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 […]
TV Episodes
Growing A Greener World is currently airing Season Twelve, and you can see them listed below as they are released. You can also scroll through all episodes below (in the order they were released) or view by season using the season links.
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 […]
Episode 626 – Designing a Landscape
This is a show about the concept of designing the landscape. What it’s not is a makeover show. It was never intended as that. The idea for this episode was more about understanding the process […]
Episode 624 – Growing Without Soil: Hydroponics
As the world struggles to find space to grow food, an expanding market has emerged in the most unlikely places. One of the most popular practices is known as hydroponics, […]
Episode 623 – Year-round Growing with Eliot Coleman
Mention the term “four-season gardening” and more often than not, Eliot Coleman is likely to come up. He pretty much owns the space when it comes to year-round growing in […]
Episode 622 – Commercial Composting & How to Make a Worm Bin
As much as you may love compost, one of the biggest challenges is not in knowing how to make it (which we dedicated an entire episode to), but in making […]
Episode 621 – The New Generation of Farmers
One of the most inspiring movements in modern agriculture today is a growing trend of young farmers coming on the scene. And just in time. With the average age of […]
Episode 620 – Bringing Nature Home
Our love affair with alien plants, along with unchecked habitat loss to urban sprawl is taking a significant toll on important native plants. In too many areas of the country, […]
Episode 618 – The Truth About Organic Gardening with Jeff Gillman
Horticulturalists and guru to all things gardening, Jeff Gillman, Ph.D literally wrote the book on the truth about organic gardening. He’s particularly fond of telling it like it really is, […]
Episode 617 – Four Farmers and a Bus
This story has been one of our most popular episodes ever. You gotta love a story about four childhood friends that decide to take a cross-country trip (and back) on […]
Episode 616: A Primer on Pruning
While pruning can be an intimidating project it doesn’t have to be. Learning these simple steps can have you fearlessly pruning like a pro in no time. This episode will help you see that not only is it important for promoting vigorous growth, it’s easier than you think.
Episode 615: The Rodale Institute – Champions of Organic Gardening
“Healthy soil equals healthy food, equals healthy people, equals a healthy planet”. It’s the mantra of J.I. Rodale, the founder of the Rodale Institute in 1941. In her interview with […]
Episode 614: Moss is Boss – To Grow it is to Love it
Moss is the most beautiful yet under appreciated ground cover. You’ll be amazed at how beautiful yet undemanding moss is, and why we should all be growing more of it.
Episode 612: Practical Steps to a Weedless Garden
While no garden is ever weed-free, you can have a “weedless” garden. This episode shows you how.
Episode 611: Annies Annuals – Preserving Horticultural Diversity
Growing a Greener World visits Annie Hayes of world-renowned, Annies Annuals and Perennials. Here 2.5 acre nursery just outside of San Francisco, specializes in organically grown, hard to find heirloom annual and perennial flowers, all grown in four-inch pots.
Episode 610: Bringing Bees Back
If you’re a fan of the show, you know we’ve talked a lot about protecting and keeping honeybees. But this show is not as much about that. It’s about creating […]
Episode 609: Rooftop Farming in NYC
Brooklyn Grange, currently America’s largest rooftop farm, produces over 40,000 pounds of fresh produce on over 2-acres of rooftop farms, overlooking the heart of NYC.
Episode 608: The Business of Urban Backyard Food Gardens
For more information: Seattle Urban Farm Company featured on this episode BK Farmyards featured on this episode 10 Steps to Becoming a Locavore Food Gardening Boom from Recession Continues […]
Episode 607: Oh Deer-Dealing With Garden Pests
This episode of Growing a Greener World addresses how to most effectively deal with deer and other pests of gardens and landscapes.
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