The Healthy Garden Podcast, with Randy Ritchie. Where soil is important and growing a healthier world is job #1! As an industry insider, Randy takes us on a journey across the landscape of gardening. The Healthy Garden Podcast topics range from the truth about organics, to how to make compost tea, how GMO’s get into your soil, how to fix your clay soil, organic rose care, growing healthy nutrient dense food, and why he hasn’t sprayed a pesticide or an herbicide in over 25 years. Health is Wealth! It’s time to take our Gardens back from the Big Chemical companies that control the world of gardening. The Healthy Garden Podcast will help you take your sacred spaces back with history, insight, wit, humor and great music.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
What is the best thing that you can do in your garden this fall to promote a healthy spring garden? Do you know what a microbial inoculant is and what they do in your garden? Where can you get the best seeds for a great cover crop?
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
What were some of the different types of fun that people had throughout history? When did gardening become a fun leisure activity? What can you do to put FUN back into your gardening?
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Who was Rudolf Steiner? What do shorter days and longer nights mean for your garden? Do you know what to do for your fruit trees this fall?
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
What is the threshing of a harvest? During what period did villagers start the gardening protocol called "Scaring the Birds"? Do you know what gardeners and farmers call the first frost under 28 degrees?
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
What are the 6 best things you can plant in your garden to boost your immune system? Do you know what natural remedies they used successfully in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic?
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
How do plants get fed in the rain forest? What are the top 3 reasons you should be using Compost Tea in your true organic garden? How often should you use Compost Tea in your garden? Why Compost Tea?
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
What do you feed your plants? What does the history of fertilizer tell us about today's best methods? What microbial diversity is helping to feed our food?
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
What does William Shakespeare have to do with your tomatoes? Are nightshades really deadly? What are Alkaloids and Glycoalkaloids and how do they affect your garden?
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Why isn't there any good top soil to buy at nurseries and soil yards? Do you know the 12 steps to raised bed gardening?
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Where did raised bed gardening come from? Why don't we ever use "Top Soil" in our raised bed mixes? What's the most important thing to any raised bed garden?