We Dig Plants
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsWe Dig Plants® brings the Culture to Horticulture. Examining our human interaction with plants via authors, industry professionals, historians, plants people, cooks, gardeners & artists and combining our 20 plus years of designing gardens, we delve into the magic, power and influence of plants within a global context and share that charm with international listeners.
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Episode 212: Zone Envy – Zone 1
December 12, 2017 20:26 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBOn our season finale, host Carmen Devito visits Zone 1 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes Alaska, and also revisits Zone 13, which includes Puerto Rico. First, we hear from Peter Johnson and Rusty Foreaker, agronomists with Alaska's Department of Natural Resources Division of Agriculture. After the break, we're joined by Dr. Grizelle González, Project Leader of the Research and Development Unit at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico. We Dig Pla...
Episode 211: Zone Envy – Zone 2
November 14, 2017 18:59 - 59 minutes - 54 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 2 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes Fairbanks, Alaska, where our first guest Cyndie Warbelow is a gardener. After the break, we're joined by Marta McDowell, author of The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes That Inspired the Little House Books. We Dig Plants is powered by Simplecast
Episode 210: Zone Envy – Zone 3
October 17, 2017 17:58 - 56 minutes - 52 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 3 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes parts of Alaska. Joining them on the line is Jeff Lowenfels, the author of a trilogy of award winning books on plants and soil, and the longest running garden columnist in North America. We Dig Plants is powered by Simplecast
Episode 209: Zone Envy – Zone 4
September 19, 2017 17:58 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 4 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes the Wisconsin prairie. A pioneer in the native plant industry and recognized internationally as an expert in native plant community ecology, Neil Diboll has guided the growth of Prairie Nursery for 30 years. He has dedicated his life to the propagation of native plants and their promotion as uniquely beautiful, ecologically beneficial and sustainable solu...
Episode 208: Zone Envy – Zone 5
August 22, 2017 18:48 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 5 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes parts of both Nebraska and Iowa. Del and Alice Hemsath are members of Nebraska's Soil Sisters and Misters Garden Club, which promotes education of the general public about the importance of outside activities for health, supports community projects, and provides education for youth and adults. Kelly Norris is an award-winning author and plantsman from Io...
Episode 207: Zone Envy – Zone 6
July 11, 2017 18:03 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 6 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes Utah and western New York. Geoff Ellis is a landscape architect in Salt Lake City. He was born and raised in Utah and received a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from Utah State University. He is the Past President of the Utah Associated Garden Clubs and currently the President of the Alternative Garden Club. Sally Cunningham is a garden writer,...
Episode 206: Zone Envy – Zone 7
June 20, 2017 18:15 - 51 minutes - 47 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 7 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes our home state of New York, as well as Virginia. Joining them are Dr. Cait Field, Manager for Science and Research Development at Freshkills Park in Staten Island, and Symsi Houser, Operations Coordinator for the Virginia Beach Department of Parks and Recreation.
Episode 205: Slow Food in Denver: Deeply Rooted
June 13, 2017 17:53 - 49 minutes - 45 MBJohn Coykendall is a renowned heirloom seed saver, a classically trained artist, and Master Gardener at Blackberry Farm, one of America’s top resorts. For nearly four decades, Coykendall’s passion has been preserving the farm heritage – the seeds and stories - of a small, farming culture in Southeastern Louisiana, and this work is the subject of a new documentary, Deeply Rooted, from Louisiana Public Broadcasting. The documentary will be screening at Slow Food Nations in Denver this July.
Episode 204: Zone Envy – Zone 8
May 23, 2017 17:59 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThis month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 8 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes the great state of Texas. First, they're joined by Master Gardener Jenny Peterson of J. Peterson Garden Design, which has been creating cool gardens in the Austin area since 2001. She is also the author of The Cancer Survivor’s Garden Companion: Cultivating Hope, Healing & Joy in the Ground Beneath Your Feet. After the break, Rick Herman of the Chihuahua...
Episode 203: Zone Envy – Zone 9
May 09, 2017 17:59 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBOn the summer season premiere of We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 9 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes New Orleans and Palm Springs. First up is Ann Macdonald, director of The New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways. Employees at the Department of Parks and Parkways perform an enormous number of tasks to maintain and upgrade public green spaces, and to re-green and beautify New Orleans. After the break, we’re joined by Troy Bankord...
Episode 202: Zone Envy – Zone 10
March 21, 2017 18:20 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, Alice and Carmen examine Zone 10 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes parts of Oregon, Florida, and Arizona. First, we're joined by Chris Daly, a senior research professor at Oregon State University, and founding director of the PRISM Climate Group. Next up is Denyse Cunningham, curator of the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens in Fort Lauderdale. And last but not least, we hear from Humberto Hernandez, farm superintendent of the University of Arizona.
Episode 201: Zone Envy – Zone 11
February 28, 2017 19:27 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, Alice and Carmen examine Zone 11 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes both Hawaii and Florida. First, we're joined by Brandon von Damitz, co-founder of Big Island Coffee Roasters in Hawaii. After the break, we meet James Jiler of Urban GreenWorks, an organization which provides environmental programs and green job training to incarcerated men and women, youth remanded by court to drug rehab and at-risk high-school youth in low-income neighborhoods.
Episode 200: Zone Envy – Zones 12 and 13
January 24, 2017 19:20 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBOn the season premiere of We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito introduce a new series examining the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, taking you across the country one zone at a time. The map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones. This week, we're joined by Scott Appell of Puerto Rico's Zone 13, and...
Episode 199: The High Line! Symbol of Transformation and Grace
December 12, 2016 19:48 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBGrace, thirty feet above the Most Urban of Jungles. On the season finale of We Dig Plants, senior gardener John Gunderson joins Alice and Carmen to discuss gardening and garden practices at the High Line public park.
Episode 198: Betsy Barlow Rogers and the Green Metropolis
December 05, 2016 19:49 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined in the studio by Elizabeth "Betsy" Barlow Rogers, a landscape designer, landscape preservationist and writer, whose lasting memorial is the revitalization of Central Park, New York City. This took place under her guidance as the first Central Park Administrator, and through the Central Park Conservancy, a private not-for-profit corporation that was founded, largely through Rogers' efforts, in 1980 to bring citi...
Episode 197: The Scout's Guide to Wild Edibles
November 28, 2016 20:02 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito speak with renowned forager, food educator, and author Mike Krebill over the phone on his book, The Scout's Guide to Wild Edibles: Learn How to Forage, Prepare & Eat 40 Wild Foods. Organic supermarkets are common for New Yorkers and few of us are foraging for sustenance, but the practice of finding edible plants in the wild is actually on the rise. We go “Into the Wild” with Mike and discuss how his portable, instruction...
Episode 196: Caroline Seebohm and Curtice Taylor
November 21, 2016 19:52 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined by Caroline Seebohm and Curtice Taylor, author and photographer, respectively, of the book Rescuing Eden: Preserving America's Historic Gardens. From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina—Rescuing Eden celebrates...
Episode 195: Community Garden History in NYC with GrowNYC.org
November 14, 2016 19:50 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined in the studio by Gerard Lordahl, Director of Open Space Greening for GrowNYC. GrowNYC is the sustainability resource for New Yorkers, providing free tools and services anyone can use in order to improve our city and environment. With over 30 years of experience in urban and community gardening, Gerard currently leads a dedicated team of city-wide environmental professionals who design, maintain and coordinate ...
Episode 194: Eight Flavors with Sarah Lohman
November 07, 2016 19:48 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined by Sarah Lohman, author of the forthcoming Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. The book introduces the explorers, merchants, botanists, farmers, writers, and chefs whose choices came to define the American palate, and uses long-forgotten recipes to explain how eight flavors changed the way we eat.
Episode 193: The Garden Awakening
October 24, 2016 18:52 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBOn this Halloween edition of We Dig Plants, hosts Alice and Carmen are joined by Mary Reynolds, a landscape designer and author of the book The Garden Awakening: Designs To Nurture Our Land and Ourselves. The book is a step by step instruction manual drawing on ancient methods of working with the land and using them to invite the power and energy of nature back into your life and surround your house and life in its life giving healing embrace. Introduction to the book: Everything becomes s...
Episode 192: Part 3: Technology & Horticulture Series: GrowIt Mobile app: Community Based Plant Identification and Gardening Information
October 17, 2016 18:50 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, Alice and Carmen are joined by Megan Uithoven, Community Manager for GrowIt! GrowIt! is a mobile app that connects gardeners through photos and comments using geo-location technology. GrowIt! is the only app that allows you to rate plant pictures from your area. The goal is to engage the next generation of gardeners (Millennials mostly, ages 20-38). This free mobile app is the first of its kind, creating a social platform for users to promote plants they love a...
Episode 191: part 2 - Technology & Horticulture Building Stone Walls with Natural Stone Wall Solutions
October 10, 2016 18:25 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, Alice and Carmen are joined by Troy Guinther, founder and CEO of Natural Stone Wall Solutions. Natural Stone Wall Solutions was founded by a team of engineers and certified landscape architects using an innovative new method of building and seamlessly installing retaining and freestanding natural stone walls. Their retaining walls typically cost 25–50% less than traditional stone and stone veneer walls with an installation rate 20x faster than both methods.
Episode 190: FarmBot
October 03, 2016 18:09 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBToday on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito do their part to contribute to the "robots will take our jobs" story! Our guest: Rory Aronson, the creator of the FarmBot. This robot is installed above a planter box, before Raspberry Pi, a rudimentary (and cheap) computer pushes it into action. FarmBot then plants and waters seeds in order to grow crops with minimal human labor.
Episode 189: The Chanticleer Foundation
September 19, 2016 18:17 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Krieg are joined by William Thomas, executive director of the Chanticleer Foundation. Chanticleer has been called the most romantic, imaginative, and exciting public garden in America. The garden is a study of textures and forms, where foliage trumps flowers, the gardeners lead the design, and even the drinking fountains are sculptural. It is a garden of pleasure and learning, relaxing yet filled with ideas to take home.
Episode 188: Garden of Discovery with Alice and Carmen
September 12, 2016 18:16 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBOn the season premiere of We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito discuss their new gardening exhibit, Garden of Discovery, which consists of growing tobacco, rice, cotton, begonias, and other plants with strange tales to tell in an urban setting – 550 11th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn to be exact. For more information about the project, which will run from September 17th to the end of October, visit http://www.wedigplantspodcast.com/.
Episode 187: Dr. Richard T. Olsen of the U.S. National Arboretum
August 15, 2016 18:16 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBOn the season finale of We Dig Plants, hosts Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Krieg speak with Dr. Richard T. Olsen, director of the U.S. National Arboretum. Prior to this appointment, he was a Research Geneticist and Lead Scientist in the Floral and Nursery Plant Research Unit (FNPRU) at the USNA. He reinvigorated the USNA’s urban tree program and developed new woody ornamental breeding projects utilizing genetic tools such as ploidy manipulation and interspecific and intergeneric breeding st...
Episode 186: All the Presidents' Gardens
July 11, 2016 18:49 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are joined by Marta McDowell, a teacher of landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, and consultant for private clients and public gardens. Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman’s Day, Fine Gardening and The New York Times. Marta's book All the Presidents' Gardens tells the untold history of the White House grounds. Starting with the seed-collecting, plant-obsess...
Episode 185: Yvonne Horn On The World's Exceptional Gardens
June 20, 2016 18:28 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAuthor Yvonne Horn calls in to tell us about her travels to exceptional gardens around the world, from Macau to Iceland, Germany and England.
Episode 184: The Archangel of Ancient Trees – Cloning The Giants
March 07, 2016 20:01 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito wrap up their season on horticulture in America. They then chat with guest David Milarch, founder of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit that seeks to replicate the genetic material of the world’s biggest and oldest trees (the ones Milarch calls “champion trees”) and replant them anew, all around the world.
Episode 183: The Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
February 29, 2016 23:04 - 48 minutes - 44 MBOn this week’s episode of We Dig Plants, host Alice Marcus Krieg welcomes guests Dr. Richard McCourt and Dr. Alfred E. (Ernie) Schuyler, both of Philadelphia, to discuss the plants and horticulture associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Dr. McCourt is the Associate Curator of Botany at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences, Dr. Schuyler is its Curator Emeritus. “[Thomas Jefferson] didn’t like to use [tobacco], but Ernie says he grew it. He did live in Virginia, after all....
Episode 182: Part 3 – America’s Horticultural Heritage – NYC Markets & Amsterdam Influences
February 22, 2016 20:10 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBOn today’s episode of We Dig Plants we welcome Russell Shorto, an American author, historian, and journalist best known for his book on the Dutch origins of New York City, The Island at the Center of the World. The book is currently being developed into a dramatic series for PBS with Ridley Scott and David Zucker as executive producers. Shorto and hosts Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Krieg discuss how so much of our American identity and horticultural heritage comes from the Dutch. “Just in...
Episode 181: President’s Day Flowers
February 15, 2016 20:23 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBOn this President’s Day edition of We Dig Plants, hosts Carmen Devito and Alice Marcus Krieg examine the roots of America’s horticultural heritage through the vision of its first families. From Washington to Lincoln, right up to the present day, American presidents and first ladies have had an undeniable influence on our nation’s horticulture. Guest Robin Selfridge joins in to discuss how this horticultural heritage has been documented in our coins and stamps. Finally, we learn a bit more ab...
Episode 180: Prince’s Nursery Then, Queens Botanical Garden Now
February 08, 2016 20:12 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this episode of We Dig Plants, Executive Director Susan Lacerte of the Queens Botanical Garden and former Executive Director Roland “Chuck” Wade talks about how Flushing is the birthplace of the American horticultural industry. Prince Nursery was the first ever commercial catalog of plants. They came out around when the Boston Massacre was in 1737. This catalog was released when most people were still subsistence farming. Tune in to hear about how Americans saved the French wine industry ...
Episode 179: Art of Moving Specimen Trees
February 01, 2016 19:54 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBToday on We Dig Plants, hosts Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Krieg are talking trees… really big trees… and what it takes to move them! Tune in as they are joined by David Cox of Environmental Design, Inc./TreeMovers.com, the premier tree transplanting company in the world.
Episode 178: Planting in a Post Wild World
January 25, 2016 20:09 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBThis week on We Dig Plants , solo host Alice Marcus Krieg is on the line with Thomas Rainer. Thomas is a landscape architect, teacher, and writer who lives in Arlington, Virginia. He has designed landscapes for the United States Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and the New York Botanical Garden, and recently teamed up with Claudia West to write the book, “Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes.” These two leading voices in e...
Episode 177: China: Mother of Gardens Part 3: The Peony
January 18, 2016 20:04 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBTune in as Alice and Carmen wrap up their series, “China: Mother of Gardens,” discussing the beautiful peony. Dan Furman of Cricket Hill Peonies is on the line discussing the history and evolution of this flower, sharing that his focus is the Chinese tree peony (Paeonia sufferuticosa) and that they are among the most elegant, vibrantly colored flowers you will ever come across, so much so that the Chinese call them their National Flower. For over 1300 years, tree peonies have been growing ...
Episode 176: China: Mother of Gardens: Part 2 Camellias
January 11, 2016 20:05 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBHow have native Chinese plants changed Western gardens? Continuing their focus on Eastern Asian plants, this week We Dig Plants takes on the Camellia. Between the interesting factoids that link the Camellia to both the economic and ornamental realms, Carmen and Alice share the history behind the Camellia sinensis (tea plant) before getting Brienne Gluvna Arthur on the line in the second half of the show to further discuss the differences between Camellias commonly found throughout the Unite...
Episode 175: China: Mother of Gardens Part 1 of 3
January 04, 2016 20:03 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBHow have native Chinese plants changed Western gardens? Find out on a brand new episode of We Dig Plants. Carmen & Alice are joined by Dan Hinkley. Dan is an American plantsman, garden writer, horticulturist and nurseryman. He is best known for establishing Heronswood Nursery, in Kingston, Washington; and Windcliff, on the Kitsap Peninsula near Indianola, WA; and for collecting, propagating, and naming varieties of plants new to the North American nursery trade. “You can promote a plant fo...
Episode 173: Plants with Style: Kelly Norris
December 14, 2015 20:33 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBKelly Norris is a 20-something, award-winning author and plantsman from Iowa and the first director of horticulture at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, a newly revitalized 14-acre public garden in Des Moines, Iowa, and this week he joins Alice and Carmen for this season’s last show of _ We Dig Plants _. Popularly known for his book “A Guide to Bearded Irises: Cultivating the Rainbow for Beginners and Enthusiasts” and his second book, “Plants with Style,” he is also a speaker that has...
Episode 172: Heirloom Harvest with Amy Goldman
December 07, 2015 19:56 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBOn two hundred acres in the Hudson Valley, Amy Goldman grows heirloom fruits and vegetables–an orchard full of apples, pears, and peaches; plots of squash, melons, cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and beets. Today, she joins Alice and Carmen for a brand new episode of We Dig Plants. Talking her new book, “Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures,” she shares her passion for preserving agricultural heritage, beautiful and unique heirlooms that truly are org...
Episode 171: Abbie Zabar of Wave Hill
November 30, 2015 20:09 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB_ We Dig Plants _ is getting artsy this week as Alice and Carmen welcome Abbie Zabar to the studio for a thorough talk on her work. Abbie is an acclaimed artist, graphic and garden designer, and the author of five books. Her first book, The Potted Herb (1988), is now considered a gardening classic. Her landscape collages have been represented by Allan Stone and BlumHelman, and the Flowers in the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art series has been represented by Ursus Books & Prints ...
Episode 170: Homesteading Again
November 23, 2015 20:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis week on _ We Dig Plants _, Alice and Carmen are tipping their hats to the homesteaders that settled the country located west of the Mississippi River. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. On the line with Dan Housho...
Episode 169: The Visual Language of GMOs
November 16, 2015 19:56 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBFruits and vegetables have changed a lot since the onset of agriculture 10,000 years ago, as generation after generation of farmers artificially bred crops to select for more desirable traits like size and taste. Today on _ We Dig Plants _, Alice and Carmen are visualizing and delving into the vast world of plant genetics and breeding with James Kennedy, on the line from Australia. A VCE Chemistry teacher at Haileybury, one of Australia’s largest and leading independent schools, he has 5 ye...
Episode 168: Disruptors: A New Botanic Garden Grows In Brooklyn
November 09, 2015 20:03 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBA small patch of land within the 58-acre Shore Road Park, Narrows Botanical Gardenswas formerly an overlooked area of parkland. Today the gardens thrive, enriching the lives of nearby residents and on the line with hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito is Jimmy Johnson, urban landscape designer heavily involved with the Narrows Botanical Gardens. Continuing the series on horticultural disrupters, We Dig Plants is delving into the recent trend in park management: community involvement. J...
Episode 167: Disrupters: Shaking up the Green Business – Emergent
November 02, 2015 20:02 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis week on _ We Dig Plants _, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are talking green business with Brienne Gluvna Arthur. By day, a grower and propagator at the Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina, Brienne is also dedicated to connecting with horticulturalists around the country with the groups Emergent and Green Women Unite, not to mention her blogging and posting on her own growing of ancient grains. Tune in to hear how Brienne is changing the space around her through being...
Episode 166: The Makers of Botanical Beauty
October 26, 2015 18:55 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBWrapping up the series on botanical beauty, this week on _ We Dig Plants _ Alice and Carmen welcome the team behind Brooklyn Bar and Bath, Joann Montalto and Itala Pelizzoli. Launching their natural skincare business to give a fresh, natural alternative to products that pack a long list of unpronounceable ingredients, the ladies discuss becoming more conscious about knowing exactly what we put on our bodies on a daily basis. After the break, the hosts are on the line with Jenn Segale of Gard...
Episode 165: Guide to Botanical Products 101
October 19, 2015 19:05 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBContinuing with the beauty and botanical series, Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito welcome beauty expert Trae Bodge to detail her favorite plant based productions on this week’s _ We Dig Plants _. Sharing a great detail of fascinating facts about ingredients like blueberries, chocolate, and even coffee for skin care, Trae even comments on the use of cannabis in beauty products. Which are the best ingredients to look for on beauty labels? If you only use makeup sparingly, which are the i...
Episode 164: Dr. Hauschka Skin Care: Pioneers and Rebels
October 12, 2015 18:50 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBContinuing the series on the intersection between plants and beauty regimes, solo host Carmen Devito welcomes Mandi Vance from the Dr. Hauschka team to this week’s We Dig Plants. Dr. Hauschka Skin Care preparations and treatment methods are based on the founder’s mission “to support the healing of humanity and the earth,” a mission reflected in everything from the sustainable agriculture behind our ingredients to their holistic approach to business. Talking the fascinating background of the...
Episode 163: Botanical Beauty part 1 of 4: A Miscellany
October 05, 2015 18:36 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBThis week hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are in studio talking about botanical beauty, a first installment of a four part series, previewing plants’ deep roots in beauty regimes. From the Egyptians and Cleopatra to Ancient Rome to Indian cosmetic practices, plants (and other interesting ingredients!) have been used around the world throughout the ages to dye hair, cover scars, enhance eyebrows, tint skin, and more. Tune in for a fascinating show and hear what the next few episo...
Episode 162: Heaven is a Garden
September 28, 2015 18:53 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWhy do some gardens make us feel so wonderful, relaxed and refreshed? Using ideas based on ancient and modern practices, today’s guest on We Dig Plants, landscape designer Jan Johnsen, explains how you can uplift yourself and others in a serene setting designed for “unplugging” and relaxing. Whether you are intending to create a lovely garden or just thinking about a future outdoor haven, her new book “Heaven is a Garden” helps you see your backyard in a whole new light and reawaken an aware...