Gabbing about Gardening

Organic market gardener Arzeena Hamir from Amara Farms shares her professional tips for growing your best garlic ever; winter mulching; seed-saving and more!

Dr. Nancy Turner, beloved professor, ethnobotanist, researcher, mentor, author and co-author of dozens of books gabs with Lu about the native plants and indigenous peoples she knows and loves.

Permaculture Teacher and owner of New Branch Permaculture gabs with Lu about multiple permaculture topics including food forest canopy gardens, no-dig benefits, mulching and companion plants.

The Homestead Mama, Jennifer Banks-Doll gabs with Lu about what she’s harvesting and how she’s using it and preserving it to feed her family year-round.

Joyce McMennamon, from Speedibin Compost Bins, gabs with Lu about keeping compost active and health during summer months.

Let’s Ask Arzeena! Lu gabs with Arzeena Hamir, agrologist and professional market gardener answers questions and shares her best gardening tips. Arzeena and her family own and operate Amara Farm, a 26-acre certified organic farm in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. They grow over 40 different fruits and vegetables!

BC Green Party Leader and MLA for Cowichan Valley, Sonia Fusteneau gabs with Lu about her garden and shares her vision for more resilient communities in BC and beyond.

Dr. Lee Gass, retired UBC science professor turned sculptor gabs with Lu about the concept and meaning of environmental resilience.

Seed-saving guru Dan Jason from Salt Spring Seeds gabs with Lu about how and when to save seed and about his favourite wild food plants.

Sheila Jones, an intrepid home gardener in Victoria, gabs with Lu about her personal gardening philosophy of letting her gardens have a "mind of their own."

Jennifer Banks-Doll, the Homestead Mama on Quadra Island gabs with Lu about her family's homestead farm Foot Forward Forest Farm.

Melissa Rickey, Bokashi compost devotee gabs with Lu about her recent compost workshop and reports on her gardening experiments.

Laura Ellingsen from Fairhaven Gardens on Cortes Island gabs with Lu about her fave garden tips & what we we can be planting now.

Regenerative Farmer-Homesteader Marc Doll gabs with Lu about the joys and challenges of family farming on their 40 acres on Quadra Island.

Whitney Vanderleest, founder/owner of New Branch Permaculture Centre on Cortes Island gabs with Lu about using permaculture principles to build better soil and more resilient gardens.

James Steidel, woodworking artisan and founder of Stop the Spraying of Our BC forests gabs with Lu about why gardeners should care about forest health and regeneration.

Arzeena Hamir, organic production gardener and garden teacher gabs with Lu about what to plant now in this unique growing season and weather conditions.

Ray Grigg, zen-practitioner, writer and organic gardener gabs with Lu about his mission to help people value nature and understand our relationship to trees.