Growing Greener

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The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological Gardening – Part One Aug 06, 2025

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Edwina Von Gal, founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project, interviews Growing Greener host, Tom Christopher, about what led him from an education steeped in traditional gardening to helping found ecological gardening in the United States

A Female-Owned and Operated Gardening Cooperative Creates a New Business Model With Nature as "our foremost collaborator" Jul 30, 2025

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Andrea Hurd of Oakland, California describes the way she structured Mariposa Gardening and Design Cooperative, Inc. to provide employee equitability and management experience for women breaking into the field, and the firm's commitment to celebrating the local landscape by enhancing habitat and working with indigenous materials.

Finding Opportunity in a Common Landscape Roadblock Jul 23, 2025

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Switching to more environmentally friendly practices is too often resisted by landscape professionals afraid to stray from familiar routines. Mariah Whitmore and Tony Piazza, both prominent landscape business owners in the eastern end of Long Island, New York, discuss how they are increasing profits by adding Nature friendly land care to their repertoire.

A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow Jul 16, 2025

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Claire Chambers, founder of Meadow Lab, describes the roll-out sod her company is producing that can transform a landscape into a blooming, mature meadow of native flowers and grasses in a single growing season

The Overlooked Beauty and Garden Services of Wasps Jul 09, 2025

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A replay of a conversation from April of 2021 with Pollinator Conservationist Heather Holm about her multi-award-winning book, Wasps, Their Biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants.

A New Guide for Helping Your Native Plant Garden Adapt to a Changing Climate Jul 02, 2025

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Jenica Allen and Matt Fertakos of Northeast RISCC describe the invaluable free online guide they helped to create that provides all a gardener needs to know about selecting native plants that will flourish not only today but also persist as the local climate changes

Pee-Cycling: Taking the Waste Out of Our Waterways by Fertilizing the Garden Jun 25, 2025

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Julia Cavicchi and Tatiana Schreiber of the Rich Earth Institute talk of curbing water pollution by removing human urine from the waste stream, and how you can repurpose it to feed your plants

Steppe Gardening in Colorado Jun 18, 2025

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Michael Bone, Curator of the Steppe Collection at Denver Botanic Gardens, relates Denver's native flora to similar grasslands around the world and explains how this knowledge can inspire and enrich the local gardening.

Ecologist and Author Tom Wessels Talks Coevolution Jun 11, 2025

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Understanding this concept provides the foundation for creating a high functioning, stable, and resilient landscape – anywhere you garden

A Devastated Arboretum Embraces the Catastrophe Jun 04, 2025

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When a freak tornado swept through Ambler Arboretum, the staff and university administration took the opportunity to turn its recovery into an exploration of natural resilience in the face of climate change

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