://tarps.com/Sunwarrior https://sunwarrior.com/ Use code JOEYHOLLY25” that will get you 25% off all productsat checkout Grow Smart https://www.grosmart.com/  use code “radio” at check out and save 10% on your order Lawn symergy https://lawnsynergy.com/Durable green bed https://durablegreenbed.com/Tree IV https://treeiv.com/Brome Bird Care https://bromebirdcare.com/en/Chip Drop https://getchipdrop.com/For Jars https://forjars.co/Azure https://www.azurestandard.com/ Use Promo Code: JOEYANDHOLLY15 applied at checkout to get 15% off for new customers who open an account for the first time and place a minimum order of $100 or more, shipped to a drop location of their choice.Corba head hand tools https://www.cobrahead.com/ use code soil for 10% your order at checkout valid once per customer Soil Savvy https://www.mysoilsavvy.com/Phyllom Bioproducts http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.htmlShore and Chore https://shoreandchore.com/Dig Defence of https://digdefence.com/Weed Wrench  https://www.weed-wrench.com/home us code weed at check out to save $10.00 on your order Milk weed balm of https://milkweedbalm.com/Amazon #Influencer page with products we use and trust from gardening to camping, household goods and even cat stuff. Over 500 items list  https://www.amazon.com/shop/thewisconsinvegetablegardener?ref=ac_inf_hm_vp

#gardening  #podcast #gardentalk #vegetablegarden  #radio #influencer #gardentip #gardentalkradio #backyardgarden Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 1-800-927-SHOW Segment 1 Tree and weed control  Segment 2: Reuse and save money when gardening Segment 3: Steve Bartholomew of https://squarefootgardening.org/ Segment 4: Garden questions answered Sponsors of the show for 2025 Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.comPomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Dripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 and save 10% off your order of $50 or more Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code freeship4meany size No More Bugs!Rescue of https://rescue.com/Jung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersWind River Chimes of https://windriverchimes.com/Wisconsin Greenhouse Company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/Mantis of https://mantis.com/Summit Chemical of https://summitchemical.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderSoilmoist.com of https://www.soilmoist.com/products/soil-moist.phpDavid J Frank of https://davidjfrank.com/ Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Totally tomatos of totallytomato.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersr.h.shumway https://www.rhshumway.com/category/talk-gardening  use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersVermont Bean https://www.vermontbean.com/category/talk-gardening use code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersEdmunds Roses use code https://www.edmundsroses.com/category/talk-gardening 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersRoot and Rhizomes https://www.rootsrhizomes.com/category/talk-gardeninguse code 15GT25 to save 15% off ordersKarrikaid https://karrikaid.com/ Use Code Radio10 at checkout and get 10% your order  Tarps https://tarps.com/Sunwarrior https://sunwarrior.com/ Use code JOEYHOLLY25” that will get you 25% off all productsat checkout Grow Smart https://www.grosmart.com/  use code “radio” at check out and save 10% on your order Lawn symergy https://lawnsynergy.com/Durable green bed https://durablegreenbed.com/Tree IV https://treeiv.com/Brome Bird Care https://bromebirdcare.com/en/Chip Drop https://getchipdrop.com/For Jars https://forjars.co/Azure https://www.azurestandard.com/ Use Promo Code: JOEYANDHOLLY15 applied at checkout to get 15% off for new customers who open an account for the first time and place a minimum order of $100 or more, shipped to a drop location of their choice.Corba head hand tools https://www.cobrahead.com/ use code soil for 10% your order at checkout valid once per customer Soil Savvy https://www.mysoilsavvy.com/Phyllom Bioproducts http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.htmlShore and Chore https://shoreandchore.com/Dig Defence of https://digdefence.com/Weed Wrench  https://www.weed-wrench.com/home us code weed at check out to save $10.00 on your order Milk weed balm of https://milkweedbalm.com/Amazon #Influencer page with products we use and trust from gardening to camping, household goods and even cat stuff. Over 500 items list  https://www.amazon.com/shop/thewisconsinvegetablegardener?ref=ac_inf_hm_vp

Today's episode is sponsored by LMNT, an electrolyte drink mix free of sugar, artificial colors, and other dodgy ingredients. Receive a free LMNT Sample Pack with your order at http://drinklmnt.com/Beet Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Rick Bickling shares the secrets to building a square foot garden! This efficient, space-maximizing method is a game-changer for gardeners. As a Master Gardener and Certified Instructor, Rick's got all the tips and tricks to help you grow more in less space. Connect with Rick Bickling: Rick Bickling, a Texas Master Gardener and Square Foot Gardening Certified Instructor, pulled off a miracle by transforming a concrete basketball court into thriving Square Foot Gardens! When he's not gardening, Rick works with the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, creating "Essentials" video tutorials alongside the foundation's directors. Find more from Rick at the Square Foot Gardening Web Site: https://squarefootgardening.org/author/rick_b/ Find more from Rick at the Square Foot Gardening YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SquareFootGardeningFoundationOFFICIAL Learn more about the 4th Edition of Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening: https://squarefootgardening.org/product/all-new-square-foot-gardening-4th-edition/   Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop  → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests  Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube  → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog  → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts  → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord  → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta  → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok  → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest  → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter  → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook  → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup  → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Head to the Rail City Garden Center for all your spring needs! Chicks, mushroom kits, onions, rhubarb, horseradish, strawberries, and more are all in stock! Plus, the calendar is full of Green College classes at the Rail City Garden Center. This morning at 11 is Square Foot Gardening and at 1 o'clock it's Straw Bale Gardening. Next weekend is Soils 101 with Craig Witt of Full Circle Soils & Compost to teach Soils 101. Then on March 22, the Garden Show will air live from the Nevada Bee & Garden Conference in Minden. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first hour of today's show is all about the lawn and garden chores you need to be doing right now to prepare for the upcoming growing season. Listen for tips on pruning, seedilization, aeration, fungicides, pre-emergents, and more! Plus, the calendar is full of Green College classes at the Rail City Garden Center. This morning at 11 is Square Foot Gardening and at 1 o'clock it's Straw Bale Gardening. Next weekend is Soils 101 with Craig Witt of Full Circle Soils & Compost to teach Soils 101. Then on March 22, the Garden Show will air live from the Nevada Bee & Garden Conference in Minden. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

March is here, which means the first yellow blossoms of daffodils and forsythia are just a couple weeks away! As we ramp up for the 2025 growing season, Pawl, Randy, and Dan have tips to get you ready, from pre-emergents and pond preparation to bait stations and pruning. Green colleges are also ramping up at the Rail City Garden Center. On March 8th, there are two classes: Square Foot Gardening and Straw Bail Gardening. Then on the 15th, Pawl is joined by Craig Witt of Full Circle Soils & Compost to teach Soils 101.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

March is here, which means the first yellow blossoms of daffodils and forsythia are just a couple weeks away! As we ramp up for the 2025 growing season, Pawl, Randy, and Dan have tips to get you ready, from pre-emergents and pond preparation to bait stations and pruning. Green colleges are also ramping up at the Rail City Garden Center. On March 8th, there are two classes: Square Foot Gardening and Straw Bail Gardening. Then on the 15th, Pawl is joined by Craig Witt of Full Circle Soils & Compost to teach Soils 101.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Rick Bickling of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation. The Foundation recently published a 4th edition of the Square Foot Gardening book, which originally was Mel Bartholomew's book. Mel -- who was a guest on this program has passed on, but the Foundation he left behind continues to spread the Square Foot Gardening method to a back yard near you. The Square Foot Gardening technique is a raised bed with specialized soil and a divider marking out the square foot plots. You can read more about it on the Foundations' web site at Square Foot Gardening Dot Org. This Podcast is a replay of the original broadcast hour on 810 KSFO; we have extricated most of the advertising and all of the musical interludes for podcast publication.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Rick Bickling of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation. The Foundation recently published a 4th edition of the Square Foot Gardening book, which originally was Mel Bartholomew's book. Mel -- who was a guest on this program has passed on, but the Foundation he left behind continues to spread the Square Foot Gardening method to a back yard near you. The Square Foot Gardening technique is a raised bed with specialized soil and a divider marking out the square foot plots. You can read more about it on the Foundations' web site at Square Foot Gardening Dot Org. This Podcast is a replay of the original broadcast hour on 810 KSFO; we have extricated most of the advertising and all of the musical interludes for podcast publication.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most people know about square foot gardening but as you use it more and more there could be a better option out there for you to make your garden more efficient.  Learn to Grow. Grow for Change. Buy some of our seeds- https://backyardgardensseeds.etsy.com Question of the day- bygquestion@gmail.com Get the planter App here  https://planter.garden/get/backyard Customized seed starting schedule- sandybottomhomestead@gmail.com Become a Patron to grow our community garden- https://www.patreon.com/backyardgardens Products we recommend for your garden- https://www.amazon.com/shop/thebackyardgardner Backyard Gardens Gear- https://teespring.com/stores/backyard-gardens-tv Follow us at: Youtube-          www.youtube.com/backyardgardens Website-          www.backyardgardenstv.com  

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with returning guest Kim Roman of Square Foot Gardening 4 U about growing herbs in the shade. The plant profile is on Blue-eyed Grass and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events and this week's garden tasks in the What's New segment. We close out with the Last Word on Zucchini Lasagna from Christy Page of Green Prints. Kim Roman is the author of ⁠Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts: Includes 51 Culinary Herbs & Spices, 25 Recipes, and 18 Crafts⁠*  If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 116: Miniature Vegetables https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/08/gardendc-podcast-episode-116-miniature.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 3: Cool-Season Edible Gardening https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-3.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 157: Ginger and Turmeric https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2023/07/gardendc-podcast-episode-157-ginger-and.html BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gardendc/support. SHOW NOTES will be posted on June 4. Please vote for GardenDC in the first-ever GardenComm's People's Choice Horti Awards. Voting happens now through 6/15. Go HERE:  https://awards.gardencomm.org/horti-awards-2024 We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform plus share us on social media with #GardenDC, so other gardeners can find us too!Episode Credits:Host and Producer: Kathy JentzInterview Edit and Show Notes: Josh Panepento Recorded in 6-1-2024. *This is an Amazon affiliate link: ⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3KpPy1j ⁠⁠If you order after clicking the link we made receive a few pennies, but it will not effect the cost of your books and other products. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gardendc/support

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Kim Roman. Kim is a certified Square Foot Gardening expert, and military veteran who has gardened all over the world. We chat about her new book: Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts. The post Podcast: Grow Herbs with Kim Roman appeared first on Gardenerd.

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins interviews Square-Foot Gardening expert and author, Kim Roman about Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts. Dirty Word of the Day is Frugivore. Garden questions include papaya, cherry tomatoes, fast-growing shade trees, fresh tomato seeds vs. store-bought seeds, how to get rid of lubbers, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours?  Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know!  Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Kim Roman Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7   #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow 

Warum du beim Hochbeet gärtnern auf Quadrate setzen solltest und welche Vorteile das bringt, gibt es heute. In dieser Woche an meiner Seite sind Debo & Flo von "Ein Stück Arbeit" mit ihrem neuen Buch "Hochbeet - Jetzt durchstarten".

For 40 years the Square Foot Gardening method has been transforming traditional gardening practice around the world. It is known as a highly efficient method of growing food in small spaces.In this episode of The Garden Question Podcast, we talk with Steve and Laura Bartholomew. They continue to spread the gardening legacy of Steve's father, Mel Bartholomew, the creator of Square Foot Gardening.We learn how Mel's vision continues through the Square Foot Gardening Foundation. We also discover how the foundation helps all gardeners learn to create their own sustainable, sufficient, and reliable food source.From the beginning Mel's book captured how to “Grow more food with less space”. This simple and highly productive message led it to becoming the world's number one selling gardening book of all time. Let's dive into the successful knowledge-filled conversation that unfolds in Episode 148 - Square Foot Gardening: Growing More Food with Less Space with Steve and Laura Bartholomew on the Garden Question Podcast.The Square Foot Gardening Foundation has given us a 20% off coupon for their online comprehensive Square Foot Gardening Methods Course. If you're interested go to episode page 148 and get the 20% off Coupon. This is not an affiliate link and we are not being compensated for you using the coupon.

Mit Square Foot Gardening lässt sich auf kleiner Fläche und ganz ohne Garten Gemüse anbauen! Über diese Anbaumethode spricht Kleingärtnerin Nadine Witt mit Eva Puchtinger, Chefredakteurin des Magazins "Kraut & Rüben".

Today I'm digging deep into my favorite organic gardening approaches, as well as spilling the beans on what I most closely follow.  Now that we're in Summer, it's time to plan for Fall/Winter. This episode walks through the very basics of Bailey's favorite gardening styles:  Square Foot Gardening No-Till Gardening  Ruth Stout Method Hugelkulture  Back to Eden Method Lasagna Method  French Intensive Gardening  To find your US Hardiness zone, go here: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ Links talked about:  Square Foot Gardening  Mel's Soil Mix The Postage Stamp Garden Book Charles Dowding No Dig    For more info on Bailey go to www.baileyvantassel.com  

Are you concerned about the rising food prices and the impact of changes in our economy on what we eat and its availability in the stores, then this episode could help you find a fun hobby and way to have more control by learning the new skill of gardening. In this episode I talk about simple, small-space vegetable and herb gardening indoors or out, for beginners to experts with Square Foot Gardening Certified Instructor Kim Roman. Our goal is to inspire listeners to start a tiny edible garden using a method that fits your circumstances best. When you listen to our conversation you hear Kim's enthusiasm and extensive experience about growing plants anywhere. Her incredible knowledge makes this topic so much fun to discuss and helps me as host to gain insights on how to start a simple small space garden myself now I am taking the leap to retire from full time work. In this podcast you'll find out how to produce native plants, fruits, veggies, and herbs rich in nutrients and flavor by using good practices. Hence, getting Green Thumbs provides sustainable resources for a healthy diet and joyful connection to nature. We all know that gardening has many great physical, emotional and health benefits that we can practice when we grow older. If you want more information on this topic you can connect with Kim on her website www.sfg4U.com, or on Facebook or Tiktok using @SquareFootGardening4U You can buy her book How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year-Round on Amazon or any good book store.

Hey green thumbs! This week Kevin meets up with Dave Faoro to learn all the benefits to the amazing growing method known as square-foot gardening.Find all of the resources you need here at the Square Foot Gardening FoundationVeneto GardensGreen Acres Nursery & SupplyGreen Acres Garden Podcast Group on Facebook @idiggreenacresSign Up for Email Ads and Timely Garden Tips

Heute legen wir Beete im Quadrat an. Die Methode eignet sich hervorragend, um auf kleinem Raum, verschiedenste Kulturen hochzuziehen und diese natürlich auch reich zu beernten. Was eine Schallplatte damit zu tun hat, erfahrt ihr hier.

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with Annie Martin of Mountain Moss all about gardening with moss. The plant profile is on Orange Cosmos and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with Kim Roman of Square Foot Gardening 4 U, who shares the Last Word on Culinary Herbs. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support. Show Notes will be available after 1/10/2023. Annie is the author of The Magical World of Moss Gardening. (This is an Amazon affiliate link.) If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 130: Groundcovers versus Ground Covers https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/11/gardendc-podcast-episode-130.html We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform plus share us on social media with #GardenDC, so other gardeners can find us too! Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

In this episode, we talk with Kim Roman of Square Foot Gardening 4 U (SFG4U) about miniature vegetables and other small-space edible plants. The plant profile is on Little Bluestem Grass and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support.Links mentioned in this episode: ~ Renee's Garden container seed collection https://www.reneesgarden.com/blogs/gardening-resources/tagged/container-gardening ~ Kitchen Minis https://www.kitchenminis.com/ ~ Dwarf Tomato Project https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/ ~ Tiny Garden Habit https://www.tinygardenhabit.com/ ~ Balcony Garden Web https://balconygardenweb.com/8-dwarf-vegetables-grow-small-urban-garden/ ~ How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year Round by Kim Roman https://amzn.to/3AaRaqr The SHOW NOTES will be posted here on 8/23. If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 3: Cool-Season Edible Gardening https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-3.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 26: Heirloom Tomatoes and Straw Bale Gardening https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/08/gardendc-podcast-episode-26-heirloom.html Recorded on 8-20-2022. We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite platform so other gardeners can find us too! Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz Editing: Tori Vandergriff --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

Seg4: Garden questions answeredWebsite: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7  at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/ The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

Seg 3: Stephanie Rose https://gardentherapy.ca/start-here/Website: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7  at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/ The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

Seg 3: Stephanie Rose https://gardentherapy.ca/start-here/Website: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7  with you questions at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/ The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

Seg 1: upsetting events in the gardenEmail Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7  call with questions  at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/ The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

Seg 1: upsetting events in the gardenSeg 2: accessibility in the garden for allSeg 3: Stephanie Rose https://gardentherapy.ca/start-here/Seg4: Garden questions answeredWebsite: https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/Email Gardentalkradio@gmail.comcall 24/7  at 1-800 927-SHOWSponsorsProclamation CO of https://www.proclamationgoods.com/ Hot-line sponsorProplugger of https://proplugger.com/Rootmaker of https://myrootmaker.com/  Use coupon code Radio22 at checkout save 15% off orderChapin Manufacturing Inc. of https://chapinmfg.com/Pomona pectin of https://pomonapectin.com/Iv organics of https://ivorganics.com/  Use radio10 to save 10% off your orderWaterhoop of https://waterhoop.com/Phyllom BioProducts of http://www.phyllombioproducts.com/home.html Use code Gardentalk10 to save 10% off ordersHappy leaf led of https://happyleafled.com/ Use code JoeyHolly to save 10% off orders of $90.00 one time useDripworks of https://www.dripworks.com/Deer defeat https://deerdefeat.com/ use code Radio at check out  save 10% on ordersBlue ribbon organics http://blueribbonorganics.com/Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/Walton's Inc of https://www.waltonsinc.com/  Us code grow50 & save 10% off ur order of $50 or more & free shippingTree Diaper of http://www.treediaper.com/Timber Pro Coatings of https://timberprocoatingsusa.com/products/internal-wood-stabilizer/Bloomin easy plants of https://bloomineasyplants.com/Iron Wood Tool Company of https://www.ironwoodtools.com/Natural green products of https://www.natgreenproducts.com/ use promo code WEEDS & buy 3 get 1 Free sold by the gallon. or use promo code GREENTHUMB10 for 10% off purchase ofany size No More BugsBale buster of https://strawbalegardens-com.myshopify.com/collections/balebuster-bale-preparation-formulaRescue of https://rescue.com/Big tool rack of https://www.bigtoolrack.com/ save 5% off ur order use code myrack5Hot Bin Composting of www.hotbincomposting-us.comTree-Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/Dr Zymes of https://doctorzymes.com/  use https://mailchi.mp/doctorzymes/gardentalk get 2 free samplesJung Seeds of https://www.jungseed.com/ use code 10GT22  save 10% off ordersCovers and all of https://www.coversandall.com/ use Code GARDEN25  save 25% off ordersAlgae Men of https://www.algaemen.com/Johnny Apple Seed of https://www.johnnyappleseed.com/milkweed balm of  https://milkweedbalm.com/Simple Grow of https://www.simplegrow.com/Finding Nectar of https://findingnectar.com/Fleet Farm of http://www.fleetfarm.com/Nut Wizard of https://nutwizard.com/ The Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show March – Oct weekly heard on:Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturdays 7-8 AM CST Replay 7-8 PM CST https://tunein.com/radio/Joy-1340-s30042/WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvftKTNF 950 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 7-8 AM https://www.am950radio.com/listen-live/KFEQ 680 AM at 95.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Saturdays 6-7 AM CST replay Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/WMBS 590 AM & 101.1 FM UniontownPittsburgh/Morgantown Saturdays 6-7 AM EST Replay Mondays 6-7 PM EST https://www.radio.net/s/wmbsKYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 9-10 AM MST Reply Sundays 1-2 PM MST https://tunein.com/radio/KYAH-540-s34223/KHNC 1360 AM Denver Saturdays 7-8 AM PST replay Sundays 12-1 PM https://onlineradiobox.com/us/khncam1360/WCRN 830 AM Boston, MA Saturdays 8-9 AM EST replay Sundays 5-6 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-amWNAX 570 AM, South Dakota, upper Midwest Sundays 10-11 AM CST https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wnax/?cs=us.wnaxWHKW 1220 AM and 96.9FM Cleveland, OH Saturdays 9-10 AM EST Replay 5-6 PM EST https://thewordcleveland.com/listenliveKFNS 590 AM ST. Louis, MO Sundays 8-9 AM CST https://tinyurl.com/5dhzppdm

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In this episode, I briefly discuss. herbs that can be used for frostbite and chilblains. Then, I really get into discussing gardening methods and several of my favorite gardening books. I discuss Bio-Intensive Gardening, explain Biodynamic Gardening and how it is different, Organic Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Companion Planting, Ruth Stout's Depp Mulch Method, Back to Eden Gardening, Planting Calendars, etc, etc. This is a winter show, looking forward to spring! Read about my new book, Christian Medicine, History and Practice: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/01/christian-herbal-medicine-history-and.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B09P7RNCTBRead about my new other book, Herbal Medicine for Preppers, Homesteaders and Permaculture People: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2021/10/herbal-medicine-for-preppers.htmlAlso available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B09HMWXL25Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/southern-appalachian-herbsSubstack: https://judsoncarroll.substack.com/Blog: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/Free Video Lessons: https://rumble.com/c/c-618325Photo credit: https://www.pinterest.com.mx/pin/422916221253989303/

FVCC Director of Workforce Training  Jodi Smith & Workforce Training Program Assistant & Square Foot Gardening Instructor Kathy Prim joined the KGEZ Good Morning Show with John Hendricks and Robin Mitchell on Monday January 13, 2022 to talk about  Continuing Education at FVCC.

Part of the feedback I got from the survey was a suggestion that I share some of the books I find helpful.  This is the listGeneral Homesteading:1. Back to Basics2. The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide by John Seymore3. From Home To Small Town Homestead: Pursuing Self-Sufficiency and Sustainability No Matter Where You Live by Harold Thornbro4. The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself by Carla Emrey5. The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! Carleen MadiganGardening:1. Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew2. Gardening Without Work by Ruth Stout3. Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway4. New Organic Grower / 5. 4 Season Harvest Eliot ColemanRaising Chickens:1. Chickens: The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers by Harvey UseryCanning:1. Ball Blue Book of Canning2. Ball Complete Book of Home PreservingFermentation:1. The Art of Fermentation by Sandoor KatzBooks on Food:1. Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon2. The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully by Aaron CarrollAutobiography/Biography:1. Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg Michael Perry2. Saving the Guinea Hogs: The Recovery of an American Homestead Breed by Cathy Payne3. Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader Philip Ackerman-Leist4. LIttle House on the Prairie (Farmer Boy)Books In My Queue:The Ethical Meat Handbook by Meredith LeighPure Charcuterie by Meredith LeighPolyface Micro by Joel SalatinThe Rodale Book of CompostingEnjoy!!BrianBrian@thehomesteadjourney.netNovember's Sponsor:CreekRoad PotteryAl has loaded a number of hand made Farmhouse shave bowls. While designed for the wetshaver, these can be used as soup and cereal bowls among other things. Use promocode: creekroadshave2021 for 20% off during the month of November or while supplies last.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/the.hjp)

Happy Halloween Weekend, You Wild, Wacky Weirdos! We hope y'all are staying safe and enjoying one of the few times of the year when everyone, even your Uncle Karen, is okay with mask wearing! For this Episode 12, another in our Homesteading Series, we're sharing how our Fall Harvest went, what happened to our flourishing Weed Babies, employing Square Foot Gardening for our Fall Planting, Chicken Tractors, Jack o' Lantern chicken snacks and more! Checkout our website WeirdosOnLine.com for all the ways you can support and connect with your favorite Weirdos! Thank you for joining the Weirdness! Muah!

Square foot gardening is an intensive gardening technique very popular in the US/UK. In this podcast we talk about what it is, the pros and cons and how we do it in Australia.

This week we talk about what the hell even is a wicking bed anyway? (pro tip: it's all about saving that water)  We also talk about square foot gardening for veges and what we've been up to in the garden and hear from our friend/listener Brook on why you shouldn't confuse your Round Up for gin.  This is Libby's last episode for a few weeks but there is some great content coming up for you guys! 

Millions of people have bought the book over the last 40 years. Is square foot gardening something you might want to try in your garden?NEW FROM Empress of Dirt: 12 Creative Crafty Uses for Slow Cookers

Keith Ramsey: [00:00:15] Keith Ramsey with garden supply company. We've had a lot of questions recently about square foot gardening. This time of year is people,  have tons of interest in vegetable gardens, and a square foot garden is an older concept. It works very effectively. It gives people a grid pattern and an outline for how many plants they can put in a space.It's more intense gardening. You're gardening with excellent soil and really good soil blends. And then, high nitrogen high Fertility. And then you're getting as much yield as you can out of each square foot. Square foot gardening, there are all kinds of recipes for soil.My biggest thing is to add three or four different types of soil so that you're. I'll usually start with a soil conditioner as a base. It drains well, and it continues to decompose. It's got the right nutrient mix. And, but the drainage is the key.And then I'll go with a peat-based some based product, an espoma organic potting soil, or a Coast of Maine raised bed mix. But all of those have the right nutrients and the right mix for planting straight into. And then I always add vermiculite. Vermiculite is. It's like Micah. That's been blown out.And so Micah, they basically heat it, and it's got the perfect consistency for growing seeds in.  I'll use that to top dress, some of these things when you're going to plant lettuce seed and that kind of stuff, but the square foot gardening there are good guidelines online.As far as what you can put in a square foot. But like on an arugula plan, you're putting four of them in a square foot. So you've got four arugula plants and four arugulas. We'll keep people in arugula if you're not using it straight in a salad for, full time, year-round, almost it's a plant that will almost get Woody, and it'll grow for a year or two, and then you pull it out and replace it, but you can use it throughout the summertime.A lot of the cool-season vegetables, we'll try to bolt and create flowers. And so you want to, you basically want to harvest it often enough, so it's not bolting. Cause when it, if it bolts and produces flowers and seed, it'll eventually just die out. Because of the nature of the plan, it's a biennial or an annual most of the greens some of them. You can see if you're seeding lettuce, you could see it across the whole square foot.Basil, you can put two to four plants in a square foot. Beets and broccoli or Brussel sprouts cabbage. Some of those bigger things are one per square foot. They're really gonna, they're going to grow out, and they're going to push outside that square foot if they get really big.And you can always cut some of the leaves off the edges to create more space for other things. The other piece of a square foot garden is a cool season, and vegetables start to end. You can pull out that section and go ahead and pop something back in. If it was getting springtime, Yeah, April May start getting hot this time of year.Your lettuce starts to fail. You harvest the rest of it and eat that lettuce. Then you go in with peppers in that same space. So it's a nice thing because one foot by one foot, you can turn the garden over in the spring. And then the same in the fall, as the pepper as you harvest those last few peppers.August to September timeframe, you want to be putting a lot of the broccoli and the cabbage and stuff in, and that's a good time of year to start dropping that kind of stuff back in. You pull your peppers out, and you put your broccoli and cauliflower and that kind of stuff back in the bed.If, as far as fertilization goes, No, you can add fertilizer to a square foot garden at any point in time when I'm turning it over. I'm usually adding like an organic plant tone—Biotene to the soil and then every year. So you want to do a soil test, and then you can add the right nutrients to adjust that out.The libraries in North Carolina have a soil test.  And the garden centers usually have soil tests, and then you send it to the extension service. NC State will do the test for you for free.Or you can drop it off. It's on borough road and behind the fairgrounds in Raleigh, but getting a soil test is a great idea. And then we've gotten soil kits at the store that you can pick up there a little faster than the state does it at their own pace, just as the state does.They get as many of them, they get piles of them in at one time, and then they have to work through that whole process.  It'll basically tell you where your nitrogen is and how much nitrogen per thousand square feet to add.And people will bring them into the garden center, and we'll go through them and make recommendations. If you're using organic fertilizer, organic fertilizers are slower to make a difference in the soil. A lot of times, organic fertilizers have to be broken down by microbes.In nature, and have to have moisture and whatnot where a chemical fertilizer. And when you're talking about veggies, how always like to remind people that a chemical fertilizer, not a chemical, it's a chemical chemically produced to get the nitrogen level up to where you really need it.So I'm never worried about putting a chemically produced fertilizer in my veggie garden. I would rather have good strong tomatoes and have actually had something that works out and produces tomatoes than wait for that fertilizer to kick in. And sometimes it requires pounds and pounds. It's different. It's put a bag of fertilizer on, or put a truckload of fertilizer on, to get the nitrogen to where you need it.With organics, I always use organics in a garden because. You can build that soil slowly but surely. You can get the nitrogen where it needs to be and get away from using as many chemical fertilizers because they are readily available. Some of them are quick release.Some of them are slow release. And then when they're gone where the organic fertilizers continue to. add fertilizer to the soil as they break down Joe Woolworth: [00:06:19] good resource that you would suggest to people for recommendations or even like a grid, layouts, gardening. Keith Ramsey: [00:06:25] Yeah.There are all kinds of stuff online. There's a square foot garden book that you could take out and take a look at. One of the keys is to plant is based on the sun. And the timing of the vegetables, so if you've got tomato plants, you're going to put them, you're going to put them in the very back of the garden.If the sun's at your back, you want everything in front of those to be able to get some sun. If you have something like lettuce and try to grow it into the summertime or later in the spring, you could do it behind the tomatoes and actually use tomatoes as a screen. Or planning the rows where the sun's going to go down the row. So if you've got, if you've got a lot of tall stuff and you don't want, and you don't want them to layer the garden down towards the sun, then you can plant them, plant the rows the other direction and have the sun sung actually make it down the row.But that's a little more difficult and requires a little more space. Usually Joe Woolworth: [00:07:15] in North Carolina, Cary, specifically, which is where we are in the garden supply company, is very proud of our giant trees. Is there a better, is it good to have your square foot garden in direct sunlight or. It was a bunch of tall trees.Does that make a big difference? It Keith Ramsey: [00:07:29] really doesn't. And there's the I've got a large garden that I garden and w it gets great morning sun, and then by amount, noon, or one o'clock, it starts to get into a little more shade, but it gets filtered sun in the afternoon, and everything does well.So I would say you need four or five hours of strong sun in strong sun, I would say is, attend to. 10 to six thing, 10 to seven. If you get four or five hours in that timeframe, you're in pretty good shape.  You can grow veggies just about anywhere.They're just going to be a little thinner and maybe not quite as healthy and full.Now's a good time to get started in all with all the warm season stuff. Tomatoes, April 15th, is the last freeze date. I usually start a little bit ahead of that. I'm a little late this year. Growing tomatoes, peppers, beans, most of all that warm-season stuff is now's a great time to start.I always use April 15th as a target and then For the coolest, amazing stuff. You can plant them twice a year. I usually use August 15th and February 15th. Do you recommend Joe Woolworth: [00:08:33] people start with seeds, or should they start with plants that have been grown in a nursery? Yeah. Keith Ramsey: [00:08:37] So big seeds you are usually really easy to use.And when I say big seed stuff like beans, cucumbers, squash Watermelon.  That kind of seed, I usually soak in water, so it takes up a lot of water. I'll soak it in water for less than 12 to 20 hours, something like that. Please put it in the ground and then water it in.I always try to talk customers into cucumber seeds over cucumber plants, but we sell cucumber plants, and people will want the plants. They don't understand starting a seed, but it's really easy. It's a soak the seed. Push it into the ground, and then it comes up and comes up at the right rate.You're not dealing with a soft STEM. So it works out really well. And we've got seeds and plants, any guard, any local garden center. You'd go too. I would have a good variety of plants and see what plants are better to start. Peppers are painfully slow. And it's not worth growing them from seed for, to me.Tomato plants are not as hard, but. You can buy a tomato plant very inexpensively. And, with tomatoes, I always recommend that people tear off the side leaves on the side of the tomato and then bury it deep and the tomato and broccoli cabbage, some of the cool season stuff, or some of the only things that actually will route up all the way up to the STEM.So you'll end up with a root mass that's twice or two or three times the size of you, then if you plan it for a little hype, and then the plant takes off, and it's twice as strong, but tomatoes, peppers, most of the smaller seeds, lettuce as a soup. It's a super small seed, but it's a super easy thing to grow from seed.It's just getting the, getting a really nice seedbed going and then seeding it directly into the garden. 

Today’s Guests Brian Fuder – Square Foot Gardening Foundation There’s been a surge in interest in gardening in recent years. That’s where square foot gardening comes in; one can start small and be successful. That isn’t to mention that all it takes to give a fresh vegetable per meal for one person is a 4ft […] The post Spring Fever and Square Foot Gardening | Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age appeared first on The Reconnect with Carmen | Engaging Culture from a Christian Worldview.

Gardening expert Brian Fuder talks about the square foot gardening method and how it's an easy way to start into gardening, especially when you have limited space.  Ethicist Andrew T. Walker, author of "Liberty for All," looks a the importance of freedom of religion for defending other human rights.

Gardening expert Brian Fuder talks about the square foot gardening method and how it's an easy way to start into gardening, especially when you have limited space.  Ethicist Andrew T. Walker, author of "Liberty for All," looks a the importance of freedom of religion for defending other human rights.

Today we are delving into the world of square foot gardening originally popularised in Mel Bartholomew’s book by the same name. Join us on Facebook- Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/235726027726637/?ref=share Contact us via email - SelfSufficientContact@gmail.com Find us on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC33RtwynPm1s7xP709KMQcQ Support the Show - https://www.patreon.com/SelfSufficientHub Find the podcast - Apple podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/self-sufficient-hub/id1506405294 Google podcasts - https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xYWM3M2JkOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1xeCGY3Ba0tlAxJqEf8jjP?si=8MJdUFfuS-C1p5E_pyJXOA --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-sufficient-hub/message

An explanation of square foot gardening, when and why you would use it, what kind of crops you could grow and Ezra's own experience. 

In this episode, you will learn what a Square Foot Garden is and how to use this method to get high plant yields in a small growing space. Visit us at www.root2seedonline.com Root2Seed Community Blog "Square Foot Gardening" Mel Bartholomew, 1981 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Better Lawns and Gardens (http://betterlawns.com/homenew.asp) Hour #1 –  Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin talk to Ed Thralls about Square Foot Gardening basics. Gardening questions and texts include Florida-friendly landscaping and maintenance questions.  Photo Credit:  Square Foot Gardening Foundation (https://squarefootgardening.org/) University of Florida Square Foot Gardening  (https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/design/types-of-gardens/square-foot-gardening.html) November In Your Backyard Newsletter (http://www.she-consulting.com/in-your-backyard-newsletter) is out! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens (https://bit.ly/30cciv3) every Saturday 7am - 9am EST.     #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropicals #November #floridalife #photography #SHE 

James shares how he's come to Square Foot Gardening only after spending years developing a food forest. Connect with James Prigioni Subscribe to James' YouTube channel Follow on Instagram Follow on Twitter Follow on Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group

What's wrong with my plants?  A more accurate question would probably be, what's wrong with my soil?  Today we will talk about what makes up good soil.   Show Notes: (*links below contain affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, we will earn a commission at no extra cost to you.) Special thanks to our sponsor, Good Ideas, Inc. Sustainable Products. They offer a variety of products to help busy gardeners create the garden of your dreams. Rain Barrels Composters Planters Self Watering Raised Beds Get 10% off your purchase by entering the code JILL10 at checkout. https://goodideasinc.com/                                                                           PROMO CODE: JILL10 for 10% off SoilKit provides everything you need to do a soil sample and receive reports from a lab that you can understand and includes recommendations to keep your garden healthy. All you need to do is: Collect Mail in Get results  https://journeywithjill.net/soilkit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFauqxX2mEU&t=62s   Composting for Beginners https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2017/02/14/composting-for-the-beginner/ 4 Tips to Choosing Raised Bed Soil https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/71-4-tips-in-choosing-raised-bed-soil Raised Bed Soils Compared https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/126-3-raised-bed-soil-mixes-compared Should I Test My Soil in EACH Bed? https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/qa-should-i-test-my-soil-in-each-bed Soil Testing Article: https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2018/10/23/garden-soil-testing-a-beginners-guide/ Book Containing Mel's Mix, Square Foot Gardening https://amzn.to/33IOfGa Peat Moss https://amzn.to/33KIzeZ Vermiculite https://amzn.to/2SF4ZId Espoma Rock Phosphate https://amzn.to/3iH9Inf Blood Meal https://amzn.to/33GDV1v Worm Castings https://amzn.to/3lu2AN0 Beginner's Garden Podcast past episodes: journeywithjill.net/podcast Vegetable Gardening for Beginners Book: https://amzn.to/2SYe4wy Connect with Jill:          Get Jill’s “In the Garden” Weekly Emails + Free Printable Resources Here: https://journeywithjill.net/gardensignup Join the Beginner’s Garden Shortcut Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/beginnersgarden/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebeginnersgarden/

The military moving adventures continue.We are camping in our house waiting on our household goods to be delivered, July 16th (hopefully).Not only do we not have our things, we do not have internet or cable.We started our garden plot and Square Foot Gardening is our favorite resource. Check it out here.Here is the blog post link for Misty Ridge Gardens, there are several, so check them all out!By the way, we do not own a 55 gallon cooler, it is 55 quart?The griddle we purchased is wonderful. Here is the link for it too! Blackstone Griddle 36"Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave us a review. We want to know what you think and hear any stories you want to share on the topic.Next Week on Grounded: TBDLooking for other ways to follow this journey? Pick your favorite social media platform, LIKE and FOLLOW.FacebookInstagramTwitterLinkedInYouTube

Dan talks gardening and Wendy from Illinois shares her story and world famous (to me) tofu meatball recipe. CLARIFICATION: I mention zone 5a several times in this podcast due to poor penmanship. I'm located in zone 7a.

Join Julie Polanco on this episode of Crunchy Christian Podcast as she shares how to get started with square foot gardening. This method is one of the most popular ways for beginning gardeners to grow food successfully. Square foot gardening can be customized to suit any size yard and any type of plant. How to […] The post Get Started on Square Foot Gardening appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

Nick Pitts from the Institute for Global Engagement talks about how NASCAR, MLB, and the NFL are making plans to start up in spite of the Coronavirus.  Brian Fuder of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation talks about how you can make a small but productive garden this Summer.

Nick Pitts from the Institute for Global Engagement talks about how NASCAR, MLB, and the NFL are making plans to start up in spite of the Coronavirus.  Brian Fuder of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation talks about how you can make a small but productive garden this Summer.

Dee and Carol discuss the two sides of black locust trees, Square Foot Gardening™ and some of their personal gardening failures.A few helpful links:Dee purchased milkweed plugs from  Monarch Watch Milkweed Market  Flowers:  More information about Black Locust Trees:A interesting article on black locust trees in Live Science.  Missouri Botanical Gardens opinion of this tree. Veggies:  Square Foot Gardening™ On the book shelf:  Get any edition of the square foot gardening book to get started with this method of planting.Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com and look for us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and now Pinterest.For more info on Carol, visit her website.For more info on Dee, visit her website.We also invite you to join The Gardenangelists Garden Club on Facebook.(Some links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link, we may receive a tiny commission. It does not affect the price you pay!)

Right now, there are more people wanting to garden than ever. Well, maybe that is an overstatement, but there are certainly so many people interested in planting seeds, that many seed companies are either out of seeds entirely, or have had to suspend the taking of new orders to restock or simply to catch up. Whether you are new to gardening or you've been at it awhile, we all want to maximize our return on investment. After all, we put in a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears and money to grow our own food. And, while some people may live on a gazillion acres, most of us have a limited area to which we can dedicate raising and growing our own food.But, beyond that, right now there is a lot of uncertainty in our world. And many of us are trying to grow as much food as possible simply because we want to make sure our families don't go hungry. So, on this episode we talk about 5 things we are doing on our homestead this year to try to maximize the amount of food we harvest from our garden. Those five things are:Succession PlantingIntensive plantingCompanion plantingVertical gardeningKeyhole gardeningHopefully you find these techniques helpful. We also talk about the software we are using to plan our garden (http://growveg.com) and I give you and update on how things are going with our Hoss Tools seed starting kits and the 1020 trays from Bootstrap Farmer.Enjoy!Brianhttps://www.facebook.com/TheHomesteadJourneyPodcasthttp://www.youtube.com/c/3BFarmandHomesteadhttps://www.facebook.com/3BFarmNY/https://www.instagram.com/thehomesteadjourneypodcast/?hl=enTheHomesteadJourneyPodcast@Gmail.com

What a windy day and certainly not a day to plant or transplant new plants. Gardening is a way of life for some and a new hobby for others as we practice "unintentional pausing"...I prefer this term over "Social Distancing". I took some time to consider what is in the news I am listening to, had a chat with a fellow Garden Communicator, Kim Roman, and wrote a little poem in honor of National Poetry Month. To find out more about the online classes Kim will be teaching her information is: sfgkimroman@yahoo.com or her Facebook page: Square Foot Gardening 4 U I hope to connect with you on my other social platforms: https://www.cottageinthecourt.com (blog and website), twitter: @cottageincourt, Instagram: @cottageincourt, FB: Cottage In The Court I am also a Great Garden Speaker and would love to create conversations with your community group, garden club or sister circle. Email me: teri@cottageinthecourt.com

Today we celebrate the German artist who painted botanicals with extraordinary detail. We'll also learn about the botanist who left his mark on the anatomy of the human eye. We celebrate the Spanish botanist who spent his life in Columbia, where, among other things, he studied the cinchona tree and used the quinine to treat malaria. Today's Unearthed Words feature words about April. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that will help you become more self-sufficient one square foot at a time. And then we'll wrap things up with a celebration of the California State Flower. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy.   Curated News Vegetable Seeds Are the New Toilet Paper by Alex Robinson | Modern Farmer  "...Home gardeners are preparing to grow their own vegetables in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting around March 16, online seed stores saw a huge spike in orders for vegetable seeds, as fears emerged that the pandemic could threaten food security. The increase in demand was so dramatic for Wayne Gale and his Canada-based business, Stokes Seeds, that they temporarily closed down their online store for home gardeners, in order to ensure they could fill all of their requests for commercial growers. Gale's business received around 1,000 orders from home gardeners during the weekend before March 16, a period of time it would usually receive around 350 such orders. "And this is not our peak season. Usually, our peak season is the second week of February," Gale says. Ken Wasnock, the CEO of Harris Seeds, says that the majority of his company's new demand has come from urban areas. The company has seen high volumes of sales to neighborhoods in New York City, where historically it hasn't sold much seed. Wasnock says earlier in the spike, a lot of the orders were coming from doomsday preppers, who purchased sprouting kits that don't require natural light. In the weeks since, he's seen an increase in children's gardening products, as parents try to plan activities and projects. Wasnock says that a high percentage of seeds people are buying are organic. Some of the more popular types of vegetable seeds ordered have included squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and beans."   Dreams For Your 2020 Garden It's decision time in the garden. What will your projects be this year? Often, we have no idea if our dreams for our gardens will come true. Gardeners may dream bigger dreams than emperors, but we can often get stuck, too. We put plants in the wrong spot. We buy the wrong thing. We spend too much money. We overdo. But, every now and then we get it completely right. I waited for years to put paths in around my front garden. Why did I wait so long? No reason, really. But, once it was in, I knew it was the perfect thing my garden had been missing. Up at the cabin, we had a sprinkler system installed. The soil here is sandy, and without regular watering, the plants would really struggle. After getting some ¼" tubing stubbed up to the deck, I've waited a year to install a kitchen garden on my deck. This spring, that's my big dream. I'll share the elevated bed system I selected and the evolution of this garden in upcoming Episodes. Whatever you're dreaming of and planning for your garden this season, I hope you get it completely right and that your dream comes true.   Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1528  Today is the anniversary of the death of the German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer. Dürer's work was extraordinary, and by the time he was in his 20's, he was already quite famous. While he was known for his calm demeanor and introversion, his work conveyed profound emotion. During Dürer's lifetime, explorers were collected exotic plants and bulbs and bringing them home to the Old World, where they caused a sensation. The botanical focus began to shift away from plants as medicine to plants as ornamentation and beauty. Dürer was not immune to the artistic perspective on plants, and his work captured plants with an incredible amount of detail that was unmatched by previous drawings. If you're looking for bunny art, you should check out Dürer's watercolor called Young Hare. It's a beautiful piece, remarkable for its accuracy and realism. One of Dürer's most famous pieces is called The Great Piece of Turf (German: Das große Rasenstück), which he created in 1503. This watercolor shows a grouping of natural plants as Dürer had observed them in nature. There is a grass that has gone to seed, plantain, and dandelion. From a botanical art standpoint, Dürer's Turf is a masterpiece, highly regarded for the realistic depiction of plants living together in community.   1759  Today is the anniversary of the death of Johann Zinn, who died young at the age of 32. Still, Zinn accomplished much in his short life, and he focused on two areas of science: human anatomy and botany. From an anatomy standpoint, in his early twenties, Zinn wrote an eye anatomy book and became the first person to describe the anatomy of the Iris in the human eye. There are several parts of the eye named in his honor, including the Zinn zonule, the Zinn membrane, and the Zinn artery. It's fitting that Zinn wrote about the Iris - which of course, is also the name of a flower - and so there's some charming coincidental connection between his two passions of anatomy and botany. In Greek mythology, Iris was a beautiful messenger - a one-woman pony express - between the Olympian gods and humans. Iris was the personification of the rainbow. She had golden wings and would travel along the rainbow carrying messages from the gods to mortals. In the plant world, the Iris is a genus with hundreds of species and is represented by the fleur-de-lis. When Zinn was 26 years old, he became director of the University Botanic Garden in Göttingen (pronounced "Gert-ing-en"). He thought the University was going to put him to work as a professor of anatomy, but that job was filled, and so botany was his second choice. Nonetheless, he threw himself into his work. When Zinn received an envelope of seeds from the German Ambassador to Mexico, he described the blossom in detail, and he published the first botanical illustration of the Zinnia. He also shared the seeds with other botanists throughout Europe. Like most botanists in the 1700s, Zinn corresponded with Linnaeus. No doubt Zinn's work as a bright, young garden Director and the fact that he tragically died young from tuberculosis, spurred Linnaeus to name the flower Zinn received from Mexico in his honor. And so, Zinn lives on in the name Zinnia - a favorite flower of gardeners, and for good reasons: They come in a variety of vivid colors, they can be direct sown into the garden, they attract pollinators like butterflies, and they couldn't be easier to grow. And, if meditation is something you struggle with, you can still become a Zinn Master, if you enjoy growing Zinnias. :) And, I'd like to think Zinn would be pleased to be remembered by the Zinnia because, like the Iris, the Zinnia has a connection to the eyes. We've all heard the phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well... in the case of the Zinnia, the Aztecs were clearly not a fan. In fact, the Aztecs had a word for Zinnia, which basically translated to the evil eye or eyesore. The Aztecs didn't care for the zinnia flower - but don't judge them because it was not the hybridized dazzling version we've grown accustomed to in today's gardens. (You can thank the French for that!) The original plants were weedy-looking with an uninspired, dull purple blossom. This is why the blossom was initially called the crassina, which means "somewhat corse" before Linnaeus changed the name to remember Zinn. Over time, the gradual transformation of zinnias from eyesores to beauties gave Zinnias the common name Cinderella Flower. And here's a little factoid: the Zinnia is Indiana's state flower. I like to imagine when it came time for Indiana legislators to vote in favor of the Zinnia, Zinn was looking down from heaven and smiling as he heard these words: "All in favor of the zinnia, say aye."   1732  Today is the birthday of the Spanish priest, botanist, and mathematician José Celestino Mutis. Recognized as a distinguished botanist in his home country of Spain, Mutis was the architect of the Royal Botanical Expedition of the N. Kingdom of Granada (what is now Columbia) in 1783. For almost 50 years, Mutis worked to collect and illustrate the plants in Colombian lands. Given that he spent most of his lifetime in Colombia, it's not surprising that Mutis was able to leave a lasting legacy. He created an impressive library complete with thousands of books on botany and the natural world. He also built a herbarium with over 24,000 species. At the time, only Joseph Banks had a herbarium that rivaled Mutis, and Banks had more resources and more support from the English government. One of the most important aspects of Mutis' work was studying the Cinchona tree (Cinchona officinalis), which became an effective cure for yellow fever or malaria. The Cinchona tree grows in the cloud forests of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. The Bogota Botanical Garden became Mutis' base of operations, and it was the place where the Cinchona was studied. The bark of the cinchona tree contains quinine, which became the basis for a number of medicines that are used to treat malaria. During Mutis's lifetime, it was thought that Cinchona had the potential to cure all diseases. Naturally, the Spanish crown was highly motivated to develop their understanding of the Cinchona, and they encouraged Mutis to continue to collect and study it. In fact, Mutis used his medical knowledge to establish inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox, and he is credited with one of the first smallpox vaccination campaigns in Colombia in 1782. In addition to his medicinal work, Mutis founded the Bogota Astronomical Observatory and supported the work of Carl Linnaeus. He sent thousands of specimens back to Spain, where they remain at the Madrid Botanical Garden. During his time in Columbia, Mutis collected over 24,000 plant specimens. Mutis approached the job of documenting the flora of Granada in a unique way; he accomplished his mission by enlisting others. He skillfully set up a large studio as a space to get the plants captured through art. During his time in Columbia, Mutis worked with over 40 local Creole artists. He recruited them and trained them. He brought them to the studio where they could work all day long in silence. In short, Mutis set up a botanical production machine that was unsurpassed in terms of the output and the level of excellence for the times. At one point, Mutis had up to twenty artisans working all at one time. One artist would work on the plant habit while another would work on specific aspects or features. The Mutis machine created over 6,500 pieces of art - including botanical sketches and watercolors painted with pigments made from local dyes, which heightened their realism. On the top of the Mutis bucket-list was the dream of a Flora of Bogata. Sadly it never happened. Mutis died in Columbia in 1808. He is buried at the University of Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina, where he taught as a professor. Eight years after his death, the King of Spain ordered all of the output from the Mutis expedition to be shipped back home. All the work created by the Creole artisans and the entire herbarium were packed into 105 shipping crates and sent to Spain where they sat and sat and sat and waited... until 1952 when a handful was used in a large folio series. Then the Mutis collection waited another 60 years until 2010 when they were finally exhibited at Kew. Today, the thousands of pieces that make up the Mutis collection are housed at the Botanical Garden in Madrid, Spain. The pieces are significant - mostly folio size - and since they haven't seen much daylight over the past two centuries, they are in immaculate condition. The old 200 pesos banknote in Colombia bears the portrait of Mutis, and the Bogota Botanical Garden honors the work of Mutis with his name. And, the plant genus Mutisia was created by the son of Carl Linnaeus and is dedicated to José Celestino Mutis along with other flora species, such as Aegiphila mutisi and Duranta mutisii (Verbenaceae), Aetanthus mutisii (Loranthaceae), among others.   Unearthed Words Here are some thoughts on spring.   The roofs are shining from the rain, The sparrows twitter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree-- I could not be so sure of spring Save that it sings in me. — Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet, April    If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet & educator   "The seasons, like greater tides, ebb, and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north." — Edwin Way Teale, naturalist, and author, North With the Spring    Grow That Garden Library Square Foot Gardening Third Edition by Mel Bartholomew In All-New Square Food Gardening, 3rd Edition, the best-selling gardening book in North America is relaunched and updated for the next generation of gardeners and beyond. As you might imagine, Mel's book is very popular right now with the COVID-19 pandemic causing a resurgence in gardening and self-sufficiency. Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Now, based mostly on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today's changing resources, needs, and challenges. With over 150 new photos and illustrations, this new edition makes it easier than ever to achieve nearly-foolproof results in virtually any situation: 100% of the produce; 20% of the water; 5% of the work. Perfect for experienced Square-Foot-Gardeners or beginners, the original method created by Mel has not changed in any significant way with this new 3rd Edition of All New Square Foot Gardening. It remains: build a box; fill it with Mel's Mix; add a grid. But along with the classic steps, you will find some exciting and compelling new information, such as: Adding trellises and archways Substituting with new materials Adding automatic watering systems "Thinking Outside the Box" with creative configurations and shapes Square Foot Gardening in dense urban areas with little or no yard Square Foot Gardening with kids You can get a used copy of Square Foot Gardening Third Edition by Mel Bartholomew and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $25.   Today's Botanic Spark Every year since 2010, April 6 is California Poppy Day celebrating the California State Flower. Poppy Day is celebrated in California schools, where activities are planned to showcase the flower along with other native plants. The botanist Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon created the 1903 piece of legislation that nominated the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California. The botanical name honors Johann Friedrich Von Eschscholz, who served as a doctor and surgeon onboard the Rurik world expedition in 1815. In 1817, when the Rurik ended up in the San Francisco Bay area, the ship's botanist Adelbert von Chamisso ("Sha-ME-So") discovered the California poppy, which he named Eschscholzia californica after his friend Johanns Friedrich Von Eschscholz. Finally, in an article in the San Francisco Call, May 15, 1898, called "The Prettiest Wild Flowers," Ettie C. Alexander shared her magnificent experiences collecting wildflowers around San Francisco before the turn-of-the-century. The article said that Ettie's wildflower collection was the best in the state of California. Incredibly, Ettie had teamed up with a neighbor who was a chemist, and together they had worked to refine a process – a preservative – that would help her fresh-picked wildflowers retain their fresh-picked, original color. Ettie's process worked remarkably well. Yet, she was never able to find a process to preserve the brilliant orange color of the poppy.

Kim Roman discusses Square Foot Gardening, microgreens, and what edibles you can start now the March garden. The plant profile in this episode focuses on Forsythia. Recorded on Match 21, 2020. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

What each of our gardens looked like, an overview of Square Foot Gardening, and resources we now use.

Today we celebrate the writer who dedicated his book called A Child's Garden of Verses to his childhood nurse and the German botanist who lost all of his work in the Columbia River. We'll learn about the big chrysanthemum show of 1916 in our Nation's capital and the botanist who was one with Agaves. We'll hear some November poetry. We Grow That Garden Library with a book now in its 3rd edition from the man who loved to say "Happy Gardening, friends." I'll talk about setting up a regular spa day for your Houseplants, and then we'll wrap things up with a little something Jane Powers wrote back in 2010 that I think was just so incredibly cool and memorable.   But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.       Coleus Cuttings | @WDCGardener I can't think of anyone I'd rather learn to take Coleus Cuttings from than @WDCGardener and her cat Santino - who is THE master when it comes to supervising cuttings. btw Santino means "little saint" Aw....    Recommended Air Plants | HEIRLOOM GARDENER Know Thy Air Plants - Here's a nice little post from Heirloom Gardener to help you Tell Your Air Plants Apart.   My favorite? Tillandsia xerographica - “Queen of Tillandsias.” I recently saw one in a wedding bouquet. Long Live the Queen!         Make a Christmas seedhead wreath| @GardensIllustrated I. Cannot. Stand. How. Adorable. This. IS! Just when I thought I was out of the garden... you pull me back in! @GardensIllustrated came up with this adorable project - Make a Christmas seedhead wreath. I love this idea for the She Shed at the cabin. Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So there’s no need to take notes or track down links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Brevities       #OTD   Today is the birthday of Scottish-born writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, who was born on this day in 1850. Stevenson sickly little boy with no brothers or sisters. When he was just a toddler, a woman named Alison Cunningham was brought into the Stevenson home to help care for Robert. When Stevenson wrote a collection of poems called "A Child's Garden of Verses," he dedicated the book to Alison. Gardeners will be surprised to learn that Herbert Jekyll and Robert Louis Stevenson were friends.  Herbert was the brother of the  British horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll. Jekyll's last name was used in Stevenson's most famous work Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but of course, the popular pronunciation of the Jekyll name became Jekyll thanks to the book. It was Robert Louis Stevenson who said, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” And, here's an excerpt from Stevenson's The Gardener The gardener does not love to talk. He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools away, He locks the door and takes the key. Silly gardener! summer goes, And winter comes with pinching toes, When in the garden bare and brown You must lay your barrow down.     #OTD  Today is the 76th anniversary of the day that the German botanist, Frederick Lueders, lost all of his botanical work. On November 13, 1843, Lueders was botanizing along the Columbia River in Oregon. He'd been collecting specimens for three years. He had just encountered the explorer John Freemont, when all of his work, which was secured in a canoe nearby, was drawn into the rapids. Lueders plunged into the river and managed to retrieve only a copy of the Flora by Torrey and Gray. The devastating loss was recorded in Freemont's journal who wrote: "In the natural concern I felt for his misfortune, I gave to the little cove the name of Lueders' Bay." For Lueder's part, the loss of his specimens was devastating. However, the loss of his instruments and his correspondence with Asa Gray and Dr. Englemann was almost too great. Lueders determined his best course of action was to return home. He traveled south around the tip of Chile and then onto England. It took him a year to return to Hamburg a year after his mishap on the Columbia. Lueders didn't stay in Germany long. In fact,  he returned to America within the next year. By 1851, he had made his way to Wisconsin; he spent the rest of his life in Sauk City, and he dabbled in astronomy.  A biographical sketch said that in his old age, Lueders was mainly devoted to his flowers.       #OTD On this day in 1916, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shared a sweet little article about the 16th annual chrysanthemum flower show that had just been held in Washington DC. It began this way: "If you ever get the idea that people aren't interested in flowers, just give a flower show." said one of the guards at the government chrysanthemum show last week.  All morning he had been repeating "Keep to the right!" to the mass of visitors streaming into the greenhouse.  There had been a couple of disastrous jams that injured some valuable specimens, and he was quite bitter about it. "Sometimes people take entirely too much interest in flowers. If you don't watch them they break them off and take them home as souvenirs," he said.  One of the most noticeable features of this annual chrysanthemum show of the Department of Agriculture and of similar shows held in large cities throughout the country is the growing interest in chrysanthemum culture.  "Where can I buy seeds of such varieties as this?" is the question everybody asks, pointing to a big white "Queen Mary" or to a small lavender pompon.   At the show this year over 250 varieties of chrysanthemums were exhibited... The whole greenhouse was a riot of color, with yellow and lavender predominating. Interest in chrysanthemums is increasing every year. National shows have been held every season for the last 16 years, but there has never been such large attendance before."         #OTD  On this day in 1982, the newspaper shared a great story about the author of "Agaves of Continental North America," Howard Scott Gentry. "This elder statesman of the botanical world [is] a first-class charmer when you get .... to his subject;... his love for the wilds of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico; [and] about the years he spent overseas as an agricultural explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and about how he gradually came to know more about agaves "than any other human being." "I don't like to start things and not finish them," Gentry said concerning the hectic pace of his agave research after his retirement from the USDA in 1971. Several times a year he would plunge into the rugged interior of Mexico perched atop a mule, just as he'd been during his first collecting trips nearly half a century earlier. [Gentry graduated college with a degree in] vertebrate biology from the University of California at Berkeley [and he] concocted the notion of becoming a freelance biologist. To pay for his first field trip into Mexico, he sent 300 letters around the country to scientific institutions, to naturalists, to anybody he could think of, soliciting collection orders. "I came up with $3,000 worth of orders. For anything and everything, for an embryo of a white-tailed deer, which I did collect, for birds' eggs, for ticks, for plant specimens. I really got fascinated with that southern Sonoran and Chihuahuan country.  Gentry tackled it... producing the book "Rio Mayo Plants." "After that book came out, I became somewhat known as a botanist, which I wasn't. I was a zoologist doing exceptionally well writing as a botanist." Gentry completed a doctorate in botany at the University of Michigan, where the well-known botanist Harvey Harris Bartlet taught.  In 1950, Gentry became an agricultural explorer for the USDA. Based in Maryland, he traveled the world locating, researching and collecting plants for the government. [Gentry was involved in a] spurt of postwar agave work when it was discovered that plants in the agave family and plants in the wild yam family contained compounds that seemed effective in treating arthritis. Because of his far-flung collecting (he traveled in 24 foreign countries), Gentry was constantly introducing new plants to the United States and writing about their possible uses. It was high-profile work in the botanical community. "I refused several times to become a desk man for USDA," Gentry said. "It was a chance to cut out all the travel, but I told them, 'No, not me. I want to work with plants, not people. People are problems."       Unearthed Words "When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves - Welcome wool sweaters." - B. Cybrill     "The wild November come at last Beneath a veil of rain; The night wind blows its folds aside - Her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes The Autumn's vacant throne: She has but one short moon to live, And she must live alone. A barren realm of withered fields, Bleak woods, and falling leaves, The palest morns that ever dawned; The dreariest of eves. It is no wonder that she comes, Poor month! With tears of pain; For what can one so hopeless do But weep, and weep again? - Richard Henry Stoddard, poet, November     Today's book recommendation: Square Foot Gardening Third Edition by Mel Bartholomew In All-New Square Food Gardening, 3rd Edition, the best-selling gardening book in North America is re-launched and updated for the next generation of gardeners and beyond. Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Now, based mostly on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today's changing resources, needs, and challenges. With over 150 new photos and illustrations, this new edition makes it easier than ever to achieve nearly-foolproof results in virtually any situation: 100% of the produce; 20% of the water; 5% of the work. Perfect for experienced Square-Foot-Gardeners or beginners, the original method created by Mel has not changed in any significant way with this new 3rd edition of All New Square Foot Gardening. It remains: build a box; fill it with Mel's Mix; add a grid. But along with the classic steps, you will find some exciting and compelling new information, such as: Adding trellises and archways Substituting with new materials Adding automatic watering systems "Thinking Outside the Box" with creative configurations and shapes Square Foot Gardening in dense urban areas with little or no yard Square Foot Gardening with kids   Today's Garden Chore Set up a Houseplant Spa Day on your calendar every two weeks. During the winter, you can reduce the time between waterings as the days get shorter. A few weeks ago, I mentioned using a bar cart for staging your houseplants, and that sure comes in handy when it's time to wheel them all to the kitchen sink. Even a large tray can be of service if you prefer to shlep your plants over to the sink for a spray down instead of merely watering them with a watering can. Double potting, placing a smaller pot inside a larger pot, and insulating the plant with a double blanket of soil can help provide extra support to your plants in between waterings. Additionally, there is not much need to fertilize indoor houseplants until spring. So put the fertilizer down and concentrate on regular maintenance at the kitchen sink.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart It was on this day in 2010 that Jane Powers wrote an excellent article for the Irish Times. What I especially loved about this article was Jane's correlation between the number of bedding plants a person ordered during the middle of the 19th century and their corresponding personal wealth. Here's what she wrote: In the heyday of bedding, the amount of plants that a person displayed was a gauge of their wealth and status. According to the head gardener at the Rothschild estate at Halton in Buckinghamshire, it was 10,000 plants for a squire, 20,000 for a baronet, 30,000 for an earl, and 40,000 for a duke.     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Bill Jenkins of Think Green-Design Build Landscape educates you on sprinkler systems.  The many types of systems and timers including bluetooth applications that connect your yard and save water.  Steve Bartholomew talks about Square Foot Gardening, a wonderful movement started by his father.  Simple way to grow and enjoy your own food.  

On today's show we are talking about identifying micro-climates and how this strategy can be used to extend your growing space and season.

On today's show we are talking about the USDA Chilling Hours Map.This is something you are really going to want to know if you are planning of having fruit trees. https://edifulgardens.com/resources/http://getchill.net/

This is the DIY Garden Minute by Spoken Garden!  "Teaching you tips and tricks for your Garden in one minute!"     Today's topic is What is Square Foot Gardening?   Square-foot gardening is a simplified and efficient way to garden if you are short on space and on time developed and published by Mel Bartholomew. Listen to learn more!  

In this Mini-Series we are tying all these methods and/or strategies together. PermacultureBack to Eden GardeningContainer GardeningRaised Bed GardeningCompanion PlantingThe Soil Food WebEdible Landscaping or FoodscapesAnd various other strategiesWe are discussing critical thinking and what possibilities could work best for you.We are thinking way outside the box on this one folks!

Dave and Maggie are back this week in their outdoor “studio space” at Sage Garden Greenhouses. The duo start off the episode with a big THANK-YOU to all you listeners from around the world (0:57). Then it's into their Favourite Varieties of the Week (2:10). Dave chats about the vanilla bean plant (did you know it's in the orchid family?!) and Maggie shares one of her recent harvests, the very cool and purple-looking islander pepper (5:40). The Question of the Week focuses on squash (8:13). Join the Facebook group — link below — to ask your own question! Then it's into this week's wonderful guest, Mick Manfield (11:45). Mick starts off by defining what exactly square foot gardening is (13:10) and how you can try it out whether you have a big space or a little one. From there, Mick touches on the supplies needed (14:40), soil mixture (15:20), adapting this technique for your physical abilities (17:00), weeding (18:45), the difference between square foot gardening and raised beds (20:10), the grid system (22:48), keeping the soil moist (24:22), fertilizing (25:28), vermiculite (26:11), adding compost (27:29), selecting proper varieties (31:10), perennial varieties (34:10), vertical growing (36:34). To join the Facebook community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276990892799327/ To connect with Maggie: https://www.instagram.com/fromsoiltosoul/ To connect with Dave:  https://www.instagram.com/sagegardenherbs/ To connect with Gardens Manitoba: https://www.instagram.com/gardensmb/

Today's question comes in from a reader, who wonders if you can still use the Square Foot Gardening method if you're not growing in a raised bed! Learn More: Square Foot Gardens: Where Efficiency Meets Beauty Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter  

Every week we'll be releasing a bonus feature on Wednesdays with useful garden tips. This week is about garden basics. My Garden Basics Philosophy Gardening isn't farming. It's entirely different. My two goals of gardening are:  Have a continuous harvest of fresh veggies  Keep us in veggies all winter long  To do this, I follow the gardening basics. The gardening basics are:  Permanent Beds  Permanent Pathways  Perfect Soil  Grid Planting  Using a trellis as much as possible  By using these simple techniques, we can grow a lot more in a lot less space with a lot less work. With these you'll never have to break out the heavy equipment. This method of gardening began in Paris over a century ago and is known as the French Intensive Method. There are lots of books you can refer to on this method. My favorites are:  The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Ed Smith  Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew  How Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons 

In today's show, I talk about the different ways you can trellis when using the Square Foot Gardening method: vertical, horizontal, or arches. Learn More: Square Foot Gardens: Where Efficiency Meets Beauty Keep Growing, Kevin Podcast Sponsor: Garden Maker Naturals Natural and organic fertilizers with complete ingredient transparency, custom-mixed for your garden's unique needs. Check it out by clicking this link and tell them Kevin from Epic Gardening sent you! Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter

Square Foot Gardening gets a lot of praise...but are there downsides? In this episode I go over the reasons you SHOULD consider it, but also some of the cons to the method. Learn More: The All New Square Foot Gardening Book Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter  

A quick overview of the popular gardening method. Keep Growing, Kevin

What is Square Foot Gardening? S2E13 Do you remember the days of old when your parents or grandparents had a garden in the backyard?  Do you remember how the weeds used to pop up and eventually overwhelm the garden?  Did you ever have to try to weed a garden like that (and how much you absolutely hated it)? What if you could create a garden that didn’t suffer from this weed problem?  What if you could create an organized garden that maximizes your yield? This is exactly what Square Foot Gardening does for you! LIVE FROM KANSAS CITY!  This is Season 2, Episode 13, and in this episode I talk about our experience with Square Foot Gardening and discuss the advantages of this gardening system. You don’t want to miss this one! This podcast is brought to you by Small Scale Life without any commercial interruptions!  Instead, I wanted to give you an update of our lives before I start talking about Square Foot Gardening! May is Gone; Hello to June Things are progressing at the house.  Julie and I are pushing forward to get us ready to move in mid-July.  That means we have been following the teachings of The Minimalists and getting rid of things using the following criteria: Does it bring us joy? Will we use it at the future condo or compound? Can we replace it quickly and for less than $20? We have been donating things at the Goodwill and selling items on consignment and on e-bay.  I can’t believe how much we have sold already!  It has been pretty amazing, really. That money is being used to pay off some credit card debt and replenish our emergency fund. Strange Graduation Why would we need to replenish that, you might ask?  Well, we recently had a number of activities and things going on that ended up being more expensive than we planned.  Our son Ryan recently graduated from high school (YAY!), and we had a graduation party for him on Memorial Day Weekend.  It went REALLY well!  I mean it went well at the party.  Graduation was a bit strange.  Between the 5 valedictorians that spoke, the near riot that broke out and an award-winning alumni talking about cervical cancer and pap smears, it was the STRANGEST graduation ceremony I have ever attended.  Yes, you did hear me correct: pap smears and riots at the graduation ceremony.  Good grief.  It makes a guy wonder what world we are living in these days? We had a great party, and we were blessed to have friends and family in town for it.  We really enjoyed their company and all the fun we had with them! Selling or Renting Houses Life has gone back to normal, and we have settled into the new normal: work and get ready for the Management company to show the house.  It seems that we have had a steady stream of showings, and we are all praying that someone rents it soon. Why, you ask? The simple answer is that getting the house, and the rooms of the young men that live with us, cleaned up does take its toll.  The house needs to be ready for showings on a 24-hour notice.  The same is true if you are looking for new renters or folks to buy your home.  Once the home goes on the market for sale or for rent, it is no longer your home.  Yes, you are paying the fees and the mortgage or rent, but it has become a model on the market. It needs to look AND smell good.  No one wants to buy or rent a house that smells like: A locker room Pet smells Cigarettes Mildew/Molds or Other nasty smells Here is a pro-tip for you: make your house SMELL good.  You can do this by using a Scensy wickless candle or even boiling a mixture of vanilla and water on the stove before the showing.  Just make sure the smell from the Scensy wickless candle is pleasing and not overwhelming. Probably the most powerful smell is chocolate chip cookies.  Ever notice how car dealers or home builders have chocolate chip cookies around?  That smell sells! I know because the architects I hired in Chicago used freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies to sell houses. Believe it or not: it worked!  Smell is a POWERFUL sense, so do not overlook this when trying to sell a product!   What is Square Foot Gardening? The Good Old Days Do you remember your grandparent’s, parent’s or even your gardens from years past?   Do you remember how they would devolve into chaos as weeds choked out your vegetables and herbs?  Can you remember how much you hated weeding those gardens? I do.  I remember it like yesterday.  My parents would be gung ho to plant in the Spring, and over the next few weeks, the plot would look like it had been invaded by every type of weed on the earth.  My dad would use grass clippings to mulch the paths and around the plants, but it usually ended up looking like a chaotic jungle towards mid to late summer.  It probably didn’t help that they were busy during the week with jobs and us kids, and on the weekend we would be gone at the cabin in Northwestern Wisconsin. There were times when my mom would assign us kids to go out into the garden and weed it.  It was the WORST job we could actually get.  We didn’t know what was a weed and what was something worth saving, and the cloud of mosquitoes coming out from the jungle would feast on us as we tried to work.  It was a horrendous experience, and frankly, that experience was a reason I never wanted to garden until I was much, much older.  Little did I know that I would return to gardening in my late 30’s. Epiphany My first Square Foot Gardens in Illinois – 2010 Back in 2008, we were living in our beige prairie palace in a far west suburb of Chicago, Illinois.  It was a stressful time in our lives: the Crash of 2008 was in full swing, and one-by-one my clients were telling me that they were pulling projects and keeping their own people employed. I was stressed out to the max. Meanwhile, Julie had gotten a set of the Little House on the Prairie books, and she was reading them to Ryan each night.  On more than one occasion, I had a chance to listen to the stories and marvel at how self-sufficient those people actually were.  They didn’t have material wealth, but they could survive in a number of horrendously harsh conditions. Skills and Self-Reliance Those stories made me think how soft and dependent modern people have really become.  I marveled and commented to Julie that we just don’t know how to do anything to sustain us if things REALLY got bad with the economy.  We couldn’t afford our house if I lost my job, and I wasn’t sure how we could even FEED ourselves if times got really bad. Trust me, folks, I lumped myself in with modern men.  I really didn’t know much about anything beyond my work in the office.  I felt a sense of sadness that my grandparents, who could forage for food, fish, hunt, garden, preserve food and make wine and alcohol from berries, had passed away without passing those skills on to my brother or me.  The old ways of my family and ancestors had lost, and we had become drones in cubicles, doing busy-work to create wealth for others. I knew I had to do something to change that, but I really didn’t know what to do about it. One day our neighbor was raving about the amount of veggies she was getting from her garden, and she was giving away extras to everyone on the block. Julie and I were stunned and asked her how she could grow that much produce in our terrible clay soils. Our neighbor replied that she was following Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening book, and it was really easy to follow. She lent us her copy, and we had to give it a try! Square Foot Gardening Revolutions start one garden at a time – Square Foot Gardening book from 1981 Square Foot Gardening is a garden system that maximizes yields by meeting three basic criteria: Well-organized Easy to maintain Attractive all season long This system was developed by the late Mel Bartholomew.  He published his first book in 1981 and subsequently had a show on PBS.  Mel was focused on small garden beds, measuring 4 feet by 4 feet (4’x4′).  He would divide these small 4’x4′ beds into 12 inch by 12 inch (12″x12″) squares.  These would be intensively planted. Well-Organized The advantage of these smaller, organized beds was that the gardener could organize the garden to maximize growth.  Instead of planting a long, spindly row of seeds, the 12″x12″ square could be seeded with just a few seeds.  The strongest seedlings would be kept in the garden, and the smaller ones removed.  Instead of maintaining rows, the gardener could concentrate efforts on the plants in each 12″x12″ square.  By defining strict size limits for these beds, gardeners could maximize their efforts while limiting the time spent maintaining the beds. Easy Maintenance Speaking of maintenance, Square Foot Garden beds are easy to maintain.  This is a key advantage of the Square Foot Gardening method.  Mel knew from his experience at a community plot that people tend to get busy and have less time to maintain their larger plots.  By creating a new 4’x4′ raised bed with new, manufactured soil, there weren’t any weeds to worry about.  When you plant intensively in each 12″x12″ square, the flowers, vegetables and herbs will naturally crowd out any potential weeds.  Since we manufacture the soil using vermiculite, compost and peat moss, i is easy to pull any weeds that might grow.  In addition, watering plants with a hose is efficient since these gardens are very compact and intensively planted.  I will show you how I maintain these new Square Foot Garden beds in future posts. Attractive All Year Finally, Square Foot Gardens are really attractive all year long.  Since you have a smaller, organized space, you can really concentrate your efforts on that making that space shine. This is where you can dress up your planting area with a nice looking trellis, gravel in the walkways and fencing around the beds.  This is where I developed my ideas for going vertical with my plants. In addition, you can create hoops or cold frames for your beds to extend the season.  Because these beds are 4″x4″ you really can get creative with your systems and accessories to make these raised beds produce! Resources If you want to know more about this method, you should read Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening Book. I have the 2005 edition, but he did publish the All New Square Foot Gardening book in 2013.  I do not own this version yet. Looking at Amazon, they are offering the 1981 version of the book.  I had a chance to look at this version at my mom’s cabin in late May of this year, and it was very interesting (the earlier picture was my mom’s copy).  I say that because Mel experimented with a lot of techniques that I have thought about or tried.  The saying is true: there is nothing new under the sun! What’s Next? As I mentioned in Season 2, Episode 11, I have completely removed my garden.  I just planted two 4″x6″ Square Foot Garden beds on Sunday of this week, and those are going to be my gardens this year.  There will be regular garden updates for you all, and I will show you the power of the Square Foot Garden this year.  Of course, I will be modifying the trellis systems to handle my 10 tomato and 10 pepper plants! Let me know how your gardening efforts are going.  Did you get everything planted in your garden?  Have you tried Square Foot Gardening?  How did they work out for you?  Feel free to ask questions, and we will get answers for you! Thanks for tuning in, and we’ll be back soon with another episode.  This is Tom from Small Scale Life; remember to learn, do and grow! The post What is Square Foot Gardening? S2E13 appeared first on Small Scale Life.

In this week's episode, we discuss growing our own food.  Tom Matott, who has a love for growing food, is the Urban Food Systems Coordinator for Fresno Metro Ministry. Is it hard, is it not?  You will soon find out.  I love this time of year.  This season gives me the opportunity to grow my own delicious vegetables.  Saving money, tasting succulent fruits, and alone time are some of the takeaways of food gardening.  Here are a few resources to help you on your way. Growingyourgreens.com with John Kohler, will give you all he motivation you will ever need. His love for healthy living has changed many lives, including my own.  Also pick up the book Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew.  His gives instructions on planting in confined spaces.      

My friend Mr. Tactical is back on the Small Scale Life Podcast!  We discuss a yuuuuge armada of Practical to Tactical Skills and Topics ranging from Hawaiian vacations (and engagements), gardening, hunt for rural property, minimalism, and tactical training (grappling and gunning) at Tim Kennedy’s Sheepdog Response class.  This is an information packed episode, so I hope you have as much fun as we did recording it! Podcast Topics and Links   In this podcast, Jay and I discuss the following topics and links: Practical Skills Hawaiian Adventure – Mr. Tactical is engaged! Health and Sleep Contrasting Showers – Wim Hof Benefits of getting more sleep – Kevin Michael Geary’s Rebooted Body Gardening Potting Soil Challenge Mason Jar Kitchen Gardens Mr Tactical’s Three Alarm Garden Soil Amendments Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew Direct Sowing vs. Buying Plant Starts Fencing a Garden Rural Property Jay’s Condo to Compound Blog Saving Plan Debt Reduction Spending Reduction Plan The Minimalists – Podcast and Website Tactical Skills Tim Kennedy’s Sheepdog Response Class Who is Tim Kennedy? Course Elements – Guns and Grappling Why Train?  Does this matter? Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman On Killing – Sheepdog philosophy Hard Times Creates Hard Men Training with the Best Hard Times = Strong Men Friends of Small Scale Life As I develop friendships in online communities and in real life, I have seen really great people doing great work.  For some, I will be setting up affiliates and memberships as this blog and podcasts grow.  Please check out these friends and take advantage of their offers below: Nature’s Image Farm – For a LIMITED TIME ONLY (until 4/24/17), Nature’s Image Farm is offering bundles of orchard products for your urban homesteaders, farmsteaders and preppers!  Check these links out for more details! Urban Homesteader Bundle  Farmsteader Bundle Remember: when you place orders using the code “SSL,” you will receive a 10% OFF all nursery stock plus FREE shipping.  It is time to plant, so why not order something from Nature’s Image Farm?  Even if you do not buy anything, this is a going to be a great resource for new homesteaders like me.  Check out the Homestead How-To Page for more hillbilly homesteading information. Join the Small Scale Life Facebook Community today! Small Scale Life Facebook Group – This group will get you a backstage pass and access to other members of the Small Scale Life Community.  We will discuss gardening, healthy lifestyle, frugal living and having adventures along the way! This is also your chance to see what is coming up on Small Scale Life, see some content not shared on the blog, and ask questions of future guests.   Subscribe and Rate on iTunes If you are a subscriber to the Small Scale Life iTunes Channel, please provide a review for the podcast, consider giving a few stars (not going to lie: I want five stars) for the Podcast.  I really appreciate you as a listener and your feedback. To leave a review, simply follow these simple steps: Click on this link or the image above. Go to ratings and reviews. Click on the number stars (five would be awesome) Subscribe to the podcast (optional, but appreciated)! You can also write a quick review or some words of encouragement (optional, but appreciated) You can also write a longer review, though it’s not necessary. Again, thank you for listening and your review! The post Mr. Tactical: Practical to Tactical Skills – S2E9 appeared first on Small Scale Life.

Peter Burke has been teaching garden classes since 2006, when he started presenting workshops on Indoor Salad Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Extending the Garden Season, and many more techniques that empower gardeners. He also started the dailygardener.com website to support the need for specialized seeds for Indoor Salad Gardening. Peter lives and gardens in Calais, Vermont, with his family. His book is on Chelsea Green. It's called: Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens This book is an inviting guide for both !rst-time and experienced gardeners in rural and urban environments. No matter what size home you live in, there’s room for a garden of soil sprouts. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen and mudroom. Soil sprouts are also an engaging project for kids and can be used in the classroom to teach students basic educational concepts like math and science. Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering Burke’s method (hint: you can’t mess this up), including tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more. As we look to become more sustainable and self-sufficient, Burke believes this is one small step we can all make and be rewarded for the effort. Give soil sprouts a try and discover the fun and productive world of indoor salad gardening. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps. Soil sprouts are the easiest and most productive way to grow salad greens “ all year long. ” Growing “Soil Sprouts”—Burke’s own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in less than 10 days. Of all the ways to grow immature greens, soil sprouts are the easiest and most productive technique requiring the least amount of work. The secret: start them in the dark. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Today's interview is with Jesse Peterson and Penny Livingston-Stark about how to make permaculture education more accessible and provides different ways to do so for families and couples, as well as for those whom the more traditional two week intensive is burdensome. We also discuss different class formats beyond the design course, and what age is appropriate for a student to receive a certificate. Penny also delves into what it means to being a certified permaculture designer. You can find out more about Jesse and her work at insideedgedesign.com, and Penny is at regenerativedesign.org. The upcoming permaculture design course they are co-teaching together is in Bozeman, Montana, from July 15 - 27, 2016, and integrates many of the ideas we discussed here. [caption id="attachment_3417" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Jesse and her daughter[/caption] Permaculture accessibility is of ongoing importance to me, as well as those of us who call Seppi's Place home. Though my work on the podcast continues to push the edges of social, economic, and community permaculture, the core corpus of knowledge that comes with designing a series of permacultures rests in the Permaculture Design Course, which requires steeping one's self in the language of the land, food, and gardens; water, clothing, work, and shelter. Through that one gains a core understanding of the language and lexicon of practicing permaculture. It isn't the destination of the journey, but the starting point, a place too often one cannot start down because of barriers of time, cost, or burden to family. That is changing, however, as more permaculture teachers, such as Penny and Jesse, see this problem and try different solutions. In their case, they provide child care and couples discounts. In others, the format is broken up and spread out over a series of weekends. Some are even being offered in the gift-economy. As time and needs change, so does our approach to permaculture. I remember a time speaking of permaculture beyond the landscape seemed completely foreign and antithetical to the work, but more books and articles emerge on social and economic permaculture each day. The more teachers and students who take up the mantle to teach and learn this material, the more options we have in sharing it with others, and in continue to make it more accessible and affordable. Whether you are a student looking for an alternative to the traditional design course intensive, or are a teacher who is offering something different, I'd like to hear from you. My phone number is and the email address is . If digital means are not your preferred way to reach me, you can also drop something in the mail. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, coming up is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, at The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd, talking about his experiences as a permaculture practitioner, with opening remarks by Joel Glanzberg. Classes and workshops are scheduled on Living in the Gift, Animals in Permaculture, Broadacre permaculture, whole systems learning, plant walks, and tree ID sessions. If you do plan on attending, please consider carpooling. If you haven't picked up your tickets yet, get them today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com. Until the next time, take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Sponsors This interview is possible because of listeners like you who sign up as ongoing members at Patreon.com, by those who make one time contributions via the PayPal link on the side bar of the podcast website at thepermaculturepodcast.com, and by the show sponsors. Today's sponsors are Your Garden Solution and Good Seed Company. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. Good Seed Company has been in business for over 40 years and believes we have an inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These are the seeds saved by our ancestors for thousands of years that can sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Find out more about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. Store.goodseedco.net. Your Garden Solution Good Seed Co. Inside Edge Design PermieKids Resources Permaculture Design Course with Broken Ground Inside Edge Design Regenerative Design Institute Institute of Permaculture Education for Children Jen Mendez of PermieKids Sarah Wolbert David Sobel David's Books Connect with the Podcast Support the Podcast (PayPal.Me) On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter  

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast This is the first of two in-person conversation recorded early in 2016, and is a follow-up to the interview recorded last year with Erik and Victoria. Today the focus on Victoria and The Forager's Apprentice program. During this course she provides a foundation to her students in botany, wild foods, and herbal medicine. The class starts the conversation, but where we wind up is deeper into the personal change that comes from a connection with nature; to know that nature is us and we are it; that we create our lives and the resulting yields from the system; and that each of us can choose to take action out of fear or out of love. Just as we hold that choice, Victoria shares how her studies of healing lead to an understanding that trusting ourselves, one another, and the mystery of life leads to abundance and true, lasting security. We become free. Find out more about Victoria and The Forager's Apprentice program at charmcityfarms.org, and via the links in the resource section below.There is a parable, sometimes called “The Wolves Within” and attributed to the Cherokee, that came to mind when Victoria spoke about fear and love. A grandfather is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside of me,” he says to the boy. “This terrible fight is between two wolves. One is evil, full of anger, envy, sorrow, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good, full of joy peace, love, hope, serenity, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going inside of you, and everyone else.” The grandson thought about this and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old man replied, “The one you feed.” I've read or heard a version of that lesson dozens of times. For years, though a person of faith, I trusted the results that came largely from the security of a full-time job, often working more than 60 hours a week. It was the only way I knew to live. Even now there are times when it is incomprehensible, but a mystery arises by feeding your personal abundance, that wolf of joy, that brings more abundance into the world and sets you free, opening unimaginable doors. Whichever wolf you currently find yourself feeding, if I can help you tend it, get in touch. My phone number is and email is . If digital means are not your preferred way to reach me, you can also drop something in the mail. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, coming up is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, at The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd, talking about his experiences as a permaculture practitioner, with opening remarks by Joel Glanzberg. Classes and workshops are scheduled on Living in the Gift, Animals in Permaculture, Broadacre permaculture, whole systems learning, plant walks, and tree ID sessions. If you do plan on attending, please consider carpooling. If you haven't picked up your tickets yet, get them today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com. Until the next time, embrace the mystery of life and take care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Sponsors PermieKids, created by permaculture practitioner and educator Jen Mendez, is a resource to inspire and nurture those teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community or at home. Through the site Jen offers a free ongoing podcast where you can learn about transitioning to a rich, ecologically sound life that includes children and learning at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in her Community Experiential Education by Design program, or Edge Alliances. Find out more at PermieKids.com. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. Inside Edge Design Good Seed Co. Resources The Forager's Apprentice Charm City Farms Urban Permaculture in Baltimore (The first interview with Eric and Victoria) Aldo Leopold Barbara Brennan Henry David Thoreau Gary Strauss Jack Kornfield Connect with the Podcast Support the Podcast (PayPal.Me) On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter  

Great Escape Podcast is an audio version of the blog posts from Great Escape Farms, Specializing in Unique Edible Plants, Permaculture Gardens, and Homesteading. The blog posts can be viewed at GreatEscapeFarms.com.  This week we cover; My Sheet Mulching Project on the Farm, Square Foot Gardening and Drip Irrigation, and Hardening off plants

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast How would you like to have more peaceful relationships with others? You can, and though the work is not easy, the process is simple, and today Ethan Hughes shares with us how he and others put this idea into practice day to day at the The Possibility Alliance, as well as in the Permaculture Design Courses held at the Peace and Permaculture Center. This audio comes from the first video session with Ethan, recorded while I was at The Possibility Alliance. For those of you on mobile, if you'd like to watch this video, I've included a direct link to the YouTube page in the resource section. If you'd like to see the rest of the videos, as well as hear all the conversations rather than just the excerpts like this one, then pledge towards the creation of The Possibility Handbook. These conversations with Ethan, a beautiful synthesis of the wisdom of others with his own experiences of living in community, continue to change and transform my life and lead to new discoveries. As I apply the lessons learned along the way I find that they work. There is less strife and more understanding of others, while also decreasing the sense of other or enemy identity. I won't say it is perfect, and we call these things practices for a reason, but the improvement is there. By changing ourselves, we change the world. Now imagine all the possibilities. If there is anyway I can assist you on your road, wherever you are in that journey, get in touch. Email: or call: , or you can drop something in the mail: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you are in a place to help me, I would really appreciate it, as this podcast stays on the air thanks to generous listeners like you. In the notes you'll find a PayPal.me link where you can make a onetime donation to the show, and any amount helps. If you'd like to become an ongoing member, then sign up at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast where for as little as $5 per month you can receive a range of benefits including exclusive content, such as a recent exclusive video tour of the systems at Seppi's Place, my new community home, and early access to advertisement free episodes. Thank you for your time and support. As this episode comes out, I'm on my way to Berea, Kentucky and the Clear Creek Community. Check out the podcast instagram feed, instagram.com/permaculturepodcast for updates throughout the trip. On Saturday, April 23, 2016 is Spring into Permaculture hosted by Clear Creek Schoolhouse. Come and hang out with us starting at noon, stay for a mead making workshop with Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, from 1-3pm, and in the evening we're having a potluck and live recording of the podcast. Find out more at clearcreekschoolhouse.org. On June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, hosted by Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd. Other guests include Shawn Walker of Trees101, Diane Blust of Chicory Hill Farm, Nicole Luttrell of Deeply Rooted Design, Seppi Garrett of Seppi's Place, forager and rewilder Nathan Rupley, and we'll be ending the day with a live recording of the podcast with all the guests and attendees. Lots of great folks doing good work are here to meet and learn from.  As this event is limited to 100 tickets, pick yours up today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com.   Sponsors A thank you to the podcast sponsors, PermieKids, Your Garden Solution and Good Seed Company. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. Good Seed Company has been in business for over 40 years and believes we have an inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These are the seeds saved by our ancestors for thousands of years that can sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Find out more about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. Store.goodseedco.net. Resources Conflict Transformation video (YouTube) The Possibility Handbook Necessary Simplicity with Ethan Hughes Support the Podcast!  (PayPal.Me)

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast Chris is a peace activist from Chico, California, who serves with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, recently returning from Palestine,  and is the producer of the radio documentary series "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow," which explores the movement to end the system of mass incarceration in the United States. Our conversation today is based on his forthcoming book The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto for the Age of the Great Turning. Today we talk about nonviolence and the three parts to the Gandhian model: self-purification, constructive programs, and satyagraha. I became aware of Chris and his work through conversations with Ethan Hughes, who gave me a rough copy of The Gandhian Iceberg. Through that, and time spent at The Possibility Alliance, meeting with members of the Catholic Worker Movement, and those practicing nonviolence and building egalitarian communities, a light went off in my thoughts on how nonviolence is a required component of creating the world espoused by permaculture. That lead to this conversation with Chris on how to move from a place of anger and fear, to one of compassion and love. As discussions emerge about how the third ethic of permaculture is the least discussed and most confusing to understand and implement, nonviolence and the Gandhian model provide a way to return this ethic to a proper place in our practice. Before we begin I'd like to thank the sponsors, Good Seed Company, and the sponsors of the day, PermieKids and Your Garden Solution. PermieKids, created by permaculture practitioner and educator Jen Mendez, is a resource to inspire and nurture those teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community or at home. Though the site Jen offers a free ongoing podcast where you can learn about transitioning to a rich, ecologically sound life that includes children and learning at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in her Community Experiential Education by Design program, or Edge Alliances. Find out more at PermieKids.com. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. You can contact Chris at moorebackman@gmail.com and find more about his work via the links in the resource section in the show notes. Creating a more bountiful world requires peace and nonviolence. To continue to exist under old methods and modes that create feelings of scarcity and result in violence and oppression don't fit within the ethics of permaculture. A new revolution is required, lead by the practice self-purification, constructive programs, and satyagraha. Should you choose to embrace this path, and I suggest you explore it further at the very least, there are additional resources in the notes for this episode that include links to the Metta Center for Nonviolence, a series of free books on nonviolence from the Albert Einstein Institute, and further articles on satyagraha and the power of nonviolence. Along the way if I can assist you, wherever you are, get in touch. My phone number is and email is . If digital means are not your preferred way to reach me, you can also drop something in the mail. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast To connect with the show and other listeners, you can become a sustaining member at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast, on Facebook as The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, and on Twitter where I am @permaculturecst. I'm also using Instagram quite a bit, and you can find me there as PermaculturePodcast. From here I'll be on the road in April, returning to Berea Kentucky and the Clear Creek Community. While there on April 23, 2016 we're holding Spring into Permaculture hosted by Clear Creek Schoolhouse. The day starts at noon and heads on into the evening with a potluck and in-person recording of the podcast, and Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, will be there teaching a meadmaking workshop from 1 - 3pm. Find out more at clearcreekschoolhouse.org. After that, on June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, hosted by Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd, talking about his experiences as a permaculture practitioner, and there will be classes and workshops on Living in the Gift, Animals in Permaculture, Broadacre permaculture, whole systems learning, as well as plant walks and tree ID sessions. As this event is limited to 100 tickets, pick yours up today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com.   Sponsors The Good Seed Company PermieKids Your Garden Solution Resources Chris's Email: moorebackman (at) gmail.com Bringing Down the New Jim Crow Chris's Articles at Truth-Out Dr. Michael Nagler, author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future Martin Luther King, The Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding Brene Brown Gene Sharp Michael Brown “The Presence Process” Charles Eisenstein Peace Projects Be the Change Reno, Nevada The New Community Project Harrisonburg, Virginia Canticle Farm Oakland, California Additional Resources Nonviolence: Working Definitions (Metta Center for Nonviolence) Satyagraha (Wikipedia) Non-violence, the appropriate and effective response to human conflicts Collection of free books on nonviolence (Albert Einstein Institute) The Power of Nonviolence /r/nonviolence (reddit)

Kim began gardening using the original Square Foot Gardening method in the late 1980s. She learned the All New Square food gardening method and became a square foot gardening Certified Instructor, taught by Mel Bartholomew, in 2010. She teaches the next generation of Certified Instructors and serves as one of Mel's assistants. Along with her daughter-in-law and Mel, Kim is working on children's versions of the All New Square food gardening book. She is the owner of Square Foot Gardening 4 U, a woman veteran-owned business in Glen Burnie, Maryland where she teaches. She can be reached at sfg4u.com.

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Erik Ohlsen, founder of Permaculture Artisans and co-founder and executive director of Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, California. A previous guest on the show, he joins me today to examine the idea of what it means to gain a permaculture rooted education that takes our practices beyond an introductory level. This leads us to talk about the Ecological Landscape Immersion program taught at PSC, the role of mentoring, the results of Miriam Volat at The Farm School, and we eventually touch on the shortcomings of a Permaculture Design Course for anyone wanting to practice as a professional. Before we begin I'd like to thank the sponsors who, along with listeners, help keep this show going and growing. In addition to Permiekids, the sponsors of the day are Your Garden Solution and Good Seed Company. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture practitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. Good Seed Company has been in business for over 40 years and believes we have an inalienable right to open pollinated, non-GMO seeds for common use. These are the seeds saved by our ancestors for thousands of years that can sustain us today, and contribute to a bountiful future for the generations yet to come. Find out more about the rich history of this company and the importance of seed saving at goodseedco.net, or shop the catalog of ecologically grown organic seeds online. store.goodseedco.net. As I continue to navigate social permaculture and living in community, the work of Erik, his colleagues, and others like him are important for creating the next generation of landscape oriented permaculture practitioners. The Permaculture Skills Center offers a variety of trainings focused on creating a career for students whether that involves ecologically focused landscaping, regenerative agriculture, or permaculture education. If you are near Sebastopol, California and considering any of these path, these programs are definitely worth investigation. Permaculture Artisans and The Permaculture Skills Center continue to raise the bar of what it means to practice permaculture professionally. Find our more about Erik and his work at permacultureartisans.com and the numerous education offerings, as well as their own blog and podcast, at permacultureskillscenter.org. Along the way if I can assist you, wherever you call home and whatever leg of the journey you are on, get in touch. My phone number is and email is . That email address is also the PayPal address for the show, so if you like what you hear and want to shoot something my way, you can send it to there. Though there are now some sponsors for the show I still couldn't do this without your direct and ongoing support as listener. If digital means are not your preferred way to reach me, you can also drop something in the mail. That address is: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast If you'd like to connect with the show and other listeners, you can also a sustaining member at Patreon.com/permaculturepodcast, on Facebook as The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann, and on Twitter where I am @permaculturecst. I'm going on a family vacation soon to explore the beaches of Rehobeth, Delaware, and will also be posting pictures of the plants, animals, and other interests from that bioregion on Instragram as PermaculturePodcast. From here I'll be on the road in April, returning to Berea Kentucky and the Clear Creek Community. While there on April 23, 2016 is Spring into Permaculture. Clear Creek Schoolhouse is hosting this event. The day starts at noon and heads on into the evening with a potluck and in-person recording of the podcast, and Jereme Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking, will be there teaching a meadmaking workshop from 1 - 3pm. Find out more at clearcreekschoolhouse.org. After that, on June 18, 2016, is the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence outside of Charles Town, West Virginia, hosted by Emma Huvos of The Riverside Project. The keynote speaker for this day is Michael Judd, talking about his experiences as a permaculture practitioner, and there will be classes and workshops on Living in the Gift, Animals in Permaculture, Broadacre permaculture, whole systems learning, as well as plant walks and tree ID sessions. As this event is limited to 100 tickets, pick yours up today at midatlanticpermacultureconvergence.eventbrite.com. Also, unrelated to all things Permaculture, are you a Steampunk? If so I'll be at the Steampunk Worlds Faire May 13-15, 2016, and may be presenting a class on The History of the Sword, focusing on the Renaissance period, or you can probably find me or Photographer John at the Canes Enabled tent in the courtyard of the main hotel. Next up on the docket is the first of the Philadelphia Round Table recordings, followed by an interview on Ghandian Nonviolence with Chris Moore-Backman. Until then, take care of Earth, Your Self, and each other. Sponsors: Your Garden Solution The Good Seed Company PermieKids Resources: Permaculture Skills Center Permaculture Artisans Clear Creek Schoolhouse Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence (Information and Tickets) Connect with the Podcast: On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is Robyn Mello, the program director for Philadelphia Orchard Project, and is a deeper look at her life, work, and thoughts within and beyond that project, which she provided a brief overview to in Episode 1609: An Introduction to the Philadelphia Orchard Project. Give that episode a listen to learn more about how this non-profit installs orchards throughout the city of Philadelphia. I've known Robyn for many years, after meeting in Philadelphia during a presentation given by Peter Bane at the Awbury Arboretum alongside the executive director of POP, Phil Forsyth. Along the way we've kept in touch as I continue to follower her work in Urban Permaculture. Not only is Robyn an amazing permaculturist, she is also a musician with The Radicans and an organizer for BeardFest. Before we begin I'd like to thank the sponsors who, along with listeners, help keep this show going and growing. In addition to The Good Seed Company, the sponsors of the day are PermieKids, and Your Garden Solution. PermieKids, run by the incredible Jen Mendez, is a resource to inspire and nurture those teachers, parents, and families interested in incorporating permaculture education into the lives of children in the community or at home. Though the site Jen offers a free ongoing podcast where you can learn about transitioning to a rich, ecologically sound life that includes children and learning at every step of the way. If you want to dive deeper you may be interested in her Community Experiential Education by Design program, or Edge Alliances. Find out more at PermieKids.com. Your Garden Solution is a Pennsylvania company run by a permaculture pratitioner and their business partner that helps people to garden using the techniques developed by Mel Bartholomew and popularized in his book Square Foot Gardening. In addition to garden installation and education, they also have an excellent soil mix and compost ready for your raised beds. Find out more at yourgardensolution.org. If you'd like to get involved in the podcast, become a listener-member on Patreon, follow the show on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Share your favorite episodes with your friends, family, and fellow practitioners, or, better yet, listen to a show with them. Find out more about Robyn and her permaculture work at PhillyOrchards.org, and via the links below. Sponsors: PermieKids Your Garden Solution The Good Seed Company Resources: Philadelphia Orchard Project The Radicans BeardFest Connect with the Podcast: On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter

In this episode of the Small Scale Life Podcast, I discuss my background in gardening and where I am focusing my gardening efforts in 2016. The theme this year is "Grow What You Eat," and I am reducing the variety of vegetables and herbs I will grow to 1) focus on becoming a better at growing things our family eats and 2) reduce the amount of vegetables and herbs that are wasted each year. Links for this podcast: 1) Small Scale Life Blog - www.smallscalelife.com 2) Small Scale Gardening - www.smallscalegardening.com 3) Cranberry-Jalapeno Jelly - http://www.smallscalegardening.com/2016/01/13/how-to-make-roll-tide-cranberry-jalapeno-jelly/ 4) Indoor Gardening - http://www.smallscalegardening.com/2014/12/02/indoor-gardening-made-easy/ 5) March of the Aphids - http://www.smallscalegardening.com/2015/01/19/2015-failure-march-of-the-aphids/ 6) Square Foot Gardening - http://squarefootgardening.org/ 7) Beatsby_Roi Lemon Water Chronicles Volume 1 - https://soundcloud.com/beatsbyroi/lemon-water-chronicles-vol-i 8) Jay's A Crash Into Life Blog - https://acrashintolife.wordpress.com/

Peter Burke is the author of Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening. He has been teaching garden classes since 2006, when he started presenting workshops on Indoor Salad Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Extending the Garden Season, and many more. He also started TheDailyGardener.com to support the need for specialized seeds for Indoor Salad Gardening. Peter believes that with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.

Great Escape Podcast is an audio version of the blog posts from Great Escape Farms, Specializing in Unique Edible Plants, Permaculture Gardens, and Homesteading. The blog posts can be viewed at GreatEscapeFarms.com.  This week we cover; Todd McCree appointed as President of Great Escape, Autumn Olive in Forest Garden Design, Square Foot Gardening – a Book Review, Plant Propagation for Edible Forest Gardens, Roadmap for future topics.