The Garden Journal

Slow Food SF Out Loud Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with two women farmers who compare experiences farming in northern New Mexico - Mary Dixon, Green Tractor Farm and Jennifer Fresquez, Monte Vista Organic Farm.

Jannine Cabossel, the Tomato Lady, has cracked the code for successful vegetable gardening in the high desert. On the last Saturday of each month, she shares her hard-won expertise, helpful gardening tips and tricks, and a garden to-do list for July. Jannine blogs at GiantVeggieGardener.com. https://giantveggiegardener.com Everything Jannine discussed on the show can be found in these program note...

Guest host Sunshine Muse speaks with Indigenous seed steward Beata Tsosie-Peña

Host Alexa Bradford talks with Morika Hensley, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association. The Santa Fe Watershed Association – Protecting Our River, Our Water, Our Future

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Graham Dodds, Executive Chef and Owner of NOSA Restaurant located in the Ojo Caliente River Valley.

Jannine Cabossel, the Tomato Lady, has cracked the code for successful vegetable gardening in the high desert. The last Saturday of each month she shares her hard-won expertise and helpful gardening tips and tricks, as well as a garden to do list for June. Jannine blogs at GiantVeggieGardener.com. https://giantveggiegardener.com

Host Alexa Bradford talks with local Santa Fe Native Plant Project (SNaPP) co-leader Lesley Janis and co-founder Emeritus Master Gardener Laurie McGrath, about the SNaPP demonstration gardens and planting native plants to attract pollinators. Santa Fe Native Plant Project

Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg, Slow Food Santa Fe, interview Adan Manuel (Manny) Encinias, the new Executive Director of the Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute.

Santa Fe Master Gardener, Alexa Bradford, hosts Wendy Wilson and Tom Dominguez. (Click for more.) Wendy Wilson , immediate past board president of the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, and Tom Dominguez , director of the Santa Fe County Extension Office. Topics include an update on the SFEMG’s highly anticipated annual plant sale and community outreach events on May 12 and 13. Tom will update l...

Join us as we hear from 2 young farmers/growers as they explore the intersectional nature of farming from a social justice lens.

Hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem talk with Reese Baker, permaculturist and owner of The RainCatcher, https://theraincatcherinc.com/ about his inspiring vision of ways to harvest, capture and infiltrate rainwater and urban storm water runoff, following patterns of nature to create lush and abundant biodiversity in a desert city. Additional resources Earth Day Celebration April 22 from 9-noo...

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with Brett Rapkin-Citrenbaum, Slow Food USA’s Farm Bill Community Organizer and Robb Hirsch, Co-founder of NM Healthy Soil about national and local issues related to renewal of the national farm bill. 

Giant Veggie Gardener Edition with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady”. Jannine shares tips and techniques for backyard vegetable gardening and a to-do list for April.

Just keep growing!

Host Alexa Bradford talks with Master Gardener Seed Stewards Susie Sonflieth and Donna Wynant about the benefits and joys of seed saving and the Santa Fe Seed Library that reopens March 25 at the Southside Branch of the Santa Fe Public Library. Find out more at Santa Fe Seed Library . This program is the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition of the Garden Journal, a weekly radio program that...

Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Sherry Hooper, Executive Director, The Food Depot and Dwayne Trujillo, Development Officer, Kitchen Angels, about their respective organizations roles making a difference providing food to those in need in Northern New Mexico.

Giant Veggie Gardener Edition with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady”. Jannine shares tips and techniques for backyard vegetable gardening and a to-do list for April. Jannine blogs at Giant Veggie Gardener .

Host Carrie Core interviews Follow the Drinking Gourd Panel

Ashlee Wolf and Gwen Wion with the Institute for Applied Ecology and the Southwest Seed Partnership join hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem to discuss the program’s efforts to collect and grow out locally sourced native grass and forb seeds for land restoration projects in the Southwest. More information at Institute for Applied Ecology and Southwest Seed Partnership . Support their mission...

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Ellen Lampert, SFSF Board member, about her upcoming Renasan Institute class on food legacy and author Gina Rae La Cerva about her food writing workshop.

Jannine Cabossel, the Tomato Lady, joins hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford the last Saturday of each month to offer tips and advice for the coming month in our vegetable gardens. Jannine blogs a https://giantveggiegardener.com . This episode of The Garden Journal is presented in partnership with Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners .

This month's Soil Stories features Lyla June Johnston Artist, Scholar and Community Organizer. A historical ecologist she will be focusing on the intersection of Indigenous food systems in both pre-Columbian and contemporary times.

On today’s program, we are talking about food sovereignty global corporate food systems with Indra Shekhar Singh, an independent agri-policy analyst from India and who is visiting the US on a lecture tour to raise awareness of the farmers’ revolution in India and global agrarian movements. Indra Shekhar Singh is an independent agri-policy analyst, writer and Host/Creator of the Wire’s agri-talk sh...

Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Pam Roy, Director, of Farm to Table and Coordinator of the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council about food and farming issues facing the 2023 NM legislative session.