---Live Virtual Home Food Gardening Season Tickets and Talks. Check out our online classes! ---     We head to the UK to chat with homesteader Kim Stoddart about how to grow a resilient vegetable garden. We talk about: Top tips for growing vegetables when conditions are not predictable Choosing crops for a climate-change vegetable garden Perennial vegetables Tips for veggie gardening in hot summers Kim is an award-winning writer, journalist, and educator. Her new book is The Climate Change Garden: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden.    ----Growing your own food? Check out our online classes! Practical, plain-English food-gardening advice in bite-sized chunks.    

---Live Virtual Home Food Gardening Season Tickets and Talks. Check out our online classes! ---     Brad Lancaster is a permaculture and regenerative design consultant and educator. His specialty is sustainable landscapes. We chat with Brad about using the landscape to harvest rainwater. And about using the landscape as a living air conditioner. Brad also talks about a very inspiring project that he helped spearhead, a community food forest.We talk about:  Using permaculture principles in landscaping How to harvest rainwater in the landscape The connection between landscapes and cooling Using the soil and "speed bumps" in the landscape to make it a living sponge Selecting plants to suit the landscape The Dunbar Springs Urban Food Forest Brad is the author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond.     ----Growing your own food? Check out our online classes! Practical, plain-English food-gardening advice in bite-sized chunks.    

---Live Virtual Home Food Gardening Season Tickets and Talks. Check out our online classes! ---     Vertical vegetable gardening squeezes more plants into a limited space by making use of space above the ground.In today’s episode, Steve digs into vertical gardening.We talk about: Top crops for vertical gardening The benefits of vertical gardening Support structures in a vertical garden Materials to make your own trellises and support structures.   ----Growing your own food? Check out our online classes! Practical, plain-English food-gardening advice in bite-sized chunks.    

---Live Virtual Home Food Gardening Season Tickets and Talks. Check out our online classes! ---     Wally Satzewich joins us from Saskatchewan to tell us about Small-Plot Intensive Farming (SPIN Farming.) Having studied psychology and ran a taxi franchise, Wally became interested in market gardening. So he bought a farm. But a conventional market garden wasn’t the right fit for him. That’s because a big operation requires hired help and capital outlay for equipment. So Wally and his wife Gail sold the farm—and moved back to the city. To farm—to farm other people’s yards.And in the process, Wally mapped out a system of best practices called SPIN farming (Small Plot Intensive farming.)Today he tells us his journey, and what he’s learned along the way.We talk about: Running the 20-acre market garden Downsizing and setting up in the city The SPIN model and variations on it Comparing SPIN farming to commodity farming Using the SPIN model in small towns Top tips for new urban and SPIN farmers   ----Growing your own food? Check out our online classes! Practical, plain-English food-gardening advice in bite-sized chunks.    

---Live Virtual Home Food Gardening Season Tickets and Talks. Check out our online classes! ---     Andrew Huxsel joins us from St Placide, Quebec to tell us about worm composting. Also known as vermicomposting. Andrew runs Vermicbec, a company that sells worms and worm compost.We talk about: How vermicomposting works Using vermicompost (a.k.a. worm castings or worm wompost) Large scale vs. home-scale vermicomposting Top tips for home gardeners wanting to try worm composting (If you’ve tried it and had bug problems, Andrew tells you how to solve the problem)    ----Growing your own food? Check out our online classes! Practical, plain-English food-gardening advice in bite-sized chunks.