Canada's Local Gardener Podcast
Canada's Local Gardener podcast will feature Dorothy, Shauna and a guest from Canada’s gardening world. The three will bring knowledge and humour to various topics for green thumbs and would-be green thumbs to listen to and enjoy. The monthly series will further cement the Local Gardener team as go-to gardening experts in the eyes of Canadians.
Episodes
38 episodes
Flora & Fauna 19: New gardens with Ian Leatt
Faced with the very arduous task of building a new gardening bed, Shauna Dobbie, editor of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, turns to veteran gardener Ian Leatt to hear about his experiences. In addition to being a long-time grower of vegetable...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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48:34
Flora & Fauna 18: Seeds with Kevin Twomey
It is seed starting time across Canada. From March through June, depending on where your garden is, you may be starting seeds indoors and out. Kevin Twomey, former owner of T and T Seeds in Winnipeg, has grown vegetables and flowers from seeds ...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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56:12
Flora & Fauna Episode 17: Garden power tools with Kris Kiser
For many gardeners, power tools sound like something their partner or friend would be more interested in. But at some point, even the luddite might be interested in getting jobs done faster and with less pain, if a little more noise. Kris Kiser...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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33:32
Flora & Fauna Episode 16:Nutrients in the garden with Robert Pavlis
Did you know that you can give too much compost to your garden? Also, there isn’t a “best” fertilizer for tomatoes or roses or trees. Robert Pavlis is a garden writer, speaker and educator with a background in science. He lives in Guel...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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49:43
Podcast: Plant introductions for 2023 with Dorothy Dobbie
Every year, growers, distributors and hybridizers of plants work on new species, and every year some of those new species make it to the market. New shrubs, flowers and vegetables come out with slight improvements and other distinguishing chara...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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43:56
Flora & Fauna Episode 14: Emerald ash borer with Ryan Statham
Since 2002, Canada has been watching the emerald ash borer kill our native ash trees, starting in Ontario and moving east and west from there. Ryan Statham, the District Manager for Davey Tree in Strathroy, Ontario, is on the front lines of the...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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41:49
Flora & Fauna Episode 13: Growing berries with Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose
Strawberries and raspberries have been growing in gardens across Canada since we became a country. Haskaps, sea buckthorn and ground cherries are more recent introductions for many of us. All of them and more are covered in the book Prairie Gar...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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46:38
Flora & Fauna Episode 12: Edible Flowers with Erin Facer
The Edible Flower is a thick book with gorgeous photos. Erin and Jo write about how to grow edible flowers (that’s Jo’s department) and how to use them for cooking (Erin’s). Erin always hoped to write books because she loves them, so when she b...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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40:57
Flora & Fauna Episode 11: Climate change and trees with Dan Herms and Joe Steinfeld
Given that Earth is getting warmer rapidly, what is the consequence for trees? This is a concern for Davey Tree experts Dan Herms, Vice President of Research, and Joe Steinfeld, who works in Urban Forestry and Arboriculture in the Toronto offic...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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52:13
Flora & Fauna Episode 10: Poison Ivy with Susan Pell
orget about oceans of calamine lotion, this is the real dirt on poison ivy and all of its kin. Susan Pell, executive director of the United States Botanic Garden. She did her PhD on members of the pistatchio family (Anacardiaceae), which includ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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42:03
Flora & Fauna Episode 9: Monarch Butterflies with Joan Harvey and Julianne Labreche
People of all ages become fascinated with the monarch butterfly when they learn about its long flight from Canada to Mexico in a single generation. Joan Harvey is a member of Monarch Teacher Network, and she joined Master Gardener Julianne Labr...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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56:24
Flora & Fauna Episode 8: Mario Doiron on Food Security
Mario Doiron is a modern homesteader in New Brunswick who raises fowl and grows vegetables on a small farm. Shauna Dobbie, editor of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, talks with him about how he grow vegetables and what gardeners can do to maxi...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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50:52
Flora & Fauna Episode 7: Growing Bamboo with Garry Heberg
Bamboo is a kind of plant in the grass family (Poaceae) with over 100 genera. Most of them are tropical, but a few will survive and even thrive in Canada. Garry Hedberg and his wife Brenda had several clumps of them growing in South Surrey, in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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44:37
Flora & Fauna Episode 6: Peace and Gardens
Dorothy Dobbie is the originator of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, a former Member of Parliament, President of the International Peace Gardens on the border of Manitoba and North Dakota...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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42:57
Flora & Fauna Episode 5: Houseplants
Darryl Cheng is an industrial engineer who became interested in houseplants a few years ago. He would do time-lapse videos of his plants on social media, and that led to a huge Instagram following and book deals, including his popular book The ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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51:36
Flora & Fauna Episode 4: Indigenous Gardening
Mehdi Sharifi is a research scientist at the Summerland Research Station in British Columbia and Dana Johnson was a research assistant there who was partially responsible for developing the first federal Indigenous Demonstration Garden at the s...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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49:35
Flora & Fauna Episode 3: Garlic
Greg Auton is a garden writer and podcaster from Nova Scotia who grows hundreds of garlic plants every year. Although he is a very prolific writer, has a family of four and maintains a 2500-square foot vegetable garden, these are things he does...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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49:56
Flora & Fauna Episode 1: Apples
Bob Osborne is a grower of apple trees in New Brunswick and he has recently published Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates. This book tells you not only all about how apples grow and how you can encourage them, but also talks about ove...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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44:46
S2 Ep5: Stephanie Rose
Shauna and Dorothy talk to Stephanie Rose about her new book, The Regenerative Garden. The book beautifully covers 80 projects in developing your self-sustaining garden ecosystem. Stephanie lives in Vancouver, and Shauna and Dorothy had the ple...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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52:49
S2 Ep4: Chickens
Lisa Steele of the website Fresh Eggs Daily visit with Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie to talk about gardening with chickens. Lisa is a 5th-generation chicken farmer now located in Maine and she has recently released a book of egg-forward recipes tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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45:56
S2 Ep3: Wildflowers
Wildflowers nourish bees and other pollinators Kelly Leask of Prairie Originals tells us. They attract butterflies and help the natural ecosystem flourish among the exotics we plant in our gardens. Not only that, but wildflowers and other nativ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:05:58
S2 Ep2: Invasive Insects on Trees
Dorothy and Shauna talk with arbourist Ryan Statham about invasive insects and trees.Ryan is an arbourist with Davey Canada, a company that specializes in urban forestry. Trees of all kinds hold a special interest for Dorothy, a member o...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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56:12
S2 Ep1 What's new for Spring 2022
John Barrett started with growing sunflowers on two acres with the vague idea of selling sunflower seeds, but that first year was a disaster with the birds being the biggest beneficiaries of all that hard work. John was never a quitter and he p...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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51:36
Episode 12: Monarch Butterflies
Helen Hogue is a Winnipegger with an interesting hobby, or rather, passion. Helen raises monarch butterflies, from egg to adult, then sets them free. It is estimated that people like her increase the survival rate from 5 percent to 95 percent.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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56:16
