Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Brad Lancaster is a permaculture and regenerative design consultant and educator. His specialty is sustainable landscapes.  We chat with Brad about using the landscape to harvest rainwater. And about using the landscape...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Vertical vegetable gardening squeezes more plants into a limited space by making use of space above the ground. In today’s episode, Steve digs into vertical gardening. We talk about: Top crops for vertical gardening The...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Wally Satzewich joins us from Saskatchewan to tell us about Small-Plot Intensive Farming (SPIN Farming.)  Having studied psychology and ran a taxi franchise, Wally became interested in market gardening.  So he bought a...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Andrew Huxsel joins us from St Placide, Quebec to tell us about worm composting. Also known as vermicomposting.  Andrew runs Vermicbec , a company that sells worms and worm compost. We talk about: How vermicomposting wo...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- It’s planting season here..and the gardening questions are pouring in.  Here’s the Q + A from our latest live show. We talk about: Favourite tomato varieties Support for tomato plants Mulch Asparagus Microgreens Lemons...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We head to Georgia to chat with 7-year-old Kendall Rae Johnson and her mom, Ursula. Kendall is the youngest certified farmer in the state of Georgia. At her aGROWKulture Farm she grows her favourite crops and teaches ot...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with Zach Loeks , an educator and grower who specializes in edible ecosystem design.  He talks about the two-wheel tractor, a versatile piece of equipment that he says can be used by backyard gardeners, homestea...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Permaculture Orchard We chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms . We talk about: Why he prefers a permculture planting to a monoculture or...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Grow What's in Your Kitchen! In this episode, we head to Vermont and get great ideas for what we can grow right now, in early spring, using what’s in the kitchen.  We talk about kitchen-scrap gardening with Em Shipman,...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- In this episode, we dig into some history, a sad story – and hope. All this from a tree that was known as the redwood of the east. A towering tree prized for its wood. A tree pivotal to the forest ecosystem. And by the...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Niki Jabbour on how to Make and Use Mini Tunnels Less frost damage. Fewer bugs. Better growing conditions.  Mini tunnels have lots of advantages, and they're easy to make and use.  For this episode, we head to Nova Scot...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Homesteading as a State of Mind We head to Minnesota to chat with small-scale homesteaders Michelle Bruhn and Stephanie Thurow . Both are urban homesteaders, and they’ve collaborated on a book to help small-scale homest...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Grow a Vertical Vegetable Garden Space. For many gardeners, there’s never enough of it.  So in small spaces we train crops upwards instead of outwards.  The term vertical gardening is often used to talk about adding the...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Oregano that Tastes Like Oregano! We find out how to grow great Oregano with Dave Hanson from The Grow Guide Podcast . (No more bland orgegano that tastes like...hay!) Why Now is a Great Time to Homestead Homesteader St...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Specialty Fruit Crops We continue our chat with agronomist Laurie Brown from Cultur'Innov . She talks about 5 more minor fruit crops, how to grow them, and the opportunities they present for growers. We talk about: Sea...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- One is quite healthy but tastes awful. One is very juicy and suited to processing. And one is suited to eating fresh. In this episode we look at 3 fruit crops: aronia (a.k.a. chokeberry), elderberry, and haskap (a.k.a....

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Steven Edholm is a California homesteader who teaches a wide variety of self-reliance skills. He is passionate about grafting fruit trees. He's created trees that have over 100 varieties. In this episode, he explains ho...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Oklahoma garden designer Linda Vater loves to create elegant edible gardens. Her work is inspired by the tradition of the potager garden. We talk about: Potager gardens Making ornamental and elegant edible gardens Desig...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with cold-hardy citrus expert Sam Hubert from One Green World Nursery . Sam's interest in citrus began when he realized he could grow trifoliate orange in New England. If you've tried trifoliate orange, you'll k...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Forced rhubarb is a winter specialty that's quite different from rhubarb grown outdoors: It's milder, more tender, and brightly coloured.  Brian French and his wife Jeannette run Lennox Farm in Dufferin County, in Ontar...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat Teresa Zohorsky from Solana Garden in Ontario. What started as a fascination with unusual tomato varieties grew into an addiction! Teresa specialized in heirloom and unusual tomato varieties, and now sells tomat...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Growing Quince Quince expert Joseph Postman joins us to talk about quince. This fragrant fruit is unknown to many in North America, and often relegated to use as a rootstock for pear trees. Postman is a retired plant pa...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- In this replay of a 2019 interview, we chat with Bob Bors, head of the fruit breeding program at the University of Saskatchewan. We talk about: Breeding haskap (a.k.a. honeyberry) fruit Cold-tolerance of haskap How to c...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Emma chats with tomato expert Linda Crago about the 'House' tomato, a compact tomato plant that some gardeners keep over the winter in the house. They also talk about a few other unusual tomato varieties, including one...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- How to Grow and Cook Medlar Jane Steward, author of Medlars – Growing & Cooking , talks about how to grow medlar, how to cook medlar, and shares some fascinating medlar facts. (Find out how medlar wood was used in D...