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
Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020
29 min
Are you ready for the Dog Days of summer? What does that even mean? How will you take care of the most important part of your garden? How much warmer can soil temps be than the air temps?
Jun 1, 2020
Jun 1, 2020
36 min
Are you ready for a Great Recession? Do you have a long-term plan for how you're going to feed your family when the food shortages really hit? Who is going to feed you Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, Portland, Austin, Chicago, Sacramento, Atlanta, New York, Louisville, Cleveland, Detroit, Washington DC, Charleston, Denver?
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
29 min
Do you know what Faux Organic is? Have you been duped by the snake oil manufacturers who peddle Faux Organic? We need to change the way we consume. Are you a part of the problem or part of the solution?
May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020
27 min
Is your irrigation killing your plants? What is more important than your plants? How do you water your food gardens correctly? What's the best way to water an organic garden?
May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
30 min
What are the 11 steps to practical pest management? Are you ready to win the war in your garden this spring and summer? Find out if Randy ever got "that dirty rat" that took his prize strawberry.
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
30 min
What is the Orwellian Garden? Is it possible our food system is shutting down? How far are we from all becoming Winston Smith?
Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020
32 min
Is your garden dead or alive? What are the usual suspects that kill a garden? What happens after we kill our garden?
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020
30 min
What happens if the modern food chain breaks down? Why is the Old Victory Garden not enough anymore? What do you need to know about growing a NEW Victory Garden? How could it save you and your family during the global pandemic? All this and way more...
Mar 25, 2020
Mar 25, 2020
31 min
Why are we growing food, and if we're growing food, why aren't we growing healthy food? Food that's true organic, Non-GMO, and without the herbicides that come from conventional Ag and green waste. This and more as always!
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
26 min
Randy's back! Thank God! How are you handling the pandemic? Do you have a plan if the food shortages become real? What crop in the Andes helped save Europe? All this and more as usual.