Nursery owner Don Shor and avid gardener Lois Richter talk about gardening from the Sacramento Valley in Northern California every Thursday at Noon on the low-power FM station, KDRT (K-dirt), located in Davis, CA. Garden questions welcome!
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Do you want to bring nature to your backyard, grow food, and help heal our living world? Join Daron Williams—restoration ecologist, permaculture enthusiast, and lifelong gardener—for concrete steps you can take at home to cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife. Tune in, grab a shovel, and make the living world around you come alive.
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For the Joy of Gardening! features Maine gardening news, discussion, special guests and answers to YOUR gardening questions. The show is hosted by Tom Estabrook, Vice President of Estabrook's, the family owned and operated garden centers throughout Southern Maine.
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Hosted by international garden design sensation Jamie Durie and featuring Chef Michel Nischan's James Beard award-winning "Homegrown" cooking segments, The Victory Garden equips viewers with the confidence and inspiration to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and live outdoors. With so many Americans aspiring to care for the environment and create their own outdoor living spaces, The Victory Garden's unique fusion of garden design, earth-to-table cooking, and eco-conscious how-to ...
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Welcome to White Strawberries, the podcast where gardening meets health and adventure, and sustainability feels joyful—not stressful. I’m Sam, a permaculture gardener, educator, explorer on a mission to share the joy of growing and living well with the land. In each episode, we explore how to garden with purpose and laziness (I mean efficiency), curiosity, and fun. Eating a diversity of life giving foods in order to live our best in our current seasons. I get to have conversations with exper ...
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A program dedicated to keeping the art of gardening simple, fun, and always rewarding. Hosts Jim and Mary Competti have been writing, speaking and sharing their love of gardening for the last decade. Co-owners of the popular blog oldworldgardenfarms.com and co-authors of Growing Simple and Raised Row Gardening, they take an enthusiastic approach to giving solid, straightforward advice on growing everything from vegetables, to perennials, annuals and more! Each week, Jim and Mary take on a ne ...
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Presented by gardening writers Jane Perrone & Alys Fowler, the Guardian’s gardening podcast explores different horticultural topics and hands out advice and tips by the bucket load, along with expert interviews and discussions
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Growing Wisdom is about horticulture, how to grow your own food, healthy living and nature.
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The PINAcast brings together conversations from Some of the top thought leaders in the Permaculture space. Hear how they got started and created a career out of Permaculture. Learn how to bring Permaculture to the masses, or simply learn more about the history of the Permaculture movement. Get inspired to make positive changes in the world you live in!!
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Thank you for joining me in the garden today. I’m Hannah and I would love to take you on a journey as I share the highs and lows of small scale farming. Join me for weekly inspiration and updates as I share my reflections from my smallholding and my day job as a farmer.
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Sparking Joy: Perennial Vegetables for Harvesting over Winter.
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20:02In this episode of White Strawberries, I dig into the unsung heroes of the vegetable garden: perennials! You’ll learn about my three favourite edible roots — yacón, Jerusalem artichokes, and oca (NZ yams) — and the leafy perennials I would grow even if I only had 1m2 of garden bed: Sorrel, perpetual spinach, Welsh onions, and chives. These plants a…
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Summer gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Summer gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Musings: Nitrogen; what is it and why should I care?
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12:50🌱 What is nitrogen actually and when we know what it is why does it matter? In this solo episode of White Strawberries, I ditch the edits (full disclosure I took the "um's" out) and go full conversation mode to unpack something that is made overly complicated sometimes: nitrogen. 🧪 We explore: • What nitrogen really is • How to tell if a plant is n…
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Conversation: Water protocols With Sofee D.
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32:41💧 🌦️ If you’ve ever looked at a garden hose like it was made of gold—this one’s for you. In this episode of White Strawberries, I have a conversation with Sophie, a Zero Waste Educator, about the messy magic of water in the garden. From buckets of bathwater to rainwater you wish you could store, we share what it’s really like managing water—whether…
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In this Spark Joy episode, we dive into the wonderful world of hydrangeas — one of New Zealand’s most beloved perennial shrubs, known for their stunning blooms and versatility. As I recorded this in the height of summer, hydrangeas were truly sparking joy in my garden. Now, as winter sets in, it’s the perfect time to prune your hydrangeas, take cut…
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Conversation: Pruning, Cuttings & a Not-So-Happy Lemon Tree (Q&A with Becks)
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25:31In today’s Q&A-style episode, I chat with Becks, who’s growing food on a small urban section packed with subtropical and Mediterranean microclimates. We talk through her real-life garden dilemmas—from a wayward apple tree branch and overachieving feijoas, to pruning grapevines and getting citrus trees back on track. We cover: 🍏 How to prune an espa…
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Musing: Composting! Hot, cold, tricks, amendments and tips
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23:39♻️ Ever wondered if your compost pile is killing weed seeds—or just giving them a warm nap? In this episode of White Strawberries, I dive into my very first proper hot composting adventure. Spoiler: it involves bamboo stakes, cow poo tea, temperature obsessions, and a whole lot of bindweed I didn’t trust in a cold pile. 🌱 We’ll explore: • Why not a…
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Perennial Vegetables: How to Encourage Their Greater Adoption Ben Caesar
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50:58Ben Caesar of Fiddlehead Nursery (Ontario) champions perennial vegetables through hands-on demonstration, workshops, and outreach. He highlights common yet underutilized edible perennials—like hostas, soup greens (fuki, Turkish rocket), Egyptian onions, and seedless sorrel—while making them accessible by discussing cultivation, nutrient density, an…
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Sparking Joy: Elderberries, grow in the summer, use in the winter
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16:17Elderberry: Grow it because it’s delicious, beautiful — and scientifically proven to shorten the duration of the flu. This episode dives into the magic, science, and mischief of elderberries — a plant that blurs the line between medicine and myth. Learn why it’s a favourite of permaculturists, herbalists, and birds alike — and why it might just bel…
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Conversation: Pigs in the Garden! With Sez the Vet
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45:52We’re talking pigs—those chubby, soil-turning wonders that can transform your paddock and garden into a thriving ecosystem. 🐖 Whether you're dreaming of adding pigs to your permaculture setup or wondering if they're right for your orchard, this episode is packed with practical, real-world insight. I'm joined by Sez the Vet, an experienced life-styl…
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Level Up: Unpacking the Mediterranean Guild; growing figs, grapes, olives and their support team
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16:50What do olives, grapes, figs, and lavender all have in common? They're part of the sun-loving, drought-tolerant crew that thrive in Mediterranean climates—and today we’re designing a whole guild around them. In this episode, I explore what it means to plant perennials where they want to grow and why matching plants to their ancestral homes creates …
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Conversation: Growing Wine Cap Mushrooms in Our Orchards: With Sarah Williams
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28:03In this earthy and enthusiastic episode, I chat with Sarah Williams—permaculture gardener, mushroom grower, and the green-fingered soul behind Sarah’s Green Acres—about growing wine cap mushrooms, also known as burgundy mushrooms or garden giants. We explore: How to grow them in a food forest or permaculture orchard Why yours might not be fruiting …
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Sparking Joy! White Strawberries and How they Inspired this Podcast
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12:07🎙️ Why White Strawberries? 🍓 Welcome to White Strawberries, the podcast where we explore the lost art of living with nature—from a tiny house tucked into New Zealand bushland, surrounded by chickens, weeds, and yes... white strawberries. In this episode, I (Sam!) unpack the five quirky, nerdy, and joy-filled reasons behind the name White Strawberri…
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Musings: What to Grow When in a Vege Patch.
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17:55New to gardening and wondering when to plant things like tomatoes, spinach, or broccoli? This episode is for you! We’re diving into the basics of plant life cycles and how to know what to grow and when—without having to constantly check a list. By understanding what part of a plant you’re eating (leaf, flower, fruit, or seed), and how plants behave…
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Conversation: Permaculture! What on earth is it? With Sez the Vet.
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27:59In this episode, we dive into the messy, beautiful reality of applying permaculture principles in your own life with Sez the Vet! Sam and Sez explore the highs and lows of designing gardens, observing your land, and working with nature (even when it feels like society is pushing against it). 💚 From sun mapping and creating guilds and chickens doing…
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Think gardening is the only way to live sustainably? Think again. In this episode of White Strawberries, Sam offers a joyful permission slip to not garden—and still feel good about it. 🌸 Why shoulding yourself into sustainability doesn’t work 🌿 How to find joy in other ways of living well 🌎 Why personal choice matters just as much as planet care 📸 …
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Winter gardening conversationsBy Don Shor and Lois Richter
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Discover the SECRET to Thriving Regional Food Systems with Mike Callicrate
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1:27:51In today's PINA Masterclass we are thrilled to welcome Mike Callicrate to the livestream as we cover;--A Life in Ranching --How Large Food Corporations Kill Small Farms--Local Food Hubs for Local People--The Role of the Rancher in a Sustainable Futureand more!This event was brought to you by PINA. To learn about the benefits of becoming a member he…
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