Growing Greener
by Tom ChristopherYour 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.
Copyright: ©2019 Thomas Christopher
Episodes
Bankrupting Your Garden’s Weed Seed Bank
29m · PublishedThere are thousands, millions of weed seeds lying dormant in your garden soil – the “weed seed bank” – waiting for a chance to emerge and invade your plantings. Listen as Dr. Bryan Brown of Cornell University shares strategies for drawing down the account before those seeds become a problem.
Roots Revealed
29m · PublishedRobert Kourik, a pioneering gardener in Santa Rosa, California shares a new understanding of roots and how gardeners can better foster these hidden but foundational elements of their plants
Rebecca McMackin and the Innovative Beauty of the Ecological Landscape
29m · PublishedAs Director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Rebecca McMackin played a leading role in transforming 85 acres of abandoned piers and pavement into a series of vibrant ecosystems that are a model of what an urban park can be. We talk with her about her subsequent year of study at Harvard and her new endeavors to make ecological landscaping the mainstream.
Biocontrol – Beating Back Invasive Plants
29m · PublishedInvasive plants flourish in part because in their transition to North America they leave behind the co-evolved pests that help keep them in check in their homelands. Dr. Lisa Tewksbury, Director of the University of Rhode Island Biocontrol Laboratory, describes the painstaking process of introducing to our landscape organisms that can control the invasive plants without harming our native species.
Exploring the Soil Food Web with Elaine Ingham
29m · PublishedJoin us for a replay of our 2020 interview with Dr. Elaine Ingham, internationally renowned expert on the soil food web about how to make your soil far more fertile and productive using only natural, scientifically proven inputs
Biodiversity and Its Importance in the Garden
29m · PublishedUli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture at the Native Plant Trust, discusses the role gardeners can play in maintaining biodiversity without sacrificing their favorite, non-native plants.
Innovative Education Programs from a Regenerative Landscape Designer
29m · PublishedTrevor Smith has won awards with his expert design that brings damaged landscapes back to a fuller function. He’s applied that experience to his second passion: educating young people, home gardeners and professionals about how they too can heal the landscape.
Botany Made Fun
29m · PublishedJacob Suissa and Ben Goulet-Scott, two young PhD botanists, have launched an educational non-profit. “Let’s Botanize,” that demonstrates online and for free how accessible and fun plant science can be.
The International Reach of Rewilding Magazine
29m · PublishedKat Tancock and Domini Clark, founders and editors of Rewilding Magazine (available for free online) explore the restoration of local habitats and ecosystems worldwide, with reports from Asia, Africa, and Australia as well as Europe, Canada, and the United States. A rare, truly international perspective.
A Gardening Calendar For the Era of Climate Change
29m · PublishedDrs. Michael Balick and Gregory Plunkett of the New York Botanical Garden share results of their research in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, where local informants have shared with them a calendar based on clues from indigenous plants – a calendar that governs residents interactions with nature and which is automatically adjusting to the dislocations of climate change
Growing Greener has 279 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 133:00:43. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on March 26th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 7th, 2024 07:26.