The Revolutionary's Garden

This is a reupload of our intial episode on Cranberries. something happened in the upload that seriously degraded the audio quality, well below our modest standars. so this is a rerecorded and reuploaded epiosde, with much better audio. In this episode we discuss the history, selection, and growing of the most underappreciated berry in north America. First clarifying the muddy definition of cranbe...

To celebrate the solstice, We'll be releasing this Patron only special bonus episode, The Apple Tree Man. While tangentially Garden related, this is an old folk tale from Britain, that is dear to my heart, and a perfect tale for the season. Enjoy, and happy solstice!

In this fifth installment of our garden 101 series, we cover the common pests, pathogens, and diseases that can afflict your garden. Wile we most thoroughly cover general bio security to prevent diseases, we also cover how to manage a disease outbreak once it occurs. As well as common methods such as fencing, push pull, and bait plants to deter a range of pests. If you like our show, please consid...

Wanted to share with you all this interview I did with The Mind of a Skeptical Leftist youtube channel. We talk about the Rev Garden project in general, as well other topics like organizing in rural areas, food security, and dunking on patriotic socialists. I'm including a link below if you want to see the video version of this interview as well as a link to his channel, where he has tons of inter...

In this latest episode of The Revolutionary's Garden, We cover arguably one of the most important crops in the world, Corn! Everything from its rich history, to modern controversy. We go over in detail how to select a variety, cultivate it in a variety of methods. and ultimately how to harvest and process it. As always if you like our show, please recommend us to your friends, leave reviews, and f...

This farm update for November 2022 will hopefully become a regular monthly series where we share the progress on our communal farm!  This first episode covers the basics of the farm itself as well as our recent projects, from making the farmhouse liveable for the winter, to getting goats, to felling trees! For more information about the Revolutionary's Garden, please visit our website where transc...

This is the fourth episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden mini series, Garden 101. In this Garden 101 series we'll be going over some of the very basics of gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Todays episode will be covering weeding, mulching, and cover cropping. We'll do our best to cover the diferrent methods and reasons for weeding your garden, we also cover how to reduce...

A quick update to let you all know that our unexpecred hiatus will be ending soon, and there is more Rev Garden content headed your way!

This week, we are shifting gears to begin covering some of our favorite warm weather crops. While ubiquitous in the country garden, in this episode we cover the ins and ous of summer squash. Everything from their history, to their relationship to winter squash, and of course how to grow, harvest, and prepare them. Please enjoy the episode, and we hope you find some friendly neighbors to give all y...

This is the third episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden series, Garden 101. In this Garden 101 series, we'll be going over the very basics for gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Today's episode will cover: sunlight, temperature, wind, and water. We do our beast to cover all of the many enviorenmental factors that will influence your garden. Everything from individual plan...

In this spring crop episode, we cover one of the most important sources of protein for the Revolutionary's Garden, the pea! We go over the different kinds of peas you can grow, whether for yourself, your livestock, or to improve the quality of your soil. We cover every aspect of growing this protein packed veggie, from seeding and and weeding, to watering and harvesting. And of course we include h...

This is the second episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden series, Garden 101. In this Garden 101 series, we'll be going over the very basics for gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Today's episode will cover soil and compost. We do our best to tackle a subject as massive as soil, covering minerals, soil flora and fauna, and the key nutrients NPK. We cover how to test these...

In this classic root vegetable episode we cover everything you could need to know about the favored root vegetable. after tackling the history and nutrition of this sweet little root, we cover how to select and grow a variety of it. Of course we tackle everything from interplanting, to common pests, to all of the wonderful ways to preserve it. Full transcript availabel at https://www.therevgarden....

This is the first episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden series, Garden 101.In this Garden 101 series, we'll be going over the very basics for gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Today's episode will cover seeds and starts. Both how and where to get your seeds, as well as how to get them started. We cover all kinds of great info, like whether to choose soil blocks or seedli...

In this episode we cover the lesser known, native and perennial root vegetable, sunchoke! We cover how this delicious tuber is ideal for some lazy gardening, and even its application for guerilla gardening. We cover selecting seed tubers, growing, maintaining, and harvesting this incredible crop.   If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Our patrons get early access to epis...

In this episode we talk about the millenia old practice of harvest maple sap and boiling it down into maple syrup!  We cover the indigenous history of this food way, as well as the modern developments as colonizer began this practice. Then of course we delve into how to identify and tap maple trees to boil down some maple syrup of your own! As a bonus we also talk a bit about collecting and boilin...

Welcome to the seventh episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this seventh and final installment of our Brassica Week we have the mirror-verse Brassica family, Brassica Rappa. We cover the distinct vegetable species with its own variation of our w...

Welcome to the sixth episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini peiosde covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this sixth installment of our Brassica Week we cover one of the least known cultivars... Kohlrabi! This little known Brassica has a mysterious origin, but we explore it's history from its...

Welcome to the fifth episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this fifth installment of our Brassica Week we have a two for one special... Broccoli and Cauliflower! While two distinct cultivars of Brassica, Broccoli and Cauliflower have a similar ro...

Welcome to the fourth episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini peiosde covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this fourth installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering one of the trickiest, and tastiest of brassicas... Brussel Sprouts! We cover the history of this much more recent cultiva...

Welcome to the third episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this third installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the most iconic and important of the brassicas... Cabbage! We cover the history of this, the most famous of brassicas. From...

Welcome to the second episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this second installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the under appreciated but incredibly delicious twin to Kale... Collard Greens! We cover the history of this increible gre...

Welcome to the first episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea. In this first installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the workhorse of any small farm, the trendy Kale! We cover this recent superstar's history, from it's origins in the pre-ro...

In this continuation of our food preservation series, we cover the preservation of milk from cows, sheep, and goats. We focus primarily on preserving milk fats as butter, milk sugars as yogurt, and milk proteins into cheese. On top of how to make butter and yogurt, we even share basic recipes for cream cheese, ricotta, and gouda! We also briefly go over alternative ways to preserve dairy such as K...

We cover the influential history of the potato, following the rise and fall of empires from South America to Europe, and it's connection to the rise of capitalism. After a tangent on the Irish potato famine, we dig into selecting potato varieties and how to grow them. We cover everything from different planting methods to how to fight off the various pests that want to eat your spuds. And finally...