Marco Poehler: Life in a Colombian Nature Preserve

Poisonous Plants in Your Garden

Gardens are bursting with growth and color! How many of those flowers, along with the other plants in our gardens that we may love and cherish, contain dangerous, often lethal, naturally occurring poisons?Many common flowers, fruits, and even vegetables (along with certain weeds and wild plants) may pose serious health and safety hazards to you, […]

Growing up at a Family Nursery

Jeff Nilsen, owner and proprietor of Bokay Nursery on Hitchcock Road in Salinas, has never lived a day when he wasn’t involved in the nursery. His grandfather purchased and developed it into a Salinas institution before he was born. Nilsen shares the evolution of the nursery and landscape business in an informative and fun conversation […]

Marco Poehler: Life in a Colombian Nature Preserve

Until recently, Colombia was the 13th largest importer of agricultural commodities to the US. Top among them are coffee, tea, and spices, live trees and nursery plants, bananas and plantains, and snack foods. All totaling more than 2.7 billion annually. In this rebroadcast show from 2022 our guest Marco Poehner, who spends about half of […]

Hilarious Chat About Holiday Plants

“People who garden always have something good to look forward to,” Dr. Martin Quigley. Join him, Steven E. Popp, and Joe Truskot — the “In The Garden” guys for their fun take on pine trees, poinsettias, and the holiday color palettes. Living things can create new holiday memories with their beauty, their scents, and their […]

Watsonville’s Whiskey Hill Farm Explored

In The Garden, KSQD’s weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave’s energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, September 6, 2025, Hosted by Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot with Dr. […]