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 . --- Year of the Garden 2022 is The Year of the Garden here in Canada. This year of celebration includes lots of ideas to help people weave gardens and gardening into their lives. We chat with Michel Gauthier and Cheney Crea...

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 . --- Eating Locally in Yukon Suzanne Crocker joins us from Dawson City, Yukon to tell us about the year she spent knowing where all the food on her plate came from. There was no salt, no sugar, and no caffeine. There were th...

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 . --- Cold-Hardy Fruit and Nuts In the first part of the show, we chat with veteran fruit growers Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano, founders of Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Their focus is cold-hardy fruit and nuts wi...

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 . --- Today we hang out with 2 urban gardeners who brainstormed 101 ways we can grow food and beauty in urban gardens.  Teri Speight and Kathy Jentz talk about creative ways that city dwellers can make productive, functional,...

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 . --- Gardener and author CaliKim joins us from southern California to talk about growing vegetables in raised beds. Grow Vegetables in Raised Beds Raised beds can have a number of advantages: Soil warms more quickly in sprin...

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 . --- Gardening with Chickens In the first part of the show, we chat with chicken expert and author Lisa Steele. Steele is a Maine Master Gardener and 5th generation chicken keeper. In this episode, she tells us about: Integr...

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 . --- Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Jere Gettle from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds joins us to talk seeds, seed saving, and seed collecting. He loves meeting gardeners, chefs, and farmers who share old seed varieties and the stories...

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 . --- What do you Need to Raise Chicks? We’ve talked about backyard poultry here on the show before, but we’ve never explored raising chicks.  Our guest today is Dr. Scott Gillingham from Guelph, Ontario. He’s a poultry veter...

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 . --- Make Seed and Nut Oils at Home Our guest today makes oils from a wide range of nuts and seeds.  Bevin Cohen runs Small House Farm in Michigan, where he specializes in oils, seeds, and cosmetics.  Home Oil Pressing Cohen...

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 . --- Crooked Farmz In the first part of the show, we chat with Sean Smith from Crooked Farmz in Toronto.  Smith talks about his journey into growing food, learning about soil and composting, and the beginnings of his Toronto...

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 . --- 105 Million Head of Livestock Jarrod Goldin, one of the founders of Entomo Farms, talks about how he and his brothers got into the business of raising food-grade crickets, the use and benefits of crickets as a food sour...

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 . --- Sharing with Community Susan Antler joins us to talk about the Plant • Grow • Share a Row program.  This program helps groups and individuals to grow extra vegetables to share with nearby food banks and soup kitchens. F...

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 . --- Winter-Hardy Vegetables Wolfgang Palme joins us to talk about winter-hardy vegetables and year-round growing. He is an agronomist, and head of the Research Institute of Horticulture in Austria. Accidental Discovery Palm...

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 . --- Edible Landscapes Lindsay Stuijfzand talks about how she weaves her passion for growing food into her work as a landscaper. Pretty Tasty Gardens Stuijfzand is a horticulturist who runs Pretty Tasty Gardens, an edible-la...

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 Food Indoors In the first part of this episode we chat about growing food indoors with Kim Roman, a garden educator and square-foot-gardening instructor.  Her new book is How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own F...

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 . --- The Best Way to Grow Tomatoes There’s more than one way to slice a tomato; there’s more than one way to grow a tomato. Growing tomatoes is like many things in life…there are lots of ways you can tackle it.  Do you have...

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 Farm, Many Farmers Daniel Brisebois joins us from La Ferme Cooperative Tourne-Sol near Montreal.  The farm operates as a workers co-operative, where farm owners are the workers.  When the farm started in 2005, sales...

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 . --- Beneficial Insects If you’ve heard the terms beneficial insects, beneficial bugs, or biological control, these all relate to this ideas of letting some bugs help us deal with the challenges that other bugs cause for us....

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 . --- Today we talk about wind tunnels, horticultural therapy, landscaping with edibles, and gardening with kids.  Our guests today are professional garden educators who have an infectious love of gardening. We start in Princ...

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 . --- Wood chips: They’re abundant, inexpensive, and renewable. There are many possible applications in horticulture. Uses of Wood Chips Wood chips have many uses in gardens, farms, and landscapes: Mulch to suppress weeds and...

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 . --- The garden is the bridge. For clients of The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, one way to connect with the surrounding community is through gardening. Atullya Singh, CAMH Garden Co-ordinator, tal...

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 . --- Beekeeping with a bees-eye view Our guests today help us explore bee-friendly beekeeping techniques. Lessons from the way bees live in the wild Management strategies that respect the functioning of bee hives Hive design...

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 . --- Gardening for the Blind Christine Nichols and Gord Johnston share ideas to help blind and low-vision people garden, and talk about the gardens at the Canadian Hellen Keller Centre, which serves the deaf-blind community....

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 wrap up the 2021 season of podcasts with 12 ideas for ways that you can give something — something other than material “stuff” — to the gardeners in your life.  A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think Yo...

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 . --- Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture shares tips on passive solar greenhouses. Avis says a key consideration when designing a passive solar greenhouse is whether to optimize the design for light or for thermal efficiency. H...