Growing Greener
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Growing Greener

by Tom Christopher

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.

103 episodes
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1
Using Genetics to Avoid Spraying in the Vegetable Garden
29:01 Apr 1, 2026
2
Make Your Lawn a Low-Maintenance Contributor to Biodiversity and Landscape Beauty
29:01 Mar 25, 2026
3
A Gardener's Introduction to Fungi and Their Essential Support for Plants
29:01 Mar 17, 2026
4
A Brazilian Genius of the last Century Created Invaluable Lessons for Today's Ecological Gardeners
29:01 Mar 11, 2026
5
A British Horticultural Ecologist Challenges the U.S. Consensus
29:01 Mar 4, 2026
6
Balancing your account in the soil seed bank
29:01 Feb 25, 2026
7
A Tree's Perspective on Pruning
29:01 Feb 18, 2026
8
O Canada ¬– A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora
29:01 Feb 11, 2026
9
Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden
29:01 Feb 4, 2026
10
Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center combines energy generation with agriculture for a double harvest
29:01 Jan 28, 2026
11
The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden
29:01 Jan 21, 2026
12
An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants
29:01 Jan 14, 2026
13
How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom
29:01 Jan 7, 2026
14
Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses
29:01 Dec 31, 2025
15
How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the traditional New England wall into a powerful, locally rooted art form
29:01 Dec 24, 2025
16
Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in Ecological Hotspot
29:01 Dec 17, 2025
17
Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be ecological time bombs
29:01 Dec 10, 2025
18
Snagged: How a Dead Tree Can Enrich Your Garden
29:01 Dec 3, 2025
19
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Pawpaws – a North American native fruit ideal for the home gardener
29:01 Nov 26, 2025
20
Start from Seed for a Special Relationship with Your Native Plants
29:01 Nov 19, 2025
21
Coexistence with a garden nemesis
29:01 Nov 12, 2025
22
Edwina von Gal Closes the Loop
29:01 Nov 5, 2025
23
Pollinators of the Night
29:01 Oct 29, 2025
24
Reading the Wildlife Stories in Your Garden
29:01 Oct 22, 2025
25
A Garden Masterpiece Designed to Evolve
29:01 Oct 15, 2025
26
Converting Landscape Professionals to Environmental Activists
29:01 Oct 8, 2025
27
Fighting Climate Change from the Bottom Up
29:01 Oct 1, 2025
28
Second Chance Composting
29:01 Sep 24, 2025
29
How We Created Weeds and Why We Need Them
29:01 Sep 17, 2025
30
Texan Pam Penick Shares Ideas for Integrating Native Plants into Traditional Gardens in Beautiful New Book
29:01 Sep 10, 2025
31
Finding Hope in Ecological Gardening
29:01 Sep 3, 2025
32
This Year's "Less Lawn More Life Challenge" Goes Viral
29:01 Aug 27, 2025
33
America's most beautiful neglected genus of keystone plants
29:01 Aug 20, 2025
34
The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological Gardening – Part Two
29:01 Aug 13, 2025
35
The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological Gardening – Part One
29:01 Aug 6, 2025
36
A Female-Owned and Operated Gardening Cooperative Creates a New Business Model With Nature as "our foremost collaborator"
29:01 Jul 30, 2025
37
Finding Opportunity in a Common Landscape Roadblock
29:01 Jul 23, 2025
38
A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow
29:01 Jul 16, 2025
39
The Overlooked Beauty and Garden Services of Wasps
29:01 Jul 9, 2025
40
A New Guide for Helping Your Native Plant Garden Adapt to a Changing Climate
29:01 Jul 2, 2025
41
Pee-Cycling: Taking the Waste Out of Our Waterways by Fertilizing the Garden
29:01 Jun 25, 2025
42
Steppe Gardening in Colorado
29:01 Jun 18, 2025
43
Ecologist and Author Tom Wessels Talks Coevolution
29:01 Jun 11, 2025
44
A Devastated Arboretum Embraces the Catastrophe
29:01 Jun 4, 2025
45
Who's Promoting the Spread of Invasive Plants?
29:01 May 28, 2025
46
An Ecological Gardening Firm's 12-Step Program
29:01 May 21, 2025
47
The Overlooked Virtues of Native Annual Flowers
29:01 May 14, 2025
48
A Local Activist With a National Impact
29:01 May 7, 2025
49
A Low-Cost Swimming Pool that Saves Energy and Serves Biodiversity
29:01 Apr 30, 2025
50
Helping Native Plants Outrun Climate Change
29:01 Apr 23, 2025
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