Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership ...
Ethan Kauffman, Director of Stoneleigh, describes the 9-year process his team has pursued, enriching a classic Philadelphia Mainline estate with thousands of species of native plants, to transform it into a model for how to honor traditional landscape aesthetics while boosting biodiversity and serving the local ecosystem
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Starting the Next Generation Indoors
Starting vegetable and annual seedlings indoors is a skill every gardener needs to master and Dr. Steve Reiners of Cornell University shares tricks of the trade. Grow your own locally adapted, disease-resistant cultivars for bigger harvests, better flavors, and a more resilient garden.
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11 Generations of Stewarding the Land
Judge’s Farm Nursery is the newest venture in the Griswold family’s 385-year association with their homestead at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Co-founder Matt Griswold describes the nursery’s program of growing native plants sustainably from locally collected seeds.
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The Garden Benefits of Backyard Ducks
Aaron von Frank discusses his book, “The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet and Backyard Ducks” and details the services a flock can provide in controlling weeds and pests, as well as furnishing a supply of eggs and fertilizer.
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Slow Flowers
That bouquet of flowers you buy at the supermarket has a huge, unsustainable carbon footprint. Join Debra Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers Society, for tips about sourcing locally grown flowers or growing your own year round for unique, locally rooted, and sustainable beauty.
Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.
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