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PODCAST

Growing Greener

Tom Christopher

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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All Episodes

29:01

Second Chance Composting

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/24

John Pitroff chose composting when his daughter’s birth sparked dreams of leaving her a better world – and now he’s addressing environmental problems while making a living helping local gardeners and farmers.

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29:01

How We Created Weeds and Why We Need Them

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/17

Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus of Arnold Arboretum and Visiting Lecturer of Applied Ecology and Planning at MIT explains the history of these garden pests why they can play an essential role in this era of climate change.

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29:01

Texan Pam Penick Shares Ideas for Integrating Native...

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/10

An accomplished and progressive garden designer, Pam Penick, author of “Gardens of Texas,” shares ideas for ideas for using native plants in traditional and formal gardens garnered from her reporting on private landscapes of the Lone Star State

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29:01

Finding Hope in Ecological Gardening

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/03

Leader of the Ecological Gardening movement Rebecca McMackin shares reasons why in a time of discouragement, gardening can restore optimism.

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This Year’s “Less Lawn More Life Challenge” Goes Viral

Growing Greener ·

2025/08/27

Last May Growing Greener featured the challenge that Plan it Wild, a rewilding design and installation firm, posed to American homeowners: to replace 25 square feet of lawn with locally indigenous plants. Today we hear how nearly 10,000 people in 49 states committed to this 12-week online program, how backyard biodiversity flourished as a result, and how the challenge is expanding through neighborhoods to reach people who hadn’t previously considered devoting their landscapes to reinforcing the

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29:01

America’s most beautiful neglected genus of keystone...

Growing Greener ·

2025/08/20

Nancy DuBrule-Clemente, a pioneer of organic land care, extolls the outstanding aesthetic and ecological contributions of goldenrods, a genus of native flowers too seldom seen in our gardens.

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29:01

The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological...

Growing Greener ·

2025/08/13

Edwina Von Gal, founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project, completes her interview of Growing Greener host, Tom Christopher, exploring his path to ecological gardening, the hope he finds in the remarkable contributions of young colleagues, and the most effective ways to reach out to the broader gardening public.

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29:01

The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological...

Growing Greener ·

2025/08/06

Edwina Von Gal, founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project, interviews Growing Greener host, Tom Christopher, about what led him from an education steeped in traditional gardening to helping found ecological gardening in the United States

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29:01

A Female-Owned and Operated Gardening Cooperative...

Growing Greener ·

2025/07/30

Andrea Hurd of Oakland, California describes the way she structured Mariposa Gardening and Design Cooperative, Inc. to provide employee equitability and management experience for women breaking into the field, and the firm’s commitment to celebrating the local landscape by enhancing habitat and working with indigenous materials.

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29:01

Finding Opportunity in a Common Landscape Roadblock

Growing Greener ·

2025/07/23

Switching to more environmentally friendly practices is too often resisted by landscape professionals afraid to stray from familiar routines. Mariah Whitmore and Tony Piazza, both prominent landscape business owners in the eastern end of Long Island, New York, discuss how they are increasing profits by adding Nature friendly land care to their repertoire.

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29:01

A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow

Growing Greener ·

2025/07/16

Claire Chambers, founder of Meadow Lab, describes the roll-out sod her company is producing that can transform a landscape into a blooming, mature meadow of native flowers and grasses in a single growing season

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29:01

The Overlooked Beauty and Garden Services of Wasps

Growing Greener ·

2025/07/09

A replay of a conversation from April of 2021 with Pollinator Conservationist Heather Holm about her multi-award-winning book, Wasps, Their Biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants.

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29:01

A New Guide for Helping Your Native Plant Garden...

Growing Greener ·

2025/07/02

Jenica Allen and Matt Fertakos of Northeast RISCC describe the invaluable free online guide they helped to create that provides all a gardener needs to know about selecting native plants that will flourish not only today but also persist as the local climate changes

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29:01

Pee-Cycling: Taking the Waste Out of Our Waterways by...

Growing Greener ·

2025/06/25

Julia Cavicchi and Tatiana Schreiber of the Rich Earth Institute talk of curbing water pollution by removing human urine from the waste stream, and how you can repurpose it to feed your plants

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29:01

Steppe Gardening in Colorado

Growing Greener ·

2025/06/18

Michael Bone, Curator of the Steppe Collection at Denver Botanic Gardens, relates Denver’s native flora to similar grasslands around the world and explains how this knowledge can inspire and enrich the local gardening.

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29:01

Ecologist and Author Tom Wessels Talks Coevolution

Growing Greener ·

2025/06/11

Understanding this concept provides the foundation for creating a high functioning, stable, and resilient landscape – anywhere you garden

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29:01

A Devastated Arboretum Embraces the Catastrophe

Growing Greener ·

2025/06/04

When a freak tornado swept through Ambler Arboretum, the staff and university administration took the opportunity to turn its recovery into an exploration of natural resilience in the face of climate change

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29:01

Who’s Promoting the Spread of Invasive Plants?

Growing Greener ·

2025/05/28

Dr. Eve Beaury’s research reveals the outsize role American gardeners still play in supporting the propagation and spread of plants that are known to be invasive.

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29:01

An Ecological Gardening Firm’s 12-Step Program

Growing Greener ·

2025/05/21

Plan it Wild’s “Less Lawn More Life” challenge offers a fun, easy, and free initiation into natural gardening that’s exploding across the country, drawing thousands of ecosystem novices young and old

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29:01

The Overlooked Virtues of Native Annual Flowers

Growing Greener ·

2025/05/14

Alicia Houk, natural garden designer and educator, describes how native, reseeding annuals can make your plantings self-renewing, weed resistant, and resilient in the face of disturbance

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