Latest Horticultural history Podcast Episodes
Episode 212: Zone Envy – Zone 1
We Dig Plants - December 12, 2017 20:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 211: Zone Envy – Zone 2
We Dig Plants - November 14, 2017 18:59 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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...
Episode 210: Zone Envy – Zone 3
We Dig Plants - October 17, 2017 17:58 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 garde...
Episode 209: Zone Envy – Zone 4
We Dig Plants - September 19, 2017 17:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 208: Zone Envy – Zone 5
We Dig Plants - August 22, 2017 18:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 genera...
Episode 207: Zone Envy – Zone 6
We Dig Plants - July 11, 2017 18:03 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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...
Episode 206: Zone Envy – Zone 7
We Dig Plants - June 20, 2017 18:15 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 I...
Episode 205: Slow Food in Denver: Deeply Rooted
We Dig Plants - June 13, 2017 17:53 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsJohn 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 Sout...
Episode 204: Zone Envy – Zone 8
We Dig Plants - May 23, 2017 17:59 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 A...
Episode 203: Zone Envy – Zone 9
We Dig Plants - May 09, 2017 17:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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 De...
Episode 202: Zone Envy – Zone 10
We Dig Plants - March 21, 2017 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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. N...
Episode 201: Zone Envy – Zone 11
We Dig Plants - February 28, 2017 19:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 200: Zone Envy – Zones 12 and 13
We Dig Plants - January 24, 2017 19:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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 l...
Episode 199: The High Line! Symbol of Transformation and Grace
We Dig Plants - December 12, 2016 19:48 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsGrace, 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
We Dig Plants - December 05, 2016 19:49 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 g...
Episode 197: The Scout's Guide to Wild Edibles
We Dig Plants - November 28, 2016 20:02 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 Yor...
Episode 196: Caroline Seebohm and Curtice Taylor
We Dig Plants - November 21, 2016 19:52 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 est...
Episode 195: Community Garden History in NYC with GrowNYC.org
We Dig Plants - November 14, 2016 19:50 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 a...
Episode 194: Eight Flavors with Sarah Lohman
We Dig Plants - November 07, 2016 19:48 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 193: The Garden Awakening
We Dig Plants - October 24, 2016 18:52 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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 th...
Episode 192: Part 3: Technology & Horticulture Series: GrowIt Mobile app: Community Based Plant Identification and Gardening Information
We Dig Plants - October 17, 2016 18:50 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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. Th...
Episode 191: part 2 - Technology & Horticulture Building Stone Walls with Natural Stone Wall Solutions
We Dig Plants - October 10, 2016 18:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 re...
Episode 190: FarmBot
We Dig Plants - October 03, 2016 18:09 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsToday 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 push...
Episode 189: The Chanticleer Foundation
We Dig Plants - September 19, 2016 18:17 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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, ...
Episode 188: Garden of Discovery with Alice and Carmen
We Dig Plants - September 12, 2016 18:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 187: Dr. Richard T. Olsen of the U.S. National Arboretum
We Dig Plants - August 15, 2016 18:16 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 186: All the Presidents' Gardens
We Dig Plants - July 11, 2016 18:49 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 su...
Episode 185: Yvonne Horn On The World's Exceptional Gardens
We Dig Plants - June 20, 2016 18:28 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsAuthor 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
We Dig Plants - March 07, 2016 20:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThis 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 ...
Episode 183: The Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
We Dig Plants - February 29, 2016 23:04 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsOn 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 ...
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