A Better Yard

How Trees Know When to Turn: The Science of Fall Color 🍂🍁🍃

The leaves don’t wait for frost—they’re already counting the night. We dive into the quiet timing system inside trees that decides when the colors ignite, why some years burst into crimson while…

The Key to Healthy Soil

This episode is the audio from our October Masterclass: Key to Healthy, Living Soil and focuses on the importance of soil health in gardening, emphasizing the role of organic material, soil…

The EFSS Framework and Minnesota Gardening's Landscape Wellness Stages

In this episode of the Minnesota Gardening Podcast, host Brad Tabke reflects on personal challenges and the importance of community in gardening. He introduces the Minnesota Gardening EFSS's…

Plant Healthy Plants: Part III of my 3x3 Course

We continue our 3x3 series with the final installment focusing on planting helpful plants to feed pollinators, save water, eliminate chemicals, and store carbon. This free course from Minnesota…

Environmentally-Responsible Landscape: Part II of my 3x3 Course

Fall is the perfect time to implement environmentally friendly practices in your landscape that support local ecosystems while reducing your workload. We explore part two of our 3x3 program on…

Sustainable Lawn Care: Part I of my 3x3 Course

Today is a wonderful day! Releasing our free course called 3x3: Nine keystone actions you can take today for a healthier lawn and landscape.Here is the audio of the first lesson for you. The…

All about jumping worms with Laura Van Riper from Minnesota DNR

Spring plant sales and swaps are a great time for jumping worms to spread in our landscapes.Laura Van Riper, the Terrestrial Invasive Species Coordinator at the Minnesota DNR joins me for this replay…

When can I do Spring Gardening tasks?

I've been getting a lot of questions lately on the timing of spring gardening tasks. In this episode we talk through the timing on spring gardening tasks and how you want to accomplish them.Download…

Regenerative Gardening with Stephanie Rose

In this episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast, host Brad Tabke speaks with Stephanie Rose, author of 'Regenerative Garden.' They discuss Stephanie's journey into gardening as a form of self-healing,…

Fruit Trees with U of M's Madeline Wimmer

Madeline Wimmer is a guru of Upper Midwest fruit tree in the UMN Hort Department specializing in grapes and apples.Lucky to have Madeline with us to talk care for midwest fruit trees.Show notes,…

Lawns to Meadows with Owen Wormser

Owen Wormser is the author of a wonderful book called Lawns Into Meadows  a "how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability, regeneration, and…

Seed Starting Supplies and Planning

Show notes available to members at MinnesotaGardening.com.Minnesota Gardening's 2025 Seed Starting Cohort is NOW OPEN!The Seed Starting Cohort is FREE to Minnesota Gardening members and $197 for the…

Renewed Minnesota Gardening

Unveiling the renewed Minnesota Gardening focused on sustainability and helping Upper Midwest homeowners switch to more environmentally-friendly landscape and lawn care practices.Right now, you can…

Using Winter Design to Reduce Salt Use

Connie Fortin and Kyra Oliver join me for a BONUS episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast to talk all about Winter Design and efforts to reduce salt use and water pollution.Connie Fortin has been…

Winter Tasks

Native Pollinators with Heather Holm

Heather Holm is an amazing author on native pollinators and has an incredible Instagram Page sharing her love of native pollinators, bees, and wasps.In this episode, we talk about the need for…

Succession Planting with Meg Cowden of Seed to Fork

Meg Cowden is the author of Plant, Grow, Harvest, Repeat - an incredible resource for all gardeners.  We are replaying this episode with Med all about succession planting from our Spring 2022 season.…

Urban Foraging with Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging

Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging joins me for this week's episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast. Tim was awesome to talk with about foraging in an urban setting .Tim and I talk about the ethics of…

STILL with Mary Jo Hoffman

Purchase STILL: The Art of Noticing on Bookshop.orgI can't even begin to tell you how much I loved this interview. Mary Jo Hoffman started StillBlog.net with a personal project in 2012 to post one…

Lazy Lawn Care

You spend hours on your lawn killing weeds, fertilizing, and spending tons of cash. Do you want an easier way that is safe for your kids, saves you money, AND helps the environment?Embrace…