Garden Futurist

GARDEN FUTURIST A show about innovative thinkers contributing to a climate resilient future through the power of gardens. Produced and hosted by Sarah Beck, Adriana Lopez, and Adrienne St Claire Edited and directed by Kelsey ...more

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January 22, 2024 00:35:09
Episode XXXIV: Protecting Invertebrates from Pesticides with Aaron Anderson

Episode XXXIV: Protecting Invertebrates from Pesticides with Aaron Anderson

Winter 2024Read the companion article here.Invertebrates do so many important things. But beyond the benefits they provide to ecosystems, they’re fascinating creatures. When you...

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November 21, 2023 00:43:52
Episode XXXII: Great Expectations for Seed Keeping with Jennifer Jewell

Episode XXXII: Great Expectations for Seed Keeping with Jennifer Jewell

Fall 2023Read the companion article here.From a gardener’s hyperlocal natural history to raw, existential questions, in her new book What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell...

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October 24, 2023 00:46:05
Episode XXXI: Stalking the Crop Wild Relatives with Colin Khoury and Michael Kantar

Episode XXXI: Stalking the Crop Wild Relatives with Colin Khoury and Michael Kantar

Fall 2023Read the companion article here.There is a very cool set of native plants that are related to the plants we eat. You can...

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September 19, 2023 00:44:04
Episode XXX: What if Farmland Looked Like Ecological Gardening with Tim Crews

Episode XXX: What if Farmland Looked Like Ecological Gardening with Tim Crews

Summer 2023Read the companion article here.If you knew it would reduce erosion risks, sequester more carbon, require less fuel, fertilizer, and pesticides to grow ...

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August 18, 2023 00:38:44
Episode XXIX: On the Scruffy Wild Edge of Urban Jungle with Ben Wilson

Episode XXIX: On the Scruffy Wild Edge of Urban Jungle with Ben Wilson

Summer 2023Read the companion article here.This episode explores the landscape history of cities as ecosystems, not ecosystems of business but actual living systems.  New...

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July 14, 2023 00:31:41
Episode XXVIII: Crime Pays, Botany Doesn’t; We Get Real with Joey Santore

Episode XXVIII: Crime Pays, Botany Doesn’t; We Get Real with Joey Santore

Summer 2023Read the companion article here.Joey Santore shares his enthusiasm for studying the diversity, evolution and ecology of the Earth’s plant life so we...

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