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Growing Greener

Tom Christopher

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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382 episodes

  1. Native Lawn 2.0 29:01
  2. A Franciscan Brother Finds his Ministry in Ecological Restoration 29:01
  3. Updating Our Attitude Toward Insects 29:01
  4. My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity 29:01
  5. Declaring Peace with Pocket Gophers 29:01
  6. Sustainable Color that Mixes Natives with Exotic Favorites 29:01
  7. A sustainable supply chain for plants that are truly native 29:01
  8. Garden Journaling 2.0 29:01
  9. How to Make Wood Chips a Basis for Soil Health 29:01
  10. Creating Microenvironments to Boost Your Garden's Biodiversity and Resilience 29:01
  11. Ground-Breaking New Takes on Trees from the Oldest Arboretum in the United States 29:01
  12. Welcoming Peter Rabbit back into the Garden 29:01
  13. Exploring – and Updating – Nature's Calendar 29:01
  14. The Garden Conservancy: Your Passport to Garden Visits and Education Nationwide 29:01
  15. Are There Microplastics in the Compost You've been Buying? 29:01
  16. Do "Designed Ecosystems" Function Like Natural Plant Communities? 29:01
  17. The Facts about Fireflies 29:01
  18. New Cultural Perspectives on Ecological Gardening and How Your Lawn Can Transform Itself into a Native Meadow 29:01
  19. Tim Clymer Uses Climate Battery Greenhouses to Farm Sub-Tropical Fruits in Pennsylvania 29:01
  20. An Ecological Perspective on Tick-Borne Diseases 29:01
  21. Citizen Scientists of iNaturalist Playing Crucial Role in Preservation of Biodiversity 29:01
  22. Charlie Nardozzi's New Book – an Ecological Update for the Kitchen Garden 29:01
  23. The Nurturing Nature Initiative – Botanical Gardens Unite To Address Climate Change 29:01
  24. What is Naturalism? 29:01
  25. "Veganic" Gardening 29:01
  26. A New Chapter in the Roundup Debacle 29:01
  27. Landraces – Customizing Vegetable and Fruit Cultivars to Flourish in Your Garden 29:01
  28. Are Alien Plants Superior at Supporting Insect Diversity in the Garden? 29:01
  29. The Million Orchid Project Turns Urban Areas into Sanctuaries for Critically Endangered Native Species 29:01
  30. Maine's Wild Seed Project Offers Education and an Example of Nationwide Significance 29:01
  31. Chemical Warfare from Invasive Plants 29:01
  32. Using Genetics to Avoid Spraying in the Vegetable Garden 29:01
  33. Make Your Lawn a Low-Maintenance Contributor to Biodiversity and Landscape Beauty 29:01
  34. A Gardener's Introduction to Fungi and Their Essential Support for Plants 29:01
  35. A Brazilian Genius of the last Century Created Invaluable Lessons for Today's Ecological Gardeners 29:01
  36. A British Horticultural Ecologist Challenges the U.S. Consensus 29:01
  37. Balancing your account in the soil seed bank 29:01
  38. A Tree's Perspective on Pruning 29:01
  39. O Canada ¬– A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora 29:01
  40. Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden 29:01
  41. Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center combines energy generation with agriculture for a double harvest 29:01
  42. The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden 29:01
  43. An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants 29:01
  44. How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom 29:01
  45. Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses 29:01
  46. How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the traditional New England wall into a powerful, locally rooted art form 29:01
  47. Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in Ecological Hotspot 29:01
  48. Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be ecological time bombs 29:01
  49. Snagged: How a Dead Tree Can Enrich Your Garden 29:01
  50. Celebrate Thanksgiving with Pawpaws – a North American native fruit ideal for the home gardener 29:01