Hothouse
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHothouse is a podcast about design, ecology, and the way we garden now. Host Leah Churner sits down with experts and enthusiasts to talk about permaculture, the urban landscape, and how plants sometimes give us the feels. A meeting of the minds for plant people and the horticulture-curious, Hothouse is a different kind of gardening show: less of the how-to and more of the who, what, where, when, and why.
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Myths and Misconceptions | Linda Lehmusvirta
May 09, 2018 15:53 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBLeah sits down with Linda Lehmusvirta, the producer of KLRU’s Central Texas Gardener, to find out what goes on behind the scenes of this long-running, award-winning public television show. Linda’s been producing CTG since the beginning, in the 1980s, when it began as a live call-in show. Viewership has now expanded beyond its namesake region, as CTG now airs weekly on PBS stations from Amarillo to Corpus Christi, and from Myrtle Beach to Tucson. Over the years, Linda has filmed hundreds of g...
Healing Spaces | Jenny Peterson, The Cancer Survivor's Garden Companion
April 25, 2018 14:12 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBJoin your host, Leah Churner, as she sits down with Jenny Peterson, author of The Cancer Survivor's Garden Companion (St. Lynn's Press, 2016) to talk about the therapeutic power of gardening. As a landscape designer, urban farmer, and breast-cancer survivor, Jenny has unique insight on the healing potential of outdoor spaces. She explains how to find relief in the garden, whether you're experiencing illness, stress, grief, anxiety, or depression. For many reasons, working with plants can hel...
Gardening is a Political Act | Colleen Dieter
April 11, 2018 04:22 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBWelcome to the first episode of Hothouse, a podcast about design, ecology, and the way we garden now. Join your host, Leah Churner, as she sits down with organic gardening aficionado Colleen Dieter of Red Wheelbarrow Landscape Consulting (www.atxgardens.com) to talk about the joys of seed saving, cultivating a rich sense of place, and how "now, more than ever, gardening is a political act." Our book recommendation this week is Biophilia, by Edward O. Wilson. This interview was recorded in...
The Gloves are Coming Off
April 04, 2018 15:19 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MBIntroducing Hothouse, a new podcast about design, ecology, and the way we garden now. Hosted by Leah Churner, a landscape designer in Austin, Texas, Hothouse is a meeting of the minds for plant people and the horticulture-curious. Listen for long-form, wide-ranging conversations about the intersection of nature, culture, and politics. Coming April 2018! Email us at [email protected]. Music by Moonsicles (Moonsicles.bandcamp.com).