Growing Greener
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Charlie Nardozzi's New Book – an Ecological Update for the Kitchen Garden
In "The Continuous Vegetable Garden" Charlie Nardozzi applies lessons learned from ecologically-informed gardening to bring vegetable and fruit gardening into a new, more sustainable, and less…
The Nurturing Nature Initiative – Botanical Gardens Unite To Address Climate Change
Emma Grover and Dr. Mauricio Diazgranados discuss a new program from the New York Botanical Garden to unite the thousands of botanical gardens worldwide in devoting their shared knowledge and…
What is Naturalism?
"Naturalism" is the dominant design style in ecological gardening, but what exactly is it? Is Naturalism just mimicry of nature, or does it allow for the designer to include aesthetic principles to…
"Veganic" Gardening
Are you troubled about supporting industrial agriculture and its mistreatment of animals by purchasing by-products such as manures and blood meal to maintain your garden's fertility? British gardener…
A New Chapter in the Roundup Debacle
Award-winning investigative journalist Carey Gillam exposed the corruption and suppression of evidence involved in the Environmental Protection Agency's original approval of the use of the herbicide…
Landraces – Customizing Vegetable and Fruit Cultivars to Flourish in Your Garden
In a conversation first shared in February of 2024, farmer and author Joseph Lofthouse describes how to foster "landraces," strains of vegetables and fruits adapted to the unique conditions in your…
Are Alien Plants Superior at Supporting Insect Diversity in the Garden?
James Hitchmough, an eminent British garden designer and former professor of horticultural ecology asserted on a previous episode that research confirms that gardens rich in alien plants support a…
The Million Orchid Project Turns Urban Areas into Sanctuaries for Critically Endangered Native Species
Dr. Jason Downing of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden turns rare orchid propagation into an educational adventure for Miami area students, beautifies the cityscape, and rescues native Floridian…
Maine's Wild Seed Project Offers Education and an Example of Nationwide Significance
In this week's Growing Greener Heather McCargo, founder of the Wild Seed Project, describes its programs to encourage gardeners to grow native plants from wild-collected seeds to preserve genetic…
Chemical Warfare from Invasive Plants
One of the ways that invasive plants displace indigenous floras is "allelopathy." In a conversation first broadcast in February 2024, Dr. Susan Kalisz of the University of Tennessee Knoxville…
Using Genetics to Avoid Spraying in the Vegetable Garden
Selecting disease-resistant cultivars is an essential tool for avoiding the use of pesticides in the vegetable garden. Plant pathologist Nicole Gauthier of the University of Kentucky explains how to…
Make Your Lawn a Low-Maintenance Contributor to Biodiversity and Landscape Beauty
As Dan Jaffe Wilder Wilder says "you can grow a lawn which is a whole bunch of green stuff. Or you can grow a lawn that is a whole bunch of low-growing green stuff with some yellow, some blue, some…
A Gardener's Introduction to Fungi and Their Essential Support for Plants
Estimates of fungi diversity range into the millions of species, yet the vast majority remain unknown. What is clear, says mycologist Gabriela D'Elia, is that your garden plants depend on the…
A Brazilian Genius of the last Century Created Invaluable Lessons for Today's Ecological Gardeners
James Lord speaks of his mentor and inspiration Roberto Burle Marx, the painter, sculptor, musician, and botanist who found in Brazil's native plants the basis for a new style of landscape…
A British Horticultural Ecologist Challenges the U.S. Consensus
Citing European studies, British horticultural ecologist James Hitchmough, a leader of the ecological gardening movement in his country, rejects the intrinsic superiority of native plants over exotic…
Balancing your account in the soil seed bank
A square foot of topsoil typically hosts thousands of dormant seeds deposited by previous floras. Nathan Lambstrom of Lambstrom Garden Ecology discusses his research into how this "soil seed bank"…
A Tree's Perspective on Pruning
Is your pruning aimed only at gratifying your aesthetics and needs? Chris Roddick also views pruning from the plants' perspective, promoting techniques that enhance their growth patterns and…
O Canada ¬– A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora
Travel with Growing Greener to Winnipeg, Manitoba to learn how Ash Burkowski is collecting seed from local prairie remnants to raise indigenous grasses and wildflowers that can be integrated into…
Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden
A replay of a February 2024 conversation in which Joseph Lofthouse, author of "Landrace Gardening" details how anyone can create genetically diverse vegetable and fruit crops that flourish in the…
Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center combines energy generation with agriculture for a double harvest
Byron Kominek knew the family farm needed a more profitable crop than hay to survive. By installing photovoltaic panels and growing crops underneath, he now supplies electricity to 300 neighboring…
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