GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

314. Green TEAM Academy | Online Earth Summit| Climate Action Breakthrough Joan Gregerson | Denver, CO

https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/ (https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/) (https://www.earthweeksummit.com/) https://www.earthweeksummit.com/ Tell us a little about yourself. In Denver CO, one of a big family I’m 59 years old we were nature kids IDK if they understand that they are nature kids being one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a day climbing trees digging holes in the backyard At age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollar He was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I’m such a nerd! and I’m on my 5th grade. I ask him what are you doing? why are you focused so much on this? I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I’m talking to people at the oil company. I thought the adults have it under control first earth day was in 1970 10% of the population it was really started as a teach in series of teach in people just get together and talk to each other what do you feel like is important what do I feel is important  and what do we need to make the environment personal to them working on projects together demanded the government change them? That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixon started the EPA clean air act clean water act I thought great we got this thing together! 1978 President Carter came to colorado opened the solar energy institute I went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don’t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don’t have it under control got into engineering my way to make a big impact results weren’t just the water saving projects didn’t have the results I expected no culture around it we just did projects and left we didn’t ever deal with the people I wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my own spending up a lot of effort and not having much impact.  I ended up in Longmont became a non-profit in less then 2 years I don’t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That's sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results! We’re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be: start a TEAMclimate action grow more food do recycling in your kids school or start a community garden bike share make a huge impact that's why I started the Green TEAM Academy (https://www.greenteamacademy.com/all-podcast-episodes/) (https://www.earthweeksummit.com/) (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/) the Green Organic Garden Podcast (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/) is one of our sponsors! That's so exciting. That's how near and dear to my heart this is, and do you know the senator who got that started is a play I have about Senator Gaylord Nelson. The play is about this little Bear Sally Bear who is upset about not having anything for earth day prepared and her bother billy bear is like why do we celebrate earth day anyway and she explains everything you just said and the other is the Turtle Mishap about a turtle stuck in a six-pack holder. (https://amzn.to/2JoNZkJ) This is so exciting I haven't met a lot of earth day nuts like me. that was a long answer doing so much already One of the big things that changed things in Longmont was having an earth day festival What was so weird for me was, as an engineer, the biggest thing I had ever organized was a family birthday party we ended up with this fairgrounds space and it was like 10 times bigger then we wanted, but the deposit...

Victory Gardens 2.0 interview #315 with Diane Blazek |National Garden Bureau

(https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/pioneering-today-podcast/) https://ngb.org/2020/03/23/victory-garden-2-0/ (https://ngb.org/2020/03/23/victory-garden-2-0/) National Garden Bureau (https://ngb.org/) It’s hard to keep up. Our role isn’t answers its information and inspiration so that’s what we’re trying to do! Well, all sorts of people have been asking me about victory gardens so I am so excited I saw your email and here you are already! It's Friday, March 27, 2020 and we are right in the middle of the Great CoronaVirus Pandemic and here is:  Diane Blazek from the (https://ngb.org/) I am very happy to be here, thank you for asking, it's kind of a funny story and don’t we need funny stories at this time? I have been with the organization for 10 years and the organization celebrating our 100th anniversary.  So as a group, as we were planning for the anniversary we had no idea that this pandemic was going to happen. Last week when we could still go to the office, we were sitting around the office, when we could still go and I looked up on my shelf and I looked up and saw the manual and thought why not roll out what was produced and published our founder wrote the manual and was part of the whole  the timing would be right mr. james burdett in the 1920s and 30s and 40s by pulling all this information together. It is a great time in our history. I have been talking to seed suppliers and today a facebook group was looking for someone to go the 65 miles to the local cow dairy for manure. I'm an elementary school teacher and I'm hoping my parents are going to grow some gardens with their students. Today we just published another blog post, we're working with kidsgardening.org (http://kidsgardening.org) , with 10 ideas to get kids involved.  I spent like 4 hours yesterday just trying to create a 20 minute math lesson video. you can get your kids involved in a victory garden. It can be fun for kids to research 1943 or today 2 things to start withyou must know your growing zone (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/) last frost date but there are tools online which they dd not have back in 1943 you can enter your zip code into the USDA (https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/) and get your zone. There are multiple sites too. you can enter and using your zone without knowing those things what it is to plant Those are our two tips. know your zone know your last frost date. (https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course) You know, last year my husband and I built a (https://amzn.to/2QMXFd5) the next step is very important for what you grow in your garden. I'm very bad at this part, I'm more of an impulsive buyer. Do your planning.Make a list of what your family will eat Think about how much will they consume. Are you doing this in a community garden? Will you share with other family members or neighbors? Think about when it will be ready to eat? How much of it will you be able to eat. If there is more then you can reasonably eat what are you going to do with it? Can you can it or freeze or otherwise preserve the extra produce you will have. I can see a produce sharing app etc popping up this year.  That will carry on to thinking about specific varieties of what you want to grow. If you are a beginning gardener and you want to grow a tomato that's fine just grow any tomato but as you get more experienced difference in varieties amount of space when they grow some are more unique color variety different tasting produce exactly what you want to put in your garden. This is so timely, I was just talking with my mom, and her experience with vegetables. My mom has been a gardener forever, and I can't remember a weekend or summer day with her without her pruners in her hand. And she said she

C.O.V.I.D+19 Gardening Acronym | TOTALLY RAW Interview # 316 with that AWESOME NEIGHBOR! Local Superhero and Edible Weed Expert Matthew Zoeller Returns

Won't You Be My Neighbor?I’m gonna just gonna hit record ok OK ~ I’ll deliver! Here’s a listener and awesome teacher! (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/250-edible-weeds/) Listen here to my interview with Matt about Edible Weeds (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/250-edible-weeds/) It’s a privilege to be back here, it’s now the second time I have done a podcast like this the first one was with you jackie like 2 years ago. so many people have listened to your episode before, I think you are even in my organic oasis guidebook where It all about growing chickens in the suburbs, I spent so much time reading it last year and then I haven’t seen it for a year and then I was on someones podcast the other day how nutritious they are usually people switch off the station not download it so, this is a cool place to be on the fringe organic gardener podcast which you’ve had some pretty bad-a**ed published guests lately. I think you are just being humble. I know you dropped lots of great golden seeds. But since I did have Melissa Norris and Jeff Ditchfield my numbers have practically double and so there are a lot of new listeners who haven’t heard I came up with an acronym…. My name is Matt Zoeller, I teach high school, I have a masters in education but all things health and plants, maybe wearing the color green I do wear a lot of green is something I love but it is not academic, I just have an organic interested, I am always reading and listening! I live right in Denver, in a suburb, in a neighborhood, IDK how big my house is but it’s not big either we have a good solid amount of garden space chickens salvaging wood raccoon issue we got 3 more hens actually 7 chicks that are 4 weeks old that’s really exciting the thing I am kind of becoming famous for love of eating weeds my analogy if you were to move into a house spring rolls around and suddenly there’s kale everywhere would you walk out and say we didn’t plant this kale we have to dig them all u hire some ruminant you would probably eat it because its kale an its health most of the main ones we hate the most and probably Canadians a lot are edible and nutrition we went there nutrients panicking what advice would I have for people if the supply runs out can’t count on my neighbor you’re like the perfect guy for this I came up with an acronym take it or leave it Compost Oeuf (french for egg a plug for chickens) Vegetable Immune System Dehydrate In the spirit of survival if I had a blog or we making a book squeezed it into COVID Chickens or compost - I think that is annoying make a big pile talking kitchen stuff do something with it here’s some ideas burry it dig a trench slowly so practical your mom does it whenever this comes up oh my grandma used to do that IDK what happened to make altho stop really good for the soil I have always most people have a wrong sense of don’t throw away biodegradable the way we compost here with our food scraps is feed to the chickens I’l say that’s it letter let’s move onto the Oeuf so a little you're listeners no curses here (12:18 make a little plug for chickens they’re so low maintenance got chickens for 2 year more stuff more space eat worms kids love them our neighbors yeah V for veggies yeah veggies of course I don;t want any emails this is me my ting always my thing veggies vs fruit I’ll eat fruit if we are thinking we’re gonna be indoors grocery stores are what they are more bean for my buck ratio or plants I hate beets by the way I have that gene I can eat almost everything else beat seems like the solid bet tomato maybe spits out a leafy...

Carrot Soup and One more Rebrand to the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

So I just did an interview with the amazing Diane Belzak at the National Garden Bureau who has the most awesome mission and sent me an email about building Victory Gardens and so I wanted to share this update with you and my recipe for Carrot Soup. What are you cooking during this crazy time of quarantine? Carrot SoupSaute some garlic or onions... add a bit of red pepper chopped up (like a sweet red pepper from the grocery store, not hot red pepper seeds) add carrots cleaned (and peeled if you like) and cut into pieces. I added a bag of small carrots from school, but I would say about a 2lb bag full? add some water to just about covering the carrots and let simmer for about 15-20 minutes. Add some chopped kale at the end with the ribs cut off. Take the thick mixture and pulse in food processor. Save the liquid.  When reheating add a little mixture of the broth to make a soup consistency and add a dollop of yogurt and chopped cilantro. OH So good. Serve with a slice of Mike's homemade whole wheat bread and ummm emm good! (https://amzn.to/3dBfi9p)   The Organic Oasis Guidebook: Helping You Create Your Own Organic Oasis (https://amzn.to/3dBfi9p)

Replay of interview 209 with Craig LeHoullier author of Epic Tomatoes

In my recent episode with Ira Wallace she talks about the work Craig LeHoullier does for the (http://amzn.to/2Dyjkhm)   (http://amzn.to/2D0aK9P) I’ve got my second book is out it’s  seed savers catalogs (https://www.seedsavers.org/catalog) I am very lucky I have had a hand in reintroducing a couple of hundred different seed catalogs and availability. Kind of turning back the clock. over 3000 tomato varietiesI’ve been seed saver exchange  (https://www.seedsavers.org/) tomato advisor for over a decade now and it’s been so much fun! Listen to the whole interview here!