The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel

In this episode, Bailey Van Tassel is joined by Liz Haselmayer who educates families on whole and healthy eating via her Homegrown Education website and cookbooks. Liz and Bailey discuss what "healthy" eating really looks like and how to take a historical and local view of eating. They explore the "denaturing" of food as well as what it looks like to cast aside political and ideological blankets that can shroud judgment. Liz shares her four-part framework for food, how to participate in the local food economy, and also how you can change the family eating habits.

For more information about Liz, visit her at www.homegrowneducation.org or via her Homegrown Podcast.

She is on Instagram HERE.

For more information about Bailey Van Tassel go to her website Baileyvantassel.com. Or to Instagram HERE.

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As we approach winter, there are quite a few tasks to keep in mind. We want to be either planting a cover crop or mulching, planting bulbs, and garlic, getting organized around overwintering and frost protection, as well as diving perennials and saving seeds. Now is also a great time to do some research and dreaming around your kitchen garden, as well as setting new goals based on what did and didn't work last season. Having a garden journal is very helpful.

Jennifer Jewell is a renowned author and podcaster, hosting The Cultivating Place Podcast. She is an absolute treasure of a human who shares in the love of gardening and the pursuit of understanding nature. Jewell tells us about her upbringing, relating to plants, and her journey from one-ring circus to Harvard to Microsoft to hosting a public radio show. Jewell shares the vital importance of fighting for the protection of seeds and how writing her latest book, What We Sow has shaped a new view of gardening.

To get her latest book, "What We Sow: On The Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds, ", go HERE.

Jewell's favorite books:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

My Garden Book by Jamaica Kincaid

The Undaunted Garden by Lauren Springer

For more information on Jennifer Jewell you can find her on Instagram HERE or at www.cultivatingplace.com

For more information on Bailey, www.baileyvantassel.com

This week we're talking seed starting because presently it's Fall, though the tips are seasonless. In the organic garden, seed starting takes some finesse. Moisture is key, as are soil and protection once the seeds sprout. Bailey talks you through her top tips, as well as provides a free resource with her Seed Starting Guide.

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Download the guide HERE.

Get Bailey's Kitchen Garden Blueprint HERE.

Join Bailey's month-by-month gardening club, The Kitchen Garden Society HERE.

This week we're joined by the CEO of Eartheasy, Aran Seaman, who was raised off the grid on an island in Canada. His parents founded Eartheasy.com from a very organic place, literally building it all and sharing knowledge as they went. The company came from an honest passion and actual life skills and practices. Now eartheasy.com maintains its award-winning commitment to sharing best practices and products with the world, while the family that founded it still lives off-grid and on their own terms.

For more information on the great raised beds, composters, and overall systems and products go to https://www.eartheasy.com

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

Today on The Garden Culture Podcast, Jay Williams, beekeeper at Williams Honey Farm and Southall Inn in Tennessee takes us through his journey from showbusiness to firefighter to beekeeper. He shares with us how "chaos is a matter of perspective" and how working with bees saved him, as well as became his life's purpose. Jay now manages millions and millions of bees, and has award-winning honey, but really just pursues how to raise healthy hives. He talks about how home gardeners can create pollinator strips and the role of native bees. He teaches us about best practices for honey bees, where to start as beginners and home beekeepers, as well as how to breed bees.

This conversation is a fantastic place for all home gardeners to start thinking more about bees.

For more from Jay, find him at www.williamshoneyfarm.com or on Instagram HERE.

This episode is sponsored by Eartheasy! Use my code "BAILEY15" for 15% off your first order at https://eartheasy.com/

For more about Bailey, find her at www.baileyvantassel.com or on Instagram HERE.

Check out Bailey's membership: www.thekitchengardensociety.com

Bailey talks to Todd Kent, CEO and co-founder of the hard kombucha company, Boochcraft. Todd walks us through how he left a synthetic fertilizer company due to a difference in values, starting an organic hard kombucha business thereafter. His scrupulous standards for sustainability and dedication to organic, fresh, and local ingredients are second to none.

Todd tells us about partnering with The Ecology Center, questioning everything from "natural" greenwashing to byproducts and waste, as well as how to reinvent discarded materials to be useful.

This conversation is essential in understanding how consumers should question products, and how a business can be built for good from the beginning.

Learn more about Todd and Boochcraft at www.boochcraft.com

This episode is sponsored by Eartheasy! Use my code "BAILEY15" for 15% off your first order at https://eartheasy.com/

More about Bailey: www.baileyvantassel.com

Aromatherapy is a nuanced practice that goes beyond the top notes of a plant's scent. Amy Anthony dives into the details of being an aromatherapy practitioner, choosing the right plants based on the outcome you're looking for, connecting to plants on a cellular level, and so much more. She is an aromatic gardener as well as leader in the holistic aromatherapy space.

Amy mentions:

Sweet fern, cedarwood, goldenrod, and vitex berry as some favorite scents.

Amy's favorite books:

Latin for Gardeners by Lorraine Harrison

The Lives of Weeds by John Cardina

The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stewart-Smith

To find out more about Amy visit her at: nycaromatica.com

This episode is sponsored by Eartheasy! Use my code "BAILEY15" for 15% off your first order at https://eartheasy.com/

For more about Bailey Van Tassel: www.baileyvantassel.com

Bailey Van Tassel shares about how gardening changed her life and gave her a vocation, confidence, purpose, and fulfillment. She talks about finding the feeling she was looking for, creating heaven on earth, and making "someday" today.

Bailey is also giving early access to listeners to an ebook: The Kitchen Garden Blueprint that she just released!

It's an ebook that downloads immediately and helps you replace the grocery store with your kitchen garden.

For more info on Bailey go to www.baileyvantassel.com or www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel

If you want to ask Bailey a question or submit a request, email her: [email protected]

Bailey is joined by Ben Hanna, the Founder of Heirloom Roses to talk all about rose care and the rose industry. Heirloom roses is a 35-acre nursery that carries over 4,000 varieties of roses, 900 of which are own-root roses. Ben gives his advice on how to care for roses, his favorite varieties, how to know if you have rose mosaic virus, why own-root varieties are so excellent and more. Ben also shares with us about how he came to buy the rose farm, and what it takes to run - the process of taking a cutting to market, and the licensing and logistics.

For more information on Ben and Heirloom Roses go to www.heirloomroses.com

Ben's Favorite gardening book: Joy of Gardening by Dick Raymond

For more info on Bailey Van Tassel, www.baileyvantassel.com or www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel

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