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About Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l is the Host and Executive Producer of the award winning PBS television series Growing A Greener World. Off camera, Joe dedicates his time to promoting sustainability through his popular books, blog, podcast series, and nationally syndicated newspaper columns. Follow Joe on Twitter
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1012-From Seed to Fork: Growing an Abundant and Beautiful Cold-Climate Garden
Many gardeners dream about growing their own fresh vegetables and having control of the entire process from seed to fork. But growing an abundant and beautiful cold-climate garden may be […]
Find Your Local CSA
The next best thing to growing your own fresh produce is to have someone local do it for you. That’s the basis of community supported agriculture co-ops, known as CSAs. […]
Color and Fragrance in the Winter Garden
I love to visit gardens in winter, even my own. While it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the spring rush, when often it seems that everything from azaleas to roses […]
Japanese Maple Companion Plants
Known for their brilliant autumn foliage, in shades of red, yellow and orange, Japanese maples have long been revered by tree lovers and gardeners alike throughout the world. Truly a […]
Episode 812 – The Spark in Sparta
About an hour and a half southeast of Atlanta, you’ll find the tiny town of Sparta. It’s located in Hancock County, which was the most populous county in Georgia in […]
Episode 810 – The Private Garden of a Public Gardener
Who hasn’t wanted a behind-the-scenes looking into the private garden of a public gardener? Bringing your work home with you can actually be a very good thing… when both your […]
Episode 802 – A Year in the Life of the Garden Farm; Part II
In this episode, we pick up where we left off in part I. In episode 802 – It’s all about the fall garden today at the Garden Farm. Here in […]
How to Plant A Tree the Right Way – 7 Steps for Getting it Right Every Time
With a little luck and good timing, sometimes simply sticking a tree in the ground and walking away can be enough for it to survive. But knowing how to plant […]
Feed the Soil, Let the Soil Feed the Plants – The Heart of Organic Gardening
Feed the soil, and let the soil feed the plants. It’s one of two axioms I live by when it comes to gardening advice. But if you’re like many, I […]
726 – The Down and Dirty on Healthy Soil and Compost
The foundation of any healthy garden starts with the soil. In fact, the health of everything above ground starts with what’s below it. To get a better understanding on the […]
725 – Growing Farmers to Fight Global Hunger
Most of us have never experienced true hunger. Yet for much of the world, the assurance of a next meal can be anything but certain. Fortunately, many are working to […]
724 – Getting Your Landscape in Shape with a Personal Garden Coach
Just as athletes have trainers, gardeners can have personal coaches to help us confidently achieve the landscape of our dreams. In this episode, we accompany a Seattle-based garden coach to […]
723 – Natural Pest and Disease Control – Greener Solutions to Common Gardening Challenges
Beyond the popular beneficial lady beetle, lies a host of not-so‐well known insects and organic products that are surprisingly efficient at keeping pest populations and plant diseases in check. This […]
722 – The Waterwise Landscape and Garden
With severe water shortages and drought grabbing an ever growing piece of our daily news, it only stands to reason, conserving this precious resource is more important than ever. Gardeners […]
721 – Take the LEED at Phipps Conservatory – The Greenest Conservatory in the World
At the height of our nation’s industrial revolution over 100 years ago, wealthy businessman Henry Phipps built the Phipps Conservatory as a gift to the city of Pittsburg. Today Phipps […]
720 – Talking Trash-Dealing with Plastic Pots, Packaging and more
Each year, millions of plastic plant containers and tons of other horticultural debris never make it to the recycling bin. Instead, they clog our solid waste stream in a growing […]
719 – Growing Up with Living Walls and Vertical Gardens
With the constant expansion of urban sprawl, gardeners and designers are looking up for new ways to add green spaces. As a result, living walls are one of the newest […]
718 – Green Roofs-The Benefits Beyond the Beauty
Green roofs are gaining popularity in commercial and residential design, offering a nearly untapped, limitless space to plants perennials, shrubs, even trees. They also cool the air in and above […]
717 – Native and Invasive Plants & Certified Wildlife Habitats
When overseas travel became possible, exotic plants were common cargo on ships all across the world. Unfortunately, many of those plants proved to be far more aggressive outside of […]
716 – More Ways to Create an Eco-Friendly Landscape at Home
Having an eco-friendly garden is catching on as homeowners strive to create more sustainable outdoor spaces. In this episode, we visit a Florida couple to discuss the sustainability project they […]
715 – Creating an Eco-Friendly Landscape from the Ground Up
Most homeowners understand the value of gardening in an eco‐friendly manner, but many of us need guidance on how to do it properly. Every day, we unwittingly make poor choices […]
714 – Red, White, and GREEN: America’s Earth-Friendly Vineyard
Producing wines that are as good for the earth as they are on the palate is a proposition far too risky for most wineries. But not for Fetzer Vineyards—one of […]
713 – Growing Healthy Foods and Sustainable Communities
The modern farmer often bears no resemblance to the old stereotype. Many young farmers today are growing much more than just healthy crops. They’re thinking outside the plot to raise […]
712 – Growing Big Flavors in Small Spaces
The busier we get, the more we seem to seek a time when life wasn’t so fast. A movement toward a simple yet flavorful lifestyle, often associated with the term […]
711 – Community Gardens: Growing So Much More Than Plants
Having an opportunity to participate in a community garden builds a sense of community like nothing else. It provides opportunities for exercise, education, therapy, relaxation and social interaction, along with […]
710 – Saving Seeds for Future Generations: Seed Savers Exchange
Few people realize that less than 10% of all seed varieties commonly grown in 1900 are still with us today. They’re extinct–gone forever, because no one took the time to […]
709 – The Edible Schoolyard: A Class Without Walls and a Love to Learn
In all the years of producing episodes for Growing a Greener World, we’ve observed one theme that always holds true: place a student in a learning environment that includes growing […]
708 – Beyond Veggies: Adding Fruit to Your Food Garden
The natural first step to growing food is usually a small vegetable plot or garden. For many, the desire to expand their palate often finds them considering fruit trees or […]
707 – Know Your Farmer: Supporting Community Agriculture
The next best thing to growing your own fresh produce is to have someone local do it for you. That’s the basis of community supported agriculture co-ops, known as CSAs. […]
706- Beyond Organic Gardening: The Principles of Permaculture
While organic gardening is a great way to work in harmony with nature as we learn to garden and farm without chemicals, permaculture is all that and more. In fact, […]
705 – Dominica: Island Ingenuity in Sustainability
It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. And when your resources are limited, you quickly learn to make the most of them, while protecting what you have. […]
704 – The 50-Mile Bouquet: Why Local Matters with Flowers, Too
We’ve all heard the term “sustainably grown.” But have you ever stopped to consider that it can apply to more than food? In fact, the flowers you put on your […]
703 – Masters of the Edible Landscape
A common misconception of food gardens is that they’re ugly and unsuitable in front yards or as ornamental displays. Accordingly, they’re typically relegated to out of sight corners in backyards. […]
702-Regenerating Detroit Through Urban Gardening
Once America’s most productive manufacturing city, Detroit’s economic landscape took a turn for the worse in the mid 1960s. But in recent years, green-minded citizens have begun to reclaim […]
701 – The Giving Garden: Ample Harvest Helps Share the Bounty
If you’ve ever grown a vegetable garden, you’ve probably had more of something than you could use at the end of the season. That was the basis for how AmpleHarvest.org […]
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