Growing Greener

Latest Episodes:

An Invaluable New Gardening Tool Jan 08, 2025

Show notes

"Your Natural Garden," Kelly D. Norris' new book, is sure to be one of the most essential gardening tools of 2025. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Norris, who split his childhood between working in his grandmother's garden and exploring the 40-acre prairie a quarter mile up the road, shares insights he has gathered from his hands in the dirt-experience, studies of plant science, and his work as a nationally renowned ecological garden designer.

Managing for Coexistence Jan 01, 2025

Show notes

Sports fields and swimming beaches are essential, but public parks can also play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity. As Curator of Natural Resources for the Westchester County New York Park system, Leah Cass designs management regimes for thousands of acres of habitat, coordinating the needs of residents, wildlife, and more than a thousand species of native plants.

The Many Garden Benefits of Snow Dec 25, 2024

Show notes

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Or a snowy Hanukkah or Kwanzaa? Or just a personal celebration of the winter solstice? EcoBeneficial designer and educator Kim Eierman will share you the many gifts that a blanket of snow gives to the garden.

The Nursery that Helped Shape the Native Plants Movement Dec 18, 2024

Show notes

Gardeners mostly didn't focus on our native plants as such in 1988 when Steve Castorani and Dale Hendricks founded North Creek Nurseries to propagate them in bulk for distribution to retail nurseries. Learn how North Creek's innovations in the years since have continued to shape and expand the native plants movement.

Using Native Grasses to Create an Environmentally Friendly Lawn Dec 11, 2024

Show notes

Creating a native lawn, Dave Kaplow says, may require no more than a change in maintenance regimes. And, the ecological restoration pioneer adds, it provides a biodiverse and sustainable turf that is friendly not only to people but also wildlife

Eco Spirituality: "We must change" Dec 04, 2024

Show notes

Brother James Lockman of the Franciscan Order, whose personal ministry is ecological restoration, discusses the nature-embracing spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of his order, and how it has inspired the ecological activism of the current Pope

One Family's Definition of Regenerative Agriculture Nov 27, 2024

Show notes

When Carol Bouska and her siblings inherited the family farm in Iowa, they seized the opportunity to commit to restoring the soil, enhancing wildlife habitat, and bolstering the community in which they had grown up – and used this process to reinforce family ties

Knowing Your Soil - Part 2 Nov 20, 2024

Show notes

Join pioneering nurseryman and ecologist Neil Diboll for the second half of our conversation about how gardeners can familiarize themselves with the natural characteristics of the soil on their site and use that knowledge in selecting a community of adapted, self-sufficient native plants for their gardens.

Knowing Your Soil Nov 13, 2024

Show notes

Traditional gardening emends the soil to suit the needs of the selected plants; pioneering nurseryman and ecologist Neil Diboll takes the character of the soil on site as the foundation of garden design and key to the selection of an adapted, ecologically functional, and self-sufficient plant palette

A Dynamic Toolbox of Innovative Land Restoration Strategies Nov 06, 2024

Show notes

Internationally acclaimed landscape designer Edwina von Gal's Perfect Earth Project uses imaginative strategies to connect landowners big and small with nature-based, chemical-free and biodiversity friendly management practices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected