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Tom Christopher
July 15, 2020

Maggie Redfern – Planting Native Street Trees

Tom Christopher
July 15, 2020

Maggie Redfern of the Connecticut College Arboretum discusses planting native species as street trees and restoring urban habitat

Tom Christopher
July 8, 2020

Lawn to Wildflowers

Tom Christopher
July 8, 2020

Nash Turley of the University of Central Florida discusses the program he and colleague Barbara Sharanowski have developed to help homeowners nationwide convert areas of lawn to pollinator habitat painlessly and quickly with the help of their mobile phones.

Tom Christopher
July 1, 2020

Michael Gaige – Historical Ecology

Tom Christopher
July 1, 2020

Historical ecologist Michael Gaige details how he reads clues in the landscape to reveal its past and understand its present

Tom Christopher
June 24, 2020

Jennifer Jewell – The Earth in Her Hands

Tom Christopher
June 24, 2020

Award-winning broadcaster Jennifer Jewell discusses her new book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Tom Christopher
June 17, 2020

Larry Weaner – The Self-Contained Garden

Tom Christopher
June 17, 2020

Leading ecological landscape designer Larry Weaner describes how to have a garden that largely plants itself, while minimizing the task of weeding

Tom Christopher
June 10, 2020

Russ Cohen – Edible Wild Plants

Tom Christopher
June 10, 2020

Russ Cohen discusses his foraging career and his current role as Johnny Appleseed of raising and restoring to the wild edible native plants

Tom Christopher
June 3, 2020

Dr. Meredith Cornett – Forest Adaptation and Climate Change

Tom Christopher
June 3, 2020

Dr. Meredith Cornett discusses the program the Nature Conservancy has undertaken to help the forest of northern Minnesota adapt to a warming climate

Tom Christopher
May 27, 2020

Christine Cook – Dragonfly Gardening

Tom Christopher
May 27, 2020

Christine Cook of Mossaics Ecological Landscape Design discusses the unique beauties of dragonflies and details how she creates gardens designed to attract and foster these insects

Tom Christopher
May 20, 2020

Heather Holm – Beyond Bees

Tom Christopher
May 20, 2020

Pollinator conservationist and award-winning author Heather Holm introduces us to the "secondary pollinators," the amazing insects other than bees that contribute to pollinating our native plants

Tom Christopher
May 13, 2020

A Songbird-Friendly Garden

Tom Christopher
May 13, 2020

Grant Sizemore of the American Bird Conservancy details how house cats can coexist with garden birds, and Matthew Shumar of the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative describes how to make your yard more bird safe

Tom Christopher
May 6, 2020

Uli Lorimer – Native Plants Provenance

Tom Christopher
May 6, 2020

Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust, discusses the challenges involved in sourcing and growing locally adapted native plants

Tom Christopher
April 29, 2020

Dan Jaffe – How to Make Your Life Easier With Native Plants

Tom Christopher
April 29, 2020

Dan Jaffe, a rising star of the new generation of native plants experts and co-author of Native Plants for New England Gardens discusses the many practical advantages of gardening with natives.

Tom Christopher
April 22, 2020

Shay Lunseth - No Mow Lawns

Tom Christopher
April 22, 2020

Shay Lunseth of Organic Lawns by Lunseth discusses her use of fine fescue grasses to create lawns that flourish with little or almost no mowing, less fertilizers and weed control, and far less summertime irrigation

Tom Christopher
April 15, 2020

Adrian Ayres Fisher - Carbon Gardening

Tom Christopher
April 15, 2020

Adrian Ayres Fisher, Sustainability Coordinator for Triton College in River Grove, Illinois explains how an easy change in gardening practice can remove carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere and help mitigate global warming

Tom Christopher
April 8, 2020

Christie Higginbottom – Advantages of Heirloom Vegetables

Tom Christopher
April 8, 2020

Christie Higginbottom of Old Sturbridge Village, the famous museum village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, details the advantages of heirloom vegetable varieties that make them superior to modern hybrids for the contemporary victory garden.

Tom Christopher
April 1, 2020

Gardening with Children

Tom Christopher
April 1, 2020

Gardening Icon Ruth Rogers Clausen talks about gardening with her granddaughter, and Sarah Pounders of KidsGardening.org discusses her organization's free online educational resources for parents, grandparents, and children

Tom Christopher
March 25, 2020

Edwina von Gal - Perfect Earth Project

Tom Christopher
March 25, 2020

Edwina von Gal, the internationally renowned landscape designer, discusses her personal journey to environmental activism and her current work with the Perfect Earth Project

Tom Christopher
March 18, 2020

William Bryant Logan – "Sprout Lands"

Tom Christopher
March 18, 2020

Author William Bryant Logan discusses his most recent book, "Sprout Lands," and the revival of pollarding, the basis of an ancient and mutually beneficial relationship between trees and people

Tom Christopher
March 11, 2020

William Welch - Heirloom Plants

Tom Christopher
March 11, 2020

Dr. William Welch of Texas A&M University and co-author of The Rose Rustlers discusses the ways in which heirloom plants, survivors from old gardens, can enhance the sustainability of your garden

Tom Christopher
March 4, 2020

Black Bears – The New Garden Wildlife

Tom Christopher
March 4, 2020

Andrew Madden of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife and Dr. Tracy Rittenhouse of the University of Connecticut discuss the migration of black bears into our exurbs and suburbs, with tips for co-existence

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