Latest Harrowsmithmagazine Podcast Episodes
Up Schitt's Creek and a Walk in a Historic Garden
Harrowsmith Radio - June 08, 2022 17:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, I chat with Andrew Barnsley, an executive producer of the Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek. We discuss how and why small-town Canada has found a place in the hearts of audiences around the world. Next up, is a walking tour of the historical kitchen garden of Dundurn ...
A Reborn Mill and the Sustainability of Birds
Harrowsmith Radio - May 14, 2022 10:47 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, we learn how COVID and a fortuitous canoe trip led to an affordable housing expert and an architect buying and giving fresh purpose to a 135-year-old grist mill in Paisley, Ontario. Next, how cities and citizens can make their communities more friendly for birds,...
The COVID Departure Lounge
Harrowsmith Radio - March 11, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode, I chat with world traveller and advocate for tossing your bucket list Heather Greenwood Davis about how to think about and tackle travel now that restrictions are being lifted, and maybe, just maybe we can start returning to the new normal. Next up cookbook author Claire Tanse...
This Old Smart House and Banana Peel Bread
Harrowsmith Radio - February 08, 2022 21:11 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, I chat with pioneering tech consultant, keynote speaker, and proud PEIer, Amber MacArthur, AmberMac to her friends. I talk to her about how she turned a 140-year-old Charlottetown house into an eco-friendly smarthome showcase. A showcase sporting 38 lightbulbs you can...
Good Burdens and a New Table
Harrowsmith Radio - January 03, 2022 17:00 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode we learn how some burdens, the ones that bring us together in the physical world, can be good burdens. I chat with author Christina Crook about her new book all about just that. Next up, a beautiful cookbook that centres around the seasons, family and a kitchen table...
Brittlestar and the DIY Tomboy
Harrowsmith Radio - December 06, 2021 05:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, we meet up with Canada’s favourite Internet dad, Stuart Reynolds, or as you might know him, Brittlestar - the comedic nemesis of Covidiots everywhere. Next up, that jovial jill-of-all-trades Karen Bertelsen explains why making, fixing, and cooking stuff yourself is...
An Urban Gardening Doc and the Nutella Waiting Game
Harrowsmith Radio - November 03, 2021 04:30 - 30 minutesIn this episode we discover the incredible variety of folks, produce, places, and methods involved in urban gardening in Toronto in a new documentary by Jamie Day Fleck called In My Backyard. Next up, a decades-long waiting game played with hazelnuts, farmers, and science. In My Backyard Jam...
Emm Gryner, the Uncovered Voice and Harrowsmith's Food Editor
Harrowsmith Radio - October 04, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode Emm Gryner who rocketed from a chicken farm to singing backup for David Bowie talks about how singers, and the rest of us, can uncover the voices we’ve got inside us. Next up, Ilona Daniel, Harrowsmith’s relatively new food editor explains how Anne of Green Gables ...
The Rock 'n' Roll Chef and the Smartphone of Welding
Harrowsmith Radio - September 06, 2021 04:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode a visit with that self-proclaimed culinary charlatan, Bob Blumer, whose new book teaches us all how to make bombs, flavour bombs that is. Speaking of making, our go-to DIY guy Steve Maxell is back, this time to explain why MIG welding is the glue gun of the future....
The Weather Wizard and the Jungle Farm Queen
Harrowsmith Radio - August 09, 2021 04:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, we spend a little time under a virtual umbrella with Harrowsmith’s go-to weatherman, Mark Sirois. Mark’s been doing long-range forecasting for the Harrowsmith Almanac and extreme weather prediction for Southern Quebec for years. Now a modern home weather station ...
Cattle Tales and Memories of Hay
Harrowsmith Radio - July 05, 2021 04:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode we go deep into Canada’s beef industry with a young woman who grew up on an Ontario beef farm, consults to the government about Canadian agriculture, is a politician herself, and can covert vegans to meat-eating on social media. Next up, an elegiac and informativ...
First We Eat, From Nose to Tail
Harrowsmith Radio - June 07, 2021 04:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode we meet the woman behind a remarkable Canadian documentary, “First We Eat”. Suzanne Crocker takes us behind the scenes of a film she made about the transformative year when she inspired her family to eat totally local for twelve months. In Dawson City, hard by the A...
The Longevity of Earth Day and Farming Mars
Harrowsmith Radio - May 10, 2021 04:30 - 29 minutesThe Rundown In this episode a visit with an environmental non-profit that has weathered political, social, and ecological storms and shifts. Earth Day has been around since the Guess Who’s American Woman topped the Billboard charts and the hole in the ozone layer wasn’t even on our radar scree...
Grow Hope, Save the Pollinators
Harrowsmith Radio - April 10, 2021 04:30 - 29 minutesThe Rundown In this episode we go all-in on planting, planting gardens that are gyms, therapy, and workplaces that don't take a lot of work. And planting that attracts pollinators, our little at-risk insect pals that do all the heavy lifting when plants want to have sex, with a middle man. ...
Lest We Forget the Farmerettes and Early Planting
Harrowsmith Radio - March 10, 2021 05:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode, you’ll hear the remarkable story of the Farmerettes, a brigade of young Ontario women who saved the crops of Southern Ontario during World War II. You may not have heard of the Farmerettes, I know I hadn’t until prepared for this interview, but it’s a story you won...
Healthing and 4H
Harrowsmith Radio - January 11, 2021 05:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown This episode is about the 5 Hs. First, there’s the H in healthing.ca, a website that amplifies the voices of those living with diseases and disorders and who are looking for options for healthy lifestyles. The next of the five are four H’s are in the 4-H club of Canada …. So, five...
Northern Tales, Farmers and Food Banks
Harrowsmith Radio - December 11, 2020 05:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown This episode takes us on an arctic journey where we explore the life and words of a remarkable Canadian, children’s author and storyteller Michael Kusugak. Next, the story of how thousands of farmers across the country have assisted the Canada Food Bank to ensure food security for...
Native Plants and Connecting Canoes to Communities
Harrowsmith Radio - November 09, 2020 05:30 - 30 minutesThe Rundown This episode is about native plants and a mode of transportation that couldn’t be more homegrown in this country if it tried - the canoe. First up, Mark Cullen, our perennial, and annuals, gardening experts fills us in on how native plants benefit gardens, birds, bees and well, t...
Of Hens and Hops
Harrowsmith Radio - October 12, 2020 04:30 - 30 minutesThis episode is about hens and hops. First up, we head out to Port Hope and learn raising urban chickens, not just for the eggs, but for the companionship. Next, Ben Cullen, the youngest generation of the Cullen garden dynasty, tells us about hops as an ornamental. They’re not just for IPAs a...
A Japanese Garden, Pyramid Wine and the Tenacity of Plants
Harrowsmith Radio - September 10, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutesThe Rundown This episode is about what plants, especially native plants, can teach us about thriving in adversity. We also discover an unlikely Japanese garden in Lethbridge and a B.C. winery where sacred geometry, a pyramid and a reverence for the earth has nurtured award winning vintages. ...
A Fish Tale and Buffalo Cheese
Harrowsmith Radio - August 10, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutesThis episode is about how a Moroccan stamp entrepreneur became a fish magnate whose offspring are shipping fresh tuna right to your door. And, we learn about why buffalo milk makes 3 per cent from cows look like skim. Seafood Crate When Phil Behaim’s father, Marc first came to Canada from ...
The Duck Handshake and a PEC Tour
Harrowsmith Radio - July 13, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesThis episode is a third generation duck farm and a remarkable multicultural handshake that rocketed the unusual poultry farm to success. Next up, an intimate tour of Price Edward Country, bottomless lake and all. King Cole Ducks Patti Thompson is one of four sisters who run King Cole Ducks n...
Mushrooms From the Edge, Beer in the Heart
Harrowsmith Radio - June 14, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutesThis episode is about mushrooms from the edge of Canada and beer from the heart of the nation. First up, Stephanie Lipp co-founder of Gillis Naturals tells us about how she and her partner Leo have launched a mushroom farm in Bonavista Newfoundland. Yes, devoted listeners, that’s the same place...
The Rhythms of Nature and the Buzz of Bees
Harrowsmith Radio - May 14, 2020 19:53 - 30 minutesThis episode takes us down on the farms - first to a sheep farm near Perth where we learn about the capricious rhythms of Mother Nature from a farmer and cello instructor. Next, to Dr. Dolittle of a farm – Caberneigh Farms – jubilant with animals and abuzz with newly hived bees lost in their own...
Remembering Wingfield Farm and Trees for Heroes
Harrowsmith Radio - April 08, 2020 20:40 - 30 minutesThe Rundown This episode is about plays, a fictional farm, heroes and highways. I start off by chatting with Dan Needles, a mainstay for Harrowsmith readers and the author of the WIngfield Farm mediaverse. We touch on turnip-mashing drudges, the parallels between Walt and Dan and how Needles i...
Of Blooms and Bees
Harrowsmith Radio - February 11, 2020 12:17 - 27 minutesThe Rundown In this episode we combine two natural, literally natural partners, blooms and bees. First up I chat with Terry Caddo, the executive director of Canada Blooms, a venerable gardening show that will soon be celebrating 25 years of gardening glory. Next up, we decode honey jar labels....
Dr. David Suzuki and the Christmas Walking of the Goats
Harrowsmith Radio - December 16, 2019 05:30 - 31 minutesThe Rundown A while back I got to meet one of my heroes, Dr. David Suzuki. He had just published Letters to my Grandchildren, a heartfelt retrospective of his life, learnings and legacy. I got to sit down with him in the David Suzuki Foundation offices to chat about that life. Next, a visit wi...
Winterizing and Big Bags of Bird Seed
Harrowsmith Radio - December 09, 2019 15:57 - 28 minutesThe Rundown This episode features a return visit from Harrowsmith’s resident handyman from Manitoulin Island, Steve Maxwell. This time out Steve offers some good, and timely advice about how to keep your house warm in the winter. You can learn more about Steve and his tips at https://baileyl...
City Gardens and Christmas Leftovers
Harrowsmith Radio - December 05, 2019 17:11 - 22 minutesThis episode begins with a chat with guerrilla gardener, gardening planner and writer Lorraine Johnson about the bounty that can be had from gardens in every nook, cranny and backyard in our cities. Next up, a seasonal exercise in making good use of holiday leftovers. Harrowsmith food writer...
Hempbassadors and Christmas Chestnuts
Harrowsmith Radio - November 29, 2019 12:27 - 30 minutesThe Rundown In this episode I get the lowdown on one of the most misunderstood and maligned crops in North America, hemp. It’s a delicious breakfast topping, it’s a construction material, it’s great for clothing and plastics! Stop, you’re all right. I speak with hempbassador Marie Eisenmann ab...
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