Orchard People

Rossana Magnotta of the Magnotta Winery in Ontario talks about Lyme disease. Rossanna's husband Gabe died of Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick. Rossana is the founder of G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector Borne Diseases . ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collect...

Fruit trees can be fussy - but there are some types of fruiting plants that even a child can grow successfully. The father daughter gardening and writing team Steve and Emma Biggs know better than most. They grow a wide variety of fruiting plants in their garden in North Toronto. And they are co-authors of Grow Gardeners: Kid Tested Gardening with Children . So in this episode of The Urban Forestr...

Dr. Randy Beaudry, a post-harvest physiologist working at Michigan State University talks about Honeycrisp apples and why they are tricky to grow and store. Learn more about how to store apples over the winter - both as a professional grower and as a home grower using an ordinary fridge - in this article . ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in Ja...

Elizabeth Stell, author of Secrets to Great Soil , talks about how to care for your soil so that your fruit trees and other plants will thrive. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of the monthly guest experts, organizations, and comm...

Kristy Grigg-McGuffin, Horticulture IPM Specialist from Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs explains what Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is and how you can use it to protect your trees and crops.  Additional Resources: You can watch the video of this episode here . Check out a collection of articles related to IPM here. Level up your IPM capabilities by taking an online cours...

Rhonda Massingham Hart explains how to protect fruit trees from wildlife damage. She's the author of Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden and Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of the monthly...

Ken Asmus of Oikos Tree Crops in Kalamazoo, MI has spent decades developing beach plums that taste great and are genetically diverse (rather than grafted clones). He talks about growing beach plum "communities." Dig deeper into plums in this article . ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years...

Entomologist Dr Tracy Leskey , Director of the Appalachian Fruit Research Station at Kearneysville, WV, talks about Brown marmorated stink bugs and how you can keep these invasive pests out of your garden or orchard. Learn how to protect your fruit trees from pests and diseases in this online course . ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January...

Horticulturalist Dan Bissonnette, author of The Pawpaw Grower's Manual For Ontario, talks about pawpaw trees, a native tree to North America that produces delicious fruit that tastes like a mix of mango, banana and vanilla custard. Learn more about pawpaws in this article .  ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023,...

Listen to the best of The Urban Forestry Radio Show on RealityRadio101.com! We'll talk about growing seabuckthorn, cultivating beneficial insects, battling fireblight and coping with climate change! The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website http://www.orchardpeople.com .   Formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from ger...

Greg Peterson of www.urbanfarm.org talks about growing fruit trees in Phoenix, Arizona. And Russ Cohen from Arlington, Massachusetts talks about edible native plants. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of the monthly guest experts,...

Alen Rosic, a 39-year-old immigrant from the Balkan Peninsula talks about an annual chestnut festival in Iowa that he organizes for the strong Bosnian community there. Dr. Sandra Anagnostakis of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station talks about developing more disease resistant chestnut trees. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2...

Rob Wyles of Washington State talks about how he discovered the new "Foxtrot" apple. Daryl Somers of the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Ontario talks about the science behind taste and apple breeding. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge an...

Linda Chalker-Scott, an associate professor and horticulturist at Washington State University and the author of "How Plants Work: The Science Behind The Amazing Things That Plants Do" talks about what leaves are telling you about your tree's health. Lynn Long, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University talks about cherry rootstock. Read more about cherry rootstock in this article . ABO...

Learn how to make cider with your apple harvest with Ben Watson, Author of Cider Hard and Sweet. And learn why women are being encouraged to look for jobs in arboriculture and forestry in an interview with Katrina van Osch-Saxon of Fleming College’s Urban Forestry Program. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, ha...

Dr. Kari A. Peter, Assistant Professor of Fruit Tree Pathology at Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Centre talks about how to protect your apple and pear trees from fire blight. Bill Preston of Preston’s Persimmon Patch in Calvert County, Maryland, talks about how to select and plant a persimmon tree or shrub that produces fruit that actually tastes good. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known...

Entomologist Dr. Gary Judd of B.C. (British Columbia)'s Summerland Research and Development Centre explains why it is important to understand the sex lives of fruit tree pests if you want to protect your fruit trees from insect infestations. Pomologist Chuck Ingels of the University of California's Cooperative Extension in Sacramento talks about fruit tree irrigation. ABOUT Orchard People, formerl...

Bill Schroeder of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Swift Current Research and Development Centre in Indian Head, Saskatchewan talks about growing nutrient-rich seabuckthorn berries. Joanie Cooper, the president of the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Molalla, Oregon talks about cloning America’s large private collection of apple trees – consisting of over 4,500 varieties from around the world. A...

Clemson University fruit specialist Guido Schnabel talks about the MyIPM (Integrated Pest Management) app . Arborist Warren Hoselton of the Canadian Tree Fund who talks about the importance of funding tree research and education. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collec...

Greg Peck of Cornell University discusses how climate change is going to affect the way we grow our fruit trees. And...what to do with your bumper crop with Joel MacCharles of wellpreserved.ca. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of...

Dr. Bob Bors of the University of Saskatchewan talks about a dwarf cherry shrub breeding program. Loretta Bors, Dr. Bors' wife, talks about her cookbook “ Cooking with Cherries from the Prairies ” (by Cecilia Kachkowski, Loretta Bors and Lily Sawatzky). Virginie Gysel introduces TreeMobile , a not-for-profit and volunteer-powered project operating under the principle of "people planting resilience...

This episode invites three guests to discuss how harvesting the fruit on fruit trees, nut trees and coffee plants can help combat global hunger. Ryan Hatt, Business Development Manager of the Arbor Day Foundation on a project to promote shade grown coffee as a way to tackle poverty – and to save the rainforest. Ernie Grimo from Grimo Nut Nursery on the secrets of growing nut trees and the role nut...

Learn how beneficial insects can protect your fruit trees from pests and insect infestations in this hour-long podcast featuring Jessica Walliser, Author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden , along with Brian Spencer, President of biological pest control company Applied Bio-nomics in Victoria, British Columbia. ABOUT Orchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from ger...

When you plant a tree, you start a relationship. Jason Adkins of Trevecca Nazerene University talks about botanical tree names. Erica Smith Fichman, Program Manager of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s TreePhilly Program on how her organization is turning Philadelphia into a "City of Arborly Love". The host of the Orchard People  radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care e...

Steve Biggs, author of "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't" and founder of Food Garden Life , explains how to grow fig trees and lemon trees indoors during the winter even if you live in a cold climate! Thomas Wilson of Spirit Tree Estate Cidery shares his cidery journey and offerings, along with the whys and hows of apple tree care including spindle training. Additional Resources: Steve shares t...