The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel

This week we unpack the secret behind my favorite garden amendment as of late - wool pellets. They are SUCH a triple threat - holding moisture, repelling slugs, and slow-releasing nitrogen. We talk to Megan, the founder of Kestrel Ridge Pellet Co., who started her business as a way to make use of the incredibly wasteful wool industry. The wool by-products that come from either unsellable or undesi...

Mapping out where all of your vegetables go in the kitchen garden can be overwhelming. Have no fear - I have a system for you! It's my own Poker Planting method that helps you prioritize and plan based on what you want to grow the most, and then fit things in from there. I do follow some companion planting basics, which I talk about. But mostly we debunk how important companion planting is and ins...

Kylie Gray Ailers joins us today and goes deep into her journey of starting a flower farm. Kylie owns and operates Gray Girl Farms which sells Dahlia flowers and tubers, as well as peonies now. Kylie walks us through the surprising agronomy side of growing tubers (it's like growing potatoes!), as well as the details on getting started with purchasing wholesale tubers, operating costs, getting soil...

Ginny Yurich is the Founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, a bestselling author, a mother of five, and an advocate for reclaiming childhood and reconnecting families. Today she educates us on why she started the 1,000 Hours Outside movement and what it's done for her and her kids. She is also hilarious and this episode is full of laughs and wisdom. Ginny walks us through how she overcame the dislike of m...

This week we're featuring an interview that Bailey Van Tassel had on The Good Dirt Podcast. Enjoy listening from a new perspective as we dive into Bailey's foray into gardening. Bailey is an entrepreneur and mother of three, who created both the  Kitchen Garden Society  and the  Garden Culture Podcast . She grew up on a hobby farm in Sebastopol, California, but didn't fully appreciate her cowboy p...

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 perm...

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.thekitchengar...

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 Bail...

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 Baile...

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:...

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,...

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 - y...

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 ide...

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 mar...

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   For info on E-Cloth, go to www.ecloth.com and use co...

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 t...

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 did...

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 figh...

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. This episode is sponsored by Eartheasy ! Use my code "BAILEY15" for 15%...

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...

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, bu...

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 E...

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, cedar...

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...

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 sh...