Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology

Dr Peter Ridland is an Honorary Fellow in the Bio Sciences department of Melbourne Uni and an Aussie leader in the field of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). In this episode, he walks us through 6 broad methods of IPM and gives us a number of real-world examples of strategies that have worked in his experience working with all sorts of pests, especially those of the insect variety which are his specialty.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Melbourne Uni website: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Look into Oxfam's work in Timor-Leste and make a donation: https://www.oxfam.org.au/country/timor-leste/
Check out Bugs for Bugs, where Aussies can find information and predatory pests which are part of an IPM strategy: https://bugsforbugs.com.au/
Listen to another lecture by Dr Peter Ridland on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyC3sAHemQ4&t=25s
Learn more about IPM here: https://ipmguidelinesforgrains.com.au/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including  Introduction To Integrated Pest Management, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

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Russell and Theri are a couple of urban foresters from the UK who are really excited about community-led urban forestry projects, and in this episode we speak about how local people could be more involved in urban forestry projects, including watering new trees and formative pruning, as well as why it's important to seriously take stock of trees before urban development projects go ahead.

EPISODE LINKS
Follow @Thereichlin and @Russellhorsey on Twitter!
Visit the Woodland Dwelling Website: https://www.woodlanddwelling.co.uk/
Shop Tree Pans: https://www.woodlanddwelling.co.uk/collections/treepans
Shop Carbon Gold: https://www.woodlanddwelling.co.uk/collections/carbon-gold
Shop Bulldog: https://www.woodlanddwelling.co.uk/collections/bulldog-garden-tools-1
Shop Felco: https://www.woodlanddwelling.co.uk/collections/felco-garden-tools
Have a look at the Tree Plotter app that Theri recommends: https://treeplotter.com/
Check out Plant Amnesty, which is where I learnt to prune: https://www.plantamnesty.org/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including  How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

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Paul and Linda Mitchener are back, and this time they're walking us through the 12 principles of permaculture. You might be surprised just how deep this philosophy runs beyond the garden and into our life and the relationships we have with others.

EPISODE LINKS
Permaculture Design Course (PDC): https://permaculture.com.au/pdc-permaculture-design-course/
Linda and Paul recommended Permaculture West:  https://permaculturewest.org.au/
Here are some more permaculture groups in Australia: https://permacultureaustralia.org.au/permaculture-groups-australia/
Visit the Green Life Soil Co. website: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/home
Contact Green Life Soil Co.: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/contact-us
Perth Gardening Tips: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/perth-gardening-tips

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including  What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?, How To Encourage Soil Biodiversity In The Garden & 8 Types Of Soil-Dwelling Organisms, and Organic vs Artificial Fertilisers & The Best Options To Keep Your Plants Satisfied.

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Linda and Paul Mitchener are two passionate gardeners and the owners of a fabulous Perth-based soil company appropriately called Green Life Soil Co., which is organically certified. In this episode, they help us understand what the term "organic" actually means, why we might think about making the switch to an organic gardening approach, and some of the ways we can practically garden organically.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Green Life Soil Co. website: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/home
Contact Green Life Soil Co.: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/contact-us
Perth Gardening Tips: https://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/perth-gardening-tips
Green Life Soil Co. have obtained organic certification through NASAA (no, not that NASA): https://nasaaorganic.org.au/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including  What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?, How To Encourage Soil Biodiversity In The Garden & 8 Types Of Soil-Dwelling Organisms, and Organic vs Artificial Fertilisers & The Best Options To Keep Your Plants Satisfied.

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Michael Guerin is the CEO of Agforce, a peak organisation representing Queensland's rural producers, and in this episode he explains how Aussie farmers are using sustainable and regenerative methods when using their most precious resource: their land. He  speaks about cover crops, rotations, no-dig, the value of carbon in the soil, and he also defines the terms "sustainable" and "regeneration".

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Agforce website: https://www.agforceqld.org.au/
Follow Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelS_Guerin
Follow Agforce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgForceQLD
Here's a well-referenced article, not associated with Agforce, that covers some of the discussion points that point towards cattle being beneficial to the environment: https://sustainabledish.com/meat-is-magnificent/
Here's an article from the Independent that's also not a bad read: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cows-beef-farming-reverse-climate-change-global-warming-a8202121.html

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including  What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?, How To Encourage Soil Biodiversity In The Garden & 8 Types Of Soil-Dwelling Organisms, and Organic vs Artificial Fertilisers & The Best Options To Keep Your Plants Satisfied.

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In our second episode with Dr John Martin of the Hollows As Homes project with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney ( transitioning to the Wildlife Assist project in partnership with a range of organisations around Australia including Taronga Conservation Society), we're releasing a chat John and I had before our Trees As Habitat interview actually began. He's speaking about his work as an ecologist, including how flying foxes might adapt to heat pressure and how water sprayers may or may not be helpful, what a "bioregion" is, as well as some of his thoughts on what we need to be keeping in mind moving forward in Aussie ecology.

EPISODE LINKS
Check out the Hollows As Homes Website: https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/hollows-as-homes
Hollows As Homes Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollowsashomes
Wildlife Assist: https://wildlifeassist.net/
Taronga Conservation Society: https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/current-research/hollows-homes
Big City Birds: https://www.spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/info
Urban Field Naturalist: https://www.urbanfieldnaturalist.org/
Dr Doug Benson's profile on the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney website: : https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/science/our-science-staff/dr-doug-benson

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, Identifying Plants With Leaves, Flowers And Beyond, and a series on Plant Families, subfamilies and genera (including a post on the ficus genus).

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Dr John Martin manages the Hollows As Homes project with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, which is transitioning to the Wildlife Assist project in partnership with a range of organisations around Australia including Taronga Conservation Society. In this episode, we speak about the importance of tree hollows, why native miner birds are more ecologically destructive than introduced miner birds, and his best tips for building habitat in your backyard (which surprisingly don't necessarily include habitat boxes or bee hotels).

EPISODE LINKS
Check out the Hollows As Homes Website: https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/hollows-as-homes
Hollows As Homes Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollowsashomes
Wildlife Assist: https://wildlifeassist.net/
Taronga Conservation Society: https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/current-research/hollows-homes
Big City Birds: https://www.spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/info
Urban Field Naturalist: https://www.urbanfieldnaturalist.org/
Dr Doug Benson's profile on the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney website: : https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/science/our-science-staff/dr-doug-benson

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, Identifying Plants With Leaves, Flowers And Beyond, and a series on Plant Families, subfamilies and genera (including a post on the ficus genus).

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Adam Shipp is the creator of Yurbay, an organisation in Canberra which introduces people of all walks of life to traditional Aboriginal wisdom and helps them reconnect to the beautiful nature of his area. He speaks about his roots as a proud Aboriginal man, some of the uses of native plants, and explains how the dreamtime isn't something that happened a long time ago: it's something that goes on forever and every animal and plant goes through cycles to experience their own dreaming.

EPISODE LINKS
Check out the Yurbay website: http://www.yurbay.com.au/
Follow Adam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/battleshipp32_yurbay
And Twitter: https://twitter.com/YURBAYACT
Buy the Ngunnawal Plant Use Guidebook: https://botanicalbookshop.com.au/products/ngunnawal-plant-use
Read the Wiradjuri Plant Use Guidebook online for free: https://archive.lls.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/495261/archive-wiradjuri-plant-use.pdf
Buy the Bush Foods & Survival Plants Of South-East Australia Book: https://gondwanabushcraft.com.au/shop/ols/products/the-book-bush-foods-survival-plants-of-south-east-australia
The Yurbay logo was created by Krystal Hurst at Gillawarra Arrs: https://www.gillawarraarts.com/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, Identifying Plants With Leaves, Flowers And Beyond, and a series on Plant Families.

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Amanda Brezzell is a co-founder and CEO of Fennigan's Farms, an organisation in Detroit that helps people set up farms in small spaces in Detroit. In this episode, I was lucky enough to speak with her about how the conditions in her city make for interesting opportunities to grow food and connections with other human beings, different small garden setups, as well as some options for differently-abled people so that there are no excuses for you to avoid growing food in your small space!

EPISODE LINKS
Check out the Fennigan's Farms website: https://fennigansfarms.com/
Follow Fennigan's Farms on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fennigansfarms
And Instagram: http://instagram.com/fennigansfarms

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?, How To Encourage Soil Biodiversity In The Garden & 8 Types Of Soil-Dwelling Organisms, and Organic vs Artificial Fertilisers & The Best Options To Keep Your Plants Satisfied.

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Gavin Davis is the owner and creator of the soil amendment Soil Solver, which adds substance to light sandy soils using kaolin clay. He educates us on how this product helps free-draining soils hold moisture and nutrients, how much we should be using, and how it actually adds nutrients into the mixture.

EPISODE LINKS
Check out the Soil Solver website: https://www.soilsolver.com.au/
Find an outlet that sells this wonderful soil amendment near you in Australia: https://www.soilsolver.com.au/outlets
Contact Soil Solver if you have any questions or if you'd like to stock their product in your store: https://www.soilsolver.com.au/contact

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?, How To Encourage Soil Biodiversity In The Garden & 8 Types Of Soil-Dwelling Organisms, and Organic vs Artificial Fertilisers & The Best Options To Keep Your Plants Satisfied.

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Are you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to [email protected].