Not Your Average Garden Club Podcast

Forty Years Without Digging What Charles Dowding Learned by Leaving Soil Alone

What if the best thing you could do for your garden is stop trying so hard? Charles Dowding has spent over four decades proving soil doesn't want to be dug; it wants to b

Preserving Your Harvest Simple & Creative Ways to Make Garden Food Last

You nailed the growing part. The counter's covered in more tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries than you know what to do with, and the clock is ticking.  Meagan Lloyd, a g

From Barren Dirt Lot to 40-Tree Food Forest One Family's Living Model

Big change rarely starts with a plan. More often, it starts with one tree pulled out of the ground, and the willingness to see what grows in its place. In this episode,

Architects of Abundance: How Indigenous Nations Fed Millions Without Extraction

When Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (tsay-TSAY-heh-STAH-hess) (Cheyenne), and European

The Cancer Cell Knows Something We Don't

Cancer isn't just a disease to fight. What if it's the body trying to tell us something? After 17 years studying tumors in the lab, Zach Bush began seeing the same patter

Zach Galifianakis on Why Growing Old in a Garden Beats Growing Up in Hollywood

Zach Galifianakis doesn't live in Hollywood. He works there, and he believes there's an important difference. Known for The Hangover, Between Two Ferns, and as an Emmy-w

Sixty Harvests Left: The Soil Crisis No One Wants to Admit

Most people think they’re growing plants, but Evan Buckman, a scientist and regenerative systems thinker focused on soil health and food systems, would argue that the rea

From 225 Students to Thousands of Acres: What Commitment Over Certainty Actually Looks Like

What if happiness isn’t something you think your way into, but something your body already knows? While lying under the stars on an off-grid permaculture farm in Costa R