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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.

Podcast · By Tom Christopher · English · US · Official site

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    How to Make Wood Chips a Basis for Soil Health (opens the original)

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    Brian Vagg of the Compost Academy discusses how wood chips, if properly managed, can be a cheap and reliable means for supplying the organic matter – and microbes – that most garden soils are lacking.

  2. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Creating Microenvironments to Boost Your Garden's Biodiversity and Resilience (opens the original)

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    Tom Wessels, professor emeritus at Antioch University New England and a celebrated ecologist, author, and educator explains how gardeners can enrich their landscapes with microenvironments to hugely boost their biodiversity and resilience.

  3. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Ground-Breaking New Takes on Trees from the Oldest Arboretum in the United States (opens the original)

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    Ned Friedman, Director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum discusses that institution's programs to preserve the DNA of tree species and populations threatened with extinction by climate change, helping trees flourish in an increasingly challenging environment, and how you can share in his passion for these extraordinary organisms by bonding with one tree.

  4. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Welcoming Peter Rabbit back into the Garden (opens the original)

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    Amy Free, rabbit-lover and anthrozoologist, awakens Tom Christopher to the beauties and ecological importance of rabbits and shares how to host them without sacrificing your garden.

  5. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    Exploring – and Updating – Nature's Calendar (opens the original)

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    Theresa Crimmins, Director of the USA National Phenology Network, explains why knowing the timing of natural events such as the annual bloom of different flowers and the emergences of their insect pollinators is essential to good gardening and shares how climate climate change is disrupting natural collaborations that stretch back over millennia.

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