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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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Edwina von Gal Closes the Loop

Growing Greener ·

2025/11/05

Everything that grows on your property – its "biomass" – should remain there even after death, says this award-winning garden designer and founder of the Perfect Earth Project. Fallen branches, leaves, even tree trunks as they decay reactivate a cycle essential to Nature's health, and are an opportunity for a different kind of beauty.

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Pollinators of the Night

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/29

Overlooked by many gardeners, moths are actually more efficient as pollinators than bees and are the basis of the food chain for everything from bats and songbirds to grizzly bears

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Reading the Wildlife Stories in Your Garden

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/22

Expert tracker Jason Knight shares how to develop the ability to read animal tracks and signs to keep current with wildlife visits and to resolve wildlife problems peacefully and effectively.

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A Garden Masterpiece Designed to Evolve

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/15

Richard Hayden, senior director of horticulture for the High Line, describes how plants and gardeners collaborate in this ever-changing urban paradise

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Converting Landscape Professionals to Environmental...

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/08

Beth Ginter, executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, describes her organization’s successful program to enlist an often-resistant profession as advocates for environmental activism.

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Fighting Climate Change from the Bottom Up

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/01

How Village and Wilderness fosters diverse local solutions to a global problem

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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