Ep. 84 A Story About a Chinese Cabbage

September is a busy month on your farm with to-do lists stretched to the limit and weather constantly on your mind. Even so, now is the ideal time to take a few moments to think about your season review. Waiting until November means dealing with missing information that is imposs ...  Show more

Carol Deppe is on the pod this week to talk about a new grant from OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) for Independent Plant Breeders Developing Organic-Adapted Open Source Varieties. The deadline to apply is Sept 15 and is open to all farmers and freelance breeders. All the detai ...  Show more

The seed starting episode is in! On this episode, I share how I start seeds here at grow Girl Seattle, both for indoor and outdoor sowing. I go through my timing, what my setup is like, cover the tools and supplies I use, how I get my seeds started, and share some tips and tricks ...  Show more

Botanically, bean pods are indeed fruits, and, honestly, they are also pretty magical. And we’re clearly not the only ones to think that: beans are the unsung hero of history. The fact that they were domesticated an astonishing seven different times in different places around the ...  Show more

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Increasingly scientists are using genetic material from wild plants to make agricultural crops more resilient to climate change. To find out how, Rebecca Kesby heads to the Millennium Seed Bank for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, in the south of England. There she meets Dr Chris C ...  Show more