Gardenerd Tip of the Week

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The Gardenerd Tip of the Week is your one-stop shop for organic gardening tips and tidbits. Seasonal, organic, and fun advice for your urban farm, homestead and garden. We cover Sustainable living, vegetable gardening and more. Celebrate your passion for gardening with a sense of humor.

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Gardenerd Tip of the Week episodes:

04.18.2024
The Layered Edible Garden with Christina Chung
On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week we chat with Christina Chung of Fluent Garden. Chris has a passion for growing perennial edible plants and designing food forests or “layered” gardens for residential-scale properties in Metro Vancouver,...
04.04.2024
Grow Fruit Trees Fast with Susan Poizner
This week our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week is Susan Poizner. Susan is an urban orchardist in Toronto, Canada and both an award-winner author and educator.
03.21.2024
Gardening for Health with Perla Sofia
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Perla Sofia, who gardens in Puerto Rico. Perla encourages people to grow plants to benefit their health and well being
03.07.2024
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture with Lauren Augusta
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Lauren Augusta. Lauren is the executive director of MESA, the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture.
02.22.2024
Kids and Seed Gardening with Dale Eblacas
Our latest podcast features Dale Eblacas, a seed saver, community advocate, and gardening educator. We caught up with him at the Heirloom Expo to discuss his work with kids and seed gardening.
02.08.2024
Gardening by the Moon with Stephen McComber
This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Stephen McComber about gardening by the moon.
01.25.2024
Gardening as Therapy with Jon Jackson
Jon Jackson is an Army vet who found comfort in gardening. On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, he shares how this passion turned into a program to help other vets heal after service.
01.11.2024
Permaculture Chat with Larry Santoyo
We start off the New Year with Larry Santoyo as my guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Larry has been a teacher and practitioner of permaculture design for the last 30 years, and was mentored by Bill...
12.14.2023
Year-End Thoughts with Christy
For the last podcast of the year, we share year-end thoughts with Christy. She highlights a few beautiful new seeds to try, and talks about New Years resolutions.
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.

What's Gardenerd Tip of the Week about?

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Gardenerd Tip of the Week episodes:

The Layered Edible Garden with Christina Chung

Grow Fruit Trees Fast with Susan Poizner

Gardening for Health with Perla Sofia

Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture with Lauren Augusta

Kids and Seed Gardening with Dale Eblacas

Gardening by the Moon with Stephen McComber

Gardening as Therapy with Jon Jackson

Permaculture Chat with Larry Santoyo

Year-End Thoughts with Christy

Growing in Tiny Spaces with Wendi Phan

Heirloom Seeds with Evan Gregoire

Food and Community with Indy Officinalis

Podcast: Locally Adapted Seeds with Brijette Peña

Podcast: Growing in Difficult Conditions with Sara Patterson

Sustainable Gardening Resources with Lois de Vries

Eliminate Fertilizers with Helen Atthowe

Best Of - Pest Control Tips

Best Of Tomato & Pepper Tips

Seed Oils Start-to-Finish with Bevin Cohen

Growing Places with Kendall Rae Johnson

Eat Your Flowers with Loria Stern

Journeying with Maria Rodale

Good Gardening with Chris McLaughlin

Kids Gardening with Em Shipman

Compost Tea with Nicky Schauder

Cottage Foods with Lisa Kivirist

Dry-Climate Gardening with Noelle Johnson

Market Farming with Jill Ragan

Spring Tips with Christy

Food Forward with Rick Nahmias

Beekeeping Tips with Charlotte Ekker Wiggins

Gardening Inspiration with Ashlie Thomas

Powerful Endophytic Bacteria with Jeff Lowenfels

Bees and Monarchs with Robin Jones

Vegetable Gardening with Joe Lamp'l

Black Flora with Teri Speight

Home Fruit Orcharding with Jose Ramirez

The Garden Sabbatical with Devorah Brous

Community Greening with Adina Oosterwijk

Why Trees Matter with Dan Lambe

Rebuilding Soil with David King

Summer Tips with Christy

Raised Bed Design with Catherine McLaughlin

Growing Our Gardens and Ourselves with Marcus Bridgewater

Urban Gardening Ideas with Kathy Jentz & Teri Speight

Hand to Mouth with Alexia Allen

Common Sense Natural Beekeeping with Kim Flottum

Therapeutic Herbalism with Kay'aleya Bonnette

Healthy Gardens with Mary-Kate Mackey

Regenerative Gardening with Stephanie Rose