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Brunette Gardens Podcast

Brunette Gardens

A garden of healing 🌱 from the trauma of our lives and times ❤️‍🩹. www.brunettegardens.com

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🎧 Podcast No. 50: Chickening out

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2025/02/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comHi, I’m Lisa Brunette, and this is Brunette Gardens, a podcast about gardening and life, with a little snark and a lot of healing heart.After two years and more than $5,000 spent, I’m letting go of my chicken-keeping dreams.This might come as a shock to those of you who’ve followed my poultry obsession from the halcyon days of that adorable mobile coop called the 'chickshaw,’ to the tragic total loss of that first

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🎧 Podcast No. 49: A nauseously optimistic return

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2025/02/05

As it’s been a while, let me offer you a warm welcome back to Brunette Gardens! I’m Lisa Brunette, bringing you essays on gardening 🌱 and life, with a little snark and a lot of healing heart. ❤️‍🩹No ads, no pop-ups, no auto-play videos. People like you fund my work.Podcasts are mainly for paying members, except for this first one… and maybe some others I decide to kick out for everyone.What you’ll hear is my narration of the latest essay, with video and a few ad-libbed lines for additional

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Podcast No. 48: When your hen's a he

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2024/08/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comEach of the chicks I’ve raised since early spring had a 10-20 percent chance of turning out to be a rooster. That’s the “gender accuracy” given by the hatchery. It’s notoriously difficult to sex baby chicks, so an 80-90 percent accuracy rate is actually pretty good.Ours is a flock of barred Plymouth Rocks, bearing feathers “barred” in black and white, for an overall effect of thick, salt-and-pepper stripes, an Oreo

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Podcast No. 47: Backyard homestead chickens

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2024/05/09

A fine-feathered flock of garden helpers. By scratching and pecking, chickens till the soil, and they also fertilize it with their poops. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 46: How we fill our nests

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2024/04/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comI wasn’t sure I’d get chickens again.The first time we tried to raise a flock, I lost my favorite feathered friend when she was only 8 weeks old and then the rest of the flock shortly thereafter to predators.This was all before they’d even started laying eggs.

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Podcast No. 45: Forging an herbal legacy

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2024/03/14

When asked to describe an herbal family legacy passed down over generations, this writer digs deep to find chamomile tea hiding behind the Nyquil. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 44: Sarah Donoghue of The Herbalist's Diary

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2024/03/06

Lisa Brunette of the Brunette Gardens Substack interviews registered herbalist Sarah Donoghue of The Herbalist's Diary on what it's like to practice herbal medicine in the United Kingdom. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 43: Finding grace in the garden

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2024/02/29

It was highly ironic to have been positioned as the one who can somehow easily go home again, as the idea of “home” for me has always been loaded and complicated. As I told Stephanie on our video call to plan this week’s collaboration, moving back to this place I have called “home” has been in many ways extraordinarily difficult, and I sometimes think I was crazy to do it at all. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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Podcast No. 41: The year of dying

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2023/12/10

The author shares a personal story of a year in which dying seems to be a prevailing theme. But in the end, nature gently provides sweet signs of life, even in winter. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 40: Putting the garden to bed for the...

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2023/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comGarden tomatoes on Thanksgiving and other unexpected pleasures. The author shares her work to get the garden ready for the winter season, including the removal of a bush.

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Podcast No. 39: The why of sourdough

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2023/10/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comBaking your own sourdough bread takes time, effort, and patience. This is no convenience food, nor should it be. So why bother to go to the trouble?

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Podcast No. 38: Sourdough woe

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2023/10/09

When a reaction to King Arthur's bread flour reveals the company now adds "enzyme" as an ingredient, a baker is forced to ditch her sourdough culture and start over. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 37: How to homestead when you don't have...

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2023/10/02

A fiftysomething urban homesteader shares a litany of experiences showing just how challenging it is to operate a homestead in the city, from dealing with backyard poultry regulations to feeling the pressures of urban crime. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 36: Going home again, pt. 4: Please fence...

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2023/08/31

Walls are always acts of violence.So said the playwright Eileen Cherry when I interviewed her for a theater magazine back in the 1990s. I thought the notion was profound at the time, so I included it in my profile of Cherry and her work. But now I think it’s a profoundly illogical thing to say. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 35: The problem with herbal and dietary...

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2023/08/03

It has recently come to my attention that the supplements I’ve been taking on a routine basis in order to reduce symptoms of an autoimmune condition might actually be triggering those very same symptoms. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 34: Going home again, pt. 3: A really big...

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2023/07/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.comThere was another reason we just sat with the house and yard that first year, 2017-2018. For many of us, gardens become an extension of ourselves, maybe even of our very souls. They represent our hopes and dreams, our deepest wishes and yearnings, and even our sorrows and losses. That first year was one for the books, and in the aftermath, I turned my energy toward that quarter-acre expanse of lawn, invasive plants,

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Podcast No. 33: Losing the lucky frog

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2023/06/29

I’d been feeling a little blue, and losing the lucky frog didn’t help.It happened when I cleaned out the bird bath. The lucky frog sits on a broken paver in the middle of the bird bath, and I’d set it or dropped it somewhere when I scrubbed the green slime from inside the bath, switching out to a fresh stone for the birds to perch on. I looked everywhere: In the ferns around the bird bath, all over my little cleaning spot near the hose. The lucky frog had vanished. This is a public episode. If you’d

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Podcast No. 32: When you're farming, intention is...

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2023/06/22

An urban farmer draws on the wisdom of his ancestors, and that’s just common sense. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 31: The 'gatekeeper of Maffit' is a...

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2023/06/15

Tyrean 'Heru' Lewis takes up a career path that's incredibly rare today: farming. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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Podcast No. 30: Going home again, pt. 2: A feature,...

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2023/06/08

St. Louis hosted the 1904 World’s Fair, a moment that has been immortalized in film with the movie Meet Me in St. Louis. This was the river city’s claim to fame at the turn of the previous century, and folks here have never forgotten it. The vestiges of that boom time dot the city as remaining relics of its glory days, when St. Louis was fourth in the nation in terms of population, and we were on par with our chief rival to the north, Chicago, in terms of wealth and prestige. Our ‘farmhouse’ is one

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