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Orchard People

Susan Poizner, OrchardPeople.com

Learn how to grow and care for fruit trees with fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com. Discover how to create permaculture plantings, food forests, and forest gardens in both urban and rural settings. Meet experts on all aspects of comprehensive fruit tree care, including pruning, pest and disease prevention, fruit tree grafting and budding, and soil management. Show host Susan Poizner, creator of the fruit tree education website OrchardPeople.com, is an award-winning author

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55:47

When To Fertilize Fruit Trees

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2021/01/21

When is the best time to fertilize fruit trees? In this episode Tree Fruit Production Extension Specialist Robert Crassweller, Ph.D. from Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences talks about how fruit trees' nutritional needs change throughout the seasons. Listeners that sent in questions or comments during the live show were entered into this month's contest to win Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden (affiliate link) by Jessica Walliser.

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59:33

Native Apple Trees

Orchard People ·

2020/12/22

Most apple trees that we grow in our gardens and orchards are not native to North America. DNA tells us that these trees originate in the mountains of Kazakhstan in Central Asia. But there are some crabapple trees that are native to North America. In this episode wie talk to Paul Kron, Research Associate at the Plant Population and Evolution Research Lab at the University of Guelph about native apple trees. The prize for this episode's contest is a copy of Preserving Wild Foods: A Modern

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72:46

Apple Tasting Party

Orchard People ·

2020/11/11

Yael Hickok is a volunteer who cares for Boyer's Orchard in Alaska. Each year she has an apple tasting party or gathering in which she and other volunteers are able to taste over 120 different varieties of apples planted on the site. But how do you evaluate the taste of an apple? Join us for this live apple tasting party to learn some key apple tasting skills. To prepare for the show, buy these three apples which we will taste during the show to fine tune our tasting skills. * Gala *

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58:39

How to Prune Old Fruit Trees

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2020/10/22

Old fruit trees may be hollow but they can still produce fantastic fruit and they provide invaluable habitat to wildlife. In this radio show learn how to prune old apple trees and how to care for them with UK-based orchard educator Bob Lever. The prize for this month's contest to win Deerproofing Your Yard And Garden by Rhonda Massingham Hart valued at $14.95 USD. For lots more detail about how to prune old apple trees, including a video version of this podcast, visit this page. The host

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63:13

Growing Fruit Trees in Extreme Climates

Orchard People ·

2020/09/22

Growing fruit trees can be very difficult in extreme climates and no one would understand that better than Greg Peterson of UrbanFarm.org, who grows his fruit trees in Phoenix, Arizona. There, the summer temperatures can soar above 100 degrees F. Greg also sells over 5,000 fruit trees a year to residents of the Greater Phoenix Area and he educates the public about fruit tree care to ensure that their fruit tree growing experiences will be a success. The prize for this month's was Tom

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62:00

Community Orchards in the UK and Beyond

Orchard People ·

2020/08/17

In this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast, host Susan Poizner interviews Lewis McNeill of The Orchard Project about how they help nurture and support groups that want to start community orchards in the UK and the lessons learned can be applied to community orchard projects in North America and other countries as well. The prize for this month's contest was a copy of Susan Poizner's award-winning book Growing Urban Orchards valued at $19.95. Watch a video excerpt from

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64:37

Bee Garden Design and Fruit Trees

Orchard People ·

2020/07/06

Lorraine Johnson, co-author of the free eBook: "A Flower Patch for The Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee" explains how to use native plants to create a pollinator or bee garden. The prize for this month's episode was Keeping Bees with a Smile: Principles and Practice of Natural Beekeeping valued at $25.99 USD. podcast below. Click here to download a copy of the free eBook "A Flower Patch for the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee" by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla. Illustrations by Anne Sanderson. The

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62:47

Vertical Mulching and Worms in Soil

Orchard People ·

2020/06/15

In this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast we speak to Dr. Glynn Percival, Manager of Bartlett's Tree Research and Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Reading, UK who has been using vertical mulching techniques to improve soil texture. His strategy is to drill holes into the soil that are 12 inches deep and 3 inches wide. He then fills the holes with a mixture of topsoil, compost, biochar. And he also puts worms into the holes and in various spots on the site and

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64:34

Biochar and Fruit Trees

Orchard People ·

2020/05/19

In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about how biochar can help boost the carbon levels in your soil. But what is biochar and how is it made? How is biochar different than other types of soil amendments? And is it effective when it comes to to growing fruit trees and perennial plants? That's what we learn in this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast with guests Mark and Laurie Mann of the American Biochar Company. The prize for this month's contest was VITAL Blend

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62:56

Cover Crops and Fruit Trees

Orchard People ·

2020/04/24

What are the benefits and the disadvantages of planting cover crops around fruit trees? Can cover crops on an orchard floor help prevent fruit trees from climate change? Those are just a few of the questions discussed in this episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast with expert guest Christina Curell, Cover Crop and Soil Health Educator at Michigan State University. Christina also talks about how to choose a cover crop that will suit your unique fruit tree growing conditions

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Fruit Tree Traps

Orchard People ·

2020/01/29

IPM specialist Kristy Grigg-McGuffin of the Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs talks about fruit tree traps - some monitor fruit tree pests while others help to control pest populations. Click here to watch a video of this Episode on Fruit Tree Traps You can find a wide range of recommended IPM tools in Orchard People's online shop. But below are a couple of products mentioned in this program including the Appscope Quick Attach Microscope (affiliate links). The host of The

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65:18

Pawpaw Fruit Facts

Orchard People ·

2020/01/22

Forget mangos and bananas. If you're interested in an exciting taste adventure in tropical fruit, check out the Native American pawpaw fruit. Now pawpaw fruit may be juicy, silky soft and tropical tasting, but this fruit grows on trees across North America from the eastern edges of Texas, to Florida, and all the way up to southern Ontario. Like any new craze, folks are turning this fruit into pawpaw beer, gelato and other goodies. But the truth is pawpaws are not new. In fact, these trees

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78:08

Developing a Fruit Tree Spray Schedule

Orchard People ·

2020/01/08

If you’re growing your fruit trees organically, it’s important to protect them from pests and diseases and having a fruit tree spray schedule can make that much easier. In this episode we speak to orchard consultant Mike Biltonen from Trumansburg, N.Y, about organic fruit tree sprays that you can use throughout the year. Mike has farmed his entire professional career. He has horticulture degrees from Virginia Tech (BS ’86) and Cornell (MS ’92), as well as over 35 years of practical farming

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62:23

Growing Jesuit Pear Trees

Orchard People ·

2019/11/26

Jesuit pear trees also known as Mission pears. French Jesuit missionaries brought these productive trees to North America in the 1700s. Learn more about this heirloom fruit tree from Jesuit Pear enthusiast Paul Spence.Click here to read an article about Jesuit Pear Trees. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com. Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the

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61:20

Luther Burbank's Garden of Invention

Orchard People ·

2019/09/23

In this episode we explore the story of plant breeder Luther Burbank and we'll see how his discoveries still live on in our edible gardens today. Our guest is Rachel Spaeth, the garden curator of the Luther Burbank Home & Gardens in Santa Rosa, California. Rachel also serves as the Secretary for the Redwood Empire Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, is adjunct faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, and is currently working

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61:32

What are Biofertilizers?

Orchard People ·

2019/08/27

In this episode, certified crop advisor Simon Neufeld talks about soil biology. Why is it important to have a lot of good organisms in your soil? What services do they provide? And if you do have "dead soil", is it possible to use so-called "biofertilizers" to bring it back to life? Simon is the Chief Agronomist at Earth Alive Clean Technologies, a company that develops environmentally sustainable microbial products which they say can replace many of the damaging chemicals that farmers use

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61:53

Growing Perennial Vegetables

Orchard People ·

2019/07/25

Ben Caesar of Fiddlehead Nursery in Ontario who will share his top perennial vegetables to grow and create a fantastic dinner menu featuring many of his favourite edible perennial plants. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com. Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees

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63:24

Fruit Trees and Spotted Wing Drosophila

Orchard People ·

2019/06/25

Nikki Rothwell of Michigan State University's Northwest Michigan Horticulture Research Centre talks about spotted wing drosophila (SWD). Unlike other fruit flies that target mostly rotting or fermenting fruit, SWD targets fruit right on the tree, laying their eggs in the young fruit and eventually turning it into a wormy mess. SWD targets a wide range of crops including cherries, apricots, plums raspberries, currants, and elderberries. The bad news is that spotted wing drosophila is

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66:17

Growing Elderberries as a Cash Crop

Orchard People ·

2019/06/09

Learn from organic grower Terry Durham of riverhillsharvest.com about how to grow elderberries, what cultivars to choose, and to discover if growing these lovely plants can be a business opportunity for you too! The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com. Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to

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64:41

Mites and Fruit Trees

Orchard People ·

2019/05/24

Fred Beaulieu, Ph.D., a mite expert and Research Scientist from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada talks about mites - the good, the bad and the ones you'll find in your fruit trees. Learn more about mites in this article. During the live show, listeners submitted questions to Fred and were eligible to win a copy of The Xerces Society Guide Farming with Native Beneficial Insects: Ecological Pest Control Solutions valued at $24.95. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is

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