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Growing in Tiny Spaces with...

11.30.2023

Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Wendi Phan of Gardens of Wendiland. Wendi grows herbs and edible plants in tiny spaces and produces videos to share how she does it with her fans.

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11.30.2023 Growing in Tiny Spaces with Wendi Phan Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Wendi Phan of Gardens of Wendiland. Wendi grows herbs and edible plants in tiny spaces and produces videos to share how she does it with her fans.
11.16.2023 Heirloom Seeds with Evan Gregoire Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Evan Gregoire of Heirloom Seedhouse. His farm is located in the Pacific Northwest, where he supports over 500 different plant varieties each year.
11.02.2023 Food and Community with Indy Officinalis Our guest Indy Officinalis is a forager, educator, urban farmer, and steward of both her environment and her community. She's our guest on the podcast this week.
10.19.2023 Podcast: Locally Adapted Seeds with Brijette Peña Brijette Peña & her team grow organic, locally adapted seeds for growers in American Southwest. We chat about the process & why local matters
10.05.2023 Podcast: Growing in Difficult Conditions with Sara Patterson Sara Patterson started Red Acre Farm and a CSA at age 14 and grows year-round in some of the most difficult growing conditions around.
09.21.2023 Sustainable Gardening Resources with Lois de Vries Lois de Vries created the Sustainable Gardening Library to make sure everyone has access to accurate, science-based, gardening knowledge they can rely on.
09.07.2023 Eliminate Fertilizers with Helen Atthowe Our guest this week on the Podcast is Helen Atthowe. She has develop techniques to reduce and eventually eliminate fertilizer inputs. It's all in her new book.
07.27.2023 Best Of - Pest Control Tips The Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast features great pest control tips from our guest experts. We combed through our archives for the best tips to share with you.
07.13.2023 Best Of Tomato & Pepper Tips On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we’re sharing the best tomato & pepper tips from our archives. Listen to segments of past interviews for helpful tips and bountiful knowledge from our guest experts. Just in time ...
06.29.2023 Seed Oils Start-to-Finish with Bevin Cohen Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week is Bevin Cohen. Nerd alert! He's here to talk about growing and pressing your own edible oils.
06.15.2023 Growing Places with Kendall Rae Johnson We have our youngest guest ever on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week. 7 year-old Kendall Rae Johnson is the youngest Certified Farmer in Georgia. She and her mom and dad, Ursula and Quinton, own and run ...
06.01.2023 Eat Your Flowers with Loria Stern This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we dive into edible flowers with Loria Stern. She's the author of Eat Your Flowers, a book bearing the name of her garden-to-table catering and private chef business.
05.18.2023 Journeying with Maria Rodale This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, Maria Rodale, has a family lineage tied to the foundation of organic gardening research.
05.04.2023 Good Gardening with Chris McLaughlin Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Chris McLaughlin. We chat about her newest book, The Good Garden, & how to create a garden that is good for both us & the planet.
04.20.2023 Kids Gardening with Em Shipman Em Shipman is the executive director of KidsGardening.org. She helps guide parents, caregivers, and teachers with ideas for gardening with kids.
04.06.2023 Compost Tea with Nicky Schauder Our guest this week is Nicky Schauder from Permaculture Gardens. We talk about her grant-funded study of the effectiveness of compost tea
03.23.2023 Cottage Foods with Lisa Kivirist Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Lisa Kivirist. She's an author of 6 books, an advocate for entrepreneurs, and is co-owner of Inn Seredipity Farm.
03.09.2023 Dry-Climate Gardening with Noelle Johnson Noelle Johnson (the AZ Plant Lady) is our guest this week. She shares her tips for growing a beautiful, lush garden in dry climates, which can be found in her new book, Dry Climate Gardening.
02.23.2023 Market Farming with Jill Ragan This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Jill Ragan, author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm.
02.09.2023 Spring Tips with Christy Aaaaand we're back with spring tips with Christy! Our first podcast of 2023 gives you an update on what's growin' on and helpful To-Dos for your winter/early spring garden.
12.15.2022 Food Forward with Rick Nahmias Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Rick Nahmias, the founder and CEO of Food Forward.
12.01.2022 Beekeeping Tips with Charlotte Ekker Wiggins Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Charlotte Ekker Wiggins, a fellow beekeeper and writer. We chat about her ingenious beekeeping tips, as well as her tricks for gardening on a limestone hillside.
11.17.2022 Gardening Inspiration with Ashlie Thomas Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week is Ashlie Thomas, author of How to Become A Gardener. Her popular Instagram feed, @The.Mocha.Gardener, is filled with gardening inspiration and tips for newbies.
11.03.2022 Powerful Endophytic Bacteria with Jeff Lowenfels We go full-nerd this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, with Jeff Lowenfels and his new book about endophytic bacteria. Learn what they are and why they are important.
10.20.2022 Bees and Monarchs with Robin Jones Today Robin Jones of Honey Girl Grows returns to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. We chat about bees and monarchs and stuff you might not know yet.
10.06.2022 Vegetable Gardening with Joe Lamp'l This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we're chatting with Joe Lamp'l about his new book and his garden in Atlanta, Georgia.
09.22.2022 Black Flora with Teri Speight Teri Speight is back on the podcast this week. She spoke with us a few months ago about her book, The Urban Garden, which she co-authored with Kathy Jentz. Today we’re chatting about her other book, Black Flora.
09.08.2022 Home Fruit Orcharding with Jose Ramirez Our guest this week on the Podcast, Jose Ramirez, was featured recently in the LA Times for his home orchard. He transformed a weedy patch of land into a low-water, fruit-filled paradise.
08.25.2022 The Garden Sabbatical with Devorah Brous This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we address the need for a garden sabbatical with Devorah Brous.
08.11.2022 Community Greening with Adina Oosterwijk On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we travel to Australia to chat with Adina Oosterwijk about community greening.
07.28.2022 Why Trees Matter with Dan Lambe On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week we chat with Dan Lambe, the CEO of The Arbor Day Foundation. Dan shares his knowledge of how important trees are for the continuation of life on earth.
07.14.2022 Rebuilding Soil with David King Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week is David King of The Learning Garden. He's been on the podcast before, but we brought him back to talk about a major construction project that destroyed the Learning ...
06.30.2022 Summer Tips with Christy This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, it's change of pace day. Just you and me, gardenerds. In this episode I address a few topics that keep coming up with clients and curious minds alike.
06.16.2022 Raised Bed Design with Catherine McLaughlin On this week's Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we talk shop with Catherine McLaughlin, the Design Studio Principal from Farmscape about the rookie mistakes even professional landscape designers make when it comes to raised bed vegetable garden design.
06.02.2022 Growing Our Gardens and Ourselves with Marcus Bridgewater This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we're chatting with Marcus Bridgewater. He's the author of the new book How To Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself.
05.19.2022 Urban Gardening Ideas with Kathy Jentz & Teri Speight This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we cover urban gardening ideas with Kathy Jentz and Teri Speight.
05.05.2022 Hand to Mouth with Alexia Allen Alexia Allen lives on Hawthorn Farm in Washington state, where she and her husband spent the entire year of 2017 eating only hand-harvested food.
04.21.2022 Common Sense Natural Beekeeping with Kim Flottum Our podcast guest this week is Kim Flottum, long time beekeeper and author of more than 6 books. His latest book, is all about common sense natural beekeeping.
04.07.2022 Therapeutic Herbalism with Kay'aleya Bonnette Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Kay'aleya Hunnybee Bonnette of The Herbal Womb. She's a clinical herbalist and integrative health educator.
03.24.2022 Healthy Gardens with Mary-Kate Mackey This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we explore what makes a healthy garden with Mary-Kate Mackey.
03.10.2022 Regenerative Gardening with Stephanie Rose This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Stephanie Rose about regenerative garden projects that create change in your garden.
02.24.2022 The Importance of Woodchip with Ben Raskin Nerd alert! This week's guest is all about the "woodchip" as they say in Great Britain ("wood chips" for Americans). Ben Raskin joins us this week.
02.10.2022 Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse This week on the Podcast, we journey down an unconventional rabbit hole with Joseph Lofthouse into landrace gardening.
01.27.2022 Myths and Solutions with Robert Kourik This week we chat with a long-time colleague and fellow gardenerd, Robert Kourik.
01.13.2022 Gardening and Nature with Rishi Kumar We welcome back Rishi Kumar of Sarvodaya Institute to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week. Rishi has been a guest once before, but things have shifted since our last c
12.30.2021 Year-End Thoughts with Christy We've had great guests on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this year. In our last episode of 2021, Christy shares her year-end thoughts from the year.
12.16.2021 Thriving with Justin West Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Justin West, co-founder of Thrive Lot. Justin developed Thrive Lot after a decade in a successful career in marketing.
12.02.2021 Gardenary with Nicole Burke This week we're talking with Nicole Burke of Gardenary. She created a successful gardening business built on efficient edible gardening techniques. She shares some of her knowledge and expertise in this episode of the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podc
11.18.2021 Adaptive Gardening with Toni Gattone Toni Gattone is our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Toni is a garden speaker, educator, and the author of The Lifelong Gardener: Gardening with Ease and Joy at Any Age. She shares her tricks ...
11.04.2021 Health and Gardening with Jeff Pierce This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we’re chatting with Jeff Pierce, an urban homesteader in Sonoma County, California. Jeff and his wife raise bees, veggies, fruits, and mushrooms.

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