The Garden Journal, broadcast each Saturday from 10:00 to 10:30 am on KSFR 101.1, is a compendium of interviews, advice, and inspiration for home gardeners throughout Santa Fe County.
The Garden Journal, a project of the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, has been on the air every week since October, 2013. The program is produced by four participating organizations in rotation each month, each about how to understand our roles as humans in the natural world and featuring local and global experts:
The first Saturday of each month join Slow Food Santa Fe’s Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg and their guests. The Slow Food Santa Fe, the local chapter of a national and international grassroots organization promoting food that is “good, clean and fair,” focus on perspectives from the local food community.
On the second Saturday of the month in the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition, Alexa Bradford joins in conversation with local gardening experts, environmentalists, seed stewards, and policy-makers. Tune in for high desert gardening tips, news, events, and gardening inspiration.
On the third Saturday join Kaitlin Haase of the Xerces Society on “People, Plants, and Pollinators”. This show gives listeners a glimpse into the importance of pollinators and invertebrates, the native plants they rely on and the people working to create healthy ecosystems in neighborhoods, cities, farms and natural lands. The program informs listeners about educational wildlife gardening and conservation topics with an emphasis on insect pollinators and will feature guests from wildlife biologists to native plant ecologists and more.
And finally, the last Saturday of every month Jannine Cabossel , the Tomato Lady, shares her vegetable gardening expertise and advice for each coming month in the Home Grown New Mexico edition.
Four times a year, Tom Dominguez, Santa Fe County Extension Agent weighs in with gardening advice and updates on the Master Gardeners and other County Extension programs.
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The Garden Journal Broadcasts — Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners
email: gardenjournal@ksfr.org
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Master Gardeners, arborists, and Municipal Tree Board members Athena Beshur, Tracy Neal and Michael Davis, in a discussion about the concept of “tree equity”, the American Forests national Tree Equity Score and how to use data and resources to improve access to the health and social benefits of expanding the tree canopy in underserved urban areas. https://www.americanforests.org/tools-research-reports-and-guides/tree-equity-score/ https://treesmart-thecitydifferent.hub.arcgis.com/ -
Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Chef and Owner Graham Dodds of NOSA Restaurant near Ojo Caliente. While much of this interview originally aired in June 2023 we've updated it in honor of Graham's nomination for the 2026 James Beard Best Chef of the Southwest Award.
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Host Alexa Bradford talks with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady,” about March activities for vegetable gardeners. Hold onto your hats, it’s that time of the year.
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Join Host Dr. Michelle Stizza in a conversation with New Mexico State University’s Diabetes Management and Prevention Program Team(Diabetes MAPP) Cassandra Vanderpool MS, RDN, LD; NMSU’s Kitchen Creations Program Manager, Dr. Lucinda Banegas-Carreon MPH, CHES ; NMSU’s National Diabetes Prevention Program Manager, and Lourdes Olivas, MA ; NMSU’s On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes Program Manager to learn more about food stigmas, cultural traditions, and diabetes.
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Join Kaitlin Haase with the Xerces Society for a rebroadcast of her March 2025 conversation with butterfly researcher Simon Doneski, PhD student at UNM studying insect conservation. Simon will share his work on the conservation of butterflies and rare insects throughout the state of New Mexico, including the development of a new public database for these species.New Mexico Rare Arthropods ResourceButterflies of New Mexico Guide
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Join Master Gardener and former Garden Journal host Christine Salem in this rebroadcast of the January 14, 2024, program featuring independent agri-policy analyst Indra Shekar Singh, discussing food sovereignty, global corporate food systems, and the farmers’ revolution in India.
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Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with representatives of the Food, Hunger, and Agriculture Program, part of the Food Initiative, working under the State Economic Development Department: Program Manager Erin Ortigoza and Food Value Chain Coordination Rep Jayme Chester. We’re also joined by Julie Cranston, Executive Director of Vida Mejor Capital, a New Mexico non-profit established to empower New Mexico’s small businesses through technical assistance and equitable access to capital.
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Jannine explores the concept of Terroir, a French term used to describe the complete natural environment in which particular wines are produced. She discusses adapting the concept to local vegetable gardening.
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Master Gardeners Athena Beshur and Michael Davis, and Santa Fe Municipal Tree Board representative Betsy Garside, to learn about the ongoing survey of Santa Fe’s trees begun in 2016 by the Master Gardener Tree Inventory Project. https://www.sfemg.org/tree-inventory-project https://santafenm.gov/media/files/public_works/Recommended_Trees_for_Santa_Fe_2024.pdf https://www.sfemg.org/newsletter See “Trees for Small Spaces” article by Mike Davis in the November 2025 SFEMG Newsletter.
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Kaitlin Haase interviews Ru Stempien, executive director for the Northern Youth Project, and Emilio Borrego, program director for the Northern Youth Project. Ru and Emilio work with teens and young adults through paid internships to gain work experience in northern New Mexico, providing support to traditional farms, conservation projects, and community arts programs. They are partners with the Xerces Pollinator Habitat Kit Program and established 4 habitat restoration kits on 3 properties.