My summer garden looks amazing! Everything is lush and thriving, in spite of challenging conditions common to the hot humid south. While I’ve come to expect that, experience has taught […]
Compost Confidential
Compost Confidential is the blog of Host and Executive Producer Joe Lamp'l - Where he shares the backstory of each episode and gives you a behind-the-scenes view of Growing A Greener World.
How to Top Tomatoes – What to do When Tomato Plants Get Too Tall
Knowing how to top tomatoes and what to do when tomato plants get too tall will give you the confidence to tame your plants while keeping them healthy and productive. […]
Meet the Ultimate Tomato Cage Support
Sometime last summer, likely around the time my tomato plants were loaded with fruit and breaking branches right and left (again), I wrote a blog post lamenting about my fantasy […]
Can You Trust The Compost You Buy?
In my book, compost is the single best soil amendment you can add to your lawn and garden. Even better, you can make it for free. So not only is […]
The Greatest Gardens Start With a Single Plant
I must admit, I have a pretty good job. Much of each year is spent traveling the country, visiting many of America’s most beautiful gardens for the television series I […]
The Resiliency of Nature
Celebrating the Resiliency of Nature on Earth Day I’m fortunate to have a job where travel allows and even requires me to see many beautiful gardens around the country. But […]
Five Steps to a Beautiful Organic Lawn
Junk food. That’s how I think of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides when it comes to lawncare. When you’re hungry- really hungry- what do you reach for to satisfy that craving? […]
The secret to fearless pruning; 5 steps to prune like a pro
Pruning Primer: From Newbie to Ninja Every gardener has heard that pruning is important. But getting out in the garden and actually doing it is a frightening challenge to many. […]
How 3 Simple Steps Saved My Garden
The Three Biggest Steps I Took in 2014 to Make My 2015 Garden the Best Ever In boxing, every fighter eventually squares off in the ring against a particularly crafty […]
My 3 Biggest Gardening Mistakes of 2014
A term I’ve used often in the world of gardening is this: No matter how much you know about gardening, there’s always more to learn. Any time you’re at the […]
Green Bronx Machine
Sowing Seeds and Saving Lives – The Power of a Classroom Farm Imagine if more people adopted the philosophy of Stephen Ritz. Not willing to accept the things he can’t […]
In Pursuit of the Ultimate Tomato Support
From the Department of, “do as I say and not as I do”, I missed a great opportunity this year to try out my idea for the perfect tomato trellising […]
Thinking Big at Little Creek Oyster Ranch
You’ve no doubt heard the phrase; “the world is your oyster”. It comes from a quote in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The implication is that the world is […]
Building a Pallet Compost Bin
Building a composting bin using pallets is an incredibly easy project and a great use for these common items. Here’s what you need to know to build your own. Also be […]
In the Life and Garden of Margaret Roach
With over 100 episodes spanning the past four years, we’ve been to a lot of amazing places and told some pretty incredible stories. And the more we do, the harder […]
Off the Grid, or at Least Getting Closer
By the time we finish editing our shows that you see on television or online, they’re very well mapped out.Yet even in the final hours, it’s not unusual for us […]
Killer Compost
It Happened to Us! I say it often; it’s alright to make mistakes as long as you learn from them—especially in the garden. Well, I made a doozy recently and […]
The Show I Thought Would Never Germinate
As they say, the third time’s the charm. Such was the case with this episode covering some of the most important things to know about starting plants from seeds. I […]
The Power of a Classroom Garden
If every school administrator had the chance to see what I saw over the two days spent at The Manhattan School while filming our episode on The Greenhouse Classroom, there […]
Episode 308 Bonus Clip: Occupational Therapy
The work on the Veteran’s Farm (Full Episode: 308) embodies occupational therapy, a science-driven, holistic profession that helps people recover from a wide range of physical and mental challenges through […]
Polyface Farm: 3 Hours of Rain, 2 Days of Filming and 1 Farmer Making a Difference
This behind-the-scenes post is by Co-Executive Producer, Theresa Loe. It was definitely a “white-knuckler” as we barreled down a Virginia dirt road in the pitch darkness of the early morning. […]
You Can’t Change the Weather; But you CAN Garden in it!
Whenever we set out to tell a story for Growing a Greener World, we look for the very best place to do so. That means going to the most perfect […]
Backyard Composting; So Much to Say, So Little Time
With two full seasons behind us now, it’s been an interesting exercise to look back on all the episodes we’ve done, the places we’ve been, and the subjects we’ve covered. […]
Back to School… Life Embedded at The Farm School
Before this season started, there was one episode I was most excited about shooting and this was it! I didn’t even know if such a place really existed but somewhere […]
The Accidental Pallet Garden – Oh Yeah!
On occasion, some of the best segments that make it into our shows were never part of the original outline. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit that, but this blog is about […]
Gary’s Tips on Starting a Community Garden on the Cheap
Our episode on Gardening for the Hungry premiered today. And within hours, the questions started coming. Several were like one I’ve pasted below. It’s great if you already have a […]
Living and Eating Locally – if we can just get to our location!
Part of what’s so cool about this local-living movement is all the new cottage industries cropping up as a result that involve food and gardening. Our Episode 219 featured the […]
If friends were flowers, I’d pick them at Jello Mold Farm
This was a fun shoot. Most are good, but some are better than others and this was one of those. First off, we were in a beautiful setting; an organic […]
The Real Rock Stars of Food and Gardening
Over the last two seasons of Growing a Greener World, we’ve covered some cool topics and interviewed some pretty amazing people along the way. But this show was a first. In one […]
When Growing Up is Your Only Option…
A lot of the reason I love my work so much is because of all the great inspirational stories we get to tell that include my favorite subject: gardening. And […]
Young Farmers; Real-life Super Heroes
The following post is written to accompany episode 213, on Young Farmers. It’s more of the backstory because we can never tell or show it all in 30 minutes. If […]
Shedding Light on Good Trees and Clueless People
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. John Muir So here’s the backstory […]
3 Things I Learned on Our GGW Road Trip to a Foreign Country
I knew sooner or later we’d branch out beyond the contiguous 48. I mean after all, we are Growing a Greener World, right? So when Nathan called with an idea […]
Sometimes You Have to Ruffle a Few Feathers
As the GGW team looks back on all the episodes filmed for season two, the chicken show will be one we talk about a lot. Besides being so completely fun […]
When Life Gives you Dead, Stuffed Rats…
Driving home that Friday evening from Athens, Georgia, after a long day of filming, I should have been more excited. The critter control show was pretty much in the can. […]
PodPonics and Windowfarms
I have to admit, of all the types of gardening I’ve tried, hydroponics is actually not one I’ve done yet! I guess I’m just a hands-in-the-dirt kinda guy. But all […]
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