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Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping

Steven Biggs: Horticulturist and edible landscaping expert.

Want to grow your own food but need creative ideas so you can get the most from your space and your growing zone? Our passion is the edible garden. We help people grow food on balconies, in backyards, and beyond—whether it’s edible landscaping, a vegetable garden, container gardens, or a home orchard. There are many ways to approach edible landscaping. Find out how to harvest enough fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. Get top tips for exotic crops. And learn how to garden in a way that

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42:41

Helping Other People Eat through Gardening

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2021/08/19

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Julie Brunson didn’t garden as a child, but began to garden and grow food as an adult. When her husband was in a dark place and found solace in their garden, the garden not only fed them, it helped him to heal.That was the start of a journey into teaching kids about regenerative gardening, and also using the garden as a

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23:14

Container Gardening with Hot Peppers – REWIND

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2021/08/12

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- What is the ideal plant for a small yard?The ideal plant for someone wanting something ornamental – yet edible too?And, just to complicate things, it has to be good for a garden where there are lots of squirrels.Claus Nader found that hot peppers were that ideal plant.Nader was gardening in a small yard that was

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61:11

What's to Hate? A Look at the Whole Okra

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2021/08/05

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Chris Smith remembers his first okra encounter well. It was at a diner in Georgia.A native of the UK, where growing conditions are not conducive to heat-loving okra, the vegetable was foreign to him. So was the cuisine of the American south.His recollection of that first taste of okra? Slime and grease.While not

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44:29

Edible Front Yards and Sensory Gardens

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2021/07/29

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Jennifer Lauruol weaves together permaculture concepts, native plants, food plants, forest gardening, and educational elements in her regenerative-garden design work in Lancaster, England.Her passion is edible ornamental gardening—especially in front yards.Lauruol also uses many native plants in her designs. She finds

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48:00

Meet the Indiana Jones of Pawpaw

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2021/07/22

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Meet Neal Peterson, the Indiana Jones of pawpaws. He was so moved by the taste of pawpaw that it became his life’s work.There were improved pawpaw varieties in the early 20th century—but the fruit fell into obscurity.Peterson dug through the literature to uncover past pawpaw breeding work, and then set out to track down

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38:53

Urban Farm Camp for City Kids

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2021/07/15

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we head to Reno, Nevada to hear about Urban Roots, an organization that uses garden education to help change the way people eat. It takes gardens to classrooms…and uses the garden as a classroom at its urban teaching farm.Fayth Ross and Elsa DeJong talk about the summer farm camp, programming for

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62:26

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Approach to No Till

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2021/07/08

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- In this rebroadcast of the radio show that aired live on July 7th, we talk about soil and no-till practices with market gardener, farm journalist, and podcaster Jesse Frost.He’s the host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast, and he and his wife are no-till farmers at their Rough Draft Farmstead in Kentucky.Frost’s new

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51:44

Coppices, Alcoholic Hedges, and Thoughts on...

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2021/07/01

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Where is the sweet spot that gardening meets the natural world…so that gardening is ecological? Our guest today explains that ecological gardening is all about balance.Matt Rees-Warren says, “Your garden is a pocket of wild; it will never be purely wild, because it’s an interaction between ourselves and nature. But it

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62:00

Sochan, Galinsoga, Squash Tips: Root-to-Flower Cuisine

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2021/06/24

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Our guest today, Chef Alan Bergo, looks at vegetables through the eyes of a forager. He’s passionate about using parts of the plant that are often overlooked.Chefs using a whole animals might use the term nose-to-tail cooking. Bergo takes this approach with his vegetables, using a root-to-flower approach.Bergo is the

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33:18

Garden in Your 90s

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2021/06/17

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- “I can’t hold them back sometimes,” says physiotherapist Nancy Durrant as she tells us about the garden at the long-term care home where she works.The residents she’s talking about are mainly in their 90s. And the vegetables and herbs they grow and harvest become part of the menu at this Toronto long-term care home.An

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37:49

Black Creek Community Farm

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2021/06/10

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we visit the Black Creek Community Farm in Toronto.The farm is located along the northern boundary of the City of Toronto, in a densely populated neighbourhood where Toronto meets one of its northern suburbs, within walking distance of the Jane and Finch neighbourhood.If you’re from Toronto, you’ll

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61:27

Grow Fruit in a Small Garden

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2021/06/03

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we head to California to talk with Christy Wilhelmi, a self-described garden nerd with a passion for growing fruit and vegetables, and an expert at small-space edible-garden design.In the podcast she shares tips about:Incorporating fruit plants

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26:46

City Farm School

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2021/05/27

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we head to Montreal to hear about City Farm School, an urban-agriculture apprenticeship program.Jackie Martin, a co-ordinator with City Farm School, explains that this not-for-profit program uses space provided by Concordia University. In addition to greenhouse space on the 13th floor of a downtown

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30:31

Foodscaping

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2021/05/20

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we talk about “foodscaping,” gardening that combines the ornamental with the edible, also known as edible landscaping.Foodscaper Jeremy Cooper says he likes to work with plants that have multiple functions, including ornamental, herbal, medicinal, ecological, and edible.Cooper worked in a number of

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37:53

Gardening and PTSD

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2021/05/13

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we explore the idea of healing through growing.We travel to Israel, to meet Nachum Lamour-Fridman. He uses plants and growing as part of the programming at the Borgani community centre he founded for PTSD sufferers and their families.Lamour-Fridman’s dream is to create a model of a sustainability

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62:12

Backyard Honeybees

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2021/05/06

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we head to North Carolina to chat with beekeeper Justin Maness.Backyard Honeybees Maness began working with honey bees after finishing college, when he joined a research team studying the links of neonicotinoid pesticides and honey bee

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39:18

It Takes One Person

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2021/04/29

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we meet an avid gardener who grew up in downtown Toronto, in a family that didn’t garden. And for a long time she didn’t garden either.But then one person sparked her interest in gardening, and dropped by with a bucket of llama poo to help her make and plant her very first garden.Julia Dimakos hasn’t

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46:29

Teachings to Guide Gardeners

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2021/04/22

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we hang out here in Toronto to speak with Isaac Crosby. Isaac is the Urban Agriculture Lead at Toronto’s Evergreen Brickworks.During our chat, Isaac told us that, “Part of wisdom is not keeping it to yourself.”He shares with us wisdom that has come to him through Ojibwa teachings. Isaac is from the

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34:06

Make a Potager Garden

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2021/04/15

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Today on the podcast we head to Ohio to find out more about potager gardens. Jennifer Bartley tells us about this traditional kitchen garden style from France, and how to create the same sort of food-producing garden with seasonality and a sense of intimacy at home.Bartley writes, “The potager is more than a kitchen

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62:21

Learning to be a Home Herbalist

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2021/04/08

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- In a broadcast that originally aired live on The Food Garden Life Radio Show, we chat with herbalist Bevin Cohen about using, growing, and foraging herbs. He talks about culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses.He also talks about his journey into the business of herbs and building his herb business.Cohen is also an author

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