The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel

This week we hear from Christian Douglas, an award-winning garden and landscape designer who takes a food-forward approach to outdoor spaces. Christian is known for a luxury aesthetic that is also functional, bringing edible plants into the fold in a modern way, alongside traditional and timeless landscape design. We touch on how to replicate this food-centric plant strategy, his influence by permaculture and regenerative practices, as well as his time living in the UK. Christian touches on his favorite plants to use, and some tips for where to start in your own edible designs.

Christian's Book Recommendations:

Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy

Second Nature by Michael Pollan

Show Recommendation: The Good Life

For more information on Christian, visit https://www.christian-douglas.com/ or find him on IG HERE.

For info on Backyard Farm Co, go HERE.

For info on Bailey Van Tassel, visit www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey Van Tassel prepares us for the coming Spring with her seven steps to prepare for a new season in the vegetable garden. She takes us from setting goals to amending soil, picking plants, and mapping them out. Catch her tips for getting to know your hardiness zone as well as how to prepare for common issues.

Take Bailey's garden mapping workshop HERE.

www.baileyvantassel.com

www.thekitchengardensociety.com

Bailey Van Tassel talks all things kids in the kitchen garden, using her experience as a mother of three. Bailey started gardening when her first son was eight months old and walks you through her top three categories of children and gardening. There's the overall engagement in nature, gardening tasks and jobs, activities and crafts, and then allowing your kids their own dedicated space. Join Bailey as she gives insight and advice on this.

More about Bailey at www.baileyvantassel.com

Join Bailey's monthly gardening membership, The Kitchen Garden Society HERE.

Thank you to our sponsor, Calzuro and their generous discount for listeners. Code "BAILEY" for 15% off their amazing clogs. www.calzuro.com

With 2023 behind us, Bailey Van Tassel has reflected on what went right, and also wrong in the kitchen garden. Here is a list of the top things that she really felt needed improvement: pests, pruning, bulk soil, weather waiting, proper trellises, earlier sow dates, and adding more perennials. Listen in for details.

To get a seat in Bailey's free gardening workshop, go HERE.

For more info on Bailey: www.baileyvantassel.com

To join the monthly gardening membership: The Kitchen Garden Society

This Episode is sponsored by Calzuro! For info on Calzuro and their wonderful clogs: www.calzuro.com and use code "BAILEY" for 15% off!

In this episode Bailey Van Tassel shares advice for people who want to start homesteading, but in a suburban environment. Her four priorities include gardening/preserving, water, bulk and batch cooking, and herbalism. She digs into the why of each.

To get a seat in Bailey's free gardening workshop, go HERE.

For more info on Bailey: www.baileyvantassel.com

To join the monthly gardening membership: The Kitchen Garden Society

This Episode is sponsored by Calzuro! For info on Calzuro and their wonderful clogs: www.calzuro.com and use code "BAILEY" for 15% off!

Much like the fashion and home decor industries, gardening has trends too! Andrew Bunting, VP of Horticulture at The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and Bailey Van Tassel review the top ten trends for 2024 in the garden. A trend among the trends revolves around the growing passion that gardeners have for the environment and stewardship of land, but we also chat about particular plant varieties, the pursuit of hard-to-find houseplants, and homegrown national parks.

For information on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, visit them at PHSonline.org

Andrew's Favorite Book: The Manual Of Woody Landscape Plants" by Mike Derr

For more information on Bailey, www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey Van Tassel gives her insight and tips for reading seed catalogs and choosing seeds for next year. She talks about understanding your hardiness zone, getting to know the primary pest and disease issues in your zone, as well as what else to look out for. Bailey also talks about how to choose your plants, set your goals, and store your seeds.

Bailey mentions her free guide to seed starting - you can get that HERE.

Seed catalogs to get:

Johnny's Selected Seeds

Territorial Seed Co.

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Link to updated USDA Hardiness Zone Map HERE.

More info on Bailey: www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey's Membership: www.thekitchengardensociety.com

Today's episode is sponsored by Calzuro. For more info go to www.Calzuro.com and use our code "BAILEY" for 15% off.

Bailey Van Tassel interviews Whiteny Aronoff all about her journey into being a health-supportive chef and exploring the vibration of food. She talks about her label, Starseed Kitchen which sells spices and seasonings, as well as the life force energy of food and the importance of eating food that is alive. Whitney gives us some great seasonal recommendations for cooking and leaves us with the idea that there is a good, better, and best way of eating in support of our unique makeup.

Whitney's fave book: The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia by Rebecca Wood

For more info on Whitney: https://starseedkitchen.com/

Whitney on IG: www.instagram.com/whitneyaronoff

For more info on Bailey: www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey's Monthly Membership: www.thekitchengardensociety.com

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If the garden has taught us anything, it's to appreciate the truth about dirt and all its benefits. Zac Kieffer of E-Cloth joins us to talk about this very subject and the conditioning that we've all had around cleaning vs. disinfecting. Zac shares his personal mission to help us understand the gut and microbiome, all provoked by a bet he made years ago to run a triathlon. We learn a lot about marketing, what it takes to make clean claims, and the science behind microfiber and so much more.

For more info, visit www.ecloth.com

For info on Bailey Van Tassel visit www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey is talking about growing herbs this winter as well as their uses and great ways to gift them. She walks you through growing conditions as well as which herbs go well together in a planter. 

To download this herb checklist and a recipe for rosemary biscuits, do that HERE. 

For more info on Bailey Van Tassel go to www.baileyvantassel.com 

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