Explore every episode of the podcast GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

True Leaf Market is offering a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: GOG15. (See disclosures below)

https://www.cultivatingconnectionsmt.org/about-us-1

Where the food is the by-product and the product is the relationship and learning that students get from working on the farm and growing lettuce and you get to eat the lettuce that is grown. So cultivating connections is basically the farm classroom and people can be on the farm and interact with animals through a seasonal way. 

Salads for Seniors

High schoolers who are hired as interns to learn how to be engaged in the kitchen by growing the lettuce, harvesting it, bringing it into the kitchen to clean it, make the salads that are delivered to meals on wheels.

Funding? 

Tricky for non-profits. If Laura had her way there would be non-profits, for profits and community profits. Now they raise money through grants, weekly CSA shares, and other fundraising projects. 

CSA shares support upcoming farmers. $500 goes to help create a future for everyone.

Where do high schoolers come from? Local or are there places to stay?

Youth farm internships are focused on local high schoolers. Also have adult interns who come from all over and stay on farm but wanted to focus more on local students.

First garden experience. Grew up outside of Butte?

Remembers a 2nd grade classmate brought a queen bee and was fascinated with rural life. Mom had a small garden full of tomatoes and raspberries. First thing remembered planting was pine trees around her house in town. Went to UMT and was in first year of PEAS program.

Next summer started managing one of the community gardens and that was her first foray into growing 10 zucchinis instead of 1 and first experience into working with youth. Took 10 plots to grow for Food Bank. How to engage young people in a way that is meaningful for everyone.

Do you want to tell us about social presencing theater and what's social presencing soil?

Ways to engage people. The presencing institute was created by Arawana Hayashi.

What grew well this year?

Community - food and farming are the universal connector. At the farmer's market two people who would usually never talk to each other standing talking about spinach and how they prepared it last week. 

What literally grew well last year was the kale. Grows well in all kinds of weather. So good for you. Hope people can grow kale. Also a good community builder and people have their assumptions about kale and so they get people talking to each other.

JackieMarie - 2 things, I got to go to the Missoula market, 2xs last year and it was so peaceful talking to the vendors, standing in line getting coffee, exactly talking talking to compost guy and the pepper guy and the vendors so smiling.

2nd - my kale was awful last year. I actually put row cover and forgot 2xs and it was worse than ever. 

Kale is a really good indicator species for us. We had tons of aphids last year and the year before. Kale is a really good indicator of stress in the environment. Row cover is a great way to protect it. A great way to stay ahead of kale is to have multiple crops. Maybe every 3 weeks planting kale in different places. For a family of 4 you could get buy with just 4 plants. If you can transplant a few plants in April and then late May, and June. Pull the bugs off the ones that are infested. Also if you can enjoy on off season. Plant in late summer. 5 leaf stage

Tuesday • March 15, 2022

Here from Missouri is an amazing beekeeper, gardener, and author, CHARLOTTE EKKER WIGGINS!

Has lots of checklists to help you get started.

Master Beekeeper class is using her next book Bees Need Flowers, Planting for Pollinators coming out soon.

Tips include:

• reading a lot. 
• Join a bee club because it's like learning a new language.
• Beekeeping is very local
• Need to know bee biology to work with bees not tell them what to do
• Spend a year learning about beekeeping by taking 1 or more classes, reading, meeting other beekeepers.

Bees are colony based, not self centered like humans. Bees sometimes leave because they don't want to spread disease to the hive.

Jackie asks what if you can't find a club? 

Thanks to the pandemic lots of clubs are meeting on Zoom like Bees Beyond Borders in Florida have guest speakers from leading bee experts in the country.

The critical part of providing bees is your SOIL HAS TO BE HEALTHY!

Need to keep soil healthy which will keep plants healthy and then bees will be healthy and food we eat will be healthy.

• Composting is the easiest thing to do.
• Mulch with compost.
• Lots of bird houses for natural pest control

I'm the same way. There's so many garden chores I don't want to do but compost is so easy! I don't understand people who say it's too hard, messy or complicated.

Charlotte adds we need to move away from perfection. In the old days, magazines used to really focus on green lawns. Common sense says it's expensive to put in, you need to put in high expensive fertilizers, the minute it grows you cut it down and it doesn't really add anything to the environment.

A bug bite on a rose leaf is exciting it means there's a relationship between ladybugs and praying mantis etc who are eating the pests in the garden because they need food so a whole in a leaf is important for the rose to grow.

What grew well? 

Catnip

What's something new or different your excited to try?

Some Baker Creek Co Seeds.https://www.rareseeds.com/

Some flowers and peppers that were ordered.

I like the tried and true. 

Do you save your own seeds?

I just tried spaghetti squash and loved it so I saved those. I also do companion planting. I plant onions around my roses to deter bugs and if I need an onion. I mix my vegetables and flowers, I don't have them in rows, I plant them in with my flowers because I can move them around each year so they're not planted in the same soil and using up all the nutrients and the pollinators are attracted by the flowers. 

How about something that didn't go the way you thought is was going to?

My least favorite thing is to dig holes, I didn't get as much mulch as I would have liked in some new flower beds, and I planted...

I thought you might like to hear my recent article in the TV News:

August 2022 

It’s hot, is it not?! But that’s summer, and at least our nights drop down to cool things off. Besides you can always go jump in a lake, we certainly have lots of them around the Tobacco Valley. For me, getting to run through the sprinkler while I water the lawn is still pretty exciting as we didn’t have running water for a long time. And watering the garden is the word of the day! WATER, WATER, WATER. I don’t feel like we can keep our garden/lawn hydrated. 

We are finally starting to harvest more and more each day even though it seems late in the season. We had a delicious dinner the other night of fresh potatoes, string beans and cherry tomatoes! Our beets are getting bigger and the beet greens we thin between rows are delicious to sauté with some mini beets mixed in. I also like to blanch the greens to freeze for winter when I’m jonesing for some deep leafy vegetables and I can’t bring myself to buy them in the produce aisle. 

One of the most common questions I get about the garden is what to do about pests?

This year it seems like there is an overwhelming amount of earwigs AKA pincher bugs everywhere, which used to really creep me out but I have since learned are some of the best insects to have in your garden as they eat a lot of the bad bugs that destroy your plants. Contrary to popular folk tales they do not crawl in your ears and lay eggs in your brain. 

They do like cool moist places to hang out and are generally only active at night. They are attracted to bright lights so even though they are nocturnal they are often found underneath pots on porches that are lit up in the evenings. Earwigs tend to hang by themselves, not belonging to a colony so infestations are usually not a problem. If you find them indoors, they’ll appreciate being moved back outside where they can act like a sanitation engineer clearing your garden of pests and disease. 

Earwigs are not a threat to humans and won’t bite or sting you. Their pincers are for eating prey and repelling predators. Although they have small wings, they don’t really fly as much as glide from a high spot.

Another benefit is they attract birds, lizards and frogs to your garden who enjoy eating these power predators. Besides gobbling the pests in your garden earwigs also enjoy feasting on dead and decaying leaves helping your plants look and feel healthier.

Another important garden tip I have learned over the years is to spend a lot of time observing your plots. When you see something like bug bites on your leaves turn them over in the early morning and see if there’s a caterpillar there that needs removing. 

If you do get an aphid infestation, see if you don’t get a beneficial insect that will eat the aphids and then move on. Many people post photos of tiny black wasps eating the tasty white bugs and want to kill them instead of letting them do their job. Often if you just wait a few days the whole problem will take care of itself. You might find ladybugs or lacewings lured in by the aphids who also disappear when their food supply is gone. Beware, ladybug babies look like weird black bugs you might be afraid are eating your plants but they actually are really good for your garden. 

Here’s to the beneficial bugs of summer!

True Leaf Market is wanting to sponsor the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast and is giving a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: 

Win a copy of Garden Variety by tagging a friend and also Christy @gardenerd1 and Jackie @GREENorgaincGardenPodcast with #gardenvarietybook  and you will be entered to win a copy of Garden Variety on the Fall equinox Thursday • September 22, 2022!

March 11, 2022

Back to tell us about her new book Garden Variety. Things I love that there's not just one main character, there is but there's great characters and Christy does such a great job of building community and the language and sentences are fantastic the way she describes garden events. You will

I garden here in Zone 10b, we used to be zone 9b but with climate change. I belonged to this community garden for 22 years and I was on the board for 20 of those years. I knew from my first season I needed to write a story about a community garden, there's so many things that go on, so I began tucking little stories away over the years.

Originally I didn't want to write a garden book, and as you know I have 3 garden books, but Garden Variety is the way I wanted to write which is telling garden lessons through story. Took a long time, because it was my first novel, it started out in a different way. 

I love that you say it's my first because I can't wait to read the sequel and find out what happens to the other characters.

Lost Angelos has more than 120 community gardens and needs more of them. 60% or maybe more live in an apartment and community gardens are the solace that provides the space for those people.

I am an advocate for more gardens in any empty space.

Jackie asks where did you come up with the size because the beds are a really nice size in the story. They must be a composite of people you've met over the years.

The main character is Lizzy. She's a section rep. She brings people in, writes citations,

At first I was like citations? But then I realized how important they are.

Usually rules come about because of something that has caused a lot of damage. 

Lizzy brings in this new guy named Jared, who's sort of a surfer, handyman, a really nice guy but doesn't really know how to commit to anything, and is used to just sliding from one thing to the next wherever the wind sends him.

Mary who is the president.

Bernice who is her foe, who is also on the board who wants to be president.

Ned who is the garden master.

And some ancillary characters. An eclectic group of people. My goal was to make the characters as diverse as I could, it's called Garden Variety because gardens usually are.

I could see me being just like Jared in the beginning, and not even realizing there were rules or things I should or shouldn't do. 

I love how in the back you have all the garden tips, because in the beginning I was like I should be taking notes and

JackieMarie and Aileen share what's growing well, what's their biggest challenge this summer and what they're cooking from their garden in 2022. Aileen is in NJ And JackieMarie is in NW Montana.

Aileen has started Artichoke sprouts after doing a stratification process where she froze the seeds.

Both have peppers taking off. 

Jackie mentions that the weather is dropping, they had a fire in the wood stove it was so cool this morning. Aileen is still in the 80s and 90s.

Jackie mentions this Wild Mediterranean Detox Diet she has been doing for 6 days and they talk about artichokes are some of the best pre-biotics for reseting your gut you can eat and there was a good recipe for artichoke chips kind of like potato chips.

They discussed strawberries and ever-bearing during regular berries that only produce in June.

Aileen referred to Jackie's interview with Mark Risdall Smith who wrote the

Aileen talked about Jackie's advice to deadhead her zinnias, and Jackie was saying her's haven't hardly bloomed at all. Her calendula and echinacea are blooming like crazy but she's only had one zinnia bloom and they could get a frost any day. 

They also talked about what they are eating. Jackie is eating golden beets and Swiss chard, cherry tomatoes.

Aileen talks about her success letting cilantro go to seed and then making a wreath from the stalks and seeds and putting in a pot and watering it that is coming up.

Jackie mention's her interview with Shanti Nagel she did from Design Wild who's best advice was don't be afraid to move something 3 times to find a place where it is happy and thriving.

Aileen talked about adding Dr. Earth's fertilizer and Jackie mentioned that Mike puts alfalfa meal under the tomatoes.

Aileen is also eating Swiss chard with fresh herbs and her husband Robbie made them into a vegetable herb stew. 

Jackie mentioned True Leaf Market is wanting to sponsor the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast and they gave her a discount code for her listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: GOG15.

Aileen talked about the seedlings she has growing in her greenhouse for the winter. Jackie mentioned Aileen's Instagram @where_the_seedlings_are. Aileen talked about how she gets mental health relief from being in the greenhouse and playing in the dirt.

True Leaf Market is wanting to sponsor the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast and is giving a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop...

True Leaf Market is offering a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: GOG15.

Parker Garlitz shares valuable information about growing cover crops in the backyard garden. 

Jackie asked if the cover crops that Parker sent her can be planted now as they will be getting a frost any day. Parker said they are usually pretty hearty and it's probably not too late to put them in the ground.

Parker is a cofounder of True Leaf Market who sell seeds wholesale to seed companies around the world as well as direct to people around the globe. Garden seeds including vegetable herb and flowers, specialty seeds like Asian greens, cotton and tobacco seeds as well as the indoor market like vertical farms and micro green and sprout growers.

A cover crop is basically an off season crop you grow after your primary agricultural crop or garden crop to provide a whole bunch of potential benefits not the least of which is soil rehabilitation and adding nutrients and organic matter to the soil and really making for healthy soil. It will help increase your yields and production over the years.

What healthy soil is: ground rock and sand, decaying organic matter that supports bacteria and earth worms and other living things and soil and the crops that grow in it. Soil has important nutrients. Everyone knows NPK the big three, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, but really true nutrient soil that provides nutrients to human health are the micro nutrients that get leached out of soil and are never replenished especially with big agro-business.

Things like selenium, sulfur, or copper or zinc or the other trace minerals that soil takes up. So adding those micro nutrients is important for soil health. Soil also has a texture, that is not too sandy or like clay. Cover crops help by adding many or most of those things back into the soil.

Most people think of them for large farming but they are great for backyard gardeners and dollar for dollar the biggest bang for your buck as they are super affordable.

Cover crops are almost sort of like self composting adding to your soil. Especially finding enough compost for your garden is a challenge and can be expensive. 

Jackie talks about her failure with covering quack grass with cardboard and compost that has overgrown and how her husband and her argue over who gets the compost and how this is a great solution for creating healthy soil.

Jackie also talks about how cover cropping can be intimidating and how this will make it easier for people.

Anna Hess’ Homegrown Humus is a great primer for learning about cover crops. 

Parker explains the two methods for terminating cover crops and the pros and cons of both. No till and tilling it into the beds. 

It's already pre-inoculated which will help your soil absorb nitrogen from the root nodules that grow on the cover crop roots. Jackie talks about how this is a great solution for her listeners because they have made a mix so we don't have to worry about all the different options etc as many guests have talked about the...

Listen to my original interview with Jacqueline here 

Full show notes coming soon.

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

JackieMarie and Aileen share what's growing well, what's their biggest challenge this summer and what they're cooking from their garden in 2022. Aileen is in NJ And JackieMarie is in NW Montana.

Paris Island Romaine is growing well for Aileen. She is growing in containers this year at her new home. Nasturtiums and basil grew really well for Aileen this year as well which are both edible and fantastic companion plants that the beneficial insects enjoy and the bugs tend to stay away from.

Mike and JackieMarie are having success with tomatoes, Swiss chard, raspberry bushes, peppers and sunflowers. 

Last year we got raspberries from Peaceful Valley in California. 

Everything needs water, is Jackie's biggest challenge for sure.

Jackie said she is eating the last tomato sauce she made last summer. Some beet greens.

Aileen referred to Jackie's interview with Mark Risdall Smith who wrote the

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by...

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

on Instagram @designwildny

www.designwildny.com

One of my favorite parts of this conversation is Shanti's best piece of advice to move a plant 3 times before it finds it's permanent home. If a plant isn't happy in the spot you first plant it don't be afraid to move it, we're just gaining information and it's a way to help it thrive. When you hit the right place and the plant is happy you can tell and you say oh! Look how happy it is. Spring and fall are the best times to move plants and let them find their happy spot.

Floral spade

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our...

Website/blog: SusansintheGarden.com

Facebook: facebook.com/SusansintheGarden

Instagram: @SusansintheGarden

YouTube: youtube.com/SusansintheGarden

Here's the link to Susan's gutter peas video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCf51pinA0Q

Salsa recipe

https://www.susansinthegarden.com/2020/09/homemade-salsa/

https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/episode-809-in-susans-garden/

My book review: 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R18INBM5RS0XVA?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

To see my review click here.

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d...

Helen is the CEO of Tertill. Tertill makes gardening easier. Tertill sells a weeding robot designed for vegetable gardens! Today along with describing the robot, Helen will announce a custom garden fertilizer program that delivers the right fertilizer, at the right time, right to your door! Talk about easy gardening.

As background info, Helen founded iRobot the company that makes the Roomba Vacuuming Robot.

Tertill Weeding Robot doesn't pull weeds, it prevents them using specially-designed wheels. If any weeds do sprout, the robot chops them down with its string trimmer.

Tertill Weeding Robot uses height to tell plants from weeds. If a plant can touch its sensors, the robot leaves it alone. If the plant can pass under the robot, it cuts it. Included metal guards protect young plants and seeds until they are taller.

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

Get a hold of Hallie at her websites:

https://hallieshealthyliving.com/

https://halliesteinberg.towergarden.ca/

https://www.gentlebarn.org/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEHHx3ghUy/

My apologies for not getting more episodes out. Coming soon!

Zucchini Marmalade

yields 5 half pint jars

4 Cups zucchini, peels left on, seeds removed and coarsely ground

2 oranges, ground with peel

5 Cups sugar

Mix all ingredients well. Cover and let stand 8 hours. Bring mixture to a boil in a non-reactive pot and let stand another 8 hours (or longer if needed). Add juice of one lemon (2 Tbsp). Boil to jelly stage. Pour into sterilized jelly jars leaving 1/4 inch head space. Process 10 minutes, adjusting accordingly for altitude. 

Cooks Note: I prefer to use a food grinder to prep the squash and orange but have also used a food processor. With the processor you have to watch out for larger chunks of fruit. 

Little Jars, Big Flavors, published by Southern Living/Oxmoor House in 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17Bi7zBJHI

https://www.youtube.com/c/LivingTraditionsHomestead

https://www.youtube.com/c/MelissaKNorris

https://www.gardenary.com

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596"...

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

Hope Eden Tower Kickstarter through April 20, 2022

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link...

Steeped Coffee

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

LUKE RUFFNER ROBINSON from Montana Fruit Trees

An aspiring architect, Luke interned on a farm in Portugal to design a bathroom and became fascinated by the farm’s ability to mimic nutrient and energy cycling in forests. Luke withdrew his architecture plans and began research in Systems Ecology. Luke holds an MS in Systems Ecology from the University of Montana and a BA in drawing and drafting.

Golden Seeds from Luke:

"Actually that was what got me really interested in, I call it the systems based approach to growing food, you know, which I think, or get organic can fall into that permaculture, regenerative, agriculture. I mean, there's all these words, but I think, I think anytime you're using a systems based approach, I think that's really, when you start to see benefit in productivity, in all of these different properties that can emerge from the system beneficially, I think."

"I want to just tell what any of your listeners that might be, that might, that they're listening to what I was saying about specifically watering towards the end of the year. You do want to give them one, all the trees you'll cut them off. You'll cut the water off. I mean, in our climate in August, but then towards maybe after leaf drop, give them a final drink to get them through the winter"

Oikos Tree Crops

Rogue Hoe Tools

https://www.montanafruittrees.com/

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

A new television show airing spring 2022 offers millions of people the opportunity to take care of their bodies, while taking care of their gardens.

GardenFit is the first television show to help gardeners lead a healthier lifestyle though mindful movements they can use in the garden—and beyond. The show follows expert gardener Madeline Hooper and professional fitness trainer Jeff Hughes as they travel the U.S. visiting gardens and farms, sharing practical tips to help gardeners get ‘GardenFit.’

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a...

Awesome Acres Website

Recommended Resources

Ben Hewitt

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

Rockstar Millennials Dale and Carrie Spoonemore have created the amazing Seed To Spoon App

https://www.seedtospoon.net/

This Free App Makes it Simple for You to Grow Your Own Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs in Your Backyard or Patio Container Vegetable or Food Garden!

• Personalized Planting Dates
• Companion Planting Guide
• Filter Plants by Health Benefit
• Recipes
• Organic Pest Treatments
• Beneficial Insects
• Log Plants In Your Garden with Garden+

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

Follow Heather on Instagram

Toni Gattone on gardening gracefully as we age

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link...

Zoë's website

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaZ-eDJh7XK/

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn...

Emily Murphy is a garden designer, writer, enthusiastic botanist, runner, cyclist, consultant, educator, and native of Northern California

and

Grow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your Life

Follow her on instagram @passthepistil

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZSL_ZvBrXW/

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate...

Jenks Farmer's website 

Check out my review of

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and...

Lee's website

Listen to my first interview with Lee about building a Farmden and Weedless gardening here: https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/242-lee-reich/

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so

On instagram @garden_therapy

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on...

Linda Fritz from Sugar Sun Farms is here to tell us about her book Garden Buddies and her amazing Cresbi Collapsible Crates.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4Cr1th6Nk/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4CfYlBPvs/

HPS Seeds for sourcing Sun Sugar tomatoes seeds.

Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen

NY Times article on farmworkers getting overtime.

Favorite tip from our conversation: "And I have to say that the bigger you can let your tomatoes get the butter before you put them in the ground and then bury them halfway bury the plants halfway because then the bottom part of the plant will become roots. And the other thing that is that I've learned that's really good too, is to disturb the soil as least as less as possible is yeah, don't disturb the soil as much as you can."

Farmer's Almanac for planting by the moon

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

Deeply Rooted: Medicinal Plant Cultivation in Techtropolis

Past Guest Herbalist Bonnie Rose Weaver shared this post in an email and I just thought it was so eloquently written and full of amazing knowledge that I had to share it with you all.

My Time With The Thief

Stay Safe Everyone!

And of course Happy Birthday To the amazing Betty White. Click here to learn about the Betty White Challenge

Links Mentioned in this episode

Brandon Youst 

Daniel Mays

Rebel Homemaker by Drew Barrymore and Chef Pillar

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX869loBU-3/

Gardenary Podcast with Nicole Burke

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYWuS2XlV1Z/

Magnolia Journal

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596"...

photos by Devon Roe Photography

GIY (Grow it yourself)

Rust Designs (Rice Knife)

Trad Cotter's Mycopesticide talk Part 1 of 4

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Use code: OrganicGardener15 for 15% discount at Good Earth Organics

Listen to other interviews with Lee on these other great podcasts here.

photos by Devon Roe Photography

Rust Designs (Rice Knife)

Trad Cotter's Mycopesticide talk Part 1 of 4

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

Josh's website

Slow Hand Farm

Dewit Tools Swans Neck Hoe

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzu8TxpXNb/

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the 

Just in time for New Years!

Alive and Well TV

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

 Sam's website: Sunset Lake CBD

Links Mentioned:

Arbico Organics

University of Vermont

Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate links

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help...

Connect with Allison on Instagram @Long Cut Garden

Links mentioned

Patti Armbrister Composting course 

Jesse Frost No-Till Growers Podcast

Nothing Much HappensPodcast for falling asleep

The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities

Daniel Mays 

Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work

Ben Hartman

The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

Jesse Frost

Jackie mentions Nicole Master's

For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

INTRO

Hey, Green Future Growers. Welcome to Season 3 I'm your host, JackieMarie Beyer. If you're new to the show, I hope you'll subscribe on iTunes for free or follow on your favorite podcast app and let's get growing. Hey everyone this is JackieMarie Beyer, your host here to help inspire you on your journey to create, grow, and enjoy a green, organic oasis. So let's get growing!

Not really. I, I have been enjoying listening to episodes of your podcast and just kind of getting familiar with, you know, what you do and how you conduct your interviews. And it just sounds, you know, pretty much like I expected it. So I don't know.

2m 27s

JackieMarie Beyer

So tell me, is there like a guest that, well, who's the first guest that stands out in your head?

2m 34s

Alison McClendon

Daniel Mays. I was like, holy Kerry. You know, May's on there

2m 38s

JackieMarie Beyer

Is it. He is amazing.

2m 40s

Alison McClendon

He is amazing. And you know, I I'm just a green horn and all of this, but I am super curious and super inspired by the people that I follow. Who do, who put all this stuff into action in a, in a way that seems to be really just smart. So when I, when I got, sorry, I'm, I'm just having a little brain fart here. I got

3m 19s

JackieMarie Beyer

Keep going. I'm going to mute my mic.

3m 22s

Alison McClendon

I got a lot of different books by people who I admired...

Connect with Ann on Instagram

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.

Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon

The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

and don’t forget if you need help getting started check out our new 

Sorry this has taken me so long to post! I am actually in NY and got to be with my GFF (Garden Friend Forever) Aileen the other day. We had a great time. Sorry if this is outdated, but hope you enjoy.

Sorry this has taken me so long to post! The amazing Weed Mom, changing our world, one family at a time. Hope you enjoy everyone. To read the unedited computer generated transcript please go here.

Hey listeners I want to make a correction at 12:15 in, I say we've had recreational use in Montana since 2005 but it's medicinal we've had. Also, Heather Cabot's book is the New Chardonnay.

Follow Danielle on Instagram at @daniellesimonebrand

Find her on her website DanielleSimoneBrand.com

Make sure you get a copy of her awesome book for friends and family.

by Heather Cabot.

On Marijuana under the Obama presidency.

Wanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.

[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]

https://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4

Hey everyone. This is JackieMarie Beyer. Your hosts here to help inspire you on your journey to create, grow, and enjoy a green, organic oasis. So let's get growing.

3m 58s

JackieMarie

Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden. It is Saturday, September 18th, 2021. And I am back on the line with my cohost Aileen Catrone our golden listener of 2020, who inspires all of us and just is so amazing. And welcome to the show Aileen!

4m 22s

Aileen

Jackie, thank you.

4m 24s

JackieMarie

You're going to come up with like a special intro for just for our Soil Sistas Saturday. How's it going in New Jersey today? We're going to get rain. What are you guys getting?

4m 34s

Aileen

Oh, listen, this rain has to go away. It's been nothing but rain here. Very Misty, very humid. It's it's been terrible. It's terrible for the garden because I'm totally, my challenge, this couple of weeks has been powdery, mildew and blight all over the place. So I've been trying to keep up with it, take the leaves off, destroyed them. But Yes, it's on the squash. It's on the cucumber that I have this mosaic. I mean, things that I've read about and seen, I think I have every kind of fungus and I'm just hoping it's not bacteria.

5m 21s

Aileen

A lot of things. I mean, I think blight might be a bedtime, not a hundred percent, but it's really taken a toll on this garden because it has been so wet, so humid and so windy at times. So it just spreads like wildfire through the garden. So I'm going to have to turn over some things cause they can put the fall vegetables and all the things I've been growing in this mess, you know? So I'm going to have to do some overhauling, so we'll have to get, that's definitely going to be my challenge in the next couple of weeks.

5m 57s

JackieMarie

And how about you over there? We have had just the most beautiful weather and then it's going to rain today. But rain for us usually means it's cleaning everything. Plus we had our first frost yesterday, almost 32 the other day. And then it got down to 30. So what does it say Saturday? So Friday, Thursday night, Friday morning, it got down to 30, but we had gone and put row cover down. So that saved pretty much everything. And we are just in harvest central. I mean, Mike has canned 30 something quarts of pickles.

6m 40s

JackieMarie

Plus we still have two comers coming at our kazoo. We gave him money to my Mike stepson and his wife to can like a whole five gallon bucket full I just like five gallon bucket full of our own. Now I think he did say pretty much the cucumbers are done. Like he's gotten everything that's down there, but I don't know. Every time I go down, like I think there's no more because I planted a couple of cucumbers for that lady that I was doing that landscaping kind of garden job for in they're planted in my house. Cause she's still not into her property. And I thought I had gotten all the slicing cucumbers off. The one point I go down there the other day and they're six inches long, beautiful, perfect slicing cucumbers that I never saw grow.

7m 26s

JackieMarie

Never saw them start. And all of a sudden I'm harvesting them such as her. Those yesterday took her a bunch of celery, which has been fun to grow like fresh homegirl and celery is a completely different thing from the store. Now my stocks aren't getting as big as they could be, but that's probably more me not tending and not picking them enough. I think if I was harvesting more along the lines,...

yes I know it's late. Want to join me in a Green Peace Action Party? email me at orgpodcast@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you!