Growing Greener Podcast
1) Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses
In a conversation recorded in December of 2019 Shannon Currey, a leading educator in the native plants industry, describes how the unique adaptations of warm season grasses make them winners in an era...Show More
2) How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the traditional New England wall into a powerful, locally rooted art form
In a conversation from January of 2021, Dan Snow tells how, using locally sourced stone, he expresses the intrinsic beauty of a site in bold constructions held together only by gravity, friction, and ...Show More
3) Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in Ecological Hotspot
Goats love invasive plants, says Elijah Goodwin, Director of Ecosystem Monitoring at New York's Stone Barns Center; and with careful timing and regulation the Center's herd is restoring ecological bal...Show More
4) Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be ecological time bombs
Revisiting a conversation from August 2023 with Dr. Bethany Bradley of the University of Massachusetts, who describes how plants introduced from outside our ecosystems may remain quiescent for decades...Show More
5) Snagged: How a Dead Tree Can Enrich Your Garden
Wildlife biologist Ken Bevis discusses the many benefits to biodiversity of "snags," standing dead trees, and how to incorporate them safely and aesthetically into our gardens.
6) Celebrate Thanksgiving with Pawpaws – a North American native fruit ideal for the home gardener
In a replay of a conversation from September of 2023, Sheri Crabtree of Kentucky State University describes the northernmost species of the tropical custard apple family, the pawpaw, which offers deli...Show More
7) Start from Seed for a Special Relationship with Your Native Plants
William Cullina, a leading expert on the propagation of native plants, describes the special insights about a species' adaptations and ecology that starting from seed provides, and offers simple tips ...Show More
8) Coexistence with a garden nemesis
'Good fences make good neighbors,' especially, according to Vermonter Susan Shea, when it comes to gardeners and woodchucks. A nature writer and photographer, Shea details the extraordinary abilities ...Show More
9) Edwina von Gal Closes the Loop
Everything that grows on your property – its "biomass" – should remain there even after death, says this award-winning garden designer and founder of the Perfect Earth Project. Fallen branches, leave...Show More
10) Pollinators of the Night
Overlooked by many gardeners, moths are actually more efficient as pollinators than bees and are the basis of the food chain for everything from bats and songbirds to grizzly bears